Flores ran off another one

Before the 2019 draft, Crosby met with the Miami Dolphins, and while appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday, Crosby admitted he didn’t want to be a Dolphin after the visit.

“Pat (Graham) was in Miami when I was coming into the league,” Crosby said. “I was going on my top-30 visits, and I was in Miami. For the most part, my trip to Miami, I’m not going to lie, was rough. All of the coaches were super hard on me. I told my agent after, I’m like ‘I don’t want to come here. Tell Miami don’t draft me.’ But, my one meeting at Miami that I liked was Pat Graham…”

At the time, the Dolphins were coached by Brian Flores, who was entering his first season with the team. Coming from the New England Patriots, Flores came with a certain edginess that may have rubbed some the wrong way.

While some thrived under Flores, the mentality in the building was a deterrent for others.

Even Graham, who had worked with Flores from 2009-15 and had joined him to become his defensive coordinator in his first year with Miami, left after just one season, essentially making a lateral move to the New York Giants.

Former Dolphins linebacker Kyle Van Noy said, on The Punch Line Podcast this week, that his release from the team after just one season (2020) was the byproduct of a “civil war” between general manager Chris Grier and then coach Brian Flores.

finfanatic wrote:

One rumor I heard I had put down to just gossip but it turned out Flores WAS blowing off staff meetings and had supposedly told some of his assistant coaches to start looking for new jobs! During the season when the Phins were fighting for a playoff spot!!

Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores’ legal effort to force his former employer, the Miami Dolphins, to answer his claims of racial discrimination and retaliation in a real court—not the “court” of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell—suffered another setback last week.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, who last year sent Flores’ claims against the Dolphins to an arbitration process overseen by Goodell, denied his motion to certify legal issues for appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...

While Caproni dispatched Flores’ claims against the Dolphins to arbitration, his claims against teams that didn’t hire him (the New York Giants, the Denver Broncos and the Houston Texans) and related claims against the NFL remain in court.