The legal team for Brian Flores, the former Dolphins coach who filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL and three teams alleging discrimination earlier this week, responded to a statement from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Saturday, calling the statement more of a “public relations ploy than real commitment to change.”
On Saturday morning, Goodell sent a memo to the league's teams, saying that the NFL's efforts toward increasing diversity in its coaching ranks are “unacceptable” and vowing to “reevaluate” current diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Flores's lawyers, Doug Wigdor and John Elefterakis, responded to the statement, saying that, “Unfortunately, immediately after Coach Flores filed the class action lawsuit, the NFL and various teams reflexively, and without any investigation, denied the detailed allegations set forth in the 60-page complaint. As a result, when we spoke to the national media the following day we made clear that the NFL should view this class action lawsuit as an opportunity to engage in real change and confront the obvious reality.
