The Miami Dolphins have made the wildly unpopular decision to fire head coach Brian Flores, who becomes one of the top available head coach candidates.
It’s Black Monday in the NFL and most of the moves everyone expected to happen are happening. The Chicago Bears are cleaning house. The Minnesota Vikings are cleaning house. The Denver Broncos moved on from Vic Fangio.
Those moves were expected, to some degree, but one move really nobody expected was the Miami Dolphins shockingly moving on from and firing head coach Brian Flores.
Miami Dolphins looking for a new HC after firing Brian Flores
This move, of all the moves, makes the least sense.
The Dolphins did miss the playoffs this year and last year, but under Flores, they had winning records in each of the last two seasons. In fact, the Dolphins became the first team in NFL history this season to have a seven-game losing streak and a seven-game winning streak in the same year.
The Dolphins have decided to retain general manager Chris Grier, who has a dark Justin Herbert-sized shadow looming over his head at the present moment.
Why are the Miami Dolphins moving on from Brian Flores? Your guess is as good as mine at this point, but apparently it’s not because they plan to make a big run at Jim Harbaugh.
While I realize many are assuming Flores’ departure is tied to Harbaugh’s potential availability, I can assure you that is not the case. The Dolphins are not targeting Jim Harbaugh, per sources. The decision to fire Flores is entirely independent.
— Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) January 10, 2022
We’ll have to wait and see what the Miami Dolphins have up their sleeve, but owner Stephen Ross seems to like to make changes just for the sake of making changes a lot of times.
This one doesn’t really make much sense.
The only explanation is that there has been some turmoil going on behind the scenes that we haven’t been made aware of up to this point, and perhaps Flores no longer wanted to work with or for Ross.
Who knows?
This is all speculation at this point, but what we can say is that the Miami Dolphins have easily made the most nonsensical fire of this year’s NFL head coach circuit. Flores will instantly become a top head coach candidate for teams with openings and rightfully so.
After leaving the Patriots with an extensive background in just about every area of the team, Flores proved he could galvanize players in Miami and for a team that was not far removed from being absolutely ugly as a roster, he took them to 19 victories and 14 losses.
This is a bad look for the Miami Dolphins but Flores will undoubtedly land on his feet.