Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is committed to avoid putting the cart before the horse. The Miami Dolphins are off to a 0-4 start to the 2019 season — leading to a suspenseful build to the team’s first breakthrough in the win column. Miami is one of the four remaining winless teams in the NFL — and Flores is joined by fellow first-year head coach Zac Taylor of the Bengals as winless in his first NFL campaign as a head coach.

But for Flores, the emphasis is staying focused on the task at hand. According to the first-year coach, the moment the focus shifts from the here and now and looks to the future, you’ve already lost.

“I think when you start thinking about the end of a game, you just get lost. So it is one play at a time. That is one day at a time, one practice at a time, one really – it is really a minute to minute thing. So, no, I don’t focus on the end of games or anything like that,” said Flores on Monday when asked about focusing on that first win.

“You have got to go through the process. I think you lose a lot within the process when you start thinking about the end or wins or losses. That’s not really where my focus is…I think if you are focused on anything other than (the process), then you are not putting your energy in the right places.”

It is about as strong of a reminder as we’ve seen as to why Flores was chosen to lead these Dolphins. His focus on the day to day, moment to moment operations is imperative to the Dolphins’ young talent surviving the collateral of a tank job of this magnitude. The Dolphins, of course, would protest the concept of tanking — but this team has been dealt a bad hand by management in an effort to position themselves for long-term success. And focusing on anything other than the controllable — the here and now — is a recipe for bad attitudes and unfocused players.

Flores will look to get the Dolphins in the win column after a brutal four game stretch to start the season this weekend against the Washington Redskins. One snap at a time.