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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Fired NFL Coach Sues League, 3 Teams For Racial Bias

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

A former NFL head coach is suing the league for discrimination using a text message mix-up as proof. He is also alleging his boss offered him big bucks to lose games. Former NFL wide receiver Donté Stallworth joins to discuss the discrimination lawsuit. Plus, the Pentagon deploys 3,000 United States military troops in Eastern Europe as Russia is seen expanding its military presence in the region. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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