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USAT: Saints Wire

Feb 2, 2022

- - - Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores interviewed for the same job with the New Orleans Saints on Tuesday, the same day in which he filed a class action lawsuit against the NFL. - Citing racist discriminatory hiring practices, Flores accused the Dolphins, the New York Giants, and the Denver Broncos specifically of violating the league’s Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview multiple minority candidates for executive positions, and for hosting him in sham interviews in order to expedite the process towards hiring their preferred candidates. - Flores has scheduled an appearance on the “CBS Mornings” television program for Wednesday in which he will publicly speak about the situation. The claims in Flores’ are explosive, and the NFL was quick to dismiss them as “without merit” in a statement. But there’s a lengthy precedent of institutional racism in the league, which the Rooney Rule was established to help curtail in the first place. It hasn’t been effective enough. - As for Flores and the Saints: his Tuesday interview wrapped up as scheduled, as was first reported by ESPN’s Mike Triplett and confirmed by the Athletic’s Larry Holder and NewOrleans.Football’s Nick Underhill. It’s unclear whether the Saints were aware this lawsuit was coming, but it’s tough to believe they weren’t told during Tuesday’s interview or Monday evening’s dinner between Flores and the team. The New York Times’ Jenny Vrentas spoke with Flores’ attorneys, who said he remains a candidate for the New Orleans gig and that they moved forward because “We weren’t going to wait and be coy and see if he got a job.” - This is a developing story… - - List - - Saints head coach search: Tracking every interview, request, and report - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Email - - - - - Sign up - - - - - - - - Like this article? - Sign up for the Saints Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning - - - - An error has occured - - - Please re-enter your email address. - - - - - - Thanks for signing up! - - - You'll now receive the top Saints Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

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