The Miami Dolphins have started the 2026 NFL season with four straight losses, but despite the team’s hardships, head coach Jeff Hafley still believes in the direction of his organization.
On Tuesday, Miami’s rookie head coach spoke with the South Florida media and discussed why he believes his squad will turn things around moving forward.
“Everything that we do is towards winning, but if we have the right guys in the building, and they keep improving, and if they keep trusting in their teammates and trusting in themselves,
and develop, they’ll continue to go forward and give their best, and do everything they can, because they respect and love their teammate, and go after it, and get better and win a game.”
Hafley continued:
“It’s what I just told them downstairs in the team meeting. I told the guys very clearly that this was going to be a tough journey that we were all going to go on. I told them that if they weren’t up for it, then they can go talk to [Jon-Eric Sullivan]. This is the time to find out, as we build this thing and grow, who are the real guys? Like, who are the guys that we can trust — that want in the boat — because when we flip this thing — and we will flip this thing — that we want to have around? The only way you find out those things is going through adversity together. And we’re going to find a lot about the guys.”
Does Hafley believe he already has the right guys in the building?
“The way we’re building this thing and the way we are talking about the process and the way we’re playing together, and the way we’re getting better, and the energy that we’ve played with, and the toughness that we’ve played with, I do believe we have the right guys, more or less, that will help us get to that point.”
It’s clear that Miami’s coach believes in his team and trusts they aren’t too far away from being a consistently competitive squad. Though the Dolphins remain winless on the season, they are trusting in their process and have faith that the results will start to show in the win/loss column soon.
Their next opportunity to finally claim a victory will come this Sunday when Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals visit Hard Rock Stadium.
