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Feb 8, 2022

Another offense in the AFC East will be influenced by Kyle Shanahan in 2022. - Jets offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur and new Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel both worked with Shanahan in San Francisco, Atlanta and Cleveland. LaFleur was the passing game coordinator in San Francisco from 2017-2020, while McDaniel was the run game coordinator during that time. So there is a very real possibility the Jets and Dolphins will deploy wrinkles of the same offense throughout LaFleur and McDaniel’s tenures in the division. - This is good and bad for the Jets, depending on one’s perspective. On one level, it should be easier to gameplan against Miami considering the defense practices against a Shanahan-style offense all week. But the Dolphins have the same advantage/disadvantage as the Jets. That means creativity, smarts and execution could be the deciding factors when these divisional foes square off twice every season. - Robert Saleh understands this issue firsthand. He worked with both coaches in San Francisco before bringing LaFleur with him to the Jets. Saleh also worked with McDaniel with the Texans earlier in their careers. Saleh praised McDaniel at the Senior Bowl last week and jokingly admitted he didn’t want to play him twice a year before he was hired by Miami. - “He’s brilliant and he’s every bit deserving to be a head coach,” Saleh said. “I would not like him to come to the division. But if it happens, so be it.” - It will be interesting to see how or if McDaniel can fix the Dolphins’ offense, which was only slightly better than the Jets’ with LaFleur. Miami finished 22nd in yards, 25th in points and 24th in DVOA in 2021. McDaniel’s 49ers, meanwhile, finished 13th, seventh and fifth in those respective statistics. But Tua Tagovailoa is a very different quarterback than Zach Wilson and the 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo, making it tough to predict how the Dolphins will take to McDaniel’s scheme. - Either way, the New York and Miami offenses won’t be identical, but they will certainly feature shades of the other. The influences are there. Now it’s just a matter of both coaches building gameplans around their roster, rather than the other way around. - - List - - 2022 NFL draft: Jets land top EDGE, WR in CBS Sports' post-Senior Bowl mock - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Email - - - - - Sign up - - - - - - - - Like this article? - Sign up for the Jets Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning - - - - An error has occured - - - Please re-enter your email address. - - - - - - Thanks for signing up! - - - You'll now receive the top Jets Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

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