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At least one Falcons player wants Brian Flores as the team’s next defensive coordinator

At least one Falcons player has an opinion about who the Falcons should hire as the team’s next defensive coordinator. Cordarrelle Patterson made it known that he’d like to see Atlanta bring in current senior defensive assistant and linebackers coach Brian Flores to fill the vacancy left by Dean Pees’ retirement.

“Brian Flores to the Falcons would be [fire emoji, fire emoji, fire emoji]” Patterson tweeted.

Flores was fired by the Dolphins following the 2021 season for reasons that were unclear to literally everyone but the Dolphins, apparently. The Dolphins went 10-6 and 9-8 under his leadership, the team’s first back-to-back winning seasons since 2003.