Brian Flores v. the NFL: Tanking, Discrimination, and a text from Bill Belichick; Impact on Roger Goodell, Dolphins, and Giants (Episode 531)

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David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘class action’ as in class action lawsuit as in former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is suing the NFL AND the New York Giants. Flores took out a flame thrower and went scorched earth on Stephen Ross and the Dolphins, the Denver Broncos, the New York Giants, and the NFL. Let’s go statement by statement; team by team; and break it all down. (28:00) What is going on with Jim Harbaugh? We spoke about him likely going to Miami, not anymore. Now he’s headed to Minnesota… maybe. But what did the Vikings do wrong? A report came out that Harbaugh would be the next head coach of the Vikings… hours before the Vikings said they were interview Patrick Graham. Uh oh. (37:25) Review: Nightmare Alley. (40:00) NPPOD. (41:20) The Washington Commanders are here. Dan Snyder has a new team name. Great. Wonderful. Way to go Dan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.0	Class Action. Nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday,
0:54.5	February 2nd, 2022. Four twos is your day today.
0:59.9	And the biggest story that is going to come from the NFL this year, including the Super Bowl,
1:04.4	including Tom Brady retiring, was a bombshell lawsuit dropped on not a random Tuesday,
1:14.0	alleging that there is racial discrimination from all of the white owners
1:20.2	toward the minority coaching candidates in the National Football League.
1:25.5	Epic! I want to break it down because this is not sports news, this is business news,
1:32.0	this is socially relevant news, this is not just CBS, ESPN, this is every channel covering it.
1:39.1	And I want to explain a few things. Most importantly, Brian Flores with the courage
1:45.3	to lead a lawsuit. I want to start with him. He is a head coach, a black head coach who was
1:52.2	fired by the Miami Dolphins three years into a five-year deal after two winning seasons.
1:58.4	After he's fired, the Miami Dolphins did a campaign, a PR campaign to make him look not just
2:05.7	incompetent but difficult to work with, not a team player. And everyone was curious why the dolphins
2:11.8	were doing that, wondering if they were trying to save face for making this unbelievable, unpopular
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