WEBVTT - 02/02/22 DPS Hour 1 Mike Florio 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:09.000 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program, hour one on this Wednesday. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.120 A lot of things to talk about, so many things 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.520 have happened in the last twenty four hours. Come on 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.400 in stay a while. Mike Florio will join us on 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.600 loan from Pro Football Talk. Also the new Raiders head 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.920 coach Josh McDaniels a little bit later on as well. Dolphins, Jags, Saints, Texans, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.400 Vikings all coachless, although Vikings may find their guy today. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.320 Jim Harball is going to interview in Minnesota today. I 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.840 don't think Jim's getting on a plane going to Minnesota 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.600 unless Jim thinks he's going to be the next head 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.680 coach of the Vikings. More on that coming up. Eight 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.159 seven seven three d P Show Email address DP at 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.040 dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Say 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.000 good morning to Peaconck, our streaming partner, and of course 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.600 our radio affiliates around the country. This is the last 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.920 day to enter the contest for that Mercedes Been sprinter 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.200 van that Seaton is to cross country. Seaton and the 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.160 French Kid are in Memphis. He will join us coming 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.039 up in about forty five minutes from now. Denver Broncos 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.600 are for sale. The Washington football team will be officially 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:18.200 introduced as the Commanders. Coming up later today to dun 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:24.160 deal the Commanders. Pauli's looking on their website looking for 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:29.240 gear Commanders. I'm okay with the nickname. I still like 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.600 the Washington football team, but Commanders, all right, great, knock 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.319 yourself out. I'm not big on the new uniforms, but 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.559 I do like the nickname. I'm fine with that. That's 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.720 you know whatever, Fritzie, you'll have the poll question Player 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.080 the day, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.000 The big news was Miami Dolphins, the former head coach 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.440 Brian Flores filing a class action lawsuit against the NFL 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.680 and the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants and 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.320 his former team, the Dolphins, and this kind it came 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.760 out of nowhere when you think about it, I go 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.200 back to a couple of weeks ago, and I think 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:10.560 it was around nine forty Eastern time, and I didn't 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.720 think that Brian flores job was in jeopardy. And then 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.840 he got fired. Other guys were being fired. Brian Flores 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.520 at one point one seven games in a row for 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.799 the Dolphins and I'm thinking Brian Flores is out in Miami. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.799 Then maybe Stephen Ross is going to bring in Jim Harbaugh. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.520 And then all of a sudden, Brian Flores is going 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.760 to get all these interviews. Everybody wants to wind up 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.920 for Brian Flores. He's going to be the hot ticket Giants, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.359 the Bears, and then nothing happened, and then all of 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.280 a sudden, you're on, wait a minute, is Brian Flores 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.080 going to get a job here? Well, Bear has hired 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.480 their guy. He's not going to get the job in Denver. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.800 He's supposed to interview for the Giants. Well, then that's 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.720 when things went sideways. Now, the Giants were going to 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.520 interview him, but apparently they had already hired their head coach, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.880 Brian Dable. It was the Rooney rule. He didn't know 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:12.880 it until Bill Belichick, his former coach with UH, he 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.239 was on his staff there with New England. His former 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.760 boss texted him and he texted the wrong Brian, this 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.760 is UH. Brian Flores on his text with Bill Belichick. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.320 I interviewed for the Giants position. I was set to 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.120 interview on Thursday, the monday prior before before I interviewed 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.720 I received the text message from Bill Belichick saying congratulations 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.520 on the Giants space, essentially the congratulations on the Giants job. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.240 It was a little bit of back and forth and 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.120 some confusion because yeah, you haven't sat down with the 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.840 Giants yet, have not sat down with the Giants or 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.160 some back and forth, and I just uh, I asked him, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.560 you talked to the right Brian, and as you you've 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.160 seen them through the text messages, he was actually I 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.040 thought he was texting Brian Dable, who they ended up hiring. Yes, sir, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.200 And then the Giants said, look, we hired the more 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:06.160 qualified guy. No, you didn't. Brian Flores has been a 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:11.040 successful NFL coach for two years. Brian Dable won seven games. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.680 He had ownership that reportedly wanted him to tank games. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.159 To me, that's the more qualified candidate. He's been a coach. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.760 He was winning games in an organization that didn't want 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.720 him to win games. That's how much he cared about winning. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.920 So you can't say Brian Dable is more qualified than 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.320 Brian Flores. And then after he found out it was 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.320 a fake interview, I think that's when he decided, look, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.320 I've had enough and I talked to a source this 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.800 morning said, I said, what is Brian Flores want out 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.440 of this lawsuit against the NFL? And my source said, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.680 he's a guy of principle. That was the word that 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.760 kept coming up. Principle. This is just about the principle 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.720 of it. You gave me a sham interview, you were 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.960 never interested in hiring me, and he's probably going to Wells. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.200 Coaching career is going to be on hold. It may 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.960 not ever materialize again. Owners may be afraid to hire 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.200 him with what could happen. But he decided to file 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.679 the lawsuit. And then he also claims that his former owner, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.760 Stephen Ross, offered him one hundred thousand dollars for every 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:23.240 loss in twenty nineteen, every loss that's a specific number. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.080 Now it's not a good look for the league that's 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.160 gone all in on legal sports gambling. I also talked 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.799 to a source this morning about this, you know, same source, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.039 and they said, you know what matters more to the NFL? 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.920 They said, well, look, the hiring practices. They know that's 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.880 an issue. That's why they created the Rooney Rule. The 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:50.240 bigger issue is Stephen Ross paying. This is fixing games, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:56.480 fixing games to lose one hundred thousand dollars for every loss. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.320 Can you prove it? Did Brian Flores? Maybe tell his 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.440 assistant coaches, Hey, you know they want us to lose. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.040 Is the GM involved. Stephen Ross is going to be deposed. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.080 I'm going to ask him, this is where you lose 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:19.279 your team. That's fixing games. I want you to lose. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:24.719 I'm going to incentivize you to lose games. But if 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.080 the reports turn out to be true, the lawsuit has 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.880 potential to shed some light on the dark side of 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.200 the NFL, and maybe, you know, we're going to look 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.640 back on Brian Flores in twenty years and treat him 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:41.120 the way we did Kurt Flood Major League Baseball. You know, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.560 there's other guys who are waiting to see if they're 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.440 going to be interviewed. Eric b Enemy I said this 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.599 a couple of weeks ago. I don't think he's going 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.719 to get a job because the Vikings were supposed to 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.440 be the team, and then it felt like they were 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.200 waiting to see if Jim Harball really wanted to coach 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.760 in the NFL, and Eric b Enemy probably not going 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.120 to get a job. You know, David Culley with the 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.080 Texans got fired after one year, Brian Flores after two years. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.280 And this is where the African American coaches are saying, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.840 we don't get a second chance, we don't get an 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.080 extended first chance. And that's the problem that they have. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.440 And if you're going to interview us, then interview us, 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.240 don't bring us in and all of a sudden, you go, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.920 I got to check the box here. The reason why 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.520 the Rooney rule came up is because they did have 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.000 a problem. They do have a problem. That's why they 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:36.200 created this. But this is you know, there's a lot 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.400 of facets here and Mike Floria, who's a lawyer, is 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.440 going to join us coming up. But you know the 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.440 giants say they have the more qualified candidate. They didn't 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.720 the Rooney rule is there. Stephen Ross with the possibility 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.400 of being deposed and having to talk about this or 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.440 deny this. Where is this trial going to be held? 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.720 That's a big deal. You know, where what's the forum 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.000 going to be? The access? Are you going to depot? 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.840 Is Bill Belichick? I mean, this is this is a 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.800 whole lot bigger than you know, just one guy taken 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.800 on the NFL. I was also told by a source 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:16.160 the lawyers that Brian Flores hired are well respected. They 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:21.560 are they are great. Now NFL is full of lawyers. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.080 But if you have all this information, if you collected 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.720 this information, if there's a paper trail, I mean, this 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.800 is what happens. You know the NFL. Are they going 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.959 to settle with Brian Flores? Settle They settled with Kaepernick. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.920 They going to settle here. You don't want to go 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:45.079 in and have your owner deposed. You don't want the commissioner. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.440 You don't want John Elway with the Broncos. No, you 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.920 don't want that. But if you're Brian Flores, how far 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.120 are you taking this? What do you want out of this? 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.920 But he's been making the rounds and it certainly sounds like, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.880 you know, he's all in because it might be career suicide. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.079 But in his mind, hey, somebody has to do this. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.160 And I was texting with Tony Dungee last night and 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.000 I said, you know, is this gonna matter? Is this 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.320 you know something that's gonna be helpful to the big picture? 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:22.800 And Tony sadly says, probably not. It's exposing it. But 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:27.280 I was told once again the NFL it more concerned 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.680 about that gambling you know they're all in on gambling. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:35.440 You cannot have this like one owner did not worth it. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.760 You gotta you gotta say to Stephen Ron, Stephen, if 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:42.880 this is true, you're gone. You're gonna, you know, put 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:48.040 it up for sale. I mean Donald Sterling lost, you know, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.080 hit ownership of the Clippers for just being a racist. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.960 You know, he lost it. You know, that's when Adam 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.560 Silver came in and said you're gone, and uh, here 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.719 we go. Who wants it? I'd be a lot of 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.640 people want to buy the Dolphins. But you know that's 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.480 that's just some of the stuff that's happening right now. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.000 All right, let's pull question today, Todd. All right, one 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.520 idea was if Tom Brady did return to the Bucks 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.959 next season, they would win the Super Bowl, lose the 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.960 Super Bowl, win a playoff game, lose their first playoff game, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:27.360 miss the postseason altogether. Um well, first of all, why 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.760 is this a question? I just think it's kind of 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.800 a fun thing. He just retired yesterday. I know all 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.080 the news is Brian Flores. I couldn't come up with 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.960 a comfortable question for that on the poll, so I 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:42.239 went Tom Brady. Okay, we have a few others though, Yeah, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.240 because I don't know if anybody cares what the Buccaneers 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.240 are gonna be, like if Tom Brady came back, you know, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.640 Poul Monday morning, Jim Harbaugh is dot dot dot if 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.360 you had to bet today the Vikings coach man, how 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.000 sudden is that? Yeah? You know, but talking to people yesterday, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.880 him like, why why is Harball doing it? And I 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.200 was told, you know, he's done. It feels like he's 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.240 done with Michigan. They may be done with him. And 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.040 you know, Jim put himself in the situation where he 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:18.600 performed poorly, they cut his salary, then he has this 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.480 unbelievable run this year, and then now you know he's 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:26.560 gonna go to the NFL. So it's not like, hey, Michigan, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.760 you did this to Jim Harball. Jim Harball did it 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.440 to Jim Harball. He performed poorly or not up to 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:36.240 the expectations that he promised, then they had this incredible 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.680 run this year. So maybe it's just time. Hey, you 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.079 know what, go to the NFL. You always wanted to go. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.000 No hard feelings here. Thank you for what you've done 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.800 for the program, but you can't be telling your recruits 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.760 and he has I might not be here today, yes, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.680 like National signing Dagg and I don't think. I don't 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.439 know if anybody's going into the transfer portal, but they could. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.560 But National Sighting Day and Jim is in Minnesota. Some 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.000 linebacker in the Midwest is I can't wait to play 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.360 for a coach to be named later? What else do 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.480 you have? Ton we've got? If you're a top football recruit, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:17.960 you'd most want to sign with Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, LSU, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.960 Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, USC or other just some 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.800 of the top programs in the recent years, if there's one, 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.079 unless we think Alabama would run away with that, I 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.959 don't think necessarily that's true. What else are you going? 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.240 And I had one fun one based on the day 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:34.840 that is today. How does a date that's all the 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.880 same number like two two two two make you feel 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.480 excited that something special will happen, uneasy and a feeling 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.840 of dread two two twenty two too. I'm about you 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.800 put on a two two. I thought you'd like though, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.720 But the data is just a consequence. It doesn't mean anything, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.440 but it's just a very rare thing. The day and 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.280 month and year to all the same number. Does that 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.480 make you feel uplifted and enlighten the excited? Do anything 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.680 different today? I'm not. I think I believe in numerology 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.600 all that is that something. I wonder if everyone feels 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.600 like that's something something good and special can happen when 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.360 all the numbers aligned like that, or something absolutely awful? 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.000 What do you I don't. I don't understand what you 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.360 it's not to understand. It's just the fun. It's two 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.439 to twenty two. It's a rare thing that all the 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.440 numbers are the same when you see something like that. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.199 Is that if you have a good feeling about what's 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.959 gonna happen during the course of those twenty four hours? 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.560 Or oh my god, I don't like that all these 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.040 numbers are the name. I think people think of stuff 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.520 like that. Maybe I'm the weird one. Don't know, very possible. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:35.000 Or where's Jim Harbor going to be Vikings coach? Yeah, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.040 I just pick one, but I don't want where you have, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.920 like seven. I've got a little carried away with the choice. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.360 I think the Harbor, Michigan or Vikings probably makes the 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.839 most sense for now. Yeah, just just one good one 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.360 is all I am not nine every day nine? Just 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.640 one good question? Yeah, you know, did Tom Brady purposely 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.080 not acknowledge the Patriots? They're good at this, how about that? 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.840 I don't know. I'm just saying, well, I'm good at 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.520 asking questions. But you know, when Tom left the Patriots, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.079 he had a pretty good goodbye to the Patriots videos. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.360 He thanked everybody. All of a sudden, he steps down 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.000 from the Buccaneers and he's, wait, you gotta do it again. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:20.720 I mean, this one felt a little more media created that. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.960 I don't I don't know if Tom had to thank 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.400 the Patriots again. I guess in his in retrospector, you know, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.680 he's looking back on his career. I mean, after I 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.760 moved on from ESPN, I didn't have to keep thanking ESPN. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.440 You just move on and you thank the people who 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.720 you're with. Now. I think that's what he was doing. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:47.320 He was being fair to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.880 happens if Tom goes to you know, signs a one 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.280 year deal with the Patriots. Is everybody okay with that? 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.440 Then a one day deal? Everybody okay with that? It 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.800 just felt like, uh, you know what, we gotta we 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.000 to keep this Brady story alive? How do we keep 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.080 it alive? He didn't mention the Patriots? Yeah, Paul, you 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.200 see the media sends a film crew out to somewhere 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.480 in Boston and convince it to Patriots fans to burn 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:15.120 a jersey. It's totally created and concocted for TV. Yeah. Hey, Tommy, 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.520 what do you think about Tom Brady not acknowledging the Patriots? 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.920 All right? Think Itch buch who's got light of fluid? Yeah? 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:27.920 I'm sick, sick of this Brady. Anybody got a match? 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.120 I'm gonna burn my Brady. Josey. I don't even know 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.840 if that's the accident. Yes, yes, Marvin. Now they got 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.400 to rename their dogs in their kids. Oh yeah, like 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:42.040 it was Brady, but now it's mac Brad. So ungrateful. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.640 Mike Florio is going to join us next. We'll see 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.680 how ugly this is gonna get with Brian Flores and 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.960 a few other things. Jim Harbag gonna take this job. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.280 Certainly feels that way. Your phone call is always welcome. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.840 I'll get to those. I think we have our pole question. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.680 I don't know what it is, but I think I 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.600 like that one. The Brady ones that he intentionally not 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.680 acknowledge the patron. We can start with that, but then 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.760 here I am accusing the media making it a story, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:09.720 and then I'm making it a story. Yeah, we're just 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.160 having a little fun with it. It's not to be 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.320 taken that seriously. Okay, thank you to You're welcome. All right, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.720 take a break back after this and the Dan Patrick Show. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.280 Chrome Soft Man, can't wait play a little golf here 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.720 after the super Bowl. Maybe at the super Bowl, maybe 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.080 I get a chance to go out to Riviera. WHOA, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.840 that's ticket? That would be nice. What Jim Gray belongs 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:33.920 to Riviera? So maybe I think Sandler belongs to Riviera? Yes, 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.240 it's ton Well, Alan Michaels have time to go golfing 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.520 with Yunce. He prepares for the big Super Bowl Sunday. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.160 Play by poor Al belongs to bel Air. That's a 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.800 nice track as well, La North, there's a you can't 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.120 go wrong. 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Be 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.600 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.800 noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.840 and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.400 FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. We'll 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:40.160 get to phone calls coming up. As some of our 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.359 astute listeners pointed out, Fritzie is fascinated that it's two 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.520 to twenty two. And then we had some of our 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.080 members of the audience saying, what's Fritzie gonna do when 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:55.320 it's two two two? Didn't think that through complete in 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.199 twenty days, it'll be the same exact two across the 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.520 boardom of day. What is what are your plans on 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.239 that day? Because I know this is a big day. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.680 I'm gonna walk on eggshells and not go into ladders, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.439 avoid black hats, and be very careful. I'm one that 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.400 doesn't like all the numbers lined up like that. It's 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.760 not like, oh I gotta play that lottery number or something. Yeah, 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.480 Fritzie came in, he goes, you know, it's two to 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.959 twenty two and I and made it to the poll choices. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.600 He's like a numerology. I'm into numerology. I go, okay, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.159 what about when it's two two two two less than 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:26.960 three weeks from now, It'll be the same exact thing, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.800 not a special day. I guess right. Let's bring on 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.880 Mike Florio Pro Football TONK Live co host Mike, I'm 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.600 sorry for that. What's he gonna do when it's two 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.400 twenty two this afternoon, that's one twenty two on two 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:45.760 to twenty two, his head's going to explode. Thanks for 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.359 joining us, walk us through this being an attorney. Um, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.240 what is the lawsuit about. Let's start there. Well, the 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.439 lawsuit is about specifically Brian Flores being fired by the 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.720 Dolphins when he believed he shouldn't have been, and also 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.960 not being hired by the Giants. Are being given a 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.160 fair opportunity to compete for the Giants job. More broadly, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.480 it is a referendum on the NFL's decades long issue 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.640 with racial bias in the hiring of coaches, hiring of coaches, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:23.600 retention of coaches, compensation of coaches. Black coaches obviously opportunities 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:29.080 available for them as head coaches than executives. Black executives 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.840 not becoming general managers. Just the failures that have been 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.480 hiding in plain sight for years. The fails that brought 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.200 about the Rooney Rule twenty years ago was the threat 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:41.479 of litigation, not actual litigation from the late Johnny Cochrane 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.280 and Cyrus Mary that got the NFL to adopt the 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.400 Rooney Rule. Here we are twenty years later, not much 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.879 progress has been made. And the thing that will I 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.320 think spur change for the NFL is the thing that 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.720 they never thought they would have to deal with, someone 0:19:56.200 --> 0:20:00.399 coming forward trading his career because there's a practical He 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.760 goes into this knowing the risk he's taking. He's trading 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.240 his career for the opportunity to be the one who 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:11.760 affects meaningful, permanent change for the NFL. Suing the Broncos, 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:17.199 the Giants, the NFL. Is that all Is that separate 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.000 or is it collective civil lawsuit? Well, the Dolphins are 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.919 part of it as well, and it's an attack on 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.920 the entire structure, the entire system. Now he can specifically 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.639 point to incidents with the Dolphins. He was held to 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:32.840 a different standard, he was held to a higher standard. 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.880 He was fired when he shouldn't have been. He's regarded 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.520 as the angry black man who must be dealt with 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.040 instead of the demanding head coach who is going to 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.280 lead the team to victory. That's the perception, that may 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.400 be the reality. That's what the case will try to prove. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.919 In Denver, he claims he had a sham interview in 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.960 twenty nineteen, that's why they are in the lawsuit. And 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:58.200 in New York, he contends that he had a sham 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.800 interview last week, that they knew they were hiring Brian 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.680 Dayball before they even brought him in for the interview. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.199 As evidenced, he believes by an accidental text message that 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.840 was sent by Bill Belichick, of all people, to Brian, 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:17.520 just Brian dave Ball instead of Brian Flores. You know, 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.639 I still go back to the Dolphins. If you know 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.800 he the Giant said that they hired the more qualified guy, 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.360 Brian Dable, and I go, how can you possibly say 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.240 that Flores has been a coach head coach in the NFL. 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.480 He worked for an owner who wanted him to lose 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:38.119 and he still won. How are you telling me Daball 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:42.560 is more qualified that that's you know, that's a pretty 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.560 good line on the resume. Had back to back winning 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.359 seasons despite being employed by a guy who wanted me 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.960 to lose. But you're right, Dan, Look, every time a 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.159 coordinator becomes a head coach, there's a risk that is 0:21:55.200 --> 0:22:00.000 being taken that the coordinator who steps into a very 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.639 different job won't be able to do the job. But 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:07.000 Brian Flores, we've seen it. He's done it. He swapped 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:10.359 the Patriots in twenty twenty one for crying out loud, 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.360 so he's proven he can make the adjustment from coordinator 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:17.600 to head coach. He's more qualified than Brian Dable from 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.879 that perspective. But the Dolphins thing is fascinating too, And 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:28.000 this needs to get proper attention and scrutiny this idea 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.600 that and it's an allegation, I know, but that Stephen 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.680 Ross offered Brian Flores one hundred thousand dollars per loss 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.359 in twenty nineteen. When I believe that Stephen Ross was 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:39.520 trying to do a full season tank to get the 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.840 number one pick in twenty twenty. Originally wanted twa, then 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.959 he fell in love with Joe Burrow. How does the 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.600 NFL not aggressively investigate that and if any of it 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:53.399 is even remotely true immediately ejects Stephen Ross from club 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:57.600 Oligarch Well, I don't know how you prove it, but 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.240 to have you know a number like not Hey, he 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:04.119 offered me money. He offered me one hundred thousand dollars. 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:08.119