In listening to Coach Haf’s presser, talking about what he envisions in his 1st contract, I extrapolate it here:<\/p>\n
\u25cf Shared Vision: Hafley highlighted the tight alignment between Kyle Shanahan & John Lynch when they took over San Francisco in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u25cf Sticking to the Process: He noted how Shanahan didn’t flinch during tough early years (like an 0-9 start) & held everyone to a high standard.<\/p>\n
\u25cf Replicating in Miami: Hafley wants to emulate that exact locked-in partnership with Dolphins GM Jon-Eric Sullivan (Sully).<\/p>\n
Early-Stage Parallels (so far)<\/p>\n
\u25cf Inexperience: The current Dolphins roster is relying heavily on rookies & young players.<\/p>\n
\u25cf Growing Pains: Hafley acknowledges that turning the culture around takes patience, similar to San Fran’s multi-year build, before reaching the Super Bowl in the third year.<\/p>\n
Here’s Hafley as he reflected on his time with his former team in full below:<\/p>\n
“I’ve kind of mentioned this before, and this was the biggest lasting impression for me as a younger coach when I left the Niners. John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan coming in together, being aligned, it kind of sent a message to me if I ever get a chance to do this, I want it to be like that, I want it to be somebody that I’m aligned with,” Hafley said. “When I came in and John Lynch, who, one of the best football players, a Hall=of-Fame football player, but you want to talk about a good guy? He’s one of the best human beings of all time. Combine that with Kyle, I just think it’s such a great fit. And remember, we were 0-9. Kyle’s first season. I’m there, we started off 0-9, we won a bunch of games. And next year, I think we won four or five games. In year three, they went to the Super Bowl. So he had a process.<\/p>\n
“And Kyle’s a huge influence on me, and I truly believe he’s one of the reasons that I’m here right now. A great coach, great friend, but I’ve learned so much from him. And seeing him stick to the process and hold people to a standard during two really hard years and building it the right way and not flinching, and him and John just being like this (clasps hands together). I think that has stuck with me. And that’s, you look at us now, I’m not saying by any means that we’re going to start that way, but Sully and I together, trying to build this thing the right way, Kyle kind of gave me the blueprint for that.” ~Coach Haf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In listening to Coach Haf’s presser, talking about what he envisions in his 1st contract, I extrapolate it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2797,125,124,2557],"class_list":["post-405265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins-news","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-the-splash-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405265","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=405265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}