{"id":444246,"date":"2026-02-02T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444246\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:11:07","slug":"report-vikings-will-pay-brian-flores-more-than-6-million-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444246\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Vikings will pay Brian Flores more than $6 million per year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took a little while, and it took a lot of money.<\/p>\n

Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores, whose contract expired after the season, has rejoined the team on a deal that will pay him, via Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com, more than $6 million per year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Because coaching pay lacks the transparency of player pay, it\u2019s impossible to know with certainty how much anyone makes. It was reported that Raiders offensive coordinator Chip Kelly received $6 million per year. Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio makes $4.5 million annually.<\/p>\n

With Kelly now fired, those numbers would make Flores the highest-paid coordinator in the league. Minnesota\u2019s willingness to spend that much on Flores may help explain the reluctance of the Cowboys to enter the bidding.<\/p>\n

Yes, we\u2019d be surprised by the amount of the check that owner Jerry Jones would write to guarantee a Super Bowl win. We\u2019d be surprised, because it\u2019s so small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took a little while, and it took a lot of money. Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores, whose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-444246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}