Brian Flores goes up against his mentor Bill Belichick for the fourth time in his head coaching career when the Dolphins host the Patriots on Sunday.
Now in his second year in Miami, Flores has the Dolphins looking at the playoffs for the first time since 2016. While the 2020 season is going strong for Flores, his Dolphins tenure didn’t start off well. He lost his first seven games as a head coach in 2019, including a 43-0 loss to the Patriots. Of the 10 Belichick assistants who’ve later become head coaches in the NFL, Flores is the only one to lose that many games to start his head coaching career.