{"id":690881,"date":"2026-01-20T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690881\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:00:17","slug":"miami-dolphins-hiring-jeff-hafley-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690881\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins hiring Jeff Hafley as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 19, 2026, 9:56 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For a third time in this cycle, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> missed out on a coaching candidate the day before a scheduled interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">NFL Insider Ian Rapoport reports that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> are hiring former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley to be their next head coach, making the move just hours before he was scheduled to meet with Mike Borgonzi for a second time in Nashville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A long-time Greg Schiano disciple, Hafley has spent time with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" data-autotag=\"0975654b-7314-4c6a-8b1d-0052f65c0335\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>, San Francisco 49ers, and Green Bay Packers during his time in the NFL, and would be a first-time NFL head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now that Hafley is off the board, it will be interesting to see if the Titans make a move with Mike McCarthy, Matt Nagy, or Robert Saleh, or decide to reach out to former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> head coach Sean McDermott, who was surprisingly fired on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Tennessee wrapped up interviews on Monday with Nagy and Saleh but has yet to release a statement on its next steps. Stay up to date with all of the news on the Titans coaching search as it happens here at Titans Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 19, 2026, 9:56 p.m. ET For a third time in this cycle, the Tennessee Titans missed out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[95878,217,7,216,251,2087,6,96009,96010,95882,96033,95957,95976,100805,95951,95896,95888,95895,95897,95975,97837,95883,96239,97551,95889,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-690881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-dolphins","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-dolphins","13":"tag-miamidolphins","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfltitans","16":"tag-sstsntitans","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","19":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","20":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","21":"tag-taggreg-schiano","22":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagnfl","25":"tag-tagnfl-hub","26":"tag-tagoverall-negative","27":"tag-tagrobert-saleh","28":"tag-tagsean-mcdermott","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-tagtampa-bay-buccaneers","31":"tag-tagtennessee","32":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","33":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115926848556523665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690881","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=690881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}