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Brian Flores is one of the NFL's brightest defensive minds. We talked to the Vikings DC about his journey, how he operates and his plans for Minnesota.
Sometimes that's the most important thing. Flores has been coaching in the NFL for more than 15 years. He was in the front office before that. Now with the Vikings, he's tasked with revamping a defense whose vulnerability was part of the reason for the 11 one-score games Minnesota played in last season. They went 11-0 in those games, sure. Most attributed it to luck.
Arriving in an entirely new place is already challenging. Flores was hired this past offseason after the team let Ed Donatell go. The defense had been the second-worst in the league last season, allowing the second-most overall yards to opponents. The pass rush was in the bottom third of the league, registering a sack on just 6.16% of pass attempts. The Vikings ranked 21st in the red zone too, allowing opponents to score 57.21% of the time when getting inside the 20.
"We have a scheme but within a system you have to be able to be flexible, and adjust to your personnel, which that's really what we try to do as a staff," Flores said." the offseason, we spent a lot of time in [the meeting room] just talking about, ‘How do you see this versus how do you see that?' And I try to be open in those. It's not like hey, I'm talking. Everyone listens and we're doing it this way.
"We try to make it simple for the players, whatever the concept is, we'll give it a name, whether it's cars or cities or states or mascots. They can just put it in buckets and say, hey, these are our spy drop zones, these are blitzes, these are pressures. These are our cover two variations. These are our man coverages. And I get that to the coaches and then they relay it to players. We try to build from there.
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