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I just finished reading through all 58 pages of the complaint. This reads like someone who is just sick and tired of feeling like he's getting screwed over and is at the end of his rope and frustrated. The suit's evidence is largely historical data and a few allegations against Stephen Ross which will hurt the Dolphins and a hearsay accusation that the Giants had made up their minds to hire Daboll before even interviewing Flores. His injunctive relief seeks, amongst other things, to "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." These are privately owned teams, who can hire whomever they want. If you think billionaires are going to be forced to listen to coaches and players tell them who to hire, I wish you well. There are several bombshells, a couple of which have been picked up by the media. The biggest one i see is Stephen Ross tried to get Flores to meet with, presumably Brady, on a yacht to recruit him, which is in direct violation of league tampering rules. A lot of this lawsuit does read like a list of personal complaints about why he isn't a head coach. Flores says he was ridiculed for not tanking his first season. He argues "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." There is no way to prove this point, it's just an arbitrary complaint. It also fails to note that the GM, part of the Dolphins brass he is criticizing for firing him and labelling him as difficult, is black. As such, it seems like a reach to suggest that labelling him as difficult was racially motivated. The suit does go out of its way to label named parties by their race, which they have to do in order to create suspicion of every person hired instead of a black candidate. Joe Schoen, who is white, is made to look like he was hired despite there being many qualified black candidates for the job. That's pretty baseless. He then claims that the job was Daboll's all along because BB texted him thinking he was Daboll congratulating him on the job. That's probably enough anecdotal evidence for an investigation, though thin because the evidence comes from someone outside the organization. Even if this was the case, I don't see racism in a GM picking a coordinator from his old team to come along with him. In fact, him listing Daboll as a prospective HC is likely one of the things that landed him the job. I'm not sure that this lawsuit, which obviously is not based on unfounded history of discrimination, is the lawsuit that changes things that need to be changed. This is a class-action, so he's looking to certify and have other black coaches join the suit, which seems poorly conceived for a few reasons. First, current coaches are unlikely to risk their careers by joining and you would need them for credibility. Second, the facts aren't damning to anyone but the Dolphins and on that front only show they violated league rules in regards to tampering. Lastly, it was a missed opportunity to make only black coaches members of the class, they should have gone broader and opened it up to all minority candidates. Of course I could be wrong, but this suit has more chance of changing things through public pressure rather than actual legal relief; which is what I suspect it was aimed at. Thought I might save everyone some time reading. Here's the link to the complaint in case anyone is interested: https://www.wigdorlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Complaint-against-National-Football-League-et-al-Filed.pdf

Commanders feels like a micro-aggression, we should protest til they change it to Requestors.

Addition by subtraction. We needed to make a change at this coaching spot anyway.

The answer is Guard

I remember him. My deepest condolences.

I figured he was referring to the lack of security down there at the chophouse. Security has to employ better cell phone shielding discipline, that's on the coches for poor preparation.

This D was not a #1 D, it was a decent D that played some good games against some bad teams. We need a more effective pass rush and we really needed Tre White tonight. We couldn't stop a wet fart tonight, very poor tackling. The offense was all we could ask for. The second honeybadger went out of the game we should have pressed the advantage passing more though.

Ridiculous post, he's one of the best coaches in the league.

I do agree that I don't want Daboll in Miami. I'd hate to hate him.

Rodgers is on that show every Tuesday and he'd done pretty well for himself this year. So, no. Poyer and Diggs were just on too.

Did it kind of look like they had Oliver mic'd up as well? There were several plays where the D-line was focused on and sounded like they had sound on them.

What's the point of this thread? OP, do the moon-landing next!

I'd like to beat the Chiefs, then the Titans and finally the Bucs and exorcise absolutely all the demons.

They were on network tv and then got picked up by netflix season 3.

First couple of seasons were not bad. The third is simply a different show.

Where do you guy get tickets from for away games? Looking at Ticketmaster and Seatgeek at present. I live abroad and am thinking about taking my brother and Dad to the game but I'm not super familiar with away game ticketing and would appreciate any advice. Thanks all!

Mills being out is a very big deal for them.

It's weird that the cold weather is affecting attendance so much. I went online to see about purchasing tickets for the KC game and tickets are all 4-5x more on avg than this week's tickets and I'm having a hard time getting good seats due to availability.

I expect us to keep practicing indoors...

All I know about that Massare guy is that he posted that the Bills were about to do something big (can't remember if it was a trade or a big signing) and when it didn't happen, he deleted the tweet altogether to avoid responsibility.

We struggle against the run. He is a stout run defender. Bringing him in is logical.