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Ironically if Flores would have just stuck to Grier's plan of losing (''tanking") he'd probably still be employed today with Burrow as his QB lol
Stephen Ross & fallout MEGA Thread
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BINGO!
We have a winner!
That's why I stated yesterday I thought we'd get whacked harder. But the "genius" of deflecting the blame to "tampering"
was to "preserve" the integrity of the game! But the game is "fixed!" **Wink** But seriously, they can't let that play out openly
for the sake of billion dollar advertising and all that jazz etc!
May the farce be with you!
I mean, let's be honest, this is just another variation of the tuck rule!
>>> the good nudes is >>> this punishment will probably be offset with some "special officiating favors" coming our way!
Perhaps Tua will get in on some of those legalized OL holding benefits like Tom Shady and get some soft balls too!
I'm also looking forward to Tua throwing the pig deep and getting some of those automatic PI calls!
Funny thing about cheating -- folks like it when it benefits their team!
Well said.
Also I would guess Ross actually did try to pay Flores to lose. Seems like something he would do honestly. Maybe we should be happy it wasn’t more
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I said when he wins a Super Bowl cuz with his money and Medical System today he can afford to stay alive a VERY LONG FKN TIME!
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You guys keep "stroking" yourselves - LOL
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I just can't think how Brady would have survived that OLINE. LMFAO!
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Ross quickly said he isn’t appealing, doesn’t want to be a distraction.
He is not appealing for the betterment of the team.
Seems to me getting those 1st and 3rd round picks back would be for the betterment of the team.
I think he is glad he still gets to be an owner.
At least be able to go out on his own terms rather than be known as the Donald Sterling of the NFL.
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No he’s still on there. Joe tried to be diplomatic at first this morning but he grew more pissed off as the show progressed. He couldn’t hide his anger.
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In February, former Dolphins coach Brian Flores filed a lawsuit against the NFL and the Dolphins, alleging racism in the league's hiring practices. In the lawsuit, Flores claims that Ross attempted to incentivize him to "tank," or purposely lose games, shortly after he was hired in 2019, with Ross allegedly offering Flores $100,000 for every loss that season. Flores says that as the team won games late in the season, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier told him Ross was "mad" that the on-field success was "compromising [the team's] draft position."
The NFL looked into these allegations as part of its aforementioned investigation but found no evidence that the team intentionally lost games during the 2019 season. The investigation did, however, find that Ross made comments to team president and CEO Tom Garfinkel, general manager Chris Grier, senior vice president Brandon Shore and Flores that the team's draft position should take priority over winning games. When Flores expressed his concerns in writing, he was assured that everyone wanted him to build a "winning culture in Miami" and Ross never again made those comments to Flores.
The investigation also found that Ross' offer of $100,000 for every loss, of which there were "differing recollections about the wording, timing, and context ... was not intended or taken to be a serious offer, nor was the subject pursued in any respect by Mr. Ross or anyone else at the club."
Studesville insisted that the message to Flores did not trickle down into the locker room.
"That's just not how we're wired," he said. "None of that was ever shared."
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The NFL looked into these allegations as part of its aforementioned investigation but found no evidence that the team intentionally lost games during the 2019 season. The investigation did, however, find that Ross made comments to team president and CEO Tom Garfinkel, general manager Chris Grier, senior vice president Brandon Shore and Flores that the team's draft position should take priority over winning games. When Flores expressed his concerns in writing, he was assured that everyone wanted him to build a "winning culture in Miami" and Ross never again made those comments to Flores.
The investigation also found that Ross' offer of $100,000 for every loss, of which there were "differing recollections about the wording, timing, and context ... was not intended or taken to be a serious offer, nor was the subject pursued in any respect by Mr. Ross or anyone else at the club."
Studesville insisted that the message to Flores did not trickle down into the locker room.
"That's just not how we're wired," he said. "None of that was ever shared."
Dolphins assistant: No directive to tank in 2019
While an NFL-backed investigation found Dolphins owner Stephen Ross made it known he believed the team's draft position should take precedence over winning games in 2019, those beliefs did not make it down to the football field, an assistant said.
It actually was acknowledged Ross wanted to lose games. Maybe do some research and quit blindly defending this loser of an owner.
Your the biggest lemming there is
I’m sure this has been covered already but I can’t find it:
What exactly happens with our pick in the 2023 draft? Does it just show as forfeited and the first round has 31 selections? Would suck for the player picked at #32.
What exactly happens with our pick in the 2023 draft? Does it just show as forfeited and the first round has 31 selections? Would suck for the player picked at #32.
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This^^^