Mike McDaniel was speculated to elevate the Los Angeles Chargers to Tremendous Bowl contender standing as the brand new offensive coordinator. As a substitute, his arrival is proving very pricey after an 0-3 begin, and a legend of the sport has warned of significant ramifications except one thing improves.
On Saturday, former vast receiver Steve Smith Sr. shared a picture of McDaniel and head coach Jim Harbaugh on the sector. It bore the next caption:
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“This picture is kind of revealing. There’s a important lack of alignment between the Head Coach, who’s carrying cleats, and the Offensive Coordinator, who’s carrying Off-White footwear.”
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It drew quite a lot of responses, some making an attempt to make an analogy between every man’s sneakers and his strategy to soccer teaching. Smith himself adopted up on that submit with the next:
“Each will get fired if it would not change.”
Throughout his press convention on Thursday forward of Sunday’s sport in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks, McDaniel took accountability for failing to get the offense wherever close to championship-caliber:
“I spend zero time making an attempt to keep away from blame. It is fairly the alternative. … We had been the explanation we misplaced the soccer sport (in opposition to the Buffalo Payments, which the Chargers misplaced regardless of a +4 turnover differential). And also you gotta pull your weight on this league.”
He continued:
“I am not minimizing it; it isn’t acceptable to me. However (I am) additionally not making a pretend land that ignores annual historical past. There is a group that you just guys can consider proper now, both approach, that everybody was crowning.”
Chargers TE makes linguistic analogy for Mike McDaniel’s struggles as OC
In a associated growth, Chargers tight finish Hayden Rucci, who performed beneath Mike McDaniel on the Miami Dolphins in his first two seasons earlier than following him to Inglewood, stated concerning the coordinator’s scheme and struggles to implement it:
“It’s like a dialect, actually. You go to a totally completely different offense, it’s like going from English to Spanish, whereas going from Shanahan to McDaniel’s offense is slightly like a Southern drawl or a New York accent, or one thing like that. You possibly can nonetheless perceive and listen to. There’s just a bit distinction right here and there.”
Kickoff for the Chargers-Seahawks sport is at 1:25 p.m. PT on CBS.
Edited by Andre Castillo
