Dolphins host Lions with Hafley’s team aiming for grit that Campbell has built in Detroit

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — When Dan Campbell was hired as the Lions head coach in 2021, he famously declared that Detroit would be a team that would “bite a kneecap off its opponents. Dolphins first-year coach Jeff Hafley has a similar mindset and wants his young Dolphins team to be built on the same toughness and grit that Campbell has instituted in Detroit. “I probably never would talk about biting people, but I think it’s pretty cool that he did,” Hafley quipped on Wednesday. “I think it’s the same. I mean, that’s how I want to play football that’s how we are playing football.” Detroit was 3-13-1 in Campbell’s first full season as an NFL coach, six years after he was 5-7 as Miami’s interim coach. The teams will meet Sunday afternoon in Miami Gardens. “Just reminds me a little of what we were when we came in, Campbell said of the rebuilding Dolphins, who are 1-6 with the youngest roster in the NFL — eight Dolphins rookies have combined for 45 total starts — but have