Dolphins Rumors: Miami to Hire Packers' Patrick Graham as DC for Brian Flores

The Miami Dolphins' coaching hires remain at a standstill with Brian Flores set to coordinate the New England Patriots defense for a couple more weeks, but they're still working on settling his staff.

ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the Dolphins plan to hire Green Bay Packers run game coordinator/inside linebackers coach Patrick Graham as the defensive coordinator under Flores.

Graham, 39, spent one season with the Packers. He's familiar with Flores after they worked together in New England. Graham was a defensive assistant for Bill Belichick from 2009 to 2015 before leaving for the New York Giants.

Flores, 37, joined the Patriots as a scouting assistant in 2004 before slowly working his way up the organization. He's been officially listed as the team's linebackers coach since 2016 and took the defensive play-calling duties in 2018 when Matt Patricia was named the Detroit Lions head coach.

The Dolphins cannot officially hire Flores until the Patriots' season ends. He is set to replace Adam Gase, who was fired after going 23-25 in three seasons in Miami. Gase has since been hired as the New York Jets head coach. 

Graham played college football at Yale and was working on an MBA when he started coaching as a graduate assistant in 2002 at Wagner.

"Within a month, I realized, 'OK, this is what I want to do,'" Graham said last year. "This is how I'm going to pay back football for helping me so much in my life, and 16, 17 years later, I'm still a class short of my MBA, so that's what happened."

Flores and Graham will walk into new jobs with their work cut out for them. The Dolphins are considering using 2019 as a rebuilding year in hopes of landing a top quarterback in the 2020 class, per Schefter.