Fired NFL Coach Sues League, 3 Teams For Racial Bias
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Potentially, the biggest personal foul in the history of the NFL. |
| 0:06.6 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:08.9 | Stunning claims from a former NFL head coach suing the league for discrimination using |
| 0:13.6 | a text message mix up. |
| 0:15.5 | As proof, an alleging, his boss offered him big bucks to lose games. |
| 0:20.0 | A former player joins us to break it all down. |
| 0:22.6 | Plus, marching orders, the Pentagon deploys 3,000 U.S. service members in Eastern Europe |
| 0:28.0 | as new satellite imagery shows Russia expanding its military presence in the region. |
| 0:33.6 | Also, patients and profits, how insurance companies are raking in record-breaking billions |
| 0:40.6 | by their critics, say, gouging their customers. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to the Lena of Jake Tapper, and we start today in the sports lead in that explosive |
| 0:53.8 | lawsuit alleging racism and bribery in the NFL. |
| 0:57.9 | Former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores, who is black and Latino, is suing the league |
| 1:04.0 | and three teams, the Dolphins, the Broncos, and the Giants alleging racial discrimination |
| 1:09.4 | in the hiring process of coaches and executives. |
| 1:12.3 | A alleging sham job interviews, the 58-page lawsuit says Flores sat for an interview with |
| 1:18.0 | the New York Giants, even though a white coach had already been selected by the Giants. |
| 1:23.2 | And Flores accused Dolphins owner Stephen Ross of offering him $100,000 for every game |
| 1:29.9 | he intentionally lost. |
| 1:32.8 | Also the team could get the number one draft pick after the 2019 season. |
| 1:37.3 | But today, as Jason Carroll reports, the NFL said these claims are, quote, without merit. |
| 1:45.1 | The sports world reeling from allegations of systemic racism in the NFL by former Miami |
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