The Dolphins are preparing to advance their head coaching search starting Monday, with one name suspiciously being spotlighted in a new report
“It’s time to take our relationship to the next level.” — The Dolphins, probably
The Miami Dolphins‘ head coaching search as logged more than a half-dozen interviews with plenty of qualified candidates. The things most important to this Dolphins team as they set about a rebuild are likely to be the kinds of things we cannot see — it’s less about the brilliance of a scheme or the bravado of the coach. As the Dolphins seek to build their team anew, they’ll need the right program builder, the right leader, the right culture and all those other things you can measure in the stat sheet.
Miami and the rest of the league are bracing to take their relationships with these candidates to the next level. In-person interviews for league employed coaches will start on Monday. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Miami’s scheduling for next week and interestingly chose to spotlight one name in particular as being on the docket.
Dolphins laying foundation for in-person interviews for head coaching vacancy, Jeff Hafley among those tabbed
Hafley has obvious connections with the new regime being installed in Miami thanks to two years of overlap with new Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan in Green Bay. Prior to serving in Green Bay as the defensive coordinator, Hafley was a head coach with four years of experience at Boston College. He has ties to several assistant coaches already on the staff in Miami, plus he worked with former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel for several seasons in San Francisco under Kyle Shanahan.
He surely won’t be the only candidate to get an interview. But the connections are obvious. And Hafley has been tethered to the top of the odds charts in most places as the betting favorite to land in Miami. It’s not a coincidence.
The real question is if those odds reflect the reality of the situation or if the reporting of Miami’s search, including Schefter’s inclusion of Hafley as the long candidate named as a second-interview, is steering that perception. We could find out the truth as early as the first few days of next week.
The most likely Miami Dolphins head coach targets
- Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley
- Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula
- Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak
- San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh
- Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile
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