Jeff Hafley has found the fan habit that gets under his skin: practice videos posted online.
The Dolphins coach was asked Thursday about how much those clips can reveal, and he made it clear that this isn’t just harmless offseason content. In his view, a fan with a phone can hand opponents a little too much information.
Hafley pointed to a conversation with assistant coach Kevin Patullo as the moment the issue really hit home.
"He told me that before we (the Packers) played them (the Eagles) in Brazil, he had half my pressures on tape from training camp, from people who videotaped it and put it online," Hafley said. "I remember I had a pressure that we never run, so there's no way he could have known about it, and they knew it was coming."
According to Hafley, Patullo said the pressure showed up because a fan video had revealed the formation online. That’s the kind of leak that can turn a routine practice look into usable intel for an opponent.
Miami allows fans at training camp, and most NFL teams do the same. The issue is that media members are restricted from filming or posting video without team approval, while fans are not under the same rules. In a stadium culture built around phones, that creates an obvious loophole.
Hafley acknowledged there may not be much the Dolphins can do about it, but he also floated the kinds of changes teams could consider later, including banning cell phones from training camp or cutting back on the number of practices open to fans. Some teams, like the Raiders, already do not hold open practices.
Still, the reality is hard to ignore. Fans want to capture what they see, and many will keep posting whether teams like it or not. Even if rules changed, plenty of people would try to work around them.
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