The Dolphins began the search to replace dismissed coach Adam Gase on Monday by requesting an interview with New England Patriots defensive coordinator Brian Flores and Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, a league source confirmed.
Fangio, 60, has been the Bears’ defensive coordinator since 2015 (he overlapped with Gase for one season in Chicago) and also has served in that role for the Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts, Houston Texans, San Francisco 49ers and Stanford University. He has never been a head coach, but his Bears defense is third in the league in yards permitted this season.
Flores, who is black, is well regarded and interviewing him would also fulfill the league’s Rooney Rule of interviewing at least one minority candidate for a team’s head coaching job.