- Adam, what is going on here?
What do we need to know?
- Laura, Brian Flores, the former Miami Dolphins head
coach, and his attorneys filed a lawsuit today
in a court in Manhattan that alleges racism
in hiring from the New York Giants, the Miami
Dolphins, the Denver Broncos, and the National
Football League.
He is seeking unspecified damages
for the process that is well spelled out in this lawsuit
that was filed today.
There are texts from New England Patriots Head Coach Bill
Belichick that are being used as evidence, in which Bill
Belichick congratulates, essentially, Brian Flores,
thinking that it was Brian Daboll,
and Bill Belichick then saying, I'm
sorry to have gotten this wrong, but, yes, I
believe they're naming Brian Daboll as the next head coach,
when Brian Flores hadn't even interviewed for the job yet.
And so this, obviously, is just unfolding now.
It's a bombshell lawsuit.
There are many accusations.
This is going to have ripple effects across the league.
And we'll see how this is handled.
Now, Brian Flores was scheduled to interview
for the New Orleans Saints head coaching job today.
He was a finalist for the Houston Texans head
coaching job.
So this becomes really interesting now.
And, obviously, he has some strong accusations that he's
mounting against the NFL, other teams in the league,
but he is alleging racism in hiring.
- Where do you think Flores falls in all of this now
that, obviously, the bigger picture here is a lawsuit?
- Well, Laura, this is going to be
interesting to see the effects that this lawsuit has
on the hiring process.
And, clearly, Brian Flores had to think of all the fallout
that would come with filing a bombshell
lawsuit like this against the National Football League.
Now, the National Football League
has wanted Brian Flores to be hired
as a head coach-- at least we thought
so-- prior to this lawsuit.
But, after something like this, when
he's suing the league and all the teams in the lawsuit,
clearly, you would think--
I'm not a legal expert-- that that
would jeopardize his chances at getting one of these jobs.
But he had to know just what he was doing before he filed
that lawsuit seeking unspecified damages
from the National Football League
and some of the teams in the NFL.