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Flores overachieved in Miami. But he and owner Stephen Ross reportedly didn’t agree on much—especially on Tua Tagovailoa—and that prompted the team to make the stunning decision to move on from the promising head coach.
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He lost it because of the relationships he struggled to make and maintain. That message has been delivered, loud and clear.
NFL Network’s Steve Wyche said that “coaches don’t often get fired for coaching reasons.”
ESPN’s Jeff Darlington said Flores’s “relationship with [Dolphins GM Chris] Grier and Tua [Tagovailoa] had deteriorated to a pretty bad place.” And
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said “an organization can only function if it’s collaborative and works well together.”
Now, not every player loved Flores—again, Flores’s demeanor is clearly not for everybody.
Minkah Fitzpatrick wanted a trade for a reason, believing Flores “had no clue who he was as a player and didn’t care to find out,” as Ty Dunne of
Bleacher Report would report.
Flores hired his third (and fourth?) offensive coordinator in three years on the Dolphins job: promoting running backs coach Eric Studesville and tight ends coach George Godsey to co-offensive coordinator roles.
That Tua and the offense didn’t work for the second year in a row is Flores’s fault, in the sense that he is the head coach, and the Sunday product is his responsibility. Flores’s abrasiveness has made it tough for him to attract offensive coaches to work under him. Of his four offensive coordinators over three years, he hired two ex-Patriots positional coaches who had a combined total of one year of previous experience as an offensive coordinator, and two who were already on his staff. The only outside hire he made was luring Chan Gailey out of retirement, which was almost exclusively because Ryan Fitzpatrick was on the team, and which
nobody else was trying to do. The head coach is responsible for the team, and Flores’s offenses never worked.
Ugh...i hate when I get into the same(ish) debate in two threads. I guess I will post this here as well.
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