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Exploring the Dolphins’ plan on defense, courtesy of the Ivy Leaguer making the calls

Long before he worked for Bill Belichick, Patrick Graham loved secrets and subterfuge.

He’s a football coach only because chemical engineering classes at Yale were as hard as they sound.

Otherwise, he would probably be a spy. (Yes, insert joke here, Patriots haters.)

“If you go back and dig it up, there’s film of it,” Graham said. “My senior year of high school, I wanted to get a chemical engineering degree and go into the CIA.”

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Graham continued: “That didn’t go too well.