The Miami Dolphins hired McDaniel as their fourteenth head coach on February 6, 2022. On January 18, 2021, McDaniel was promoted to offensive coordinator, following the departure of passing game coordinator Mike LaFleur, who left to become the offensive coordinator for the New York Jets. During the 2019 season, McDaniel and the Niners appeared in Super Bowl LIV, where they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 31–20. In 2017, McDaniel was hired by the San Francisco 49ers as their run game coordinator under his long-time associate and new head coach Kyle Shanahan, whom he worked alongside for a total of nine seasons on the Texans, Redskins, Browns, and Falcons. McDaniel was hired by the Atlanta Falcons as an offensive assistant coach under new head coach Dan Quinn in 2015. McDaniel was hired in 2014 by the Cleveland Browns as their wide receivers coach under new head coach Mike Pettine. McDaniel would not be retained under new head coach Jay Gruden. In 2013, McDaniel was promoted to wide receivers coach following the departure of Ike Hilliard, who left to join the Buffalo Bills in the same position. It was there where McDaniel worked alongside three other future head coaches: Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, and Matt LaFleur. In 2011, McDaniel was hired by the Washington Redskins as an offensive assistant, reuniting with Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan, who was McDaniel's mentor six seasons earlier on the Denver Broncos. In McDaniel's second year, the team relocated to Sacramento and was subsequently renamed the Sacramento Mountain Lions. In 2009, McDaniel was hired by the California Redwoods, a team from the now-defunct UFL football league as a running backs coach under former Minnesota Vikings/ Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green. During his tenure in Houston, McDaniel assisted three different offensive coordinators and future head coaches Troy Calhoun, Mike Sherman, and Kyle Shanahan.Ĭalifornia Redwoods / Sacramento Mountain Lions In 2006, McDaniel was hired by the Houston Texans as an offensive assistant under head coach Gary Kubiak, whom McDaniel worked alongside at the Denver Broncos a season earlier. In the postseason, they defeated the defending back-to-back Super Bowl champion New England Patriots 27–13 in the Divisional Round before falling to the eventual Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers 34–17 in the AFC Championship Game. The Broncos in 2005 finished with what was at the time their best record since John Elway's retirement six years earlier, at 13–3. McDaniel was hired in 2005, at the age of 22 by his hometown Denver Broncos as a coaching intern under head coach Mike Shanahan. He played college football as a wide receiver at Yale, where he graduated with a degree in history. He graduated from Smoky Hill High School in 2001. McDaniel was born in Aurora, Colorado (where he became best friends with comedian Dan Soder) in 1983. His tenure concluded with their second NFC Championship Game appearance in three seasons McDaniel served as the offensive coordinator that season before he left to become the Dolphins' head coach. McDaniel spent five seasons with the 49ers, mostly as the run game coordinator. McDaniel has appeared in two Super Bowls, first with the Falcons in 2017 then with the 49ers in 2020. McDaniel served as an assistant coach for the Houston Texans, Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons, and San Francisco 49ers from 2017 to 2021, holding his first offensive coordinator position in 2021. A former long-time assistant to Mike and Kyle Shanahan, McDaniel began his NFL coaching career as an intern for the Denver Broncos in 2005. Michael Lee McDaniel (born March 6, 1983) is an American football coach who is the head coach for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). California Redwoods / Sacramento Mountain Lions (2009–2010).
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