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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who's got a massive brain.
Mike Florio.
He used to be a lawyer, then he decided to take his talents to the internet.
NBC Sports. I'm sorry I'm late, I was talking to Robert Kraft. That isn't the time for an airing of grievances. Pro Football Talk.
I got a lot of problems with you people. Now, you're going to hear about it. On Chicago Sports Radio, 104.3 The Score. I want to keep talking Legos.
Well, guess what? Today is probably not the day for Lego talk, but I'm not going to judge you if you want to have your Legos because it's a nice meditation. It is time for our weekly visit with Mike Florio, the creator and editor-in-chief of Pro Football Talk. He is at Pro Football Talk on X, and he joins us on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago. Mike has made his own graphics.
He puts the fireworks up for you. Mike, how are you?
We need to have some sort of a hand signal that results in a cascade of Lego bricks. I need to work on that.
Ooh, I like it. An animation, if you will.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on the Brian Flores discrimination lawsuit?
Let's fire every shot in our in-house arbitration arsenal before we take this seriously. Let's try to force him into the procedure that we know will lead to the result we want without us having to air out our dirty laundry. And then once we have completely and finally lost that, let's start considering our options. And their option now at this point could be, let's see this through discovery.
we'll spend the money there are plenty of corporate clients who would much rather spend twice five times ten times on the lawyers than what it would take to pay off and settle with the plaintiff so i wouldn't assume there's been any settlement offer at this point as it goes forward that's when they're going to have to take it seriously how much of this do we want to allow to come out i think it's one of the big reasons why the concussion settlement that massive class action settled some
13 years ago before the case really got going. You know, as an entity, stuff is going to come out. Emails are going to be discovered. Text messages are going to come to light. And they're going to be out there for us to scrutinize as media, for the fans to see. And there's likely going to be something in there that will embarrass the league. That's when it has settlement value.
What is out there that could make the league look bad? That's what drives the decision to put money on the table.
Chapter 3: How did the Supreme Court's decision impact the Flores case?
Back to the original point. How much does it take? to get Brian Flores to say, there's no way I can reject this offer.
Well, I think the other part, though, Mike, too, is that Brian Flores already has a job. So I think if he didn't have a paying job, maybe he would be more inclined, you know, to put the information out there. That may change the calculus for him when it comes to how he was wronged.
And I wonder at what point the Vikings ownership starts to get the side eye from their business partners because they are gainfully employing this individual who is causing them collectively to spend a lot of money to defend themselves in court to face this potential for a significant verdict if his claims ultimately resonate with the jury. There's going to be, at some point, some awkwardness.
Now, I'm not saying that means the Vikings should move on from him. They're doing the right thing. They're doing the selfless thing. The inclination. Anytime a company gets sued, they don't like the person who has sued them. It is natural to retaliate. You have to have people of goodwill who are magnanimous enough to say, this individual has the right to pursue their claims.
And we owe it to them to create an environment where they never believe it's being held against them. That usually doesn't happen. And for most plaintiffs, the retaliation case is stronger than the original case because it's easier to convince a jury that This is why they're doing what they're doing. They don't like the fact that this guy's suing them. So he does have a bird in the hand.
He is able to coach. And one of these days, he could get paid all the money he would have made if he had gotten a head coaching job dating all the way back to 2022. His original retaliation claim is against the Texans.
who had made him a finalist along with jonathan gannon and josh mccown for their head coaching job in 2022 he was one of three finalists they went off the board and hired lovey smith and one of brian flores claims is i would have gotten that job if you weren't holding it against me that i just sued the league
I don't disagree, but selfishly, I'm pretty sure Lovey Smith is what got the Bears the first overall pick, which ultimately turned into Caleb Williams. That aside. But, you know, Mike, the other wrinkle in all of this is the Vikings don't have a GM.
Still?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Flores case for the NFL's hiring practices?
And if he gets significant influence, how will he use it and how will it go as it relates to how the Vikings look As a football team, as a roster, the coaching between O'Connell and Flores has been very good. The quality of the player maybe hasn't been what it could be in Minnesota, and that's what they're trying to rectify.
Last thing I have for you, Mike, from all of that to one of the headlines here, and I believe a story written by Mike Florio, headlined, More arrests made in connection with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey burglars. Can you get us up to date on that story real quick?
Yeah, well, there were seven people charged last year in Florida with this rash of burglaries. It was Mahomes, Kelsey, Joe Burrow. There were other athletes from other sports. It was a very simple scheme. We know when they're not going to be home. And then they had some high-tech and low-tech ways of concealing their entrance and their exit.
They'd go in, they'd grab the expensive stuff, and they'd move on. So seven people were charged. The long arm of the law finally caught up with three of them In Argentina, they were sent back to Chile where they're from. They're going to be extradited to the U.S. and they're going to face these charges. But they have they have broken up that ring.
They should have stuck to buying the expensive Lego sets, swapping out the bricks for pasta. It would have turned out better for them, maybe.
And then just quickly, Mike, because it is in the division and they were they were very shocking charges to read. Josh Jacobs arrested yesterday morning, booked reportedly into Brown County Jail. Five charges, battery, domestic abuse, criminal damage to property, domestic abuse, disorderly contact, domestic abuse, strangulation, suffocation and intimidation of a victim.
These are very serious charges to levy.
Well they are, and the two key aspects of this, felony charge, the strangulation charge is a felony, and we're talking about domestic violence. That's when, when you combine those two things, that's when the NFL is typically apt to use the paid leave wrinkle under the personal conduct policy. They'll delay that as long as they can because they don't want to make a big news story prematurely.
My guess is Josh Jakes would be excused from the offseason program. And if these charges aren't resolved by the time training camp opens, that would be the moment the league would probably put him on paid leave, assuming that there is some basic evidence to support this charge. We learned a few weeks ago in the Stephon Diggs criminal trial that those charges never should have been brought.
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