The Miami Dolphins are struggling and the fans have had enough of it.
The Dolphins offense struggled mightily on Monday night in the team’s loss to the Tennessee Titans, and the fans let the team hear it. The fans in attendance booed their home Dolphins, and as the struggles continued the boos got louder.
Head coach Mike McDaniel addressed the boos on Tuesday.
“I guess it didn’t hit me with surprise,” McDaniel said, according to Pro Football Talk.
“I think people invest and have to go and believe in a team that has — bottom-line — the droughts that this organization has incurred. I don’t take that lightly. So I would be dishonest if I told you that I didn’t expect that. The worst part about all of that is you have people that I can relate where weeks are ruined with losses, and the worst part about it is you don’t have any control.
“So that’s not a fun place to be in. I know sporting events where I’m rooting for a team and I’m not coaching in it, I get much more angry when there’s failure than when I’m coaching and I can actually problem-solve something. It’s to be expected.
This is the big leagues. To feel entitled to blind support, that’s not my cup of tea. I think you have to go to work, problem-solve and try to fix things as best you can and I don’t think we’re necessarily owed anything, I think people believe when you give them reason to believe and if people jump off the bandwagon — I’m not really villainizing the people who are jumping off the bandwagon. It’s more we gave them reason to. So that’s to be expected.
I don’t think people pay what they pay to go to Hard Rock Stadium to watch us lose, so whatever results incurred by our game day failure, we deserve.”
McDaniel knows his team will have to do better to earn fans’ support, but it’ll be interesting to see if the Dolphins can respond with on-field results instead of words.
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Qwame Skinner has loved both writing and sports his entire life. In addition to his sports coverage at Comeback Media, Qwame writes novels, and his debut; The First Casualty, an adult fantasy, is out now.