When new information was presented and two more coaches joined the case, Sh*t hit the fan.
The filing of his lawsuit led to the Houston Texans removing him from their list and hiring a Black man, according to the Flores camp. This makes sense since it was believed that the management always wanted and couldn't have given the optics. All this leads to an ownership with a racist past and present and the hiring of a Black coach out of the blue.
The team decided to hire a white coach to replace him, giving him all the opportunities to fail and succeed, which is why Steve Wilks was fired. Ray Horton, a long-time assistant, has implicated the TennesseeTitans as being a franchise that brought him in for a sham interview to fulfill the Rooney Rule.
I pride myself on doing the right thing in this business and I can't say that about everybody in this business. Mularkey claims that he was told he had the job in Tennessee before two minority candidates were even interviewed, which is a carbon copy of what Flores is saying about him and the Giants.
“It’s a very cutthroat business and a lot of guys will tell you that. ... I allowed myself at one point when I was in Tennessee to get caught up in something I regret it and I still regret it. But the ownership there, Amy Adams Strunk and her family, came in and told me I was going be the head coach in 2016 before they went through the Rooney Rule. And so, I sat there knowing I was the head coach in ‘16 as they went through this fake hiring process. Knowing a lot of the coaches they were interviewing, knowing how much they prepared to go through those interviews, knowing that everything they could do and they had no chance of getting that job. Actually, the GM, Jon Robinson, he was in on the interview with me. He had no idea why he was interviewing me — that I had the job already. I regret. I’m sorry I did that. It was not the way to go about it.”
The gun is on fire.
If you're still reading, you're aware of what's already happened and what was revealed on Thursday.
I want to focus on what happens next, as this moment feels like the NFL only has one choice, which is to immediately settle this case as they did with Colin and Eric, which saved the league from having their secrets exposed. It was only in February when Flores made the TV rounds after the text messages from Bill Belichick were made public, that it felt like it had been a long time since it happened. Within a short time frame, both Horton and Wilks joined the lawsuit, adding more credible allegations about how corrupt the owners in this league are.
If you think these three men have been done wrong, just wait until more of them start telling their stories.
There will be witnesses, testimonies, despostions and a 24 hour daily news cycle in an open court where the NFL and Lynch are too smart to let this play out. At some point, the league will throw a lot of money at these men and come up with more mandates that will make this go away.
But, what if the owners said something? Let's take this to trial!
Can you imagine what discovery would look like? The potential perjury charges would give Court TV its best ratings since, and it would be wonderful to watch as the owners are called to testify.
If tangible proof or quantifiable figures aren't provided as evidence, doubters will remain in denial, as if hatred and bigotry can be explained via PowerPoint. They thought they could get away with blackballing players for kneeling. Trying to do it to a generation of Black coaches is a different monster. It shouldn't be forgotten that millions are being spent on lawyer fees by the NFL and these owners because they refused to hire Black coaches that were often over qualified for the jobs they were hired to do.
It's good for business to have diversity. It's expensive to be racist.
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