Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores has filed a class action lawsuit against the New York Giants and NFL on the grounds he and other coaches of color have been discriminated against throughout the league’s hiring processes.
The centerpiece of the complaint is a string of text messages between Flores and former boss Bill Belichick in which the latter appears to confirm the Giants had already settled on hiring Bills’ offensive coordinator Brian Daboll days before a scheduled, Rooney Rule-fulfilling interview with Flores.
However, the Giants weren’t the only franchise that look bad in Flores’ initial complaint. The former New England assistant revealed his turn in New York wasn’t the only “sham interview” he’d endured in his long road toward becoming an NFL head coach. He’d interviewed for the Broncos’ vacant position in 2019, only for general manager John Elway to allegedly show up an hour late to the process, looking “disheveled” after a night of “drinking heavily.”
