PALM BEACH, Fla. — John Mara mentioned he has no intention of ever settling the explosive lawsuit filed in opposition to the Giants by Brian Flores, even when supplied the chance to take action.
“I’m not settling,” Mara, the Giants co-owner, mentioned Sunday from the NFL house owners’ conferences. “As a result of the allegations are false and we’re very snug with our hiring course of. It was a good course of and we ended up making the choice we made based mostly on plenty of elements, none of which had something to do with race.”
On Feb. 1, Flores sued three NFL groups, alleging discrimination along with his firing by the Dolphins and within the interview processes with the Giants and Broncos.
Flores was a candidate for the Giants’ head-coach opening that went to Brian Daboll. Flores claimed his Jan. 27 interview with the Giants was a “sham’’ as a result of the Giants had predetermined earlier than the interview course of that Daboll was getting the job. Flores within the go well with mentioned he mistakenly obtained a textual content message from Patriots head coach Invoice Belichick that was presupposed to go to Daboll, with Belichick within the textual content saying he heard “from Buffalo and NYG that you're their man.’’
Mara had no thought the place Belichick’s info got here from.
“I haven’t spoken or communicated with Invoice since we performed [the Patriots] within the preseason final summer season and to my data no one within the group has communicated with him both,” Mara mentioned.
Requested if he reached out to Belichick to study the reality, Mara mentioned he had not.
“Why ought to I?” he mentioned. “We made our hiring resolution and we’re pleased with that call. I feel the reality will come out ultimately: He didn’t converse with anyone in our group.”
The Giants would save $7.2 million of treasured and wanted wage cap area in the event that they discover a commerce vacation spot for RB Saquon Barkley, however that isn't a plan the group is actively pursuing.
“We’re not buying Saquon, however Joe [Schoen] is the overall supervisor,’’ Mara mentioned. “If he and the top coach need to make a personnel resolution they usually have a conviction about it I’m not going to intervene with it. However that’s not one thing we’re actively trying to do, let’s put it that approach.’’
Transport Barkley out would rob the Giants of somebody not way back thought of to be their marquee participant.
“I’m actually aware of that, however I don’t assume it’s a significant component,’’ Mara mentioned. “Pay attention, I like him, he’s been an amazing consultant for us, I nonetheless assume he’s a extremely good participant, I feel he may doubtlessly have a really huge 12 months this 12 months however on the finish of the day the top coach and the overall supervisor make these selections.’’
The Giants are looking for a group keen to commerce for CB James Bradberry, who would include a cap hit of $21.8 million. The Giants are solely about $1.2 million underneath the cap; eradicating Bradberry from the roster would create $12.1 million in cap financial savings. The Giants may need to let him go for nothing in return.
“That might damage as a result of he’s been an excellent participant and he has been the consummate skilled for us,’’ Mara mentioned, “however the cap state of affairs is what it's so we’d have to contemplate our choices proper there.’’
Mara on the discharge of security Logan Ryan, a transfer that was based mostly on soccer and never cap financial savings: “It was a call that Brian [Daboll] and Joe made and determined they wished to maneuver on and I wasn’t going to dam it. I used to be sorry to see him go, I favored him, I assumed he was a great participant, I assumed he did some nice issues for us in the neighborhood.”
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