Dictator like and stubborn.

He does things like not go for points at the end of halves while losing and kicking off the next half. Or kicking a FG down 8 in the red zone with 3 min left.

His biggest flaws are that he is grating to most people, he’s an egomaniac who refuses to concede when he is wrong, and he is a control freak who wants to be in charge of everything. He doesn’t learn from his mistakes, and is still largely coaching the exact same way he did 15 years ago. He is also one of the worst talent evaluators who has ever been given GM duties in NFL history. Like almost every personnel decision he has ever made has been the opposite of what he should’ve done. All of this combines to create a guy who demands to have the ability to destroy your team, will stop at nothing to destroy your team, and then will blame everyone but himself while he is standing in the rubble of what was once your team.

In addition to being a complete fraud as an “offensive genius” you are correct that he is a thoroughly disrespectful person who threw all of his players under the bus before taking any responsibility for his poor coaching.

McD isn’t just a terrible coach, he’s a terrible human being.

Aside from likeability, he made strategically horrible play calls and time management decisions on numerous occasions through the past 2 seasons…he’s not a good HC.

He loaded the team with a lot of washed up or useless guys because they were patriots: jimmy G, brandon Bolden, the new long snapper when we had a good one at the same price, Brian hoyer, Philip dorsett, chandler jones, Justin Herron, Jakob Johnson (he’s not a good FB, we already HAD a good FB before mcdaniels…). We’ll probably eat $100M in lost team money because of the players and coaches contracts that will be null after this season

This was Mcdaniels coaching style square peg in a round hole

Players hated playing for him - and his methods didn’t lead to winning, so it was basically a mutiny by the end

mcDaniels kept players in meetings longer and worked them harder than any team in the league… For no results. Players will buy in to hard work, but not if it doesn’t go anywhere

He is a micromanager who routinely blamed the players for not executing, rather than look at his own game plans

He is famously petty and sensitive - and fell out with a lot of players for no good reason. Just like he was an asshole to Jay Cutler and others in Denver, he immediately fell out with Carr, Waller, Renfrow and others.

His play calling is just conservative and archaic. He hates allowing players any creativity, which is why he fell out with Renfrow and Carr in particular. Carr likes to change plays at the line based on what he sees, mcDaniels hated that

Famously, in the Seattle win last year, Carr audibled into a run that Jacobs broke for a long touchdown. McDaniels was mad he changed the play, not happy we scored a TD

He’d rather lose with his own guys than win with someone elses. Hence the insistence on downgrading to Jimmy G, who he overestimated how much he’d fit in his system, despite failing a physical

Ultimately, mcDaniels sucked all the joy and life out of this team. Which is why they celebrated like you’ve never seen when he got fired.