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[TheLondonLion]

Hue Jackson now claims he was paid to lose🤣🤣🤣🤣

[jaadam4]

Of course they paid him to lose because he sure couldn’t win

[froot loops]

This shit is going to get ugly for the NFL. The Browns were the one NFL team that actively tried the Sam Henke process shit. Haslam is a dodgy fellow to say the least, he squirmed out of the Flying J scandal.

[DanO]

Most of the native Americans that I know could
care less about the Redskins name. To me this is all a show.

The only team IMO that really should have changed their name or logo was Cleveland. The other teams logos had either a badass feel to it or something cool. Cleveland didn’t depict “Indians” in a great light.

I agree jaad. BTW, I'm part Native American. That shit doesn't offend me.

[Futureshock]

Hue Jackson now claims he was paid to lose🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ha! I knew it! Too bad they didn't exactly set the world on fire with those picks...


Hue Jackson suggests he was paid extra for losses as Browns head coach

Posted by Josh Alper on February 2, 2022, 8:56 AM EST

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Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores alleges Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered him $100,000 per loss during the 2019 season in order to ensure the team would wind up with the first overall pick and former Browns coach Hue Jackson made similar allegations in response to Flores’ lawsuit going public on Tuesday.

Jackson responded to a tweet about the case by saying Browns owner Jimmy Haslam “was happy while we kept losing” and then wrote “trust me it was a good number” in response to someone who said Haslam wasn’t offering $100,000 per loss. Jackson, who is now the head coach at Grambling, went 1-31 over his first two seasons with the Browns and was fired after a 2-5-1 start in 2018.

In another tweet, the executive director of Jackson’s foundation Kimberley Diemert said they had records that would support Flores’ case and wrote that Jackson and team executives Sashi Brown, Paul DePodesta, and Andrew Berry — who is now the team’s General Manager — were paid bonus money to tank in 2016 and 2017. Jackson replied by saying he “can back up every word I’m saying.”

Flores’ suit was filed as a class action, which leaves room for others to join the litigation. Jackson’s comments suggest he’d be willing to do that.

[Futureshock]

This shit is going to get ugly for the NFL. The Browns were the one NFL team that actively tried the Sam Henke process shit. Haslam is a dodgy fellow to say the least, he squirmed out of the Flying J scandal.

The Transportation Ind is full of snakes. Even worse then Gov. Way worse.

[Futureshock]

Brian Flores: Stephen Ross attacked the integrity of the game, standing up to him cost me my job

Posted by Michael David Smith on February 2, 2022, 8:12 AM EST

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Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores says that team owner Stephen Ross urging him to lose games on purpose was an attack on the sport of football itself, and that when Flores refused to go along with Ross’s scheme, the writing was on the wall for him in Miami.

Flores appeared on CBS this morning and said that his respect for the sport dictated that he would never tank a season, and that when Ross — who wanted the first overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft — offered him a $100,000 bonus for every loss in 2019, Flores rejected the offer and was subsequently cut out of

“I didn’t grow up with a lot and this game changed my life. So to attack the integrity of the game, that’s what I felt was happening in that instance, and I wouldn’t stand for it,” Flores said. “I think it hurt my standing within the organization and ultimately was the reason I was let go.”

Those are serious allegations that, if proven, ought to result in significant consequences for Ross and the Dolphins. It’s one thing for an owner to prioritize building through the draft over winning in the moment. It’s quite another thing for an owner to actively attempt to incentivize his coach to lose games. The players and coaches should be trying to win every week, and an owner who tries to influence his coaches or players to lose is, as Flores notes, attacking the very integrity of the NFL.

[Nick Pappageorgio]

Tanking is for real?

Next they’ll be telling us officiating bias is grounded in fact.

damn conspiracy theorists

[Cody_Russell]

Can I get paid $100,000 per loss please? Would love that deal to lose games.

Dolphins QB would be Joe Burrow right now if they actually fulfilled the tanking job to get the #1 overall pick. 2019 NFL season. Dolphins would be a playoff team given the 19-14 record in the last two seasons.

[froot loops]

Can I get paid $100,000 per loss please? Would love that deal to lose games.

Dolphins QB would be Joe Burrow right now if they actually fulfilled the tanking job to get the #1 overall pick. 2019 NFL season. Dolphins would be a playoff team given the 19-14 record in the last two seasons.

You make a joke of it, but point shaving is a federal crime.

[jaadam4]

I agree jaad. BTW, I'm part Native American. That shit doesn't offend me.

My grandmother was a 1/4 but didn’t look it. Her mom being a half really resembled the Native American heritage. She was really pretty

[jaadam4]

Good for Flores about speaking up with the truth. He prob won’t coach again in the NFL but it takes a lot of balls to step forward and say what’s right

[Nick Pappageorgio]

You make a joke of it, but point shaving is a federal crime.

Yet tanking is generally accepted….I’d proffer that it’s not really point shaving, a bad team that’s laying down for a better draft pick….if the decision is made at a management level, the argument could easily be made that this is “strategy” from a competitive standpoint. I’d also argue that because it’s so widely accepted….that Vegas factors tanking into the weekly odds.

Teams/owners want to win…coaches want to win…players want to win….fans want teams to win….but in situations where the long-term best thing is to lose, is a team obligated to win…legally? I don’t think so.

IMO a management decision to lose, as a long-term strategy….is far different than a player misbehaving for personal gain on a given week

[froot loops]

It's point shaving. If you are incemtivizing the coach to lose the game, it is point shaving.

[jaadam4]

It's point shaving. If you are incemtivizing the coach to lose the game, it is point shaving.

Absolutely. Tanking is one thing but paying a coach to lose
is a different story.