EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Brian Flores found the perfect pit stop for his coaching career in Pittsburgh. Regardless of where this track winds up, he has clearly been enjoying the ride with Minnesota since then.

The third-year defensive coordinator of the Vikings gets the chance this weekend to catch up with old friends from the Steelers when the two teams play the NFL's first game in Dublin.

Flores had recently been fired after a three-season run with the Miami Dolphins, his only stint to date as an NFL head coach that resulted in a landmark discrimination lawsuit against the league that’s still in the court system nearly four years later, when longtime Steelers coach Mike Tomlin offered him a job as a senior defensive assistant working with the inside linebackers .

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