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Former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores sues NFL

February 3, 2022

Former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores sues NFL Brian Flores (Twitter)

According to the Canadian Press on Tuesday, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores of Brooklyn, New York has decided to sue the National Football League, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants and Denver Broncos “for racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers.”

Flores said his relationship was not very good with the Dolphins organization. In his first year with the Dolphins in 2019,  he was reportedly offered $100,000 a game to purposely lose games so the Dolphins could get a top pick in the 2020 National Football League Draft. When he refused, Flores claims his relationship with the Dolphins organization worsened. The Dolphins finished with a record of five wins and 11 losses that season, and received the fifth overall pick where they drafted Tua Tagovailoa from the University of Alabama.

The quarterback the Dolphins might have wanted more than Tagovailos was Joe Burrow out of LSU. Burrow was selected first overall by the Cincinnati Bengals, and in only his second season has taken Cincinnati to the Super Bowl.



Over the next two seasons, the Dolphins had winning seasons with Flores at the helm. They went 10-6 in 2020, and 9-8 in 2021. Even though the Dolphins had a seven game winning streak in 2021, it was a seven game losing streak earlier in the season that cost him his job.

The Broncos and Giants meanwhile have made coaching changes in the offseason. The Giants hired Buffalo Bills offensive co-ordinator Brian Daboll, and the Broncos have hired Green Bay Packers offensive co-ordinator Nathaniel Hackett. The Giants also hired Bills assistant general manager Joe Schoen since their offseason began. Daboll, Hackett and Schoen are white.

The lawsuit is a public relations nightmare for the NFL, which claims its league is committed to diversity hiring. However the bottom line is there is only one black NFL head coach at the moment, and that is Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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