One Potential Brian Flores Suitor Hires New Coach

Christopher Gates has been the lead writer at The Daily Norseman since the site launched in July of 2006, covering the Minnesota Vikings day in and day out.

Over the course of last weekend, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores had a trio of interviews with teams who are looking for a new head coach. On Monday, one of those three teams decided that they were going to go in a different direction.

The Vikings’ NFC North rivals, the Chicago Bears, have announced the hiring of former Detroit Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson to be their new head coach. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed yet, but enough connected sources are reporting it to make it realistic enough…