Mike McDaniel shares what he yelled at Justin Fields on the sidelines Sunday
As Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields set the NFL record for single-game rushing yards by a quarterback in Sunday’s 35-32 loss to the Dolphins, Miami head coach Mike McDaniel tried a little out-of-the-box thinking to slow him down.
On a 2nd-and-8 play late in the third quarter, Fields scrambled out of bounds for a first down and as he passed McDaniel on the sidelines, the first-year head coach visibly yelled “stop it” at the 23-year-old QB.
“I just wanted him to stop scrambling,” McDaniel admitted to reporters on Monday. “It was pretty irritating because he didn’t listen at all. He didn’t take the coaching…at that stage of the game, I figured no one had asked him to stop it. So, I gave that a try and I think other coaches can learn from my experience that he does not listen.”
Fields averaged 11.9 yards per carry while running for 178 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries, besting the previous record of 173 yards held by Michael Vick against the Minnesota Vikings in 2002.
Former San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick holds the all-time record with 181 yards rushing against the Green Bay Packers in the 2013 playoffs.
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