{"id":696041,"date":"2026-01-22T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696041\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:10:15","slug":"dolphins-introduce-new-gm-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696041\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins introduce new GM, coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH THE LIVE NEWS CONFERENCE AT 11 A.M.:<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Dolphins have scheduled a news conference on Thursday to formally introduce their new general manager and also their new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team, the event will be held at the Dolphins&#8217; Baptist Health Training Complex in Miami Gardens at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>New Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/sports\/football\/dolphins\/jon-eric-sullivan-finalizing-deal-to-become-miami-dolphins-gm-ap-source-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hired on Jan. 9<\/a>, and new head coach Jeff Hafley was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/sports\/football\/dolphins\/dolphins-expected-to-hire-jeff-hafley-as-new-head-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hired on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new duo both come from the Green Bay Packers where Sullivan was the vice president of player personnel and Hafley was the defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>This is Hafley&#8217;s first stint as an NFL head coach, but he was the head coach of Boston College for four seasons before departing for Green Bay in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Miami <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/sports\/football\/dolphins\/miami-dolphins-and-general-manager-chris-grier-part-ways-after-2-7-start-to-the-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fired former general manager Chris Grier<\/a> on Oct. 31 after the team started 2-7. The team missed the playoffs for the second straight year, prompting the team to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/sports\/football\/dolphins\/miami-dolphins-fire-head-coach-mike-mcdaniel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire head coach Mike McDaniel<\/a> four days after the team lost at New England to close out the season.<\/p>\n<p>The team will have to address a variety of issues this offseason, including how to handle the quarterback situation after starter <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/sports\/football\/dolphins\/dolphins-benching-tua-tagovailoa-for-rookie-quinn-ewers-ap-source-says\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tua Tagovailoa was benched<\/a> for the last three games for rookie <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/sports\/football\/dolphins\/quinn-ewers-likely-to-remain-dolphins-starting-qb-for-final-2-games-of-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quinn Ewers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa still has two years remaining on a $212.4 million contract he signed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins have not won a playoff game since 2000, which is the longest drought for any NFL team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH THE LIVE NEWS CONFERENCE AT 11 A.M.: The Miami Dolphins have scheduled a news conference on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,8628,95805,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-696041","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-jeff-hafley","11":"tag-jon-eric-sullivan","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-dolphins","14":"tag-miamidolphins","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696041","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=696041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}