The Giants vehemently defended the integrity of their franchise and the legitimacy of their head-coaching search.
Two days after Brian Flores’ explosive allegations of racial discrimination of their technique of hiring Brian Daboll, the Giants immediately refuted and challenged Flores’ claims and provided a transparent timeline of Flores’ candidacy with the crew.
“Brian Flores has raised severe points within the submitting of his grievance,” the Giants stated in an announcement issued Thursday evening. “The particular claims in opposition to the Giants and Mr. Flores’ allegations concerning the legitimacy of his candidacy for our head coach place are disturbing and easily false.”
Flores alleged the Giants put him by a “sham” interview days after that they had already agreed to rent Daboll, conducting the interview solely to meet the NFL’s Rooney Rule. As proof, Flores supplied textual content messages between himself and Invoice Belichick by which Belichick mistakenly congratulated Flores on being “their man.” Belichick thought he was texting Brian Daboll, in response to the texts. The texts had been despatched previous to Flores’ in-person interview with the crew.
After the lawsuit was filed, Flores instructed “CBS Mornings” that he felt “humiliated” by his interview with the Giants.
“After we interviewed six distinctive and numerous candidates, the choice on who we might rent as head coach was made on the night of January 28, at some point after Mr. Flores spent a complete day in our places of work going by his second interview for the place, assembly with possession and different workers members, and receiving a tour of our facility,” the Giants’ assertion continued. “There may be further concrete and goal proof to substantiate we didn't make our choice till the night of the twenty eighth.
“The allegation that the Giants’ choice had been made previous to Friday night, January 28, is fake. And to base that allegation on a textual content change with Invoice Belichick by which he in the end states that he ‘thinks’ Brian Daboll would get the job is irresponsible. The textual content change occurred the day earlier than Coach Daboll’s in-person interview even befell. Giants’ possession would by no means rent a head coach based mostly solely on a 20-minute zoom interview, which is all that Mr. Daboll had at that time.
“As well as, Mr. Belichick doesn't communicate for and has no affiliation with the Giants. Mr. Belichick’s textual content change gives no perception into what really transpired throughout our head teaching search.”
Previous to the Giants’ in-person interview with Flores, proprietor John Mara known as Flores — two days after he was fired by the Dolphins, and earlier than the Giants employed GM Joe Schoen — to tell him of the Giants’ curiosity. After Schoen was employed, Mara and Flores spoke in a Zoom name. As well as, the evening earlier than his in-person interview, Flores went to dinner with Schoen.
In response to a timeline supplied by the Giants, Flores arrived on the crew’s facility at 8:45 a.m. and met with Schoen, John and Chris Mara and Steve Tisch earlier than receiving a tour of the crew’s services and assembly different executives all through the day, wrapping up his go to after 3:30 p.m.
“Our hiring course of and, most definitely, our consideration of Mr. Flores was severe and real,” the assertion learn. “We're dissatisfied to be taught that Mr. Flores was underneath the mistaken impression the job had already been awarded.
“We employed Brian Daboll as our head coach on the conclusion of an open and thorough interview course of. No choice was made, and no job provide was prolonged, till the night of January 28, a full day after Mr. Flores’ in-person interview and day-long go to to the Giants.”
Along with Flores, the Giants interviewed Patrick Graham, Lou Anarumo, Dan Quinn, Leslie Frazier and Daboll. The Rooney Rule requires groups to interview two exterior minority candidates for the top coach opening, a minimum of a kind of interviews performed in-person.
Since that they had already performed their zoom interview with Flores, the Giants’ in-person interview with Frazier — which occurred the day after Flores’ second in-person interview — would have glad the Rooney Rule no matter whether or not Flores performed the in-person interview.
In his lawsuit in opposition to the NFL, Flores additionally alleged that Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross tried to pay him $100,000 to deliberately lose video games to assist draft place and tried to influence him to interrupt the NFL’s tampering guidelines to court docket Tom Brady.
He additionally alleged that the Broncos beforehand performed an interview with him simply to fulfill the Rooney Rule, claiming then GM John Elway was hungover of their assembly.
The Dolphins and Broncos have each denied Flores’ accusations.
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