2022 Texans Coaching Search

Kemahkeith · Feb 1, 2022

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Again.
Nothing goes our way.
That was awesome for 7.5 minutes

J.R. · Feb 1, 2022

NFL remains rife with racism, particularly when it comes to the hiring and retention of Black Head Coaches, Coordinators and General Managers. Over the years, the NFL and its 32-member organizations (the “Teams”) have been given every chance to do the right thing. Rules have been implemented, promises made—but nothing has changed. In fact, the racial discrimination has only been made worse by the NFL’s disingenuous commitment to social equity.

As such, in the face of the risks associated with combating racism and injustice, and in particular standing up to organizations as powerful as the NFL and its Teams, Mr. Flores has determined that the only way to effectuate real change is through the Courts, where the NFL’s conduct can be judged by a jury of Mr. Flores’ peers. A judgment that is long overdue.
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In certain critical ways, the NFL is racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation. Its 32 owners—none of whom are Black—profit substantially from the labor of NFL players, 70% of whom are Black. The owners watch the games from atop NFL stadiums in their luxury boxes, while their majority-Black workforce put their bodies on the line every Sunday, taking vicious hits and suffering debilitating injuries to their bodies and their brains while the NFL and its owners reap billions of dollars.
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In January 2022, Mr. Flores, who spent three years as the Head Coach of Defendant Miami Dolphins, Ltd. (the “Dolphins” or “Miami”), found himself without a job. He was fired by the Dolphins after leading the team to its first back-to-back winning seasons since 2003. The purported basis for his termination was alleged poor collaboration. In reality, the writing had been on the wall since Mr. Flores’ first season as Head Coach of the Dolphins, when he refused his owner’s directive to “tank” for the first pick in the draft. Indeed, during the 2019 season, Miami’s owner, Stephen Ross, told Mr. Flores that he would pay him $100,000 for every loss, and the team’s General Manager, Chris Grier, told Mr. Flores that “Steve” was “mad” that Mr. Flores’ success in winning games that year was “compromising [the team’s] draft position.”
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After the end of the 2019 season, Mr. Ross began to pressure Mr. Flores to recruit a prominent quarterback in violation of League tampering rules. Mr. Flores repeatedly refused to comply with these improper directives. Undeterred, in the winter of 2020, Mr. Ross invited Mr. Flores onto a yacht for lunch. Shortly after he arrived, Mr. Ross told Mr. Flores that the prominent quarterback was “conveniently” arriving at the marina. Obviously, Mr. Ross had attempted to “set up” a purportedly impromptu meeting between Mr. Flores and the prominent quarterback. Mr. Flores refused the meeting and left the yacht immediately. After the incident, Mr. Flores was treated with disdain and held out as someone who was noncompliant and difficult to work with.
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From that point forward, Mr. Flores was ostracized and ultimately he was fired. He was subsequently defamed throughout the media and the League as he was labeled by the Dolphins brass as someone who was difficult to work with. This is reflective of an all too familiar “angry black man” stigma that is often casted upon Black men who are strong in their morals and convictions while white men are coined as passionate for those very same attributes.
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Thus, last week, Defendant New York Football Giants, Inc. (the “Giants” or “New York Giants”) had an opportunity to move a step in the right direction, if even only one. The Giants had the chance to hire Mr. Flores, an eminently qualified Black man, to be the first Black Head Coach in the Giants’ nearly 100-year history.

Instead, the New York Giants made the decision to hire Brian Daboll—and disclosed that decision to third parties—during a time when the Giants were scheduled to still interview Mr. Flores and when Mr. Flores was deceptively led to believe he actually had a chance at this job.

Thus, on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, Mr. Flores was forced to sit through a dinner with Joe Schoen, the Giant’s new General Manager, knowing that the Giants had already selected Mr. Daboll. Much worse, on Thursday, January 27, 2022, Mr. Flores had to give an extensive interview for a job that he already knew he would not get—an interview that was held for no reason other than for the Giants to demonstrate falsely to the League Commissioner Roger Goodell and the public at large that it was in compliance with the Rooney Rule.
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Incredibly, this was not Mr. Flores’ first sham interview that was held only in an effort to comply with the Rooney Rule. Indeed, in 2019 Mr. Flores was scheduled to interview with the Denver Broncos. However, the Broncos’ then-General Manager, John Elway, President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Ellis and others, showed up an hour late to the interview. They looked completely disheveled, and it was obvious that they had drinking heavily the night before. It was clear from the substance of the interview that Mr. Flores was interviewed only because of the Rooney Rule, and that the Broncos never had any intention to consider him as a legitimate candidate for the job. Shortly thereafter, Vic Fangio, a white man, was hired to be the Head Coach of the Broncos.
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Among the other relief sought, Mr. Flores seeks the following injunctive relief:

i. Increase the influence of Black individuals in hiring and termination decisions for General Manager, Head Coach and Offensive and Defensive Coordinator positions;

a. Ensure diversity of ownership by creating and funding a committee dedicated to sourcing Black investors to take majority ownership stakes in NFL Teams;

b. Ensure diversity of decision-making by permitting select Black players and coaches to participate in the interviewing process for General Manager, Head Coach and Offensive and Defensive Coordinator positions;

ii. Increase the objectivity of hiring and termination decisions for General Manager, Head Coach and Offensive and Defensive Coordinator positions;

a. Require NFL Teams to reduce to writing the rationale for hiring and termination decisions, including a full explanation of the basis for any subjective influences (e.g., trust, personality, interview performance, etc.);

b. Require NFL Teams to consider side-by-side comparisons of objective criteria, such as past performance, experience and objective qualifications;

iii. Increase the number of Black Offensive and Defensive Coordinators;

a. Create and fund a training program for lower-level Black coaches who demonstrate an aptitude for coaching and an interest in advancing to a Coordinator position;

iv. Incentivize the hiring and retention of Black General Managers, Head Coaches and Offensive and Defensive Coordinators through monetary, draft and/or other compensation such as additional salary cap space; and

v. Complete transparency with respect to pay for all General Managers, Head Coaches and Offensive and Defensive Coordinators.
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Rudyc281 · Feb 1, 2022

J.R. · Feb 1, 2022

In 2019, on the heels of his outstanding performance with the Patriots, Mr. Flores was offered the Miami Dolphins Head Coach position. By all accounts, Mr. Flores did a fantastic job in three seasons from 2019-2021. In his first year, Miami’s gutted roster won five games despite many experts predicting an 0-16 season and one of the worst teams in NFL history.

The Dolphins owner, Stephen Ross, was unhappy with this performance not because it was under-performing. To the contrary, Mr. Ross wanted the Mr. Flores to “tank” the season to put the team in position to secure the first pick in the draft. Indeed, during the 2019 season, Mr. Ross told Mr. Flores that he would pay him $100,000 for each game lost that year. Then, when the Dolphins started winning games, due in no small part to Mr. Flores’ coaching, Mr. Flores was told by the team’s General Manager, Chris Grier, that “Steve” was “mad” that Mr. Flores’ success in winning games that year was “compromising [the team’s] draft position.”
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After the end of the 2019 season, Mr. Ross began to pressure Mr. Flores to recruit a prominent quarterback in violation of League tampering rules. Mr. Flores repeatedly refused to comply with these improper directives. Undeterred, in the winter of 2020, Mr. Ross invited Mr. Flores onto a yacht for lunch. Shortly after he arrived, Mr. Ross told Mr. Flores that the prominent quarterback was “conveniently” arriving at the marina. Obviously, Mr. Ross had attempted to “set up” a purportedly impromptu meeting between Mr. Flores and the prominent quarterback. Mr. Flores refused the meeting and left the yacht immediately. After the incident, Mr. Flores was treated with disdain and held out as someone who was noncompliant and difficult to work with.

Over the remaining year and a half of Mr. Flores tenure at the helm of the Miami Dolphins, he was routinely made to feel uncomfortable based upon his decision not tank in order to secure the top pick in the 2019 draft. Upon information and belief, no white Head Coach has ever been subjected to such ridicule over winning and holding the spirt of the game in such high regard. In fact, Mr. Flores was ultimately terminated and subsequently defamed throughout the media and the League as he was labeled by the Dolphins brass as someone who was difficult to work with. This is reflective of an all too familiar “angry black man” stigma that is often casted upon Black men who are strong in their morals and convictions while white men are coined as passionate.

The following year, in 2020, despite this discriminatory treatment, the Dolphins improbably won 10 games, narrowly missing the playoffs, and Mr. Flores was mentioned as a potential coach of the year candidate. In 2021, Miami again finished with a winning record, and fans, pundits and experts all agree the team played extraordinarily hard for Mr. Flores. Nonetheless, Mr. Flores was terminated just three years into his five-year contract with the Dolphins. He was told that he was being terminated for “poor collaboration,” which itself has discriminatory undertones.

Mr. Flores’ only failure to collaborate was his refusal to tank the 2019 season as had been requested by Mr. Ross. When he refused, and then over-performed and led the team to winning records in two consecutive seasons with a roster few experts predicted could do so—he was fired.

Mr. Flores was discharged from his duties as the Dolphins Head Coach on January 10, 2022. Countless current and former players, executives and media analysts expressed their dismay at Mr. Flores’ termination,29 and he immediately became one of the top Head Coach candidates on the market.
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The New York Giants Subject Mr. Flores to a Sham Interview

It is against this backdrop that the Giants should have considered Mr. Flores as a highly regarded candidate for the Head Coach position, and, for nearly two weeks, it at least publicly appeared that the Giants viewed Mr. Flores as a desirable option.

Indeed, on January 11, 2022, the day that the Giants terminated Head Coach Joe Judge, Mr. Flores received a text message from Tim McDonnell, the Giants’ Co-Director of Player Personnel. The two spoke via telephone and, according to Mr. McDonnell, the Giants, and owner John Mara, were extremely interested in hiring him for the team’s vacant Head Coach position.

Later that day, after the two texted about potential General Manager and Assistant Coach/Coordinator candidates, Mr. McDonnell let Mr. Flores know that Mr. Mara would be reaching out directly to him to express his interest. Mr. Flores let Mr. McDonnell know that the Giants Head Coach position would be his “dream job.”

The following day, on January 12, 2022, Mr. Mara and Mr. Flores had a positive conversation about his candidacy for the Head Coach position. This was followed up with a Zoom meeting on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.

On the morning of Sunday, January 23, 2022, Mr. Schoen, who had recently been announced as the Giants’ new General Manager (beating out multiple Black candidates for the job), began the process of scheduling an interview with Mr. Flores.

The same day in the mid-afternoon, Mr. McDonnell told Mr. Flores that he hoped that Mr. Flores would “come in and win the fng job.”

On Monday, January 24, 2022, Mr. Schoen finalized Mr. Flores’ interview date for January 27, 2022.

Unfortunately, just hours later Mr. Flores learned that the Giants’ continued courtship was nothing more than a discriminatory façade designed to show false compliance with the Rooney Rule.

Indeed, on January 24, 2022, at 2:30 p.m., Mr. Flores received a text message from New England Patriots Head Coach, Bill Belichick—clearly an insider and privy to non-public information from direct sources. The ensuing text messages from Mr. Belichick to Mr. Flores speak for themselves:

Clearly, by midday Monday, January 24, 2022, the Giants had already decided to hire Mr. Daboll and communicated the decision to third-parties, including to Mr. Belichick.

But for Mr. Belichick’s error, Mr. Flores never would have known of this fact.31 This revelation not only impugns and viciously exposes the sham process to which Mr. Flores was subjected but also stands to indict the Giants’ organizational hiring practices in general.

It is impossible to put into words the emotions Mr. Flores felt upon learning that not only would he not be getting the Giants Head Coach job—the job of his dreams—but, more importantly, that he was not even being given serious consideration for the position but being treated as a box to “check off” due to his race.

Mr. Flores spent Monday evening, Tuesday and Wednesday (including a dinner with Mr. Schoen) knowing that he was walking into Thursday’s interview with no chance to become the Giants Head Coach. While he would spend countless hours preparing to put his best step forward, the white men across the table from him saw and heard only one thing: a formality that had to be observed in order to name Mr. Daboll the Head Coach.
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Discriminatory Treatment David Culley

David Culley has been a collegiate and NFL coach for more than 45 years, including 27 years in the NFL.

Despite his reputation and success, Mr. Culley was never hired into an Offensive or Defensive Coordinator position.

However, in January 2021, the Houston Texans hired Mr. Culley to be Head Coach, though it was widely considered to be one of the most difficult situations for a first year Head Coach in memory.

The previous season, the Texans went 4-12 despite having Pro Bowl quarterback Deshaun Watson start every game, throw 33 touchdowns against only seven interceptions and end with a passer rating of 112.4.

However, Mr. Watson was unavailable to play due to allegations of sexual misconduct and Mr. Culley was forced to start Davis Mills, a rookie third round draft pick at quarterback. The team had also lost its top two players in recent years, J.J. Watt and DeAndre Hopkins.

Mr. Culley’s prospects for success were near impossible, but Mr. Culley managed to coach the team to the same record as the team had its previous season.

Immediately after the season ended, the Texans fired Mr. Culley without explanation other than vague “philosophical differences”—which begs the question why he was hired just one year earlier in the first place.

Even the Texans GM acknowledged that, “a change after one season is unusual.”
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conquistador#11 · Feb 1, 2022

Well that was a good 3 year run for the first central american nfl coach. who will hire him now? Thunderbears?
That was very dark knight Joker of him to burn everything to the ground, just to have the last laugh in Miami. SAD! He could have brought down the Mcnairs' here 2 years from now.

Commodore · Feb 1, 2022

Flores making himself radioactive to any future employer

Damion Laverne · Feb 1, 2022

So that "prominent quarterback" could've been Brady (last year with the Pats) or Watson (coming off the loss to KC but was still on his rookie deal).

justtxyank · Feb 1, 2022

conquistador#11 said: ↑

Well that was a good 3 year run for the first central american nfl coach. who will hire him now? Thunderbears?
That was very dark knight Joker of him to burn everything to the ground, just to have the last laugh in Miami. SAD! He could have brought down the Mcnairs' here 2 years from now.
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Funny joke but I think he was likely blackballed and figured it out. The stuff about refusing to help the owner tamper and to throw games is stuff that Ross probably told other owners. We know the media has helped feed the "difficult to work with" narrative about Flores. May have even been given a head up by Nick he wasn't getting this job.

justtxyank · Feb 1, 2022

Commodore said: ↑

Flores making himself radioactive to any future employer
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Hard to imagine he EVER gets another sniff at the NFL.

IslandB.O.I. · Feb 1, 2022

Damion Laverne said: ↑

So that "prominent quarterback" could've been Brady (last year with the Pats) or Watson (coming off the loss to KC but was still on his rookie deal).
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Wasn’t Brady a free agent though? How would it have been tampering?

Damion Laverne · Feb 1, 2022

IslandB.O.I. said: ↑

Wasn’t Brady a free agent though? How would it have been tampering?
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Not yet, as that alleged meeting happened in February 2020 (before the league year for the 2019 season ended, which would make it tampering)

conquistador#11 · Feb 1, 2022

So the list is cut to
Kevin
McCown
Gannon

Kevin is Hansel hot right now so he has options.

STR8Thugg · Feb 1, 2022

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They got you real good....

1. Set the expectations bar ultra low after 2 interviews with McCown.

2. Anyone else they hire is a win.

3. Congrats, you just got McNaired and Easterboned...
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I've been very clear that I want KOC, but thanks for your concern.

gucci888 · Feb 1, 2022

conquistador#11 said: ↑

So the list is cut to
Kevin
McCown
Gannon

Kevin is Hansel hot right now so he has options.
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Yup with second interviews all complete. They’re either waiting for KOC or trying to time a McCown announcement like it makes difference.

STR8Thugg · Feb 1, 2022

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So if the “prominent quarterback” is in fact Watson do the Texans have some sort of legal recourse against Watson and/ or the Dolphins?
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****in forreal. **** these scumbags.

J.R. · Feb 1, 2022

Wrian Wlores

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STR8Thugg · Feb 1, 2022

I'm sorry, but I don't believe for even half of a second that the QB in question was not Deshaun Watson. Give me a ****ing break. Clowns using the media to try and cover their tracks.

**** everyone.

STR8Thugg · Feb 1, 2022

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Does the lawsuit mention the part where David Culley was one of the stupidest coaches in the history of the NFL, that literally declined a penalty that would have given his offense an extra 3rd down, instead choosing to punt it, or that David Culley couldn't "compute" the idea of letting the Patriots score to get the ball back and have a chance?

FOH with that ****ing nonsense.

STR8Thugg · Feb 1, 2022

I'm just ****ing angry right now. Definitely do not @ me.

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