Mike Florio talks NFL storylines & How Many Bears? (Hour 2)
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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.
Or the thing where you set up all the dominoes and then they all fall down, like, in a row. Oh, yeah, that's a good one, too. Those things you see, like, Nickelodeon used to do stuff like that, right, where you knock down, like, a million Legos. I'd like to see you set that up for me.
Or Tetris. I feel like Tetris is the next part of the discussion here.
Did you see the story about the guy who bought the really expensive Lego sets, took them home, took out the bricks, replaced the bricks with dry pasta, and then returned the sets and got a refund?
Yes. Yes, I did.
Delicious. Wow. That's good scamming if you can.
No, they ended up pressing criminal charges, didn't they?
Really?
Yeah. The jails are not full of smart people.
It was smart until it wasn't. And Mike, I immediately thought of you in an ongoing conversation that you and I have had. I wouldn't say patiently, but you and I have been wondering. whether or not the Supreme Court was going to rule and the NFL was asking them to regarding the Brian Flores discrimination case. Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, and now we get to hear it. Can you explain the effect of what information could come out, how the process will go, and what this means for a case that you have been very, very curious about?
Well, first of all, Jerry Jones probably wants back the Super Bowl ring he once gave to Clarence Thomas. That was a down payment. That was for future considerations. Apparently, not even Clarence Thomas was willing to make good on that one, allegedly. The Flores case will now play out in court. That's the end result of what the Supreme Court decided on Tuesday. The Supreme Court only takes up a small percentage of the appeals that are presented to it every year. So this isn't a surprise. But the net result is, yes, Flores now gets to pursue all of his claims in court, along with Steve Wilkes and Ray Horton, who are also part of the lawsuit that was originally filed back in February of 2022. Every claim that he's made will play out in court.
It'll go through the full discovery process. There will be public filings in court. If it isn't settled or dismissed, there will be a trial that will be available for reporters to attend. So a lot of things will come out. And this is why the NFL prefers its own specific system of arbitration, where not only does the NFL run the show and make the decision, but everything is secret. Everything is confidential. This stuff doesn't come to light, which tells me at some point they'll probably make Brian Flores a financial offer he won't refuse. There you go. Until then, he has the tiger by the tail and he is pulling it hard. And his latest claim is that he has not been hired to be a head coach by any team over the last five cycles because of the fact that he has decided to do what he thinks is right and sue the NFL in court along with specific teams for this pattern of racial discrimination that he believes has existed for decades and how it has affected him.
And also the other claims he's made, like the idea that he was offered $100,000 to deliberately lose games in 2019.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:22
2
What are the latest updates on the Brian Flores discrimination lawsuit?
10:22–11:48
3
How did the Supreme Court's decision impact the Flores case?
11:48–15:08
4
What are the implications of the Flores case for the NFL's hiring practices?
15:08–41:09
Speakers
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