At next week’s Scouting Combine, Brian Flores and Chris Grier begin putting together a football team in earnest.
The will open contract negotiations with their own free agents. They will get a sense of the price tag for players on other teams who will soon come available. And they’ll scout out the hundreds of college prospects who roll through Indianapolis.
But before they got to that, Flores and Grier had a more pressing responsibility: assemble their staffs.
And on the surface, both have done well.
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Flores seems ready to run the Patriots’ offense and defense, and hired offensive and defensive coordinators with extensive New England backgrounds.