{"id":1404607,"date":"2022-03-28T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404607"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:31:21","slug":"i-owed-him-that-mike-tomlin-hired-brian-flores-to-keep-him-from-feeling-isolated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-owed-him-that-mike-tomlin-hired-brian-flores-to-keep-him-from-feeling-isolated\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;I Owed Him That&#039;: Mike Tomlin Hired Brian Flores to Keep Him from Feeling Isolated"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-owed-him-that-mike-tomlin-hired-brian-flores-to-keep-him-from-feeling-isolated%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">After former Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL for giving him an interview based on his skin color with no intention of hiring him, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin reached out with an offer.<\/p>\n<p>That offer was to become the Steelers\u2019 new senior defensive assistant and linebackers coach, a position well beneath Flores\u2019 qualifications.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, to Tomlin, the league\u2019s only remaining black head coach, he felt he \u201cowed\u201d Flores that much.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to stay close to Brian when his legal issues started,\u201d Tomlin told Brooke Pryor of ESPN via Pro Football Talk. \u201cI just didn\u2019t want him to feel like he was on an island. From a coaching fraternity standpoint, I owed him that. . . . I was in position to provide that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/head-coach-mike-tomlin-of-the-pittsburgh-steelers-looks-on-during-the-picture-id1347158007?k=20&#038;m=1347158007&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=5s1MZmuL-kQozydGSle4BbEhLzJEOw2ZEARmRsbEr0E=\" alt=\"Head coach Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers looks on during the second quarter against the Seattle Seahawks at Heinz Field on October 17, 2021...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Steelers coach Mike Tomlin (Joe Sargent\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The coaching fraternity is definitely a close one. Dozens, sometimes over a hundred coaches at varying levels, are fired in the NFL every year. No doubt there were several dozen other coaches known to Tomlin who were in need of a job at the time he reached out to Flores. Including plenty of coaches with less training and experience than Flores, who would have been better suited as a defensive assistant and linebackers coach.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a black former head coach who was suing the league for racist hiring practices, what made Flores\u2019 situation different is that he is black.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tomlin can hire anyone he wants for any reason.<\/p>\n<p>Though, if you\u2019re Flores, it may not do your lawsuit any favors when the NFL\u2019s attorneys point out how it can be reasonably argued that Flores accepted an NFL job based on his skin color while suing the league for giving him an interview based on his skin color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After former Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL for giving him an interview based on his skin color with no intention of hiring him, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin reached<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}