Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports listed Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores as on the “hot-seat” entering the 2021 season, which couldn’t be further from the truth in any way, shape, or form.

With that said, though, the expectations for the 2021 Miami Dolphins are high, and Flores does have some pressure on him to meet or surpass those expectations.

When Flores took the Miami Dolphins head coaching job, he walked into a dumpster fire of epic proportions. This organization was in the worse shape it has ever been in.

In his rookie season of 2019, Flores had zero pressure on him and no expectations at all. As long as the team didn’t trip running out of the tunnel and wore the correct color uniform each week, it really didn’t matter if they won or lost any game.

The entire NFL world knew Miami was the worst team in the league on paper, and literally winning anything would be a minor miracle.

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Yet, on the way to the #1 overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft Brian Flores led the Dolphins to five wins. Something nobody (and if you say otherwise, you are lying) saw coming.

Then after a big shopping spree in free agency and five picks total in rounds 1 and 2, the Dolphins turned 5 wins from 2019 to 10 wins in 2020. And those 10 wins happened with a quarterback shuffle from week to week and with no stability at the most important position on the roster.

Now, we enter the 2021 season, and fans expect more. The owner expects more. The media expects more. Let’s be totally honest and call it what it is; Brian Flores and this Dolphins roster have lofty expectations this year. And if they fall short of those expectations, the “honeymoon” he has experienced since entering the NFL will come to a crashing halt.

There is no quarterback controversy or shuffle in 2021. Brian Flores has hitched his wagon to Tua.

The Dolphins had 4 picks in Rounds 1 and 2 of the 2021 NFL draft giving him 9 picks total in Rounds 1 and 2 of the last two NFL drafts, which is an insane amount of talent to add to a roster in the early rounds of the draft in such a short amount of time.

He has his offensive coordinator(s) in place, granted his third in 3 years, but he can’t use the excuse he doesn’t have the coaching staff he wants. As some head coaches have no say or limited say in their staff, Flores has total control of his coaching staff.

Minus an insane amount of injuries (which nobody can predict) during training camp or the upcoming season, Brian Flores has no excuses for why the 2021 season shouldn’t surpass the results he had in 2020.

It’s time for Flores to lead Miami to the playoffs. PLAYOFFS or BUST!

That is the Dolphins’ motto entering 2021. The expectation isn’t to win the AFC East; we know the Bills are a better team at this moment in time. It hurts to say it, but we must be honest and live in reality.

But with now 3 wild card teams in the AFC, securing one of those 3 spots is not asking too much.

Flores and the Dolphins won 10 games last season and just missed out on the final wild-card spot; this year, that will be inexcusable.

Anything short of the playoffs in 2021 and Mr. Stephen Ross would be justified to question what isn’t working and why. And that includes questioning if he has the right man in place as head coach.

So, is the seat Brian Flores sits on HOT, as Jason LaCanfora said? OH, HELL NO! But anything short of the playoffs this upcoming season, and it will be entering 2022.