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Posted by seestyle on July 25th, 2022

Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores alleging racially discriminatory hiring practices throughout the NFL. In addition to highlighting the league's inequities in hiring practices, Flores also Chris Lykes Jersey shed light on several major competitive integrity i sues within the Dolphins organization.

According to the lawsuit, Dolphins owner Stephen Ro s offered to pay Brian Flores 0,000 per lo s during the 2019 season in an effort to get the first overall pick in the draft and take future Bengals star Joe Burrow. But that didn't work as Miami went 5-11, including a stretch of 5-4 over their last nine games after starting 0-7.

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It was from that moment that Flores alleges he was on the outs.

"The purported basis for his termination was alleged poor collaboration. In reality, the writing had been on the wall since Mr. Flores first season as Head Coach of the Dolphins, when he refused his owners directive to tank for the first pick in the draft... The teams General Manager, Chris Grier, told Mr. Flores that 'Stevewas 'mad' Ed Reed Jersey that Mr. Flores succe s in winning games that year was compromising the teams draft position."

Without the first pick, Flores' alleged "Mr. Ro s began to pre sure Mr. Flores to recruit a 'prominent quarterback' in violation of League tampering rules. Mr. Flores repeatedly refused to comply with these improper directives. Undeterred, in the winter Dejan Vasiljevic Jersey of 2020, Mr. Ro s invited Mr. Flores onto a yacht for lunch," the suit reads.

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"Shortly after he arrived, Mr. Ro s told Mr. Flores that the prominent quarterback was conveniently arriving at the marina. Obviously, Mr. Ro s had attempted to set up a purportedly impromptu meeting between Mr. Flores and the prominent quarterback. Mr. Flores refused the Rodney Miller Jr. Jersey meeting and left the yacht immediately."

As it turns out, the quarterback in question was reportedly none other than Tampa's own Tom Brady, who went to the left the Patriots for the Buccaneers ahead of the 2020 season before retiring two years later.

Tom Brady was the quarterback Stephen Ro s allegedly wanted Brian Flores to meet in an alleged yacht meeting before Brady was a free agent according to a league source

Joe Schad (@schadjoe)

Brady and Flores knew each other from both of their times under Bill Belichick, and as such, Flores respected Brady too much to tamper and subject him to a rebuild.

Brian Flores admires and respects Tom Ray Lewis Jersey Brady but didnt want to tamper and also didnt think it was the right time to recruit Brady considering the status of the Dolphins rebuild, which was intended to be a long-term plan, per source.

Joe Schad (@schadjoe)

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As it turns out the feeling wasn't quite as mutual. Reports also suggest that even though Brady and Flores knew each other from their respective days in New England, Brady would've gone to the Dolphins had it not been for Flores coaching them.

The rumor in Miami has long been that Brady would have picked the Dolphins over the Buccaneers if not for Brian Flores being the Dolphins coach. This could help explain why.

Adam Beasley (@AdamHBeasley)

So, Brady goes to Tampa and the Dolphins select QB Tua Tagovailoa with the fifth overall pick.

Flores was ultimately fired after three Kameron McGusty Jersey seasons where he went 24-25 and posted back-to-back winning seasons in Miami for the first time since 2003.