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Former miami dophins coach of accusing the nfl of racist hiring practices. the dolphins fired him despite back to back winning seasons. he claims the dolphins offered to pay him in 2019 to tank games so they could get a better draft pick. the dolphins team owner called the allegations false, malicious and defamatory. he says the new york giants conducted a sham interview with him for head coach just to cooperate with the leagues rooney rule which requires teams to interview people of color for t...

To lose games in order to get a higher draft pick. jackson coached the team until october 2018. hell join me in a moment. in an interview, he says quote, unequivocally hugh jackson was never paid to lose games. thats an absolute falsehood. i cannot think of any individual i spent time trying to help be successful as hugh jackson. the claim after brian flores sued his old team, claiming they tried to offer him money to lose games as well. flores is also suing the nfl claiming racial discriminatio...

Discrimination in hiring. also the practice of intentionally losing games to get a better draft pick, and finally tampering, which means recruiting players. all of thiese are longstanding concerns for the nfl. what does brian flores need to show? he needs to show that this is a pattern and practice in the nfl. the way he does that is one of two ways. one, he uses specific examples, he uses his own experience, he uses statements made by nfl officials acknowledging that. and two, he uses statistic...

I just want them to have the opportunity to stand in front of an owner and have a real opportunity to get one of those jobs and lead a team. >> reporter: now, the giants released a statement saying flores was considered until the 11th hour and they hired the person they believed to be the most qualified. now, in the lawsuit flores also alleges that dolphins owner steven ross offered him $100,000 for every loss in the season in order to get a higher draft pick. ross said we refused. flores was fi...

The players playing this league. its good to have something that look like them that they can say is in charge of something and thats not whats happening. >> yeah. and as part of his lawsuit against the nfl, brian flores says the teams owner, steve ross, offered him money to lose games. the dolphins denied those allegations. but the fans, they think about if their team is performing poorly, theyre going to tank gam games at the end of is the season to get a high draft pick. have you ever been aw...

Coach on a national football league by standing up for something that he believes in. >> we are commodities, commodities that can be replaced, commodities that can be sold, commodities that can be traded,o when brian florez speaks of it in that nature is absolutely true. >> the idea that you can take brian bledsoe is a black coach, and has a hard time getting the job, and ask him to tarnish his reputation and to low which is probably going to be his only shot because black coaches have a hard ti...

>> keep reporting the news. thats what he would say. brian, thank you so much. really appreciate it. we have to turn to another story were watching very closely today. the nfl rocked for an explosion sieve lawsuit. a dolphins coach, flores, says he was forced to sit in a sham interview with the new york giants even though a white coach had already been selected. he makes another stunning allegation in this lawsuit as well, including dolphins owner steven ross offering $100,000 for every loss i...

Surprise. >> this is a move garnering national criticism, especially when you consider the way that brian flores was able to turn this season around. >> the dolphins claim that the firing was due to organizational issues. owner stephen ross said in part, an organization can only function if it is collaborative and works well. in his lawsuit, brian flores claimed there is more to the story. in his first season as head coach, flores says in his lawsuit, he refused his owners directive to tank for ...

How insurance companies are raking in record breaking billions by their critics say, gouging their customers. welcome to "the lead." we start today in the sports lead. that explosive lawsuit alleging racism and bribery in the nfl. the former miami dolphins coach brian flores is suing the nfl and teams for racial discrimination in the hiring process of coaches and executives and alleging sham job interviews. the 58-page lawsuit said he sat for an interview with the new york giants even though a w...

>> you would think. theres a tradition, but i mean you could say if the cleveland browns are one and ten and theyre obviously not going to make the playoffs, you could see theyre keeping some of their best players on the bench to keep them healthy or to -- >> get high draft pick the next year. >> the high draft pick is the piece no one actually talks about tanking but thats apparently what stephen ross and jimmy haslund the owner of the browns were trying to get. >> you must have text, something...