Jeff Hafley doing something Mike McDaniel could've benefited from
New Miami Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley is doing something early on that could really help in his first stint as an NFL head coach.
After finishing the 2025 season with a 7-10 record, the Miami Dolphins fired head coach Mike McDaniel and hired Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley to take his place. While Hafley has spent his life coaching on the defensive side of the ball, he's allowing defensive coordinator Sean Duggan to run the unit while the head coach familiarizes himself with Bobby Slowik's offense. “Once training camp hits I’ll take [the defense] back over.
[This] allows me to be the head coach right now and that’s huge,” Hafley told Richard Sherman on his podcast. “I’m sitting in the quarterback meetings. I’m sitting in the offensive installs.
Because what I learned from this go around is I have to learn everything that’s going on. I can’t be the defensive coach. I don’t want the players to see me as just the defensive coordinator.
I want them to see me, and feel me as the head coach. And I want to know all of the scheme. ” Slowik is a holdover from McDaniel's staff last year after serving as the Houston Texans offensive coordinator for two seasons.