Dolphins offensive tackle Austin Jackson has been in Miami since he was the team\u2019s first-round draft pick in 2020, which means Jeff Hafley is his third head coach. And Hafley\u2019s training camp practices are reminding him of his first head coach.<\/p>\n
Asked what practice was like after the Dolphins opened camp, Jackson said it reminded him of Brian Flores, the Dolphins\u2019 head coach in Jackson\u2019s first two seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fun. It was fun. It was kind of similar to how Brian Flores ran practices, very similar,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cWe just got to team right away. Not as many seven-on-sevens, hardly any seven-on-sevens, really, with Flo I don\u2019t remember any. Definitely, it was nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked how Hafley\u2019s approach differs from former coach Mike McDaniel, Jackson said he likes having the whole team together under Hafley.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a little bit more reps, more team reps in practice, which is nice,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cPrevious coach was a lot more segmented and very intentional on certain things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since signing a three-year contract extension late in the 2023 season, Jackson has struggled with injuries, missing most of 2024 with a knee injury and most of 2025 with a toe injury. The most important thing for Jackson at training camp is that he\u2019s healthy enough to be on the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins offensive tackle Austin Jackson has been in Miami since he was the team\u2019s first-round draft pick in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-795583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}