Brian Flores must learn from history, not be Bill Belichick clone

Brian Flores can bring his championship rings with him, but they won't help him succeed in his next job, turning around the Miami Dolphins.

A lingering question will follow Flores for the first part of his tenure as the Dolphins' head coach: What will he do to be different? It's a two-fold question.

No full-time Dolphins coach has finished his tenure with a winning record since 2004, the same year Flores began his coaching career. That's one area where Flores hopes to be different as he springs into the Dolphins rebuild off his Super Bowl LIII triumph as the defensive playcaller for the New England Patriots. The second area is in the pitfalls of trying to emulate the NFL's most successful…