Dolphins put in first five interview requests for coaching vacancy

The Miami Dolphins person reportedly enactment successful their archetypal 5 requests for support to interrogation candidates for their caput coaching job.

After the archetypal known petition was sent retired to the Buffalo Bills connected Monday nighttime for their violative coordinator, Brian Daboll, Miami followed it up connected Tuesday by reaching retired for interviews with San Francisco 49ers violative coordinator Mike McDaniel, Dallas Cowboys antiaircraft coordinator Dan Quinn and violative coordinator Kellen Moore, and Arizona Cardinals antiaircraft coordinator Vance Joseph.

For those keeping score, that’s 3 violative coaches and 2 antiaircraft coaches. All requests were reported by NFL Network, with Joseph archetypal reported by The MMQB.

The Dolphins’ caput occupation is unfastened aft Miami fired manager Brian Flores connected Monday morning. Flores, connected Tuesday, reportedly lined up an interrogation with the Chicago Bears.

Daboll has a playoff crippled against the New England Patriots to manager connected Saturday nighttime portion McDaniel’s 49ers play Quinn and Moore’s Cowboys connected Sunday evening, and Joseph’s Cardinals look the Los Angeles Rams connected Monday nighttime of wild-card play successful the NFL.

Daboll, who was AP NFL Assistant Coach of the Year successful 2020, has held his relation with the Bills since 2018 and has been instrumental successful processing backmost Josh Allen successful Buffalo. Before that, helium was Alabama’s violative coordinator and quarterbacks manager successful 2017, existent Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa’s freshman assemblage play erstwhile they won the nationalist title.

Among his erstwhile NFL stops, Daboll was Dolphins violative coordinator successful 2011, manager Tony Sparano’s last twelvemonth astatine the helm. He besides held NFL coordinator roles with the Kansas City Chiefs successful 2012 and Cleveland Browns successful 2009 and 2010. From 2013 to 2016, helium was choky ends manager for the Patriots, portion Flores was a antiaircraft adjunct connected the aforesaid unit nether manager Bill Belichick.

Under Daboll successful 2017 astatine Alabama, Tagovailoa played successful 8 games, completing 63.6 percent of passes with 11 touchdowns and 2 interceptions arsenic the superior backup to starter and existent Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts. Hurts was benched for Tagovailoa astatine halftime of that season’s College Football Playoff nationalist title game, and Tagovailoa threw the game-winning touchdown to DeVonta Smith. It acceptable the signifier for Tagovailoa to past unseat Hurts the adjacent season, starring him to go a apical draught imaginable erstwhile helium became eligible successful 2020.

Daboll, 46, has been portion of 5 Super Bowl champions with the Patriots — 2 during his clip arsenic choky ends manager and portion of the 2001, 2003 and 2004 champions. He was wide receivers manager successful New England from 2002 to 2006 and a antiaircraft adjunct from 2000 to 2001.

McDaniel, 38, is simply a Yale grad who has agelong ties to San Francisco manager Kyle Shanahan. McDaniel is completing his archetypal play coordinating the 49ers’ discourtesy aft serving arsenic the team’s tally crippled coordinator since 2017, erstwhile Shanahan archetypal got the occupation successful San Francisco. The 49ers’ tally crippled was the spot of their discourtesy erstwhile they made a tally to the Super Bowl successful the 2019 play and mislaid to the Kansas City Chiefs astatine Hard Rock Stadium.

McDaniel was besides an violative adjunct successful 2015 and 2016 with the Atlanta Falcons erstwhile Shanahan was violative coordinator there, besides reaching a Super Bowl that was mislaid to the Patriots. McDaniel was besides nether Shanahan during his stints arsenic violative coordinator with the Cleveland Browns and Washington, holding wide receivers manager and violative adjunct roles dating backmost to erstwhile helium archetypal reached the NFL successful 2011.

Quinn, 51, is the 1 of 2 with previous NFL caput coaching experience. He was astatine the helm for the Falcons from 2015 to 2020 and the person of the franchise erstwhile it blew the 28-3 pb successful the Super Bowl to the Patriots with Shanahan and McDaniel connected the staff. He had a 46-44 record, including playoffs, arsenic a caput coach.

Coordinating the Cowboys defence this season, Quinn was antiaircraft coordinator of the treacherous “Legion of Boom” Seattle Seahawks defenses successful 2013 and 2014, winning 1 Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos and losing successful the large crippled the adjacent twelvemonth to New England.

Joseph, 49, who was Dolphins antiaircraft coordinator successful 2016, is the different erstwhile caput manager of the bunch. He was astatine the helm for the Denver Broncos successful 2017 and 2018 and had a grounds of 11-21.

His 1 play successful Miami was the archetypal of the Adam Gase epoch and the past clip the Dolphins reached the playoffs. Joseph’s defence that twelvemonth was instrumental successful Miami’s tally to the postseason. After his little tenure with the Broncos, helium went backmost to coaching defence successful Arizona.

Moore, 33, known for his assemblage backmost days with Boise State from 2008 to 2011 erstwhile helium compiled a 50-3 record, is simply a accelerated riser successful the coaching ranks. He has been Cowboys violative coordinator since 2019 and was quarterbacks manager moving with Dak Prescott successful Dallas successful 2018.

Moore was an undrafted NFL backmost who spent 3 seasons apiece with the Cowboys and Detroit Lions. He started successful 2 games and appeared successful 3 for Dallas successful 2015 and aboriginal was a backup to Prescott earlier yet coaching him.

Moore tin besides connection the shared acquisition with Tagovailoa of being a left-handed quarterback. Before Tagovailoa’s 2020 debut, his 2015 appearances were the past by a lefty backmost successful the NFL.

There are present 7 caput coaching vacancies successful the NFL aft the New York Giants fired Joe Judge connected Tuesday evening. The different 5 are the Bears, Broncos, Minnesota Vikings, Jacksonville Jaguars and Las Vegas Raiders, which are successful the playoffs with interim manager Rich Bisaccia aft Jon Gruden’s dismissal earlier this season.