Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores spoke to reporters on Thursday about expectations at training camp on Thursday. KSTP Sports was there.<\/p>\n
***Click the video box above to watch Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores talk at training camp, July 24***<\/p>\n
Flores mainly talked about preparation and player growth as\u00a0the Vikings sit nearly two weeks away from their first preseason game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One player Flores keyed in on was linebacker Dallas Turner, who\u2019s entering his second year as a pro.<\/p>\n
During mini-camp in June,\u00a0Flores talked about his excitement to see Turner\u2019s growth<\/a>. On Thursday, Flores added a simple training camp expectation for Turner: To get better every day.<\/p>\n Flores also praised safety Josh Metellus\u2019 abilities, who is entering his sixth year as a Viking.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a big part of what we do defensively,\u201d Flores said.<\/p>\n The Vikings\u2019 first preseason game is on Sat. Aug. 9 at U.S. Bank Stadium against the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Dallas Turner<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Josh Metellus<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Brian Flores<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Minnesota Vikings<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Vikings<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Vikings Training Camp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores spoke to reporters on Thursday about expectations at training camp on Thursday. KSTP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[6696,10652,7,7103,233,259,2529,6,234,32405],"class_list":{"0":"post-233582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-brian-flores","9":"tag-dallas-turner","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-josh-metellus","12":"tag-minnesota","13":"tag-minnesota-vikings","14":"tag-minnesotavikings","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-vikings","17":"tag-vikings-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114910904016678472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233582","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=233582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}