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Robert Zeglinski

Mike McDaniel had a delightful deadpan response to learning the Dolphins were on a record pace

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Mike McDaniel has a reputation for being something of a satirical genius. I don’t mean McDaniel is offensive or harmful in any way, either. No, no. This is a guy at the helm of a revolutionary Miami Dolphins offense who knows he’s brilliant and refreshingly refuses to take a lot of things seriously.

Take the Dolphins’ red-hot 4-1 start, for example.

They have the best offense in professional football in most relevant metrics and are on pace to break various records. Through five games, Miami has the most total offensive yards in NFL history, with 2568. That’s no small feat and should be celebrated — even if it hasn’t won the Dolphins anything meaningful.

When asked about the Dolphins’ blistering statistical output, McDaniel was at his best. He had a delightful deadpan answer for an “achievement” he clearly doesn’t care much about:

Classic. I can just feel the sarcasm dripping off McDaniel’s comment. “Why yes, our Dolphins had no other aspirations aside from statistics in over a month of play, why do you ask?” How can you not laugh at that?!

Responses like this make it clear we haven’t had a successful, colorful character like McDaniel in the NFL in a long time.

This is how Twitter reacted

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