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One of the key pieces of evidence in Brian Flore’s lawsuit against the NFL and its teams is a series of text messages he received from Bill Belichick, first telling him he was getting the job as head coach of the Giants, and then apologizing and tell him that actually it was Brian Daboll who got the job.
Daboll got the job, suggesting the Giants’ interview with Flores was a sham to comply with the Rooney Rule. But Giants owner John Mara insists Belichick had no basis for telling Flores Daboll would get the job.
“I haven’t spoken or communicated with Bill since we played them preseason last summer,” Mara said of the New York Daily News, “and to my knowledge, no one in our organization has communicated with him.”
Still, the lyrics don’t lie: Belichick told Flores before the interview that Daboll would get the job. How did Belichick know that?
“I have no idea. You have to ask him that,” Mara said.
Belichick hasn’t explained it and Mara says he didn’t ask him to. So it remains a mystery how Belichick got the correct impression that the Giants would hire Daboll.