Mr. WEO

It always amazes me that NFL fans would be eager for the anti-trust exemption for the NFL to go away..

Jackson is jumping on this so there might be a chance that he won't be seen as the worst HC in history----he was PAID to go winless! what a dumbass...

a ref conspiracy thread....cool!

Yes, Jake from Appalachia

If Jackson was dumb enough to take the money, and now tell everyone he took it, he's opened himself to a massive suit by Browns fans for defrauding them.

Imagine the excitement that a Dan Jones-Mitch Trubisky "QB competition" would bring to the Giants fandom and the local press....

I'm here to help.

It was the simplest accurate response I could think of. The reason Sterling lost his team shares no similarity to this case, other than you and others calling for the owner to "lose his team". No one is taking away Ross's team for firing Flores and therefore bringing the number of black HC's to 1. He's accused (by Flores) of offering to pay Flores to have his team lose games, not having actually having paid a HC to lose games (that would be an interesting accusation for the paid-off coach to make, don't you think, given that is a crime?). If Flores has proof of the offer, Ross is in trouble. If he doesn't Flores is in trouble. Pretty simple.

So if they had offered him the job beforehand but the Bills kept it secret, all good--no lawsuit?

I thought Flores did a great job his first season and said so here at the time. COTY candidate. For the purposes of this discussion, it doesn't matter. Owners fire decent coaches and hire predictably bad coaches (looking at you Rex). Lots of owner are football morons. None of that comes into play. Flores could have more convincingly filed a suit against Ross for firing him after he wouldn't take money to tank. That would have been a chip shot. My guess is he didn't because he can't prove that. So he stuck it in his Bill of Particulars for the clicks.

Let's not forget that Flores has only made these claims a few years later, after he was fired, and without (so far) proof.

How did Ross convince 8 other owners not to hire Flores? Flores didn't the his firing graciously a few weeks ago. People took notice. In fact even here posters felt he was poisoning his chances at another job.

Who knows? He says he was asked to do unsavory things as coach, yet he never mentioned them or quit over them.

true. I was responding to the subject re: their relationship. That's not part of and lawsuit and they are free to comment as it would have no impact on pending litigation.

Neither are party to the suit so they are free to comment on their relationship.

Yup---and neither of them had any chance as the Bills clearly wanted Dorsey all along. Everyone here has been saying so for a week. Since there has been a Rooney Rule, this is how teams have dealt with it. It's not actionable.

The Bills didn't interview a minority candidate for OC?

What lost wages? They chose someone else. His civil rights were not violated in any way. He can't claim the Giants and certainly not the Dolphins "discriminated" against him. in fact, his complaint is that the Giants ONLY interviewed him because he is black

So when does Frazier file his suit against the Giants?

Perhaps the most awesome 11 line ever transcribed onto a legal document...

Retracted by Flores?

They didn't interview any minority candidate before the offered the job to the (inside) guy they were going to hire all along?

Look up why Sterling lost his team. Then get right back to us.

The Bills just did that

1. congress isn't going to mess with football. 2. he is alleged to offer him to pay to tank, not that he did pay him to do so (in which case Flores could also be charged).