Brian Flores Brings Direct, Unflinching Vision To Miami Dolphins

Brian Flores stood up to greet me as I entered his office on the second floor of the Miami Dolphins' training facility Sunday morning, circling back to grab a bottle of water. There were four sunken chairs aligned in equidistant fashion around a small, circular glass table, and I sat down in the one furthest from the entrance.

Flores looked up and frowned. "You're in my seat," he said, politely but definitively. After I'd gotten up and moved, the Dolphins' rookie head coach added, "There are three doors, and I have to have eyes on all of them."

Like a cinematic mobster in a darkened Italian restaurant, Flores has a need to see who, or what, might be coming at him. As the 38-year-old Brooklyn native tackles his toughest professional test -- and perhaps the stiffest challenge faced by any of the league's six first-time head coaches -- Flores has unflinchingly communicated his vision and, when necessary, asserted his authority.

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The fact that Stills admitted that Flores is trying to get them to think about all games and not just the Pats tells you all you need to know about Gase

ChambersWI said:

The fact that Stills admitted that Flores is trying to get them to think about all games and not just the Pats tells you all you need to know about Gase

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Can you elaborate on that?

"He talks real, cash-money s---," Stills said admiringly. "He's not backing down at all, and he doesn't freak out if you come at him, either."

NBP81 said:

Can you elaborate on that?

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Gase only put effort into games he felt mattered. IE, Pats or people that pissed him off (Dan Quinn and Atlanta, the Broncos with Elway not hiring him)

Excellent article.

**Enjoyed**

Thanks for posting!

ChambersWI said:

Gase only put effort into games he felt mattered. IE, Pats or people that pissed him off (Dan Quinn and Atlanta, the Broncos with Elway not hiring him)

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Gase must have really loved the guys that run the Vikings.

Very good article. Seems to value fundamentals and hard work +.be able to relate to the players.

ChambersWI said:

Gase only put effort into games he felt mattered. IE, Pats or people that pissed him off (Dan Quinn and Atlanta, the Broncos with Elway not hiring him)

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As good a theory as I’ve heard for our inexplicable let down games after huge wins. The team was very much still in the playoff picture after the Miami miracle. 3 huge, embarrassing eggs proceeded to be laid to close out the year. I can accept defeat, but the team looked completely unprepared and unmotivated when they should have been anything but. That’s on Gase.

Great read. Just win baby )

The best part of the interview:

"Miles wanted to get in front of a camera," Flores recalled, "so I picked him up and one of the reporters said, 'Hey Miles, do you know what happened?' He was trying to bait him into saying, 'We just won the Super Bowl.' [Instead], my son goes, 'We're going to Miami!' "

Should Finheaven adopt this policy?

“You wanna talk about last year?" Flores shot back. "We don't talk about last year!"

I'm very curious how ANYONE who was not in those rooms & not being paid by the Miami Dolphins would have access to what was said during their Head coaching interviews?

"with the Miami Herald reporting in January that the word "tanking" was used during at least some of the team's head-coaching interviews".

Probably, as in... NOT TANKING.

Who would have SPUN it that way?