Wednesday edition of PFT Live.

So the news came abruptly yesterday, as it often does, when the Supreme Court decides to do nothing.

And I'll give you the background as simply as I can.

It's a complicated case.

It's been around for over four years.

Brian Flores filed a landmark lawsuit February 1 of 2022 after he was fired by the Dolphins.

He sued the Dolphins.

He sued the NFL.

He also threw in the Broncos and the Giants for allegedly failing to hire him as a head coach.

He added the Texans not long after filing the lawsuit under the argument that the Texans were influenced by his lawsuit against the NFL in not hiring him.

That was the year that Flores, Josh McCown, and Jonathan Gannon were the announced finalists, and the Texans went off the board and hired Lovie Smith.

Flores claims that the failure to hire him was influenced in whole or in part by the fact

that he engaged in activities protected under the law, filing a lawsuit accusing the NFL of

a pattern of racially discriminatory decisions dating back decades.

Later, Steve Wilkes and Ray Horton joined the case.

It's been framed as a class action.

It has been stuck in the mud since February 1 of 2022 because the NFL's knee-jerk reaction in cases like this is to try to force the case into arbitration, not just any

arbitration, but the NFL's preferred, as I call it, secret-rigged kangaroo court of arbitration,

where it controls everything, including the assignment of the arbitrator. It can be the commissioner

if he chooses to do it. Otherwise, it's somebody that the commissioner is used in the past and

is confident will do the right thing in order to continue to be the chosen arbitrator in the future.

So the early stages were all about where is this thing going to be litigated?

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