Any time the end of the NFL season arrives, a flurry of changes are made to NFL coaching staffs across the league. Underachieving coordinators fired, transcendent play callers getting promotions or that long awaited head coaching gig — there’s a swirl of change that comes for many teams. And in 2019, that change has already started. Washington will be searching for a new head coach. It looks increasingly likely that Jerry Jones’ patience with Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett is going to run out.
And that doesn’t get into situations in Cleveland, Cincinnati, the New York Giants, Atlanta, Jacksonville and elsewhere.
But the good news for the Dolphins is that none of these looming head coaching changes appear to provide any threat to what Miami has this season in South Florida — a coaching staff that has shown a lot of promise and improvement throughout the course of the season. Coordinators Chad O’Shea and Patrick Graham don’t appear to be on any shortlists for promotions to head coaching gigs, at least not this year.
And that’s great news for Miami. The more continuity can be achieved, the better. This coaching staff and front office talk constantly about communication and how it is imperative to success, so keeping the same coaches established and in place entering year two of the Brian Flores regime would be seen as a big win.
Could the Dolphins lose some assistants, depending on who gets a head coaching job? Sure. But at the very least, Miami’s upper tier of coaches should be set to run it back again in 2020. But this time, with a fresh influx of talent on the roster.
