{"id":1010156,"date":"2026-09-25T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1010156\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:48:15","slug":"brian-flores-wants-the-vikings-to-remain-aggressive-on-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1010156\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Flores wants the Vikings to remain aggressive on defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 24, 2026, 10:20 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

Brian Flores hasn’t shied away from blitzing since being hired as the Minnesota Vikings<\/a>‘ defensive coordinator in 2023. But he’s amped up the pressure even more in Year 4, sending blitzes on 73.6% of dropbacks, per ESPN’s Kevin Seifert.<\/p>\n

The aggressive strategy leaves the defense vulnerable to big plays, such as Packers<\/a> wide receiver Christian Watson’s 81-yard touchdown. But the potential for an occasional explosive play won’t scare Flores away from staying true to his approach.<\/p>\n

“I certainly want to be aggressive. I’ve said that many times,” Flores told the media<\/a> on Tuesday. “And that’s our play style. We’ll throw a change-up every now and again. Our fastball is: try to be aggressive and be physical; play with the fundamentals.”<\/p>\n

And if an opponent takes advantage of the Vikings’ approach?<\/p>\n

“I tell our guys all the time, ‘If we’re going to go down, we’re going to go down a certain way,'” Flores said later.<\/p>\n

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Minnesota’s defense has been on fire over the past five quarters. They held the Chicago Bears<\/a> to three points one week after scoring 59. Weather played a factor, but so did an aggressive approach that flustered Caleb Williams.<\/p>\n

Blitzing at a 73.6% rate may not be sustainable, but don’t expect Flores to become conservative if he gets beat every once in a while, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 24, 2026, 10:20 p.m. CT Brian Flores hasn’t shied away from blitzing since being hired as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1010157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[95878,7,233,259,2529,6,119448,97234,97235,95882,96164,96089,97105,95892,95976,95988,95895,95897,95883,95881,234],"class_list":["post-1010156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-accessfree","tag-football","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl","tag-sourcevikings-wire","tag-sstssportsnflvikings","tag-sstsnvikings","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcaleb-williams","tag-tagchicago-bears","tag-tagchristian-watson","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-taggreen-bay-packers","tag-tagminnesota-vikings","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory","tag-vikings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117330346200274484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}