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Dan Campbell was a ‘whisker’ away from full-time, head coaching job with Miami Dolphins

In the latest edition of “what could’ve been” from the offseason news cycle, Mike Tannenbaum, the former executive vice president of football operations for the Miami Dolphins from 2015 to 2018, revealed on the Ross Tucker Podcast just how close Dan Campbell was to becoming the Dolphins full-time head coach after his stint as the team’s interim coach during the 2015 season.

“So we hired Dan Campbell at Miami, and he was within a whisker of getting the job full time,” shared Tannenbaum, a current NFL front office insider for ESPN. “We hired him to be our interim head coach, and I think this guy came out of the womb being an NFL head coach.