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Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier likes to finish what he starts.

He started as a cornerback on the famed 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl championship team, and he served as an assistant coach on the 2006 Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl championship team.

And now, although he interviewed for a chance to fulfill a career goal, he is content in his current position.

"I was pleased about that phone call," Frazier said of the initial call from the Miami Dolphins last week to interview for their head coaching vacancy. "But at the same time, I was torn because I want us to be playing in that postseason next year."

As soon as the Vikings lost their season finale in Denver, Frazier said he started jotting notes on the plane ride home about how his defense could improve in 2008. On Monday, Frazier engaged head coach Brad Childress in a meeting.

"That was my focus," Frazier said. "Then all of a sudden, you get a phone call."

Frazier, who began his coaching career as the head coach for tiny Trinity College in Illinois from 1988-96, aspires to be a head coach in the NFL, and he was awed by the Dolphins' storied tradition.

There has been overwhelming speculation that the Dolphins interviewed Frazier to fulfill the NFL's Rooney Rule, which requires a team to interview at least one minority candidate before hiring a head coach. But Frazier expressed little concern about that.

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