{"id":56385,"date":"2019-02-04T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=56385"},"modified":"2019-02-04T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:54:13","slug":"miami-dolphins-hire-brian-flores-for-head-coaching-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/02\/04\/miami-dolphins-hire-brian-flores-for-head-coaching-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins Hire Brian Flores for Head Coaching Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another head coaching position is officially filled. <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/12\/31\/miami-dolphins-fire-adam-gase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">After letting go<\/a> of <strong>Adam Gase<\/strong>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/dolphins\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> officially hired <strong>Brian Flores<\/strong> as their next head coach. Flores spent 2018 as the de-facto defensive coordinator for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a>. The Miami Dolphins Twitter account confirmed the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pen to paper. Our 13th head coach in franchise history.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FinsUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FinsUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dGQRyj6SbX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/dGQRyj6SbX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiDolphins\/status\/1092540224914317313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Miami Dolphins Hire Brian Flores<\/h1>\n<p>Despite not holding the official title as defensive coordinator, Brian Flores spent the 2018 season calling defensive plays for the New England Patriots. Under his reign, the Patriots ended 2018 as the 16<sup>th<\/sup>-ranked unit in terms of DVOA. This was a marked improvement from the 2017 Patriots who finished the year as the 31<sup>st<\/sup>-ranked unit in DVOA.<\/p>\n<p>Flores first entered the NFL back in 2004 as a scouting assistant with the New England Patriots. The former Boston College linebacker climbed his way through New England\u2019s ranks, earning an official job as a pro scout in 2006. Flores spent two additional years working as a scout before transferring to the coaching realm.<\/p>\n<p>Flores initially joined New England\u2019s coaching staff in 2008 as a special teams coaching assistant. Flores took well to coaching, earning the title of assistant coach offense\/special teams in 2010. One year later, Flores earned the title of defensive assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Flores took another leap in his career when he was named the safeties coach in the 2012 season. Flores served in this role for four seasons before transitioning to the linebackers coach in 2016. It\u2019s no secret that New England\u2019s linebacker coach is unofficially seen as the best positional coaching position, so it came as no surprise that Flores earned playcalling duties when <strong>Matt Patricia<\/strong> left New England to coach the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/lions\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Lions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While he never played in the National Football League, Flores was a linebacker back in college. Playing for two seasons, Flores recorded four interceptions with the Boston College Eagles from 2001 to 2002. The Eagles went 17-8 during Flores\u2019 two years, going 7-7 against the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"h0zuegdYS71k8CxvrbSd6g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1093842754\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'h0zuegdYS71k8CxvrbSd6g',sig:'e0TW8R705ddkVFEDna1tRjbG6vbsTFHq3vTCFm2Y66g=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1093842754',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Super Bowl LIII having passed, the Miami Dolphins have hired Brian Flores as their new head coach, who had been a defensive coach for the Patriots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":57802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4,5],"tags":[3480,61,89,38,40],"class_list":["post-56385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-dolphins","category-patriots","tag-brian-flores","tag-football","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"Will Noltie, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}