in part, an organization can only function if it is collaborative and works well. in his lawsuit, brian flores claimed there is more to the story. in his first season as head coach, flores says in his lawsuit, he refused his owner s directive to tank for the first pick in the draft. tanking is when a coach goes out and deliberately loses games in order to get a better draft pick in next year s draft. because teams with the lowest records get to pick first. flores goes on to claim that during the 2019 season, miami s owner told flores that he would pay him $100,000 for every loss, a losing bonus. and the team s general manager told flores that the owner was mad that flores s success was compromising the team s draft position. again, this is just alleged in a lawsuit. but you wonder what the dolphins fans think of that one. that same year, in 2019, flores spoke about his own philosophy about tanking in an interview. i think the term tanking is disrespectful to the game. i really do.
if ever until the nfl changes the way that teams are owned and operated, this is going to continue. and the green bay packers are a corporation because they had to be in the 20s because they didn t have any money. i ve been arguing all week, if they would spin off these teams as corporations, which would have diverse and inclusive boards of executive, layers of executive, not that corporations are immune to violating the civil rights laws, but i think a corporate structure would go a lot farther toward ensuring equality than one person who rolls out of bed any given day and expects to get what he wants. michael holley, the other bill allegation coach flores made is he was offered money to lose games and jackson backs himself up with his own story in solidarity. i was looking at all these stories. one of the headlines in the last 24 hours read why nfl teams don t tank for a better draft
statement in response to brian flores lawsuit to say his claims are without merit, the numbers speak for itself. if there was no merit to it, why do you have a rooney rule? we know and have known for a long time this was a persistent problem. the question was who was going to do what brian flores did, and make this a legal issue? and the reason that i that i brought up colin kaepernick is because when he took a knee for social injustice, the nfl took away his entire career. and that s obviously what brian flores is taking it, and the fact that we say that loudly and with confidence lets you know how badly this situation is in the nfl. he, flores, in addition to the rooney rule, alleges that the dolphins broke other rules as well. he said he was offered $100,000 a game to tank. that is to purposefully lose to improve their draft position and that he was also pressured to
of the utmost importance to me. so how did that conversation go? it was really a conversation between myself and the general manager, chris greer, and, you know, like you mentioned, it is, you know, steve s upset about that we re compromising our draft position now because we re winning too many games. did ross, to you, explicitly say to you personally, i ll give you $100,000 each game you lose? yes, yes, he did, absolutely. that s not something you make up. i m not saying the situation which is in the complaint about the boat where he was put in a compromising position to potentially have to run off a vote because there was a player coming he wasn t supposed to meet w the problem becomes in society and the nfl when a black man, you know, has convictions and states a position, he s deemed and portrayed as difficult, and
jeopardy to stand up for what he believes in and alleging the idea some owners are paying bonuses, richard haass, to teams and coaches to get them to lose, the idea of tanking, which undermines the competitive balance, the integrity of the support. flores said it happened with the dolphins. we heard hue jackson say-so with the cleveland browns. that s extremely dangerous to the nfl s future. that is corrosive. i thought philadelphia eagles may have done it last year in order to approve their draft position. no, this goes back 100 years in baseball. it is not a gambling scandal. it is a scandal that is totally corrosive to the game if teams are going to throw games to get better draft choices. the nfl has twin challenges, both very, very different, both very serious. mr. goodell is in the hot seat on both. actually, a third challenge. you know, the washington football team, the commanders, the new charges against dan schneider for the toxic environment there.