Ex-Dolphins coach Brian Flores ends up left out of head coach hiring cycle after filing NFL lawsuit

For those that believed Bri­an Flo­res’ class-action law­suit against the NFL would make him the Col­in Kaeper­nick of coach­es in the league and keep him from land­ing anoth­er job, he has already been held out of a head coach posi­tion in the first off­sea­son cycle of changes since being fired by the Mia­mi Dolphins.

The Hous­ton Tex­ans and New Orleans Saints hired Lovie Smith and Den­nis Allen, respec­tive­ly, on Mon­day. Smith and Allen were pro­mot­ed from defen­sive coor­di­na­tor roles on their teams.

With the Dol­phins nam­ing Mike McDaniel their new coach on Sun­day evening, Monday’s two hires filled the NFL’s nine head coach­ing vacan­cies this off­sea­son. The Min­neso­ta Vikings’ job is tech­ni­cal­ly open, but they are report­ed­ly hir­ing Los Ange­les Rams offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Kevin O’Connell, who can­not offi­cial­ly be hired until after Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Flo­res’ law­suit alleges wide­spread racial dis­crim­i­na­tion in the league’s hir­ing prac­tices for top coach­ing posi­tions and in the reten­tion of Black head coach­es. Against the Dol­phins, specif­i­cal­ly, Flo­res claimed in the law­suit his rela­tion­ship with own­er Steve Ross began dete­ri­o­rat­ing dur­ing his first sea­son at the helm in Mia­mi when he refused to tank for a high­er draft pick or tam­per with a quar­ter­back before his free agency. Flo­res alleged that Ross offered him $100,000 per loss in 2019.

“To attack the integri­ty of the game, that’s what I felt was hap­pen­ing in that instance, and I wouldn’t stand for it,” Flo­res told CBS last week. “I think it hurt my stand­ing with­in the orga­ni­za­tion and, ulti­mate­ly was the rea­son why I was let go.”

Flo­res, who is Black and the son of Hon­duran immi­grants, was a final­ist for the Saints and Tex­ans head roles. Inter­view­ing with the teams last week, he made them aware he was fil­ing the law­suit, which became pub­lic last Tues­day evening.

Flo­res said in the law­suit that he under­stood mov­ing for­ward with it would affect his chances of land­ing one of those jobs.

“I love coach­ing and want to coach,” he said on CBS. “This is big­ger than coach­ing. This is much big­ger than coaching.”

In Flo­res’ law­suit, he also claims the New York Giants had already decid­ed to hire for­mer Buf­fa­lo Bills offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Bri­an Daboll, who is white, by the time he inter­viewed. He had screen­shots of a text thread with New Eng­land Patri­ots coach Bill Belichick, who had both Flo­res and Daboll under him pre­vi­ous­ly as assis­tants, mis­tak­en­ly con­grat­u­lat­ing the wrong Brian.

Flo­res also named the Den­ver Bron­cos in the suit for hav­ing team rep­re­sen­ta­tives show up late and “disheveled” for an inter­view in 2019 when the job in Den­ver ulti­mate­ly went to Vic Fan­gio, who is white, while Flo­res ini­tial­ly land­ed in Miami.

The Dol­phins, Giants and Bron­cos all denied the alle­ga­tions made against their organizations.

Flo­res went 24–25 in three sea­sons as Dol­phins coach but had com­plet­ed back-to-back win­ning sea­sons in 2020 and 2021 before the fran­chise part­ed ways with him.

This sto­ry will be updated.

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