The NFL has found itself in the midst of another controversy on Tuesday with the filing of a lawsuit by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores. The lawsuit is has a myriad of accusations involved with it including that Dolphins Stephen Ross offered Flores bonuses to lose games and the team winning under Flores may have cost him his job.
The idea of “tanking” to help a team rebuild is not new. The Cleveland Browns, under Sashi Brown, looked at building a winner as a long-term process that required a lot of draft picks and as high of draft picks as possible.
While a team would never announce that they are losing on purpose, the Browns plan under Brown was clear from the outside looking in.
