his statement. I'm thankful the NFL's investigator found. My
factual allegations against Steven, Ross are true at
the same time I am disappointed to learn that the investigator
minimized. Mr. Ross's offers and pressure to tank games,
especially when I wrote and submitted a letter at the time
to dolphins Executives. Documenting my serious concerns
regarding the subject at the time, which the investigator
has
in her possession
by the investigator, found the Dolphins head engaged and
impermissible tampering Of unprecedented scope and
severity, mr. Ross will avoid any meaningful consequence.
This is
there is nothing more important when it comes to the game of
football itself than the Integrity of the game. When
the Integrity of the game is called into question, fans, suffer and
football suffers, Amen. To that Brian Flores and
he's right. And here's the thing, his lawsuit goes forward
now, they're fighting over whether or not it's going to
play out in open court or secret rig, Kangaroo Court.
See, this is another reason why they try to steer it towards
secret, rig kangaroo court, because
he's going to have
More to say about the tampering about the tanking that letter
this letter
that Mary Jo White has in her possession
it's far more likely
to be in our possession.
If the case goes forward in court, if it gets steered toward
secret rig Kangaroo Court, we're never going to see. It's
one of the reason why they do it. Yeah, I'd love to see that
letter. I'd love to see what he said because, you know, getting
back to the statement that once mr. Flores complained mr. Ross
never said,
and the other executive said, oh no, they want you to win
every game. Of course they're going to do that once he puts
it in writing, once he steps out of
the just wink, wink nod nod, this the way we do nothing talk
to and he's gonna bring the record in a way, right? That if
this gets in someone's hands people are in major trouble.
That's when they said, oh no, he's not suggesting even though
he
is that we lose games O'Brien. You've got mr. Ross. All wrong,
we want you to win every game. Don't
About our draft status next year
and then somebody says duras. Hey you know what probably
a good idea to quit saying these things around Flores because
he's created this document. There's a paper trail, there's
a paper trail now, right? And so we can't say anything around
it. So this whole thing stinks,
this whole thing stinks.
I'm glad that they found that the Dolphins tampered because
they did the punishment wasn't nearly enough to fit the crime,
but this tanking thing stinks to high heaven.
He did it. And but for Brian Flores it would I've been
successful and Joe burrow
and there's an alternate universe out there where Joe
burrow is the quarterback of the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, but
where does it go from here? I mean again I just we're going
to just kind of wait it out. I just you
know, again it but
I understand the NFL tiptoeing around. This floor is made
a great comment, certainly,
you know, but I guess between this and, you know, the I guess
this part of it. And then what's the other aspect of
the lawsuit where the the
the the
not treating our giving The African American coaches. The
proper, you know, ability to interview and have a real
chance to get the head coaching job. Man. Those are big issues
that the NFL
is just. Yeah, they're not going to go down easily here
and I don't know, you know what the end game is going to be
Ryan floors. I know he's gonna continue to push forward here,
but I just wonder how much he could actually get accomplished
and done and to their credit, the Pittsburgh Steelers. I get
accused all the time of being a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. I've
never been a Pittsburgh Steelers fan in my life and I
say that because
right now I am going to Declare they are an organization of
Integrity 100% top-to-bottom. Yeah because
once Flores does what he has done in Miami. Once he files
the lawsuit, once the word is out there that he's
a troublemaker. That's when other teams are going to be inclined
to shy away from because they don't want trouble makers.
The Steelers are an organization of integrity and
I challenge a team out there because Brian Flores is a man
of integrity and principal, who will put his own earning
capacity. His own
Job status
behind, what is good for the game? What is right for
the game. The next team that hires him to be a head coach will
prove itself to the world to be an organization of Integrity
top to bottom because you know, now the man you are getting if
you hire Brian Flores and I challenge. What are you out
there? Look Sean Payton's, a hell of a coach, and Sean
Payton's going to land somewhere else this year.
If you're a team of Integrity, the name at the top of your
list for 20, 23, should be Brian Flores. So NFL teams you
want to prove us? That your team's of Integrity
put Brian Flores at the top of the list. Don't tamper with him
though but put him at the top of the list you're so and make
him a coach Nick, I know we had this conversation went down and
you thought maybe this might be the end for Brian Flores ever
be a head coach again or do anything. Like so
maybe we'll see if and I don't have antennae. Well you're
right it is interesting to see I wonder if it also. Just
how long this legal process plays out? I have a hard time
thinking anybody's going to consider him as a head coach
candidate. If the legal process is playing out maybe when that
all gets finished and done. Then he gets back in it. I do
think there's going to be a team that eventually does it.
Because
there's just not that many good coaches who go around and he's
one of them. Let me just say this. I want to dispel this
idea because this came up with Colin Kaepernick. It comes up
with, with Brian Flores.
How can you expect to get hired by someone? You've sued, how
can you expect to get a head coaching job? You've sued them,
you're supposed to be able to do these things and not face
retaliation and let's not just accept, it's okay? If it was
happening to you
in your workplace, if your rights were violated
and And then you get fired because you dared to try to
advance and protect your own rights. That's wrong. Yeah,
that type of retaliation is wrong.
Brian Flores has proven to be a skilled coach. He was able to
win in a toxic dysfunctional environment where the owner of
the team wanted him to lose the owner of the team wanted to
have one of these places where it's
poisonous, where the players are like, what the hell is
going on here? Aren't we? Trying to win and Chris back to
the tanking?
It was happening early in the 2019 season. Minka Fitzpatrick
wanted out, right? Because Of it. I believe it was at some
point week for week 5, where Brian Flores realized we can't
play this game.
They were getting the crap kicked out of the week after
week. It was around the bye week. We can go back and break
down the schedule. I think he decided
I'm not doing this.
I'm not doing it and maybe somebody said to him,
hey, this is on you. This is your legacy. This is your
record. They're going to regard you as a bad coach. They're not
going to say, well, you know, they weren't really trying to
win. They were trying to get Joe Barbaro, right? You're
gonna be gone by the time Joe Burrus because you went on 16.
Right. So I
I just, I just hope I hope that people realize he was within
his rights to sue.
He's right about what he's saying and if you are an owner
of Integrity, true Integrity, you prove it by hiring Brian
Flores
to be your head coach. He's clearly qualified
and I hope that he gets a job
sooner than later. And again, kudos to the Pittsburgh,
Steelers for giving him a job
at a time. When
they knew the allegations is making and they still did
the right thing. That's my Rooney, the rooneys and Mike Tomlin or
awesome that way they are. And I think they kind of line up to
exactly what you're saying there
and that's why they're one of the better organizations and
all of football, but we'll see. I don't think Brian floor is
going to get any dab, you know, dabbles in the head coaching
Market until this is settled,
but but I don't know when that's going to take place to.
Well, how long do you think this drags out before this part
this? Well, whole thing is done. There's still screwing
around with
The arbitration, right? So we're still far away there and
where they're at in the arbitration issue. The
the plaintiff side of it, Brian Flores and Ray Horton. And
Steve Wilkes. They are trying to get information about Roger
Goodell's compensation about his bias because he's being
asked under the NFL's. In-house arbitration process
to pass judgment in cases involving teams that are
the ones who are paying him in 65 million a year. There's a bias
there, you can't. How can you expect him to be independent
the? And I'm glad that that's finally.
Issue. But Chris that's going to be
a fight from months. This case is going to hang around for
years, barring a settlement. And look, I can't say this
strongly enough.
We're at a strange time in this country where there aren't
enough, true heroes. And the people who do the right thing,
get lost in the shuffle. Brian Flores is a true hero. He is
somebody who is committed to and it sounds hokey. It sounds
like truth justice and the
American way. Well, the American way no longer relies
on truth and justice. Yes, we need a little more truth and
Justice in our society. And Brian Flores has proven
that he is committed
and more people need to behave like him. More people need to
applaud him and more people need to take him. Seriously in
his chosen profession. I just I'm gonna do everything I can
to advocate for Brian Flores. I'm with you regardless of
the console. I'm with you. I you know I've known the guy for a
long time. He's everything you're saying is totally true.
He is a
stand-up human being. No Nonsense, good family man, father
perfect, that way
and And, you know, just a real football coach, and then that's
to anybody, that's ever talked to Brian Flores people that
have interviewed him. I mean, I know people across the league
who were always just man Flores is impressive. I mean, he
really is, he is
on everything. He understands the full scope of their
organization and how it's supposed to be run because of
his time in New England, and he's also a trustworthy soldier
in the fact that he's not like a gossiper or anything like
that to where he's, you know,
trying to politic his way up the ladder or,
you know, you know, talking behind closed doors or anything
like that. I mean, I think the fact that even this one down
and you didn't hear much about it, at the time, it was
actually going down, says a lot about Brian floor. He could
have taken his
because of the media, he could have said to us. He would have
bled lie. Once what I mean? Alicia says this to a coach
here or a media guy here and kind of got the conversation
going a little bit and been
that guy that's not in him. So he is
what the NFL needs
and should want Head coach. And he went 10 has 62 years in
a row
and a dysfunctional place. Like you're talking about without
a franchise quarterback without a franchise quarterback in one of
the better divisions in football to all those things.
I mean ten and six two years in a row makes no sense
and that's why I get back to the tampering
he was fired maybe because he pissed Stephen Ross off
a little bit for not tanking, But ultimately
because he was fired because
Brady and Sean Payton,
Put out of the coup d'etat to get down there to Miami. Yeah,
you know
you make an excellent point though, it would have been very
tempting and I'm sure he was tempted to blow the whistle
external. Sure. Because he's getting all this pressure to
lose, right? And and oh my God, the guys are from a hundred
thousand dollars per loss. He's trying to tank the season.
How do I beat this back? Yeah, one way to beat it back.
Make it a public issue. Make it a public issue. We have to do
it, and I didn't do it right? That's another, that's another
feather in the cap. Brian Flores even under a situation
like that where it would have been so easy to justify.
Betraying the team that he's betraying you
that is trying to get you to go against everything you believe
in. You still did the right thing and didn't although
I think the right thing would have been to go ahead and talk
about it because we would have loved to have had this Story
in real time. By the way
go ahead and sleep on the Steelers this year. Well they
got my Tom and I am Brian Florida.
I was just about to say it to me two of the most unspoken In
things in football this year, one of them is Brian table, not
being with Buffalo and Ken Dorsey taken over, which
I think is kind of under the radar big thing. I'm watching
for a team that we're all putting in the Super Bowl and
buffalo and then
yes shyam with you.
I mean, we just talked about Miami and we said they were 10
and six without a franchise quarterback and dysfunction.
And why were they 10 and six Mike? It wasn't because their
offense was awesome. Guess what? It was because their
defense was the next level.
I mean, they divs, they're extremely creative and within
being creative, their sound as hell. And I think
to your point there, that's where I was going to go with it,
that's why you got to be careful about sleeping on
Pittsburgh, you know, they got a little Talent on defense,
they're going to have some new new schemes. On the defensive
side of the ball
Flores is going to be able to open up the, you know,
a different few different pages of the playbook for Mike Tomlin
and Company and go. Hey, you know, when I was in Miami, we
lined up in this against this Personnel said, or this
formation. And then, you know, we had this check, if they say,
we thought they were a checking out of this or blah blah blah,
and he's just going to add to their overall. All talent and,
and, and scheme, you know, creativity on that side of
the ball that I'm very excited to see remember what they did to
Lamar Jackson. I was gonna go
that Thursday. That's right everybody.
Well think about two years ago what they did to the Rams and
Jared Goff and his last year. Remember that was the first
time they did it where you were like what the hell is this all
11 guys are at the line of scrimmage and McVeigh and Jared
Goff don't know what the hell
to do. And yes so he's come up with these type of game plans
that have made a mark around the NFL and that's where he's
a special coach.
By the way points bed, has the AFC North currently. You ready
for this? Yeah, Baltimore Ravens, favorite to win at plus
1/16. Okay,
Bangles next, plus, 200, whatever. Bengals have to do to
be a favor, their own division. They almost won the Super Bowl,
then come the Browns at plus 225 the Steelers right now are
10 to 1.
Hey anyone out there
anyone out there who has a little money, please bat responsibly.
How the hell do you not take 10 to 1 odds for the Steelers to
win that Division? I know it's a great division but again
and I I lived in and around Pittsburgh my entire life.
Anytime
the Steelers are regarded as a not going to be very good.
That's why they end up having a pretty great year. Yeah, I had
you and Mike Tomlin said it because Peter King
pissed off my Tom and by saying, well you're not going
to be very and Tom, I got mad at him and he said, Bring it
on, Bring it on and I think they thrive on that. Yeah,
the Steelers do the entire organization does yes,
100% there. There, you know,
they got a
lot of Bad Dudes there. And I mean that in a way where They
love the fight. They love the physicality. Once you wanted to
say that mofo. You want to same thing that Lawrence Taylor
signed exactly. Your jersey. Exactly, right. That's what
I did. But that's what they
do have their and I do think they enjoy, they enjoy
the criticism. Yeah, put us down. We're not going to be very good
and the motivation and the fighting back of that, it is
a very real thing. In Pittsburgh. I've experienced that I've seen
Mike Tomlin,
when he was one of our defensive coaches in Tampa, he
thrives off of those type of environments and he becomes
a better leader and a better. Motivator
when he gets put in that corner there
where, you know, we saw it a few years ago, a duck Hodges.
And that group there, where we going, how the hell can they
win a game and they kept winning games and staying
relevant?