{"id":8971,"date":"2024-12-09T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T07:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2024-12-09T07:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T07:57:42","slug":"mike-mcdaniel-opens-up-about-secret-dolphins-team-meetings-following-jets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=8971","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel Opens Up About Secret Dolphins Team Meetings Following Jets Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"l-article__header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"l-article__content\">\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2187393352.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2187393352.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2187393352.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2187393352.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Mike McDaniel\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"1463\" data-dom-ready-time=\"2076\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Head coach Mike McDaniel talked about the team meetings the Miami Dolphins had before facing the New York Jets.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Week 14, the\u00a0Miami Dolphins\u00a0found themselves trailing by 8 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter against the 3-win\u00a0New York Jets. In the final minute of regulation, Mike McDaniel\u2019s Dolphins were behind by a field goal.<\/p>\n<p>But Miami forced overtime and then won with a touchdown on the first possession of the extra session. McDaniel argued that it was possible because his team addressed battling adversity in a few different meetings between Weeks 13 and 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of very motivated, passionate meetings, whether it\u2019s led by myself or Frank [Smith] and Weave [Anthony Weaver] or by players,\u201d\u00a0McDaniel told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s not always a bad thing when people think you can\u2019t do stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was an only child in Greeley, Colorado, which you guys don\u2019t know what that is. It\u2019s like 70,000 people. And I was 4-foot-10-inches tall in seventh grade. So there was a lot of people that said that I couldn\u2019t. I see that in our team. There\u2019s just so many people that can attest to being able to press forward regardless of who says what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel seemed surprised to be receiving questions about the team meetings. He also implied that the meetings were not supposed to be public knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how you know about a team meeting. I don\u2019t know who the snitch is. But the team meeting isn\u2019t the headline, the headline is guys coming together. I thought the vision of the team, I couldn\u2019t be prouder of the fourth quarter,\u201d\u00a0added McDaniel.<\/p>\n<p>In that fourth quarter, the Dolphins erased an 8-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Jets 32-26 in overtime.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Mike McDaniel Praises Dolphins Players for Responding<\/h2>\n<p>While McDaniel spilled the beans on Miami\u2019s team meetings, he made it clear that they weren\u2019t the deciding factor in the comeback against the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel argued that the difference came in how the Dolphins players reacted to the team meetings and then to the adversity they faced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever I said, the players chose to believe. The players to chose to have an absolutely motivated practice week,\u201d\u00a0McDaniel told reporter<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pfc3T2tSoKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">s<\/a>. \u201cThe players chose to not to give up in this game and when you do that and you survive some adversity, the thing on the other side is the, that\u2019s the best stuff, regardless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I know about life, easy to way overrated and not that fulfilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins took an early 6-0 lead with a touchdown on the first drive of the game. But the Jets then scored 23 of the next 32 points. During that stretch, the Dolphins only kicked field goals.<\/p>\n<p>But Miami\u2019s offense responded with 2 touchdowns in the final 14 minutes of game action. The Dolphins also tallied a field goal and 2-point conversion during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback\u00a0Tua Tagovailoa\u00a0threw for 144 yards and 2 touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dolphins Stay Alive in AFC Playoff Hunt<\/h2>\n<p>With the victory, the Dolphins improved to 6-7.\u00a0They remain\u00a0two games out of the final playoff spot in the AFC, but a loss would have likely ended any chance Miami had of going on a run over the final four weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel and the Dolphins now likely hope the Week 14 comeback can become a microcosm for their season. The Dolphins were down early but didn\u2019t give up, coming back for a key win.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel\u2019s club has now won four of its last five games since starting 2-6. But the road ahead won\u2019t be easy for the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>Miami will visit the first-place\u00a0Houston Texans\u00a0and then host the\u00a0San Francisco 49er<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/\">s<\/a>\u00a0over the next two weeks. The Dolphins end the season with two cold weather contests against the\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u00a0and Jets.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel\u2019s team may have to win all four games to make the postseason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Head coach Mike McDaniel talked about the team meetings the Miami Dolphins had before facing the New York Jets. &nbsp; In Week 14, the\u00a0Miami Dolphins\u00a0found themselves&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mike McDaniel Opens Up About Secret Dolphins Team Meetings Following Jets Win - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=8971\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike McDaniel Opens Up About Secret Dolphins Team Meetings Following Jets Win - 24\/7 News America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Getty Head coach Mike McDaniel talked about the team meetings the Miami Dolphins had before facing the New York Jets. &nbsp; 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