Dolphins' imperfect defeat of Steelers keyed by Josh Boyer's 'tremendous plan' | Schad

 

Joe Schad

Palm Beach Post

MIAMI GARDENS — On the night they honored perfection, it was, well, you know.

Entirely imperfect.

The Dolphins will take it. They'll take a nationally-televised defeat of the Steelers even though they punted six times and went for it on fourth down when, well, even coach Mike McDaniel immediately conceded it was a mistake.

They'll take a 16-10 victory because after losing three straight, a home victory on a night the Dolphins honored the 1972 Super Bowl champions will long overshadow the pockmarks.

There were too many misfires by Tua Tagovailoa, after a hot start, and too many drops and too much miscommunication. More than anything, there haven't been nearly enough points based on the number of yards gained in recent weeks.

"We hit a lull," McDaniel said. "It was like we got punched in the stomach."

McDaniel has a way with words. But we are here to cite a reason for optimism.

That reason is Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer. With former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores observing from the Steelers' sideline as an assistant, Boyer had a heck of a night.

"It was a tremendous plan," McDaniel said. "We wanted to make them earn it. It was a winning effort."

Earlier this week, Boyer said it wouldn't be fair to cite Miami's defensive effort against Minnesota as a winning defensive effort, even though the defense forced 10 punts. Because the Dolphins lost.

After a few sluggish defensive outings, Miami's defense seems to have turned a corner. On this night, the Dolphins forced six punts, but also forced three interceptions.

On this night, Miami's defense stood tall, despite a slew of key injuries.

Already playing without Byron Jones, Emmanuel Ogbah, Nik Needham, Kader Kohou and Keion Crossen, Miami lost top tackler Brandon Jones, a safety, to a knee injury.

What did Boyer do? He adjusted. He utilized Verone McKinley III, an undrafted player just promoted from the practice squad, and special teams demons Justin Bethel and Clayton Fejedelem, too.

"(Josh) did a great job just knowing the personnel that we had, especially with everybody being down," said Bethel, who had a first-quarter interception. "It was a plan we could execute at a high level."

The Dolphins missed some tackles earlier this season and McDaniel said that was a point of emphasis entering this game. Miami also wanted to force more turnovers.

Check mark there, too.

Dolphins hampered by Tua's first game in 3 weeks

Look, Miami's offense was slowed by an injury to Tagovailoa that sidelined him for two games. And Tagovailoa conceded late Sunday that he was a bit off rhythm in part due to missed time.

McDaniel is making no excuses. But all along it was Miami's defense that was intended to backbone the team. Early on, that was not happening. Right now, it is.

After the game, Tagovailoa said he did not speak with Flores, the former head coach with whom he had a poor relationship. Flores and Boyer did not have a bad relationship, but it was wondered by some folks, even some players, how Boyer would do without Flores' collaborative input.

It seems more likely now he's going to be just fine.

"He does a great job organizing the plays and the game plan," said safety Jevon Holland, who had a critical interception late in the fourth quarter. "He plays to our strengths."

The Dolphins are about to see Jared Goff, Justin Fields, Jacoby Brissett and Davis Mills and there's no reason there can't be a really good continued stretch of defensive performance.

Boyer hasn't been able to be as aggressive with the blitzing as he was last year for several reasons. First, the loss of Byron Jones opposite Xavien Howard lends itself to more safeties helping corners.

Safety Brandon Jones goes down with knee injury

A pretty bad knee injury to Brandon Jones would take away one of their best overall blitzers.

On this night, Miami felt it could get after Pittsburgh's offensive line. But the Dolphins didn't want to overplay the pass rush to where Kenny Pickett, the rookie, could expose them with the quarterback run.

"He knows how teams are going to attack us," defensive lineman Zach Sieler said of Boyer. "He calls a smart game. He knows the players. He knows the strengths. He knows how to adapt."

There are few coaches who put in as many hours as Boyer does in the film room. He is extremely well-prepared and it really bothers him when he sees poor technique or too many penalties. They're getting better.

The Dolphins are 4-3 and there are 10 regular-season games left. There is plenty of time for Boyer to fully escape Flores' shadow and put that storyline to bed. 

As McDaniel would say, this situation creates great opportunity.

The Sunday night game was sealed when Holland and then oft-criticized Noah Igbinoghene intercepted Pickett on the final two Steelers' possessions of the game.

McDaniel is witty and has a dry sense of humor but he also has a hard time disguising his true emotions. Asked how he felt after the two interceptions, McDaniel quipped, "hoorah."

Exactly. Not a thriller. Not a classic. But they'll take it.

A perfectly imperfect win. With some encouraging signs from a defense and the coordinator.

Joe Schad is a journalist at the Palm Beach Post part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at jschad@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.

 

Lamar Jackson: We’ll have an answer for Miami’s cover zero this year

 

Posted by Myles Simmons on September 15, 2022, 2:11 PM EDT

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Last year, Miami’s defense solved Baltimore’s offense on a Thursday night in November.

The Dolphins played a lot of cover zero, sending multiple defenders to blitz while leaving defensive backs in one-on-one matchups with receivers. They limited the Ravens to just 4.3 yards per play while picking up five tackles for loss, four sacks, and a total of seven quarterback hits. Quarterback Lamar Jackson finished the game 26-of-43 passing for 238 yards with a touchdown and an interception — that was scored late in the fourth quarter — and an interception. He rushed for 39 yards.

Plus, Baltimore was just 2-of-14 on third down in the frustrating 22-10 loss.

The two teams meet again this week, this time in Baltimore for the Ravens’ home opener. And Jackson is confident his team has a better plan for what coordinator Josh Boyer’s defense will bring to the table on Sunday.

“They just caught us off guard, really. We hadn’t really gone over defenses doing all-up zero against us — like, just all-up flat-out zero,” Jackson said in his Wednesday press conference. “But I feel like we’ll have an answer for it this year. We watched film — watched a lot of film on those guys— because we don’t want it to happen again.

“Other teams did zero, but it was just the way they did it that kind of affected us. But like I said, we’ll have an answer this time around if they do the same thing.”

In his own Wednesday press conference, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said, “We would have been negligent if we hadn’t” worked on scheming against cover zero, which elicited some laughter from assembled media.

“It was something we needed to get a lot better at, and we studied it the whole offseason,” Harbaugh said. “We’ll have a plan for it and hope it works, because these guys are probably the best in the league at doing it right now. They do it more than anybody, they do it better than anybody and it’s just something they’re committed to. I have all the respect in the world for what they’re doing defensively.”

We’ll see if the adjustments Baltimore’s made to combat Miami’s blitzing scheme are effective on Sunday.

 

Josh Boyer steps out of the Brian Flores shadow to lead Dolphins

 

by Brian Miller | September 13, 2022

The Miami Dolphins defense is still the better of the two sides of the ball in Miami and Josh Boyer was a big reason Miami won on Sunday.

 

The Dolphins entered the game with a few questions that needed answering, on the defensive side of the ball but the biggest question was whether or not Josh Boyer could lead the unit without former head coach Brian Flores.

 

Let’s just say that Boyer is no longer in the Flores shadow.

 

Boyer called a great defense on Sunday and his team executed. As the game wore on, Miami got better defensively. It was as though the heat that wilted and broke down the Patriots only further pushed the Dolphins’ defense forward.

 

Boyer used a combination of blitz schemes including the Zero-Blitz and it netted three turnovers on the day. His defense kept the Patriots’ running game below 90 yards and kept Mac Jones guessing most of the afternoon.

 

Miami got two sacks on Jones Sunday including a strip-sack that resulted in a defensive touchdown. The Patriots only had two drives that were significant. Their opening drive ended with a Jevon Holland interception off a Xavien Howard break-up in the end zone, and their lone scoring drive that came in the second half.

 

Miami’s defense was stifling most of the day and it was clear after the first series that Boyer was ready to show he is more than capable of handling the job without the help of his former HC.

 

Next up is Baltimore and that will be a significant task for Boyer and the defense. The last time Miami faced Baltimore it was a catalyst to a winning streak that put Miami back in the playoff chase. The blowout victory was set up by a defense that was able to shutdown Lamar Jackson.

 

Boyer will need to coach another near perfect game to beat the Ravens in Baltimore next week. After Sunday, there is a lot more confidence that he can come up with another solid game plan.

Dolphins coordinator Josh Boyer has eye for defensive back gems | Schad

 

Joe Schad

Palm Beach Post

MIAMI GARDENS — In the days leading up to the last NFL draft, Kader Kohou was a bit surprised by the interest of the defensive coordinator of the Dolphins, Josh Boyer.

Kohou was hoping to be drafted. But Kohou had played at Division II Texas A&M-Commerce and hadn't even played varsity high school football until his senior year.

Yet Boyer wanted Kohou to know he believed in his talent. And so Boyer stayed in contact with the cornerback, paving the way for him to sign as an undrafted free agent.

"He knows defensive backs," Kohou said in the locker room after Miami's final preseason game. "I think he loves everything about defensive back play. He loves to talk about it."

Kohou entered training camp as a long shot. Boyer didn't care. Everyone gets an equal shot at evaluation, which makes sense consider Boyer himself once coached at Division II Bryant and NAIA South Dakota Mines.

He does not care where you come from. He does not care where you played. All Boyer cares about is — can you play?

On Tuesday, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel and general manager Chris Grier held a news conference to discuss the initial 53-man roster. It included Kohou.

"The jump in level of play is real," McDaniel said. "But he, from the onset, let it be known through his play that this was not too big of a stage for him."

In the locker room late Saturday night, Kohou was recalling how he didn't have a college offer and resorted to direct messaging a Texas A&M coach who was looking for players.

"He said he wanted dawgs," Kohou said. "So I reached out."

Kohou moved to America at 9, not speaking English, only French. His family moved here from Ivory Coast, where the football is not oblong at all.

Yet what Boyer saw from the first practice was a dogged competitor, a player who learned from his mistakes and made aggressive, fearless plays on the ball.

After all, what did Kohou have to lose? Nobody expected him to make it.

A few strides away from Kohou on Saturday night was Elijah Campbell, who can play safety and cornerback and excels on special teams.

Campbell actually played 131 snaps for the Dolphins last season.

That's 131 on special teams. And zero on defense.

Yet Campbell, another Boyer discovery, was the only Dolphin to record an interception this preseason. He returned one for a touchdown against the Eagles on Saturday.

"I had outside leverage," Campbell said. "I raised my hands and the rest is history."

Campbell, a Minnesota native, played his college ball at Iowa Western, Northern Illinois and Northern Iowa.

Campbell played for the Birmingham Iron of the AAF in 2019.

Campbell played for the DC Defenders of the XFL in 2020.

Campbell made Miami's initial 53-man roster for the 2022 season. In the locker room Saturday night, he was asked who he'd call first if he made it.

"Oh, gotta be the wife," Campbell said. "Gotta be the wife. And then obviously the family. We got a whole group message. So just hit up everybody. It'd be a long day and phone calls for sure."

When Campbell signed with the Dolphins in September of last year, this reporter jokingly asked Boyer if he had watched every AAF and XFL snap of Campbell's career.

But it was no joke. Of course Boyer had.

Nobody watches more film. Boyer will watch tape of any player in any league in America. The guy craves film like a fat kid craves cake.

Earlier this summer, Dolphins defensive back Eric Rowe (drafted to play cornerback and converted to safety) recalled that Boyer flew to Utah to work him out before the draft.

This was not a typical workout, Rowe recalled. There were very specific, unique drills designed to give Boyer a feel for how Rowe might fit into the Patriots defense.

Rowe was drafted by the Eagles, but then played his next three seasons in New England. Boyer knew he liked what he saw and Rowe flourished up north.

It's no surprise that Miami's initial 53-man roster includes another Boyer discovery, former undrafted cornerback Nik Needham of UTEP.

All Needham has become is an extremely dependable NFL nickel cornerback.

"I never had a lot of stars or anything like that coming out of high school," Needham recalled in 2019. "I only played one year of varsity my senior year, so I didn’t get a lot of recruiting. My junior year we went 0-12. My senior year 1-11. Not a lot of people watched UTEP."

But Boyer did.

It's no surprise that Miami's initial 53-man roster includes Keion Crossen of tiny Western Carolina. Crossen was a seventh-round draft pick of the Patriots in 2018.

Oh, guess who New England's cornerbacks coach was that season? You guessed it. Boyer. Crossen was so good this summer he's a candidate for Dolphins defensive snaps in the first four games, which Pro Bowler Byron Jones will miss.

"He’s a good coach and gets the best out of his players," Crossen said of Boyer. "And that’s exactly what I’m looking for.”

Boyer seems to be more than a good coach. He's also a hell of a scout.

Joe Schad is a journalist at the Palm Beach Post part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at jschad@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.

Peter King FMIA 11-15-21: The Award Section - Josh Boyer

 

By Peter King | November 15, 2021

Coaches of the Week

Joe Barry, defensive coordinator, Green Bay. For pitching the first shutout of Russell Wilson’s NFL life. That’s right. This was the 166th game of Wilson’s 10-year pro career, regular season and playoffs, and never before had he been shut out. Barry’s scheme counted on the defensive front swarming around Wilson while six and seven in the secondary made it hard for any Seahawk to be open regularly. Wilson didn’t look right returning from his middle finger injury, and his 39.7 passer rating was a combo platter of pressure, coverage and Wilson perhaps not being fully ready to return; only he knows the latter. Whatever, holding a Russell Wilson offense to 208 total yards will be, and should be, a career highlight for Barry.

Mike Vrabel, head coach, Tennessee. Titans laid a gigantic egg Oct. 3 at the Jets to fall to 2-2. Since then, the Titans:

• Trounced Jacksonville by 18.
• Came back from four deficits to beat Buffalo, the second seed in the 2020 AFC playoffs, by three.
• Went up 27-0 at the half and beat Kansas City, the defending AFC champ, by 24.
• Got down 14-0 early at Indianapolis, another 2020 playoff team, but came back to win a 71-minute OT game by three.
• With Derrick Henry gone for two months, beat NFC power Los Angeles on the road by 12.
• Beat another NFC power team, the Saints, at home by two on Sunday.

Vrabel sets a tone for his team and his players take no crap from anyone. To go 5-0 against five defending playoff teams is a great accomplishment, particularly playing the last two without your best player. That’s why Vrabel is coach of the week.

Josh Boyer, defensive coordinator, Miami. I’m sure Thursday’s night’s imaginative game plan in the 22-10 win over Baltimore also had Brian Flores’ fingerprints on it, but what a smart and forceful idea it was to safety-blitz more than any team in the NFL in the last six years. The Ravens couldn’t figure out a solution for Dolphins secondary players blitzing a stunning 38 times. (Lamar Jackson had 47 pass-drops in the game.) Boyer’s D held Lamar Jackson to 39 yards rushing and the Ravens to 304 yards overall. These were the Baltimore drives between a field goal in the sixth minute and a TD in the 55th: missed field goal, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, fumble, punt. Great job by the Dolphins.

In one year, Dolphins’ defense goes from worst to 1st in NFL

 

By STEVEN WINE

December 23, 2020 1:02 pm

3 min read

MIAMI (AP) — In one year the Miami Dolphins have gone from worst to first in the NFL in points allowed, which is a big reason their playoff hopes are on the rise.

So why is cornerback Xavien Howard the Dolphins’ only Pro Bowl player?

“Miami always gets overlooked,” Howard said. “If some of the guys were on a different team, they’d get recognized. As a team, we can pick that off with a Super Bowl, and everybody will be happy.”

The Super Bowl is heady talk coming from a franchise that hasn’t won a playoff game in 20 years, and the Dolphins are probably still not-ready-for-prime-time players — in February at least.

But their improvement under second-year coach Brian Flores has been dramatic, especially on defense.

Last season the Dolphins gave up a franchise record 494 points, 30.9 per game and the most in the NFL, and went 5-11. This season they’re allowing 18.4 per game, the league’s lowest average, and are contending for an AFC wild-card berth at 9-5.

Because defense is often the best way to win on the road, especially in December, the Dolphins’ final two games — at Las Vegas and at Buffalo — don’t seem quite so daunting. They probably must win both to reach the postseason for only the third time since 2001.

Flores’ defense is a blitz-loving, ball-hawking bunch that leads the league in takeaways (26) and third-down conversions (33%) but ranks near the bottom in star power. That was confirmed by this week’s Pro Bowl picks, when Miami’s lone selection was Howard, who leads the league with nine interceptions, more than nine teams.

“He’s just a guy that you can count on consistently week in and week out,” Miami defensive coordinator Josh Boyer said. “He’s really a complete player.”

But as with any good defense, the Dolphins’ success is a collective effort that includes five new starters this year: four free-agent acquisitions and second-round draft pick Raekwon Davis.

“We wanted to add the right people — guys who are tough and smart and competitive and team-first,” Flores said. “With every addition, we have that in mind.”

Safety Bobby McCain has been with the Dolphins since 2015, which gives him seniority on the defense and a unique perspective on this year’s transformation.

“We’ve got 11 guys who want to do their job well and play for each other,” McCain said. “That’s one of the biggest things — understanding that we’re a family, not just a football team. We have a lot of guys who are being selfless, just doing what they’re supposed to do and having fun doing it.”

McCain is part of a secondary that has allowed only 16 touchdown passes, second fewest in the NFL, after getting torched for a league-high 39 in 2019.

Sacks have increased to 37 from a league-low 23 last year. And the Dolphins’ streak of at least one takeaway in 20 consecutive games is the NFL’s longest.

“It’s just playing hard, just all effort,” the 330-pound Davis said. “It’s not a secret, not a scheme, not a play. It’s just chasing the ball down, getting to the ball and getting the ball.”

Davis’ teammates echo that attitude, a reflection of a unit that may be low on big names but is also low on ego.

“We’ve had a number of interceptions this year where there has been good pressure, and there have been a number of sacks where there has been good coverage,” Boyer said. “It all kind of goes hand in hand. We’ve got a good group of guys who play for each other and are all genuinely happy when somebody else has success.”

The disruptive nature of the defense diminishes the significance of some statistics. The Dolphins rank in the bottom half of the league in yards allowed rushing, passing and overall. They’ve been outgained by 426 yards, but are tied for the fifth-best point differential.

Which stat best defines a good defense?

“Wins,” Boyer said.

Rocky start at South Dakota School of Mines didn’t keep Josh Boyer from Dolphins success | Opinion

 

BY ARMANDO SALGUERO COLUMNIST

DECEMBER 04, 2020 11:22 AM, 

UPDATED DECEMBER 04, 2020 12:57 PM

His first game as a defensive coordinator, Josh Boyer watched his defense give up 43 points to Black Hills State.

And before his assignment was done that 2005 season as the man in charge of the defense at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Boyer’s players allowed 40 points to the University of Mary, 42 points to Dakota State, 44 points to Valley City State, and 46 points to Dickinson State the penultimate game of the season.

Coaching at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City is not a typical stop en route to the NFL. Coaching 24 miles from Mount Rushmore and watching your defense get rocked on a regular basis definitely isn’t.

More likely it’s a chapter in a book on how to become a banker.

“I remember Josh, he so badly wanted his defense to play well,” said Tom Rudebusch, who has been with the SDSMT athletic program since 1980 as its play-by-play man, as Sports Information Director or running the athletic foundation.

“I remember after a couple of games he was shaking his head, asking, ‘Why do they do these stupid things?’ And I thought, ‘Welcome to football.’ I don’t know how to put this, but Josh did a very credible job with not a lot of talent. He’s got more talent today than he had back then.”

Rudebusch says no SDSMT football player has ever made an NFL roster. And although basketball coach Mike Riley went from coaching basketball at the school to working for the Golden State Warriors, no football coach ever made the leap to the NFL, either.

Except for Boyer.

Boyer went from coaching the Hardrockers that year when his defense allowed 339 points in 10 games to working for the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots the next season.

“Basically how it happened is Dean Pees was the linebackers coach for the New England Patriots, I believe in ’04 and ’05,” Boyer said this week. “I coached for Dean at Kent State. I was a graduate assistant. I worked heavily with the secondary with him, pretty closely with him, and after the ’05 season, Dean was made the defensive coordinator at New England and he called.

“That’s basically how I ended up at New England. It was really kind of by word of mouth, and I just went in there as a quality control coach and kind of worked my way up through the system that way.”

So Boyer, a summa cum laude graduate of Muskingam College (Ohio) in 2000, got a break based on who he’d met. But he kept his post based on what he contributed.

That’s definitely the case now as the Dolphins’ first-year defensive coordinator.

The Dolphins’ defense, last in scoring a year ago, is the NFL’s second-best scoring unit now, allowing 18.6 points per game. The Pittsburgh Steelers lead the league, yielding 17.1 points per game.

So the Dolphins have shaved two touchdowns per game off their points allowed after giving up 30.9 points per game last year.

And, yes, the Dolphins had a significant infusion of talent in the offseason. But it’s Boyer, a defensive coordinator for the first time since that fateful 2005 season, that has brought Miami’s defensive talent together.

“He’s done a great job, really, the entire year,” Dolphins coach Brian Flores noted after last weekend’s 24-3 victory over the New York Jets. “I think often times you give me too much credit. Josh has done a great job the entire year.”

Talk to players on the Dolphins now and Rudebusch who dealt with Boyer near the start of his career and the pictures they paint of the coach are eerily similar.

Different times and football universes but the same guy.

“He’s aggressive,” Dolphins slot cornerback Nik Needham said. “He’s big on details. He stays on your [butt]. He pushes you to be the best player you can be, which I like. Always, every day, he’s just never letting up. I think that’s what translates into the game and creating that relentless effort that we all try to play with.”

Rudebusch said, “He was a very energetic guy. He was a guy who paid a lot of attention to detail. I do remember that about him.”

Boyer was the cornerbacks coach when Dolphins safety Eric Rowe joined the Patriots in 2016. The two moved from New England to Miami in 2019.

“The attention to detail is really the same as Flo,” Rowe said of Boyer. “Like him and Flo are basically the same person. They have the same mindset, the energy they bring every day, the attention to detail within the defense, any scheme, technique, fundamentals, all that.”

Flores was already in New England when Boyer joined the organization in 2006 but the two were coaching assistants at the same time in 2008. So communication between them is often easy.

“We’ve had years worth of conversations about defense and coverage and structures and fronts and protections and pressures,” Flores said. “I don’t know how long it’s been — 14 or 15 years — of these same conversations.”

And because the two speak the same language, the conversation between them in January to discuss Boyer succeeding Patrick Graham as defensive coordinator after Graham left unexpectedly was kind of quick.

“We had some people coming over to our house and it was a pretty quick conversation,” Boyer said. “He basically just kind of said, ‘Hey, I’m thinking about this.’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’ I said, ‘Whatever you need, whatever you want me to do.’ And then it was getting ready for the dinner party that we had coming in. So there wasn’t a lot of worry.”

Yeah, that makes Boyer sound like a happy-go-lucky sort. It makes him sound easy-going. Maybe he is at home when he’s in holiday party mode.

But at work he’s a driven person.

“Whatever my job is, whether it’s a position coach, coordinator, you take it very seriously,” Boyer said. “You work hard at it. I always feel like you can get better.

“Usually you feel like whatever you’re doing, that it’s not good enough and to me personally, I think if you ever got to the point where you’re like, ‘Hey man, this is easy,’ then it’s probably time to call it quits or be done because I think you can always be better.

“I don’t think things stay the same. I think they get better or they get worse.”

The Dolphins defense has been improving so far. The first game of the season was not a good look as the New England Patriots ran for 217 yards. The second game was not good in that the Buffalo Bills passed for 410 yards.

It may have felt like playing Black Hills State all over again.

But Boyer’s unit has found its personality and, with Cover Zero blitzes and other strategies meant to attack and confuse, the defense is kind of taking on Boyer’s personality.

“It’s aggressive,” Rowe said. “He definitely has an aggressive mindset, which I like. I like being the aggressor instead of being passive and kind of just playing back. He wants to dictate what the offense does, so kind of have the defense run the game.”

Boyer’s defense will be thoroughly tested the final month of the season, with a game against the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the rematch with New England looming.

And the folks in Rapid City will be cheering for Boyer.

“It was great for someone to move up like he did,” Rudebusch said. “We were all excited about it. We’re all excited for him.”

Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, left, talks with coach Brian Flores. CHARLES TRAINOR JR CTRAINOR@MIAMIHERALD.COM