Coach Flores, Miami Dolphins Know That Prepping For Tom Brady Isn’t Easy

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Brian Flores spent 15 years moving successful New England, which means helium spent 15 years moving alongside Tom Brady.

He saw each instrumentality teams threw astatine the Patriots successful that span, saw however Brady handled each challenge.

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As such, Flores knows this: The Miami Dolphins aren’t going to rattle Brady connected Sunday.

“There’s nary confusing,” Flores said. “He’s seen everything.”

That’s astir surely true, but the Dolphins (1-3) volition inactive beryllium tasked with coming up with thing erstwhile they marque the across-the-state travel to spot Brady and the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-1) this weekend.

Miami has mislaid 3 straight; Tampa Bay is coming disconnected past weekend’s triumph astatine New England, Brady’s instrumentality to the tract that helium called location for 2 decades.

“I person a batch of respect and admiration for Tom,” Flores said.

“We were connected the aforesaid squad for 15 years. I learned a batch from him, for sure. It’ll beryllium large to spot him, large to vie against him. A batch of respect and admiration.”

For immoderate Dolphins, this is aged chapeau since Brady was successful the AFC East for 2 decades successful New England and facing Miami connected a twice-a-year basis.

For others, this volition beryllium a first, either playing against Brady, playing against the reigning champs, oregon both.

Consider: Brady was drafted successful 2000, a period and a fractional earlier Dolphins rookie linebacker Jaelan Phillips — Miami’s fifth-youngest subordinate — celebrated his archetypal birthday.

“It’s beauteous brainsick evidently to person the accidental to play against idiosyncratic I’ve been increasing up my full beingness watching,” Phillips said.

“I tin retrieve each of the Super Bowl parties astatine the location erstwhile I’m 8 years aged oregon 10 years old, watching him dominate. But to beryllium honest, coming into the game, I’m not astir to beryllium star-struck. You can’t truly absorption connected ‘Oh my gosh, this is Tom Brady.’”

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That’s precisely the attack Flores wanted to hear.

Football coaches would each accidental the aforesaid thing, that they privation their teams to hole the aforesaid mode each week, to hole to the utmost each week.

Flores is nary different. But adjacent helium acknowledges that erstwhile a squad is playing against Brady — oregon the Super Bowl champions — past with the quality information being what it is, determination mightiness beryllium a small other attraction paid to item that week.

“I shouldn’t accidental there’s a small spot much excitement. That’s astir apt the incorrect happening to say,” Flores said.

“We’re excited to play each week. But erstwhile you play against arguably the champion subordinate of each clip and they’ve got a clump of large players, you person to up your level of mentation and up your level of strength and execution. I hatred that it’s similar that, honestly.”

Brady is 44, and arsenic has been proven galore times, is the NFL’s closest happening to ageless.

He is 2nd successful the NFL this play successful passing yards and is tied for 3rd with 10 touchdown passes.

There person been 5 4,000-yard seasons by idiosyncratic successful their 40s successful NFL history; Brett Favre has one, Brady has the different 4 and he’s connected gait for yet another.

“I’m not surprised,” Flores said.

“When you’ve been astir the feline and you spot the mode helium works and you spot the mode helium prepares and spot the mode helium takes attraction of himself, spot the passionateness helium has for the crippled — you’re not surprised.”

NOTES: The Dolphins placed WR Will Fuller (finger) connected injured reserve. Fuller had already been ruled retired for this week, and present volition miss adjacent week’s crippled successful London against Jacksonville and the Oct. 24 location crippled against Atlanta arsenic well. … Flores addressed Tuesday’s commercialized of returner-receiver, Jakeem Grant, to Chicago for the archetypal time. “We felt similar we’ve had immoderate extent astatine the receiver room. We wanted to get immoderate different guys going arsenic receivers and successful the instrumentality game. So that benignant of went into that decision, for sure,” Flores said.

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