know, you could call it cynical or you could call it the way
business gets done in America and probably the rest of
the world.
If Michael Bidwell is thinking about, as he should be lawyer
former prosecutor. He understands
the realities of the Brian Flores litigation against
the NFL, and the teams that he sued. And then later joined,
he's got the Dolphins Broncos. Giants and Texans at the table
and then
Steve Wilkes, the former Cardinals coach.
Each joins Flores in brings bidwells team into
the crosshairs, under the argument that they hired Steve Wilkes to
fail. In 2018, set him up to fail and then fired him, made
him. The sacrificial lamb for a crap season before they moved
on to Kliff Kingsbury. And
relatively unaccomplished, college coach, who arguably had
no business, being an NFL coach, in the first place. So,
Bidwell, realizes the net gain of hiring, Brian Flores to
this.
It and significant legal concern,
that anyone who owns and operates a business would have.
They still don't know whether or not the Flores Wilkes and
Ray Horton. Litigation is going to be resolved in open court,
where we a fair shake for everyone which is bad news for
the people with the
money or whether it gets resolved in the secret rig.
Kangaroo Court of Roger Goodell where arbitration requires all
of these disputes to go before him
and what a shock. He's going to have a bias in favor of
the people who pay him. I'm sorry. No matter how hard You try not
to have a bias in that setting, you will have a built-in bias.
You shouldn't even want to resolve that
dispute when you know, you've got the built-in bias. So we
don't know where that stands for almost a year from
the filing of the lawsuit. We have no idea where it's going to go.
This helps
the NFL's legal posture, it helps Michael bidwells legal,
posture, all. And by the way, I was talking to somebody about
this last night. Well, this should be about whether or not
Brian Flores deserves to be a coach. Well, both can be true,
he can deserve to be a coach and it can
Up to Legal posture. It's a win-win-win.
Everybody wins, everybody wins. We take some of the steam out
of this lawsuit. The Cardinals get a coach who has proven he
can get it done.
Brian, floors versus click teams, very I don't, I don't
need to flip that coin more than once I know, which way I'm
going based on what I've seen during their respective three
years as head coaches.
So you get a good coach a guy who they desperately need to
turn calamari around or not bring it to a head if it's not
going to work fine, we'll figure it out that way but it
helps your legal
Situation. It helps your football team.
It helps Brian Flores. As I said when when when
I don't know that it's going in that direction but it's not
going to surprise me if it does. Yeah, I mean I hope it
does. I just hope that the decision is not made just
because of that though that would be the only thing and
he's my point. Yeah, he can be both. I got no, can be both.
I hope his I know I know, and I
hope, you know, it is both. And I hope it's more about
the coaching because the guy deserves to be a head coach
period. We know that. I mean, I don't know, I don't think
anybody that knows football. And those Brian Flores is as
made to be ahead.
Head coach in the NFL.
Yeah I just don't want it to be purely about that and fighting
the
the law consequences there. But either way, and I'ma be honest,
it's a business was business, get it. I know Paul is business
and I do think it's good and it's part of the business for
Brian floors to come into town to. I think he's,
you know, really in a lot of ways
almost the exact opposite of Kliff Kingsbury. I mean you're
gonna get hard-nosed, it's about the team detail Bubba by
all of that. And and in Arizona and one of the issues and at
least, you know, from the outside looking in and sits
it does seem like there's a little bit of
individuality there.
It's a lot of, you know, solo Enterprises on their team and
their they didn't seem like they had that cohesiveness
there. That's where Brian Flores can bring that back and
bring everybody back to Earth and explain to them, hey, would
have screw your highlights or whatever money you're making,
and whatever
we got to come together. The right way here, and
I can certainly see.
Flores being the cup of tea that Monty ahsan for likes and,
you know, in Michael Bidwell to kind of get this organization
going back in the right direction.
We talked last week about what it's going to take to get
calamari to punch through to the next level of his career to
realize, you can't just rely upon your god-given abilities
to run circles around everyone that for hour per week. Study
Clause was in the
contract for a reason. They weren't just sitting around
with some random contract clause generator saying, what
can we put in here? Just so we feel like, we're getting fair
value in return for our money. What can we throw in here just
to be a
pain in the ass? What can we do? Just so we feel like we got
something know it was in there because they don't think he
works hard enough. The
logic and Common Sense prevails sometimes still
in this day and age.
That Clause was in there
because they didn't think he was working hard enough. And
Brian Flores will make damn sure the calamari understands
the effort put in and the results that come from it.
And, you know, if Tom Brady
doesn't play in 2023, maybe he can get Tommy to
give Kyler a phone call from time to time and just explain
to him. What it takes to be the best that you can possibly be.
And that it's not. And I think calamari has realized, it's not
enough about just showing up and being more physically
gifted than everyone else.
It's about the effort is about the work and is about
the commitment. I think Flores if, you know, we talked about
Peyton possibly being able to get calamari to make
the commitment. I think Flores could get him to make
the commitment to
yeah well I hear that for sure.
I mean I just he's got
you know one thing you love about Brian Flores is just how
honest Real, you know,
knows what it takes to be successful.
Going to shoot you straight.
I think that's where he can relate to players and turn
you know a quarterback and an organization that seems
a little bit all over the place right now and they could bring
it together there and be stable. And again I'm
I'm always you know, I know they're going to interview
Flores and D'Amico rides. I'm never a fan of I love to me. Go
Ryan, should be a head coach as well.
I'm not a fan of like bringing the coordinator,
you know, from Then the V the division
to my head coach to my team
that I you know like I wasn't in favor of of
Shan Shan Waldron going to the Seattle Seahawks just for that
reason. Right from the Rams. Seattle wait. So now you care
about Laura's to the dolphin. Well
yeah, it's not my favorite. Always, I don't love that
because of the same way you're gonna play against the guy that
twice a year that
taught you the tricks and now your tricks aren't going to
work. And there's He's going to be some understanding within
the division. I don't love that aspect. I know it can work and
it's work throughout you know, time here and there but I'd
rather bring in
fresh idea. And that's where I feel like four as would fit.
Well in there. It's just, there's there is,
you know, no defense like him in that Division. And he could
be a pain in the butt for people like McVeigh and
Shanahan and trying to figure out offensive game plans.
Well, I am we'll see where it goes
and I have no inside information. I know that there
is a rumor, making the rounds that Michael Bidwell is very
concerned about this litigation and understands the benefits
and the detriments
to hiring or not hiring Brian Flores mean, look at what
happened last year? The Texans interviewed Brian Flores didn't
hire him, and they got joined a lawsuit for failing to hire him
in retaliation
for the lawsuit that he filed. There is legal protection.
Or retaliation
against people who have had the audacity to advance their legal
rights. People don't understand that. I mean, it's amazing to
me. I think Kent Summers wrote
an item for the Arizona Republic about why would basically
Michael Bidwell want to hire the guy that sued the NFL and
sued the Cardinals? Even though he didn't sue the Cardinal
Steve works there but it's all part of the same lawsuit.
That's the natural reaction but the law protects. Otherwise,
no one would assert their legal rights. My rights have been
trampled upon but I fear.
That if I stand up for myself that retaliate against me. Well
they can't they can but you have
enhanced legal rights if they do. So the net gain
to the Cardinals
from a business standpoint legal standpoint, football
standpoint. I'm going to be surprising. There's people
people around the league, think it's coming,
and it could be that money. Austin for it was hired
specifically to make it seem like it's his decision.