{"id":688507,"date":"2026-01-19T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/688507\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:17:14","slug":"a-frontrunner-emerges-in-dolphins-coaching-search-the-splash-zone-1-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/688507\/","title":{"rendered":"A frontrunner emerges in Dolphins coaching search &#8211; The Splash Zone 1\/19\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Miami Dolphins are beginning their in person interviews for their vacant head coach position with reports of a frontrunner emerging. Kevin Stefanski was reported to be getting setup for a second interview with Miami, but he quickly accepted the Atlanta Falcons spot on Saturday. The Dolphins will meet today with Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator, Jeff Hafley, who has emerged as the favorite to land this job. He\u2019s also schedule to meet with a few other teams after the Dolphins but if they want him, he might just be the new head coach of the Dolphins by the end of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You can check out that story here, and the rest of the day\u2019s round-up below.<\/p>\n<p>Dolphins Head Coach Search<\/p>\n<p>Phinsider News You May Have Missed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins are beginning their in person interviews for their vacant head coach position with reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2087,6,52343],"class_list":{"0":"post-688507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-miamidolphins","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-the-splash-zone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}