There are few head coaches in the NFL who have a hotter seat right now than Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel.
Fresh off a season in which the Dolphins missed the playoffs, Miami is a total mess and is sitting with a 1-4 record. The Dolphins have had as many players-only meetings (one) as they have wins, too.
While McDaniel has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, it remains to be seen if the Dolphins would fire him in-season.
However, it appears that might be on the table after a new report.
Will Dolphins fire Mike McDaniel?
According to Sportskeeda's Tony Pauline, sources are telling him that Miami may only wait two to three more weeks before making a decision on McDaniel's fate, which means he could be fired soon if things don't turn around.
"When could Mike McDaniel be sent packing? The same sources who told me that McDaniel was on very thin ice after their Week 1 loss to the Colts predict that Ross will wait 2-3 more games before deciding whether to pull the trigger on his head coach," Pauline reported.
Even McDaniel admitted that owner Stephen Ross is "really frustrated" with the way things are going, so there isn't much patience left up top.
"He was really frustrated, just like I was," McDaniel said, according to ESPN's Marcel Louis-Jacques. "We talked about the challenge ahead to get ready for the Chargers, and that was really the extent of it."
Truth be told, firing McDaniel now is not going to save the Dolphins' season. That ship has already sailed.
But we know that has never stopped a team from making an in-season change at head coach before. As a result, it would not be shocking to see Miami finally pull the plug on McDaniel sooner rather than later.
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