What I find most difficult to believe is the level of denial that owners, who are 95% white and who lived during the days of segregation, would not treat black people less favourably.
Now, it is difficult to separate out and out racism, with bias that may even be unconscious, but it's undeniably present in the league.
The simple fact is that you have to be better than a white person to get, or to keep, a job. The NFL is not alone in this. Until people start acknowledging that things will never change.
I applaud Flores for taking a stand, but I'm not sure his timing is great. The Giants were always going for Daboll once they hired the Bills Asst GM. Now they have to interview other candidates to show fairness, and yes to comply with the Rooney rule, but they had made up their minds, and is that wrong?
People are foolish to bring up Flores' overall record, that Dolphins team in his first year is the worst I've ever seen and every win should be counted at least double.
Flores will also struggle to show that Ross treated him less favourably as Grier is also Black, if this was a Baalke/Harbaugh power struggle deal then the firing is legit, if it's based on performance then it absolutely is not.
[ Edited by 49erBigMac on Feb 2, 2022 at 1:26 AM ]