The Miami Dolphins completed three in-person head coaching interviews on Monday, including Las Vegas Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham, Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard, and Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley. After days of speculation and rumors that the Dolphins were looking toward Hafley as their primary candidate for the vacancy, the rumors are turning out to be true as it appears Hafley will be named the team’s head coach.

Multiple media reports, shortly after the team announced the conclusion of the interview with Hafley, indicated that the team and the coach were working out a deal. The...

Our Miami Dolphins hired a new general manager, Jon-Eric Sullivan, and a new head coach, Jeff Hafley, this past week. After those two hires, I followed with the question:

What grade (A-F) would you give each of the two big hires by our Miami Dolphins for head coach and general manager? Beyond the grade, do you believe they got the best possible man for the job in both cases, and if not, who would you have rather seen the team pursue and why?

Below are some of your thougths and answers-

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The Miami Dolphins have a new offensive coordinator.

Bobby Slowik, who previously held the title of senior passing game coordinator with the Dolphins in 2025, has been promoted to the team’s offensive coordinator position, per Ian Rapoport on X.

Slowik has two seasons of experience as an NFL offensive coordinator, working for the Houston Texans in 2023 and 2024. Slowik was widely credited for then-rookie quarterback C.J. Stroud’s record-breaking season in 2023. That season, Stroud threw for 4,108 passing yards, 23 touchdowns, just five interceptions, and boasted a completion percentage of 63.9% and a passer rating of 100.8. Stroud set...

Jon-Eric Sullivan and Jeff Hafley with the media on Thursday for the first time and one of the questions directed towards Sullivan was the quarterback position. It still sounds like the Miami Dolphins are prepared to move on from QB Tua Tagovailoa despite the salary cap implications. Sullivan really didn’t state anything in particular about the quarterback room, but did state that they would likely invest in the position in every draft. Which is something the past regimes just haven’t done in Miami.

You can check out that story here, and the rest of the day’s round-up below.

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The Miami Dolphins are hiring Chris Tabor as their new special teams coordinator, as per Adam Schefter of ESPN. Tabor has worked in some capacity in special teams in the NFL since 2008. Most recently, he spent the 2025 NFL season as the special teams coordinator of the Buffalo Bills.

Following head coach Sean McDermott’s firing from the Buffalo Bills, Tabor is the first coordinator to seek greener pastures. It’s worth nothing that Tabor is well respected around the league, and even has head coach experience as interim head coach of the Carolina Panthers in 2023. He was also voted...

The Miami Dolphins are hiring Kyle Smith as their new assistant GM, as per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.

Smith, 41, has worked in the NFL since 2010. He joined the Washington Redskins in 2010 as a scouting intern, and worked his way up to vice president of player personnel by 2020. Smith left Washington in 2021, and joined the Atlanta Falcons as assistant general manager, working directly under Terry Fontenot at the time.

Interestingly enough, this is a lateral move for Smith, who will be working in the same role with the Dolphins, reporting to general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan....

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for our Victory of the Week (VOTW) post! This evening’s conversation prompt is straightforward: What was your victory this week? Did something remarkable happen? Is there a small achievement worth celebrating? This could relate to the Miami Dolphins, your professional life, or your personal life. We all experience victories, big or small, and we want to hear about yours.

This post is for you, our site members, who are part of our Phinsider family. This is your opportunity to share your successes from the past week. Your triumphs can be significant, such as the...

Former Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel is scheduled to meet with the Buffalo Bills’ front office today regarding the team’s vacant head coaching position, several sources report. Defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver is also scheduled to meet with the Bills on Saturday.

McDaniel, 42, spent four seasons with the Dolphins, finishing with a 35-35 record. During that span, McDaniel’s Dolphins were a disappointing 2-7 vs. the Bills, including a 34-31 playoff loss in 2022. Still, the Dolphins and Bills had some classic matches with McDermott and McDaniel battling it out for the last four seasons. Now, McDaniel is interviewing to...

The Miami Dolphins introduced their new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and head coach Jeff Hafley to the media yesterday. A new era of football is underway for the Dolphins as owner Stephen Ross decided it was time to start over with a clean slate. Sullivan stated that he wants to build the team up through the draft and that is refreshing to hear after how the Dolphins went about trading away their picks for star players over the past few years.

You can check out that story here, and the rest of the day’s round-up below.

[Dolphins usher in new...

By now, just about everyone associated with our Miami Dolphins believes that former starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has taken his last snap as a Dolphin or at least his last snap as the starter for the team. I think the bigger question surrounding Tua is how the team will manage to get him off the roster, given his horrible contract and the very negative cap implications. It also seems as if rookie and late-season fill-in Quinn Ewers is unlikely to be the long-term answer at the position (although I could see Ewers developing into a good long-term answer at backup)....

The Miami Dolphins found the franchise’s next head coach this week — hiring former Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley to work with new general manager (also from Green Bay), Jon-Eric Sullivan. Now that Miami has their new head-man-in-charge, it’s time for them to fill out the rest of their staff.

On Thursday morning, it was reported by multiple media outlets that the Dolphins have requested to interview Houston Texans quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson for their open offensive coordinator position.

Johnson, a former undrafted quarterback out of Texas A&M University, spent six seasons in the National Football League before...

Now that the dust has settled and our Miami Dolphins have hired a new general manager and head coach the team will be looking forward to hire and fill out their on the field staff as they also prepare for free agency and the draft. But what of those two big hires? How do you really feel about the new general manager and head coach? Did the team make the best possible choices they could in your opinion or should they have obviously gone in a different direction?

So tonight’s Phinsider Question Of The Day is:

What grade (A-F) would...