Hey there, it's Shimita here.

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Listen and subscribe at L.A. Times.com slash The Times or on Apple Podcasts. This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shimita Bassu. Today, how the NFL has failed black coaches and what the league needs to do to change.

Last weekend marked the end of the NFL regular season.

And it's around this time of year that we usually see a lot of coach firings.

In fact, it was just about a year ago when Brian Flores was fired from his job as head coach of the Miami Dolphins.

This was after back-to-back winning seasons, something that hadn't happened in Miami in nearly two decades.

But getting fired is par for the course in head coaching roles across sports.

So Flores went out and started interviewing

for new head coaching jobs.

And he was getting ready to have an interview

with the New York Giants.

That's Washington Post Sports sports reporter Michael Lee.

And just as he was preparing to leave for that interview, he got a text message from his

former boss Bill Bellacek, the famed New England Patriots coach, basically telling him that, you know,

Brian you got it.

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