{"id":734527,"date":"2026-02-07T00:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:18:06","slug":"matt-lafleur-wanted-to-keep-sean-duggan-before-he-left-for-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734527\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LaFleur wanted to keep Sean Duggan before he left for Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">After Jeff Hafley was hired as the Miami Dolphins\u2019 head coach, and after all pleasantries were exchanged with his former boss, Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur, the two men discussed who Hafley would be taking with him to South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">LaFleur staked his claim on then-linebackers coach Sean Duggan; Hafley made a simple counter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNo, Sean\u2019s coming with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Consider it Hafley\u2019s first win over his former employer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cUltimately [LaFleur and I] decided that it was best for Sean to come here,\u201d Hafley said Wednesday. \u201cAnd I say that not because he\u2019s been with me for eight or nine years, whatever it\u2019s been. I say that I think he\u2019s a rising star, and he\u2019s going to allow me to be the head coach of his team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m going to be able to touch all three phases with how good this guy is, and he\u2019s going to allow me to be the head coach. And then when it\u2019s time for me to call the defense, I\u2019ll be able to call the defense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Jeff Hafley was hired as the Miami Dolphins\u2019 head coach, and after all pleasantries were exchanged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,97481,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-734527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116026481322221957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734527","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=734527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}