The Browns have shaken Bill Belichick’s coaching

CLEVELAND (AP) — tree before with mixed results.Maybe Brian Flores can change that.Flores http://www.ravensfootballauthentics.com/justice-hill-jersey-authentic , who has called New England’s defense this season for Belichick, became the fifth candidate to interview for Cleveland’s coaching vacancy — one of eight openings across the NFL. Browns general manager John Dorsey and members of the team’s search committee traveled to Boston on Saturday and met with Flores, who has worked in personnel for the Patriots and coached several position groups for Belichick.The meeting with the Browns came after the 37-year-old Flores interviewed with Denver’s group headed by president of football operations John Elway. Flores is also a candidate in Miami and Green Bay.Previous Cleveland regimes have attempted to find a long-term answer at coach by hiring Belichick protégés. Romeo Crennel spent four seasons with the Browns while Eric Mangini was fired after two.Flores has done it all with the Patriots, helping to evaluate personnel before working as an offensive Ben Powers Jersey , defensive and special teams assistant.“He is a very highly qualified young man,” Dorsey said earlier this week.The son of immigrants from Honduras, Flores grew up in the rough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York. His strong academic background helped him escape the tough streets and he went on to play linebacker at Boston College. He joined the Patriots in 2004 as a scouting assistant and served numerous roles before Belichick added him to his staff in 2008. He coached safeties for four years and he’s in his third coaching linebackers.Flores took over defensive play-calling duties this season after former Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia was hired by Detroit.He’s the fifth candidate — and second with a mostly defensive background — to meet with Dorsey http://www.ravensfootballauthentics.com/iman-marshall-jersey-authentic , who has kept his coaching search well-guarded as the Browns look to build on the biggest turnaround season in club history. Despite a midseason coaching change, Cleveland went 7-8-1 after a winless 2017.Dorsey has already interviewed Browns interim coach Gregg Williams, former Indianapolis and Detroit coach Jim Caldwell, Minnesota interim offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski and New Orleans tight ends coach Dan Campbell.He’s expected to meet with Browns interim offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens and former Packers coach Mike McCarthy sometime next week. ESPN reported Dorsey will interview Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus on Sunday. Last year the Falcons lost two of their team leaders Trace McSorley Jersey , defensive backs Keanu Neal and Ricardo Allen, to season-ending injuries in September. Coach Dan Quinn says replacing them in the locker room and the practice field may have been harder than replacing them on Sundays.Quinn said on that every team deals with injuries, but he had never before been part of a team that lost key leaders the way the Falcons did.“I haven’t been part of a team that had that many injuries to key players,” Quinn said. “It’s always the next man up for the player. What’s different for us is the amount of leaders who went down. So it’s Kyler Murray Jersey , who’s the voice who steps up?”The Falcons finished the season strong, with three straight wins, but by then they were already out of playoff contention. Quinn believes that once some of the other players on the team realized that it was “Next leader up, not just the next man up http://www.cardinalsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-byron-murphy-jersey ,” the Falcons became a better team to end the season. Unfortunately for the Falcons, reaching that point took time.