NEW YORK (AP) Two Black coaches joined Brian Flores on Thursday in his lawsuit alleging racist hiring practices by the NFL toward coaches and general managers. The updated lawsuit in Manhattan federal court added coaches Steve Wilks and Ray Horton.
year. if he does get a job, it will be something like let s give it to him as a pr stunt and i wouldn t be surprised if he got fired soon after. do i think he s going to get hired again? no, his career is done, because this is the nfl, and when you have a smoking gun or some type of proof of the type of things we know have been going on, they find a way to banish you. and this gets to a really important question here, elie, which is, what is the solution here? how do they move forward with this with any credibility. the union rule clearly doesn t work. elie, how do you advise the league or what would you say? well, yeah, the lawsuit definitely exposes the rooney rule as more honored in the breach than in practice. the lawsuit itself, what coach flores is asking for here, he asked for monetary damages, but he also asked for what we call specific relief. he asked the nfl to adopt new policies to make sure people of color are at the table. to make sure decisions of hiring