Former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores obtained candid about the explosive lawsuit he filed towards the NFL, saying he was “humiliated” by going into an interview with the Giants for a head-coaching place he knew he wasn’t going to get.
“It was a spread of feelings,” Flores stated on “CBS Mornings” Wednesday. “Humiliation. Disbelief. Anger. I labored so laborious to get the place I'm in soccer to develop into a head coach. To go in on what was a sham interview, I used to be damage.”
Flores was scheduled to interview for the Giants’ then-vacant head-coaching place, however realized via a textual content dialog with Invoice Belichick — his former boss with the Patriots — the workforce had seemingly already made the choice to rent Brian Daboll. Belichick gave the impression to be beneath the impression he was texting Daboll, and tried to congratulate him on the rent.
Flores’ attorneys, additionally showing on CBS, asserted the Giants have been “simply making an attempt to adjust to the Rooney Rule,” a rule enacted by the league that requires groups to interview at the very least two minority candidates for head-coaching and football-operations jobs.
A rule, Flores said, that has been twisted far past its unique which means.
“The Rooney Rule was meant to present minorities a possibility to take a seat down with possession,” Flores stated. “What it’s changed into, it’s simply guys checking a field.”
Why, then, did Flores nonetheless attend the Giants interview, understanding it was a sham?
“Name it the audacity of hope. I've a perception that there’s good in individuals. I simply do,” Flores stated.
The Giants responded on Tuesday when the allegations first surfaced towards their franchise.
“We're happy and assured with the method that resulted within the hiring of Brian Daboll,” the workforce stated in a press release. “We interviewed a powerful and numerous group of candidates. The very fact of the matter is, Brian Flores was within the dialog to be our head coach till the eleventh hour. In the end, we employed the person we felt was most certified to be our subsequent head coach.”
Flores, who interviewed for the still-unfilled Saints and Texans head-coaching jobs, indicated he wouldn’t drop his go well with if employed by both workforce.
“That is about altering the hiring practices within the Nationwide Soccer League, and that’s what this lawsuit is about,” Flores stated Wednesday on CNN. “I need to coach soccer. That’s what I’m referred to as to do.”
The Giants weren’t the one workforce to face allegations in Flores’ go well with. He accused the Broncos entrance workplace of showing “matted” throughout a 2019 interview, which Flores asserted was a “sham” as properly. He additionally claimed within the go well with that Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross supplied him $100,000 per loss through the 2019 season to enhance the workforce’s draft place.
“That’s not one thing you make up,” Flores stated of the conversations with Ross.
Former Browns coach Hue Jackson stated he’d be prepared to hitch Flores’ lawsuit, hours after seeming to point Cleveland proprietor Jimmy Haslam paid him to lose video games.
Jackson, showing on “SportsCenter,” didn't declare he was particularly paid to tank, however clarified he was put ready to lose with an inexperienced workforce so the franchise might construct a winner. The present Grambling State coach stated he acquired an unpublicized contract extension regardless of going 1-31 over his first two seasons with the Browns, solely to be fired after a 2-5-1 begin in 2018.
“Groups that win are simply not the youngest workforce, not that the youngest groups can’t win, so I didn’t perceive the method,” he advised ESPN. “I didn’t perceive what the plan was. I requested for readability as a result of it didn't speak about profitable and dropping till Yr 3 and 4. In order that advised you proper there that one thing wasn’t right however I nonetheless couldn’t perceive it till I had the workforce that I had.”
In response to a tweet referencing Flores’ allegations, Jackson wrote Haslam “was joyful whereas we stored dropping.”
When a fan tweeted, “Jimmy Haslam wasn’t providing 100k per loss or Hue could be on the Forbes listing,” Jackson replied, “Belief me it was a very good quantity!”
In a separate tweet Tuesday, Jackson added that he stands with Flores and “can again up each phrase I’m saying.” The message Jackson replied to was from Kimberly Diemert, the manager director of his basis, per Professional Soccer Speak. In her tweet, she claimed Jackson and fellow Browns execs have been paid bonus cash to tank in 2016 and 2017.
The Browns denied Jackson’s allegations.
“The current feedback by Hue Jackson and his representatives regarding his tenure as our head coach are utterly fabricated,” the Browns stated in a press release. “Any accusation that any member of our group was incentivized to intentionally lose video games is categorically false.”
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