Brian Flores interviews for Commanders DC job, Thielen retires (Part 1)
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, here. |
| 0:10.3 | And man, it feels like the offseason has been more eventful than the regular season so far as every single day. |
| 0:20.7 | There's new layers and new things going on |
| 0:23.5 | surrounding the Minnesota Vikings. So it is a pretty open show here tonight and feel free to |
| 0:30.9 | jump in the comments. I'll answer your questions, thoughts, feelings on everything going on around |
| 0:36.8 | the Vikings. Remindered the show, of course, is always presented by Fandul, |
| 0:41.1 | and we will have a Fandul question of the day as well. |
| 0:45.3 | So why don't we begin with the biggest news of the day, |
| 0:49.7 | which is regarding Brian Flores and the Washington commanders. |
| 0:54.7 | So we start out with a report from Ian Rappaport that the Vikings' defensive coordinator, |
| 1:01.3 | Brian Flores, is indeed interviewing with the Washington commanders for the lateral move |
| 1:09.0 | that we have discussed many times. |
| 1:11.4 | Would he actually have any interviews for defensive coordinator positions? |
| 1:16.5 | Would he actually get to the point where he is a true free agent defensive coordinator? |
| 1:22.8 | And here is your answer. |
| 1:24.8 | Yes. |
| 1:25.8 | So that brings up the question of are the commanders just part of |
| 1:30.8 | brian flores using every bit of leverage that he possibly can or is this a serious possibility |
| 1:39.2 | that brian flores could become the defensive coordinator for the commanders. Now, we haven't heard |
| 1:44.4 | of other teams yet so far asking about Flores for defense coordinator positions. The |
| 1:51.1 | Dallas Cowboys have come up many times, but again, they have not officially as far as we've seen. |
| 1:57.6 | I guess it's official when Ian Rappaport or Adam Schaefter says it, but we |
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