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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Late to the story here and I don't know the names well enough to understand BB's texts. Can someone explain; is this a smoking gun?[/quote]

It does seem to be.  The NFL has what's called the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and other senior football operations positions.  Belichick and Brian Flores worked together at the Patriots for years and reportedly have stayed in touch since Flores left for a head coaching job with the Dolphins.  Flores, who is black, was one of the candidates to be interviewed for the head coach position with the Giants last month.  On January 24, a few days before Flores's January 27th interview with the Giants, Belichick texted Flores congratulations for landing the head coach position with the Giants.  When Flores texted back confused, Belichik realized he had texted the wrong Brian.  He meant to text Brian Daboll, a former offensive coordinator who also happens to be white, and not Brian Flores.  Flores went to his interview on the 27th anyway.  The Giants put him through the full process (which is intensive), and then announced the very next day that they had hired Brian Daboll as their new head coach.  Given that those contracts are not worked out in a just a couple of hours, this most likely means the Giants had already quietly offered Daboll the job before they even interviewed Flores.  The obvious conclusion is that the Giants never seriously considered Flores as a candidate for the head coaching job, and only put on the whole production of interviewing him to give the appearance of satisfying the Rooney Rule when in practice they were completely disregarding it.  [/quote]

Separate and apart from whether the NFL has a problem with head coaches of color, which it does, the Giants did satisfy the Rooney Rule.  The rule, as I understand it, only requires that minority coaches be interviewed.  That's it.  And he was.

Now, the Giants likely violated the spirit of the rule.  But it's such a toothless requirement, it's easy to check the box and move on.  Teams have been doing it for years.

Rather than showing a violation of the Rooney Rule, this episode brings into stark relief what a farce it is.  [/quote]

AYFKM?  The obvious intent of the Rooney Rule was that interviewed candidates be seriously considered, not that they be signed on for token compliance.  Setting aside the Rooney Rule itself, deciding to interview a minority candidate you do not intend to consider for the job simply because of their skin color is overtly discriminatory.  [/quote]

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