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Not long after the Miami Dolphins surprisingly fired head coach Brian Flores, the market immediately heated up with multiple teams pursuing the young coach.
One of those teams was the Chicago Bears, who interviewed Flores on Friday for their head coach vacancy.
Many Bears fans were immediately in on Flores, who showed some promise in his three seasons with the Dolphins. Numerous sources even had Flores as the top choice for the Chicago job.
One of those was NFL insider Ian Rapoport, who mentioned that he felt that Flores would “do a great job in Chicago” on the Pat McAfee Show.
Flores was 24-25 with the Dolphins, with a winning season in two of his three seasons. He led the Dolphins to a 10-6 season in 2020 and was 19-14 in the last two years.
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Alas, most of Flores’s success has been a result of the defense. Flores, a defensive coach himself, has struggled to produce a reliable offense in his tenure with the Dolphins. At times, Flores even employed a dual-offensive coordinator scheme in an attempt to improve the offense.
Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa has been in the bottom third of most major quarterback stats and the Fins were ahead of only the New York Jets, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Houston Texans for yards per game in 2021 and only four other AFC teams for points per game this year.
While some of that is attributed to the team’s horrendous offensive line, it shouldn’t be overlooked on Flores’s resume.
In addition to an underwhelming offense, Flores reportedly had numerous rifts with players and the coaching staff. Some reports even suggested that he had stopped talking to some individuals way back in November.
While a blunt coach who demands more is never a bad thing in the game of football, it’s concerning when that results in division instead of unity in an organization.
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