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Eagles hiring Dolphins safeties coach Joe Kasper

Miami loses a seventh member of their coaching staff.

The Miami Dolphins have lost another coach since the end of their 2023 campaign, as NFL Network’s Cameron Wolfe is reporting that Dolphins safeties coach Joe Kasper is joining the Philadelphia Eagles staff in the same capacity and reuniting with defensive coordinator Vic Fangio.

News broke Thursday night that the team had requested Miami’s permission to interview Kasper for the lateral move, and the Dolphins have obviously approved that.

The Dolphins have now lost seven members of the coaching staff this offseason and will be looking for a new safeties coach again for the third year in a row (no one held the position (2020-21).

Eagles request to interview Dolphins safeties coach Joe Kasper

Vic Fangio is attempting to take one of positional coaches with him to Philadelphia.

The Miami Dolphins have been making some coaching changes since their 2023 campaign came to a close.

They parted ways with defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, offensive assistant Ricardo Allen, offensive assistant Mike Judge, assistant special teams coach Brendan Farrell and offensive assistant Kolby Smith while assistant defensive line coach Kenny Baker left for a promotion at Texas.

Now, they may be on the cusp of losing another.

According to NFL Network’s Cameron Wolfe, the Philadelphia Eagles have put in a request to interview Dolphins safeties coach Joe Kasper for the same role.

Kasper joined Miami’s coaching staff in 2023 after spending the prior to seasons with the Eagles as defensive quality control coach. If he were to make this lateral move, which the Dolphins would have to approve, he’d be reuniting with Fangio in Philadelphia.

Dolphins hiring Eagles’ Joe Kasper as safeties coach

He spent 2022 as Philadelphia’s defensive quality control coach.

With Vic Famgio secured as their defensive coordinator, the Miami Dolphins are continuing to fill out the staff underneath the veteran coach.

According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the Dolphins are hiring Joe Kasper as their new safeties coach, replacing Steve Gregory who was let go at the end of the season.

Kasper has spent the last two seasons as the Philadelphia Eagles’ quality control coach after a three-year collegiate coaching stint at Duke.

He’ll work under Fangio and Renaldo Hill, who was recently hired as secondary coach and passing-game coordinator.

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Dolphins to hire Eagles’ defensive quality control Joe Kasper as new safeties coach

Philadelphia is losing another staffer as the Miami Dolphins are hiring Eagles defensive quality control Joe Kasper as their new safeties coach

The Eagles are losing another assistant coach, as Tom Pelissero is reporting that Joe Kasper is leaving his job as defensive quality control coach, to accept a job coaching the safety position for the Miami Dolphins.

Kasper originally joined Philadelphia during the 2021 offseason after spending the previous three years working with the quarterbacks (2020) and defensive backs (2018-19) as a graduate assistant at Duke University.

During his stint with the Eagles, Kasper worked with the inside and outside linebackers on coverage technique.

In 2019, Duke’s defense ranked third in the ACC and 24th nationally in passing yards allowed per game.

Kasper also helped the Blue Devils rank fourth in the conference in passing yards allowed per game as well as fifth in pass efficiency defense during the 2018 season.

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