On Tuesday, former Dolphins head coach — and former Patriots assistant — Brian Flores filed a lawsuit against the NFL, the Giants, the Dolphins, and the Broncos, alleging discrimination in his interview process and racist hiring practices against candidates of color for coaching and front-office positions.
Flores’ filing takes on the continued ineffectiveness of the Rooney Rule — which requires NFL teams to interview a quota of minority candidates for every open coaching or front-office position — and included screenshots of texts from Bill Belichick that seemingly prove the Giants had already chosen Brian Daboll to be their head coach before they conducted an interview with Flores.