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What to know about Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley
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Matt LaFleur and the Packers surprised all by hiring Boston College head coach Jeff Hafley as the Packers’ next defensive coordinator.
Hafley had been on eight different college or NFL coaching staffs since 2001 prior to his time at Boston College.
Here’s a snapshot of a few things to know about Hafley:
Where is Jeff Hafley from?
Hafley was raised in Montville, New Jersey. He was a four-year letter-winner as a wide receiver Siena College, graduating in 2001. He also has a graduate degree from the University of Albany.
What is Jeff Hafley’s age?
44
What was Hafley’s record at Boston College?
22-26.
Hafley was named head coach in 2020 and he was at Boston College four seasons. His best season was last year. The Eagles were 7-6 and played in the Fenway Bowl, defeating No. 23 SMU, 23-14.
Hafley also recruited and coached wide receiver Zay Flowers, who was a first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2023 NFL draft.
Hafley has been an NFL assistant coach with three teams
Hafley began his NFL coaching career as an assistant defensive backs coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012 and became the secondary coach in 2013. The Buccaneers led the NFL with 21 interceptions that season. He also coached the secondary in Cleveland during the 2014 and 2015 seasons and had he same role with the San Francisco 49ers in starting in 2016.
Hafley was the co-defensive coordinator at Ohio State. Where else did he coach in college?
After leaving the NFL, Hafley became the co-defensive coordinator at Ohio State during Ryan Day’s first season and the Buckeyes finished 13-1 and No. 3 in the country. He then was named head coach of Boston College in 2020, replacing Steve Addazio.
He also had stops as an assistant at Worcester Polytechnic (2001), Albany (2002–05), Pittsburgh (2006–10) and Rutgers (2011) before joining an NFL staff.
Has Hafney ever worked with Matt LaFleur?
No, but both have worked for San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Shanahan and Hafley also worked in Cleveland under Mike Pettine, who was also LaFleur’s first defensive coordinator.
Does Hafley have a family?
He and his wife Gina have two daughters, Hope and Leah.
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Photos from the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University forward Nick Roukounakis celebrates his goal with BU fans behind the glass during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University defenseman Cole Hutson celebrates scoring the winning goal in a shootout to advance BU to the Beanpot final during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
TD Garden was full of Terriers and Huskies fans for the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University defenseman Cole Hutson scores the winning goal in a shootout against Northeastern goalie Lawton Zacher to advance BU to the Beanpot final during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Northeastern forward Jacob Mathieu celebrates after scoring a second-period goal during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
TD Garden was full of Terriers and Huskies fans for the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University defenseman Cole Hutson makes a pass during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University head coach Jay Pandolfo talks with his team during a time out during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University forward Cole Eiserman gets into a scrap with Northeastern defenseman Austen May during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
The Terriers celebrate Nick Roukounakis’ goal during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot Semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University forward Nick Roukounakis celebrates his goal with bench during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Northeastern defenseman Vinny Borgesi lines up a pass during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Northeastern defenseman Austen May tosses the puck in the air before the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Northeastern forward Matthew Perkins battles Boston University forward Jonathan Morello for the puck during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University forward Ryder Ritchie corrals the puck in front of Northeastern defenseman Jack Henry during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Fans pound the glass trying to get Boston University goalie Max Lacroix’s attention before the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
A fan pounds on the glass before the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University forward Jack Harvey tries to force the puck past Northeastern goalie Lawton Zacher during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Huskies fans celebrate a Northeastern goal during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University defenseman Gavin McCarthy makes a pass during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Northeastern fans filled the upper balcony during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Fans hold jerseys while watching warmups before the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Fans hold signs while watching warmups before the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Katie Morrison-O’Day
Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
TD Garden was full of Terriers and Huskies fans for the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Katie Morrison-O’Day
Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Fans hold signs while watching warmups before the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Katie Morrison-O’Day
Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Northeastern’s Dylan Hryckowian, Vinny Borgesi and Jacob Mathieu celebrate a Huskies goal during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Boston University defenseman Cole Hutson skates with the puck during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
The Huskies celebrate a first-period goal during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
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Beanpot semi-final: Boston University vs. Northeastern
Northeastern defenseman Vinny Borgesi directs his teammates during the 2026 Beanpot semifinal between Boston University and Northeastern on February 2, 2026 at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
The car-sharing company Zipcar will close its Boston headquarters, ending local operations in the place where it was founded.
Its owner, the car rental company Avis Budget Group, said it is “consolidating Zipcar’s headquarters” into its global home base in Northern New Jersey “as part of a broader effort to enhance Zipcar’s long-term operational effectiveness.”
“As a result, Zipcar will no longer maintain a separate corporate office in Boston,” a spokesperson for Avis Budget Group said Monday.
The company plans to lay off 65 employees in Boston by April, according to a notice it filed with Massachusetts state officials last week.
Zipcar was founded in Cambridge in 1999 and debuted there and in Boston the next year. The company expanded in the years that followed and by 2009 was the world’s largest car-sharing service, according to NBC News. Avis bought Zipcar in 2013.
“Zipcar was founded in Boston and the city has been an important part of its history since then,” the company spokesperson said. “This consolidation reinforces Zipcar’s foundation and positions the business to continue serving members reliably well into the future.”
The move will not affect service for Zipcar’s members, the spokesperson added.
In addition to the 65 Boston-based employees, the company will lay off approximately 61 remote workers elsewhere in the country, the Boston Business Journal reported.
Zipcar’s regional field and fleet operations teams will remain in Boston and other cities after the headquarters closes “to support members and day-to-day service without interruption,” the Avis spokesperson said.
Brian Shortsleeve, a Republican candidate for governor, said Zipcar’s move was the result of Massachusetts’ taxes and regulations on business.
“Massachusetts is becoming a place where even homegrown success stories can’t afford to stay,” he wrote in a post on X.
The announcement came the same week that Panera Bread said it would lay off 92 employees at its bakery in Franklin and that life sciences company Thermo Fisher Scientific said it would lay off 103 employees and close a facility, also in Franklin.
The Campbell’s Company also said Thursday it would close the Hyannis manufacturing plant of the beloved Cape Cod potato chip brand. The company will lay off 49 people, it said.
“These are not isolated decisions. They are rational business responses to a state that has become increasingly expensive, unpredictable, and hostile to employers,” said Paul Diego Craney, executive director of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a conservative business organization. “High taxes, crushing energy costs, and rigid Net Zero climate mandates are making it harder every day for companies to justify staying in Massachusetts.”
The Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks honored the 75th anniversary of the breaking of the NBA’s color barrier Sunday by squaring off in the inaugural NBA Pioneers Classic.
The game spotlighted Basketball Hall of Famers Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton and Earl Lloyd, who were the first Black players to be drafted, sign an NBA contract and appear in an NBA game, respectively.
Players for both teams wore shooting shirts with Cooper, Clifton and Lloyd’s names emblazoned on the back. Each uniform featured a “Pioneers Classic” patch above the nameplate and a “1950” patch beneath the rear jersey number.
The three legends’ names and jersey numbers also appeared on the TD Garden court and on the stanchion beneath each basket. Relatives of Cooper, Clifton and Lloyd joined Jaylen Brown on the court for a pregame address.
“Today is the NBA’s first Pioneer Classic, and it’s an honor to speak on the behalf of some of our legends — Nat Clifton, Earl Lloyd and (the) Boston Celtics’ Chuck Cooper,” Brown, who went on to tally 30 points and 13 rebounds in a 107-79 Celtics win, told the Garden crowd. “… A pioneer, by definition, if a leader, is an innovator and a forward thinker. Who will be the pioneers of this generation? On the behalf of the NBA, I want to say thank you — thank you, Boston. Let’s have a good game.”
Cooper played four seasons for the Celtics from 1950 to 1954.
“When you coach the Celtics, we’ve had just high-character people and have history and have had a tradition in many different forms,” Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla said pregame. “And when you’re helping move that forward, you just have a responsibility to the people who came before you to move it forward. One, to be appreciative of what those before you have done on and off the court, and then the second piece to that is doing your part and moving that forward and kind of leaving it better.
“You don’t have a situation like this if you don’t have the people that have come before you. So that’s important. And I think the league is the same way. We’ve had great people come through this league, influential people, and just taking advantage of the opportunity you have to move forward is an opportunity we’re given.”
Bucks head coach Doc Rivers, who coached the Celtics from 2004 until 2013, saluted Red Auerbach during his pregame news conference. Auerbach drafted Cooper in the second round in 1950 — his first draft as Boston’s head coach — fielded the NBA’s first all-Black starting five in 1955 and hired Bill Russell as the league’s first Black head coach in 1966.
“What I think Pioneers Day represents, to me, is America,” Rivers said. “Red Auerbach is responsible for our achievements as much as anyone else. He didn’t see color. He wanted to make the league a better league, and he kept doing it — hiring Bill Russell as coach. I mean, you think about this city that’s had its ups and downs race-wise, but you have this one guy. And I got it a little bit, but when you come here and you coach here, boy, you really get it with Red. You really get what he was about. And so Pioneers Day, first game being here, for me, obviously, being a coach here for nine years, means a lot.”
The Celtics also honored Auerbach and Russell during the game. Auerbach’s granddaughter, Julie Auerbach Flieger, and Russell’s daughter, Karen Kenyatta Russell, were recognized on the court during a first-quarter timeout.
Rivers said the Pioneers Classic is “good for history.”
“Because we live in a time right now where our history is being, you know, whitewashed, a lot of it,” he said. “And I think you learn a lot through history. You have to. I think that’s our problem. We need to teach history, whether it’s bad or good. Need to teach it more.”
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