{"id":696266,"date":"2026-01-22T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:33:45","slug":"what-theyre-saying-jeff-hafley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696266\/","title":{"rendered":"What they\u2019re saying: Jeff Hafley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Dan Orlovsky had <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/danorlovsky7\/status\/2013372376424063438?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">this to say on X<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy for Hafley man. Really good coach and a really great human&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Industry expert and insider Andrew Brandt <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewBrandt\/status\/2013381210869801314?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">added on his X account<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knew there was no chance he&#8217;d be back with the Packers. Too good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NFL Insider Dan Graziano highlighted Hafley&#8217;s reputation as a strong player developer on <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47663777\/miami-dolphins-hire-jeff-hafley-head-coach-faq-means\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he earned a lot of praise inside and outside the Packers&#8217; building for what he did during his time there, and his reputation as a college head coach was that of a strong player developer. Players like Zay Flowers and Donovan Ezeiruaku are among those who developed into high NFL draft picks during their time at BC while Hafley was there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FoxSports.com had high praise for Miami&#8217;s new head coach as the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/nfl\/dolphins-reportedly-set-hire-packers-dc-jeff-hafley-become-next-head-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">site reported<\/a> the news:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Miami Dolphins have landed one of the top head coach candidates in this coaching carousel cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter and NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero were among the first to break the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s Dan Orlovsky had this to say on X: &#8220;Happy for Hafley man. Really good coach and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[2093,217,7,216,251,2087,6,95237,2092,13801],"class_list":["post-696266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-dolphins","tag-content-feature","tag-dolphins","tag-football","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miamidolphins","tag-nfl","tag-written-content-feature","tag-written-content-latest-stories","tag-written-content-press-release"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115938774534131375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696266","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=696266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}