NFL Network’s Steve Wyche joined Dukes & Bell for his weekly appearance with the show and talked about the breaking news out of the NFL as Brian Flores has filed a class action lawsuit against the league the New York Giants, Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins.
Wyche talked about Flores’ lawsuit about hiring processes in the NFL.
“He’s suing the NFL, a couple of clubs, he says it’s a class action suit so I wonder if any other black coaches might start jumping on board. Look Flores said out loud which has been said kinda in the shadows for years, the league thought it was untouchable that they would bring in black candidates for sans interviews to basically qualify for the Rooney rule mandates that are in place and then they would move on,” Wyche said. “The interesting thing about Flores’ lawsuit is that he is sinking ships, he is sending texts that Bill Belichick sent him, he is having communications he has had with other people in the NFL, so he is like exhibit A, exhibit B. I may be sacrificing my coaching career but it is about time someone stands up and let everybody know what’s really going on, even though everybody knows what’s really going on but I’m gonna take it to the courts. So we’ve gotta bring people in for depositions, for things like that so they get to tell their side of the story.”
When asked about if some of the allegations in lawsuit made against Dolphins owner Stephen Ross could cause him to lose his team.
“Look who we’re talking about here, you’ve got a bunch of emails sitting on ice somewhere up in Washington after significant sexual harassment type of allegations that have been stashed or at least not revealed publicly.
So we can sit here and say in the court of law this is the type of stuff that should cost somebody their job or cost somebody their team but I think precedent will basically tell us that it will probably end up more in some type of financial discipline that actually abstracting a team from somebody. I mean honestly can you sit here and have faith and say hey this dude was trying to violate rules and this and that, shouldn’t he lose his team? But these guys own teams, the owners own the league, so I wouldn’t think that’s something that’s gonna cost Stephen Ross his team unless all the other owners vote to do that and we’ve seen that club tends not to hold itself accountable with things like this.”