The Arizona Cardinals have had a lengthy list of head coaching candidates, and one by one, names have been crossed off.<\/p>\n
On Monday evening, as the Indiana Hoosiers were winning their first National Championship, the Miami Dolphins decided to ink Green Bay Packers DC Jeff Hafley as their new head coach.<\/p>\n
Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross released this statement:<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe great things are ahead for the Miami Dolphins with Jeff Hafley leading the way. Jeff is an accomplished coach with a proven track record as a leader and motivator. He has tenacity and grit, while at the same time establishing trust with his players in order to get the most out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hafley was signed to the standard five-year coaching deal with the amount per year undisclosed, as usual with coaches\u2019 salaries.<\/p>\n
Hafley, age 46, was on the short list of quite a few NFL clubs that had dismissed their head coach. The Cleveland Browns were high on him as a candidate because of his defensive abilities and had been their DB coach from 2014-2015.<\/p>\n
He was head coach of Boston College from 2020-2023 before the Packers hired him in 2024 to lead their defense. At Boston College he was 22-26-0. Hafley\u2019s teams were ranked #5 in his first NFL season with Green Bay, and #12 overall this past season. His teams have plenty of sacks and get constant pressure on the offensive backfield on passing downs.<\/p>\n
Hafley\u2019s name began to surface as a prospect for the Cardinals in the second round of interview requests. The team had a formal interview with him last week and requested a second interview. However, Miami made him an offer on Monday after a second meeting with the talented, defensive-minded coach.<\/p>\n
Another candidate high on Arizona\u2019s list was Robert Saleh, who became the Tennessee Titans new head coach on the same day as Hafley.<\/p>\n
No word on who the Cardinals will hire, but the odds-on favorite is Denver Broncos DC Vance Joseph.<\/p>\n
Hafley joins new Dolphins GM Jon-Eric Sullivan, who had been with the Packers since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Cardinals have had a lengthy list of head coaching candidates, and one by one, names have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,85477,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-690908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals-discussion","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115926907171976026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690908","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=690908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}