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South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Jeff Hafley

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

"We're gonna do everything we can to make you happy." Jeff Hafley, the new head coach of the Miami Dolphins, knows the expectations are high for him to lead a franchise that hasn't won a playoff game in a quarter of a century. Coach Hafley traces his rise from being a kid fixated on football (he asked for a mini whiteboard for Christmas!) to his college coaching career beginning by sleeping under his desk in the stadium at the University of Pittsburgh and surviving on peanut butter to becoming an NFL head coach. Coach Hafley makes it clear to Dan Le Batard and the many broken Dolphins' fans like him: he was made for the job and is someone who promises to outwork everyone and has the history of missed weddings, strained relationships, and years of choosing the job over everything else to prove it. He also explains why he walked away from being head coach at Boston College to return to the NFL (“I didn’t like who I was becoming") and why he chose Miami over other teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Looking forward to crack open the soul of this man right here, the Dolphins coach, Jeff

0:32.1

Halfley. Are you someone who enjoys this process? I know it's part of being the voice and face of a team, but the talking to the media twice a day, we like that or we don't like that so much? Depends on what time of year it is. And, you know, right now I do. I'm new. I get to meet new people. And I do think that's very important. I think it's important for me to get out in the community, have people get to know me a little bit, understand me a little bit, and do everything I can to help the organization. But yeah, I enjoy it. When you get good people, a lot of this can be fun. How does this work, though, fun at this stage? Because it's pressurized. It's all your dreams come true. And here, here's all the responsibility. And here are all the things you might not have known about what comes with leadership and a job

1:15.0

because that problem isn't one you faced before.

1:18.2

No, I think it's all on how you look at it, right?

1:21.6

I mean, you work so hard in your life, whatever profession that it is,

1:25.6

and you get to what some people view is the

1:27.6

top. And a lot of times a place where we dreamed of getting to, if you can't enjoy it,

1:33.2

then I think you have to take a step back and just think about all the hard work and where you're

1:39.5

at. And because of that, I'm enjoying every day. I wake up. I look forward to going to work every day.

1:44.5

You feel like you're at the top.

1:46.0

It feels like you've reached the top of your profession.

1:48.5

You're the son of a coach, an inspiration of a father. Like you feel like you've arrived at your dreams? I don't know if it's arrived. I feel like, you know, when I was a head coach at Boston College at 40 years old, I probably

2:01.8

didn't know which way was up and probably wasn't as prepared. But I feel more prepared. Do I feel

2:08.5

like I'm at the top? I'm not sure. Sometimes I walk in and kind of forget I'm the head coach

2:13.4

and just go on with, you know, all the things that I have to do. Because of the grind of it? Like every day for a coach is just buzzsaw head for 20 hours and so you forget you're the head coach? No, I'm not saying that. I think it's just more of who I am. And I enjoy what I do. I enjoy being around the people. So it's not like I walk around the building, like bossing people around and pretending I'm higher up than everybody.

2:35.5

But when I do take a step back and realize all the decisions that I do have to make,

2:39.4

because that's probably the biggest thing that you find is when you do become the head coach

2:44.1

at whatever level you're at is instead of suggestions, you're now required to give a lot of answers and make a lot of decisions

2:52.6

each day. But besides that, no, it's not a grind and it doesn't feel like that. It's going

2:57.7

to work, being around good people, doing what I enjoy to do every single day. And for now,

3:02.9

without my family here, I go back at night and go to sleep and wake up and do it again. But I can

3:06.6

truthfully say it hasn't felt that way. I've enjoyed it. I look forward every morning going

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