Survival Sundays for NFL head coaches have been taking place in earnest for a few weeks now. We already have two vacancies—the Giants and the Titans—plus an in-season general manager firing in Miami. That latter transaction was the culmination of weeks of speculation around Miami’s coach, Mike McDaniel. Questions about his job security became as commonplace as banal injury updates.
However, after Sunday’s 16–13 overtime win over the Commanders in Madrid, the Dolphins are now winners of two straight and three of their past four. At 4–7 and with games against the Saints and Jets coming after their bye week, there’s a very real chance Miami will be 6–7 going into a mid-December, pre-Christmas stretch against the Steelers, a team that seems to be slowing down considerably as the season wanes (as is tradition), and the Bengals, owners of the worst defense in the NFL.
