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Why Brian Flores believes Ryan Fitzpatrick is the right quarterback for this team

Here’s a fun fact:

When Brian Flores was finishing up his career at Boston College, the cross-town Harvard Crimson started a economics major named Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback.

A decade and a half later, Flores is the Dolphins coach, and Fitzpatrick is his starting quarterback.

“I’m a little bit older than him, a couple of years older but yeah I think we crossed,” he said. “He might have been a sophomore when I was a fifth-year senior or something like that.

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“I think we have some of the same beliefs as far as working hard increasing team belief,” Flores continued.