Brian Flores amended complaint includes and expansion of his
claims against the Miami Dolphins in the original
complaint. The allegation was made that he was offered
a hundred thousand dollars for each loss in 2019,
at a time. When owner, Stephen Ross, wanted to tank a whole
season to get the first pick in the 2012 draft.
It really wasn't connected to anything. Now it is there's
a whistleblower claim. Basically
Brian Ross raised, the red flag Sound the Alarm internally that
this was happening. And And he fell out of favor because of
it. Key allegation from the complaint.
Mr. Flores memorialized. Mr. Ross's desire to have Miami
lose games and the December for 2019 memo. That was provided to
GM. Chris Greer, chief executive offer, talk officer,
Tom garfinkel, and Senior VP of football Administration brand
insurer
in this letter. Mr. Flores detailed. The toxicity that
existed within the organization and explain the unreasonable
position who's being placed in by team ownership and upper
management.
Powerful stuff
and obvious question. Peter.
What happened on December 4? When Chris Greer?
And others saw what had been reduced to writing. How did
they handle it? Did they send it to the league? Did they
investigate it? Did they
bring in Brian Flores and ask him more questions? They act
like it never even happened. Did they chastise Brian floors?
You know, you shouldn't be doing things like this. If you
want to be employed here for more than one season. Not that
they would be that direct. But who the hell knows
the hubris that comes from never having to worry about
being sued causes people to say and do stupid things as we
discussed in the context of Ray Horton and Mike Mularkey, but
That really does fascinate me.
It's more than two years ago.
He sends that memo.
What is done with it? And what do the dolphins do, by way of
alerting The League at the time, to the fact that the head
coach is making this allegation internally.
And Mike when I saw that, my first thought was,
wouldn't you think
that the team?
Wouldn't want to alert the league about that. Obviously,
if you know, with that with that document, wouldn't you
think that they would want to go to floor? He's
and have a conversation about that.
And basically say,
this is an absolutely no win situation.
It's a no-win situation.
We deny that it happened. You say that it did happen.
It's your word. His if indeed it ever comes to that
my feeling when I read this was that
if there was any reaction
from the team,
the reaction would have been. It's a dead-end street, Brian.
It's a dead-end street. Nothing good is going to come of this.
But
maybe that's the case regardless. I want to know what
they did. What did they do to mobilize in response or did
they do nothing, you know, ideally what they would do. And
I don't mean ideally that it's the right thing to do but
understanding how organizations like
this work your bring in an
independent lawyer who's bought and paid for by the team. And
is smart enough to understand what the team really wants
the outcome to be and that person then talks to Brian Flores in
a way to memorialize his Or a
but also asking questions in a way to kind of put him in a box,
get his story locked in maybe undermine it wherever
possible that you could ask a question and get him to make
an admission that that
protects you against later scrutiny. That's kind of how it
happens. I'm not saying it's right but I lived in that
world. I know that's how it happens. When a company brings
in and outside lawyer to
investigate independently. There's other goals in mind here.
What did they do to put this fire out that
It's my question today. Ignore the fire. Did they put it out?
Did they tell the league
now they claim? And this was something that was told to me
by someone involved in the investigation, but requested
anonymity out of yada, yada that
they've already sent the memo to the league, but that was
several weeks ago. My guess is. Once the hundred thousand
dollar stuff, hit the fan back in early February. They decided
we better. Give everything we have on this to the league, so
they can properly investigate a now.
The league has its investigator
Mary Jo. White looking into things. And frankly. I was told
last night. There's a feeling that
That and I don't know how you reconcile this
the, the darts going to hit the bullseye on Ross. I don't know
how you reconcile that with the urgency to defend the claims
being made by Stephen, or by Brian Flores. But I digress.
The bottom line is this is something we didn't know about
and it is a fascinating wrinkle to all of this as it relates to
what happened afterward.
How did he stay employed for two more years,
and did it. Did it plant the seed and Steven?
This is brain that this guy can't be the long-term coach of
the team.
Mike, let me ask you, I'm going to Veer a little bit and ask
you this question. Okay,
what is a more serious consequence?
If
you know, if legally found to have happened
a
the Tennessee Titans basically
being found guilty of the fixes in,
we basically had
He decided to hire the white Coach and still went ahead with
the Sham. Black coach interviews, minority coach
interviews, or be
Stephen Ross found guilty
of offering Brian floor. He's
a hundred thousand dollars per loss
in 2018. What's our 2019?
What's worse? And and I'm going to answer, I'm going to be you
think about that for a second? But in my opinion as
as assertive heinous,
Us as the Ross
thing would be
my feeling, is this lawsuit is Brian? Flurries brought this
lawsuit
Because he believes and many minority coaches believe that
they haven't gotten a fair shot over the years.
And so, if they could find even one Smoking Gun,
that proves that at least in one case,
At the fix was in
that to me would be a lot more dangerous for the NFL
that that the Ross thing to me is
and I'm not necessarily saying it's a one-off.
But the Ross thing to me is almost
an anecdotal Scandal
that really doesn't have much to do with the color of Brian,
flurries skin, at least I don't think so.
But the other, the other one I think would have more Or
far-reaching effects.
Well, I agree with you Peter, in this respect and
determining the potential impact legally depends upon who
the entity is that. We're talking about. If we're talking
about the league here, having
the scam exposed in Tennessee,
gives Credence to the suspicion that has long existed. And as
we said earlier in the program, how many other Mike Malarkey's
are out there? Who if they were being truthful,
would say,
I got this job
after multiple sham interviews. They told me ahead of time.
This job is mine.
That's happened. Time again. How look at Jon Gruden? When he
got the job with the Raiders? He had that job before they
even fired. Jack Del Rio. It's happened
and this proves what we've kind of believed all along.
So from that perspective. Yes,
the NFL is looking at having years of Suspicion,
crystallized, and legitimised and then it's got a major
problem going. Going forward, both legally and culturally
within
the broader NFL.