dropped some interesting information about how Duggan, specifically, ended up in Miami<\/a>:<\/p>\nAfter 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
LaFleur staked his claim on then-linebackers coach Sean Duggan; Hafley made a simple counter.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, Sean\u2019s coming with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Consider it Hafley\u2019s first win over his former employer.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\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
\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
This is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, LaFleur couldn\u2019t have blocked Duggan from becoming Miami\u2019s defensive coordinator, so it wouldn\u2019t have mattered whether LaFleur wanted to have him back in 2026 or not. Secondly, the linebackers, specifically Quay Walker and Edgerrin Cooper, regressed in 2025 under Duggan, his first year as the team\u2019s linebackers coach, compared to the second half of 2024, when Anthony Campanile, now the Jacksonville Jaguars\u2019 defensive coordinator, was leading the unit. Obviously, Duggan has long-standing ties with Hafley, as he was one of two coaches, along with assistant defensive line coach Vince Oghobaase, whom Hafley brought with him from Boston College.<\/p>\n
Duggan had served as BC\u2019s linebackers coach under Hafley, and he was a graduate assistant for Ohio State in 2019, when Hafley was the team\u2019s co-defensive coordinator. In 2023, Hafley\u2019s final year at Boston College, he named Duggan co-defensive coordinator on top of his title as linebackers coach, when his previous defensive coordinator, Tem Lukabu, left to be an assistant coach in the NFL. Duggan served the role of \u201cdefensive assistant\u201d in Hafley\u2019s first year with Green Bay, before Campanile received the promotion in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Under defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, the team\u2019s defensive staff has been almost completely reshaped, with the only on-field assistant who hasn\u2019t reportedly left for another gig this cycle being defensive line coach\/run game coordinator DeMarcus Covington. As of now, the reported signings under Gannon have been pass game coordinator Bobby Babich, defensive backs coach Daniel Bullocks and linebackers coach Sam Siefkes. Siefkes, Duggan\u2019s replacement, previously coached for Gannon as his linebackers coach in Arizona from 2023 to 2024, before taking over as Virginia Tech\u2019s defensive coordinator in 2025, a role he held for just one year before being displaced by former VT head coach Brent Pry being moved to defensive coordinator after the hiring of head coach James Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers have had a bit of an odd season from a coaching standpoint. Obviously, defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1855,10832,48748,71158,12003,23955,8013,116,64436,58511,71156,123,1763,125,124,10828,71157,68235,71155],"class_list":["post-146992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-arizona","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-defensive-coordinator","tag-edgerrin-cooper","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-head-coach","tag-jacksonville","tag-jeff-hafley","tag-linebackers-coach","tag-matt-lafleur","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-quay-walker","tag-sean-duggan","tag-sean-mannion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}