Pittsburgh Steelers senior defensive assistant Brian Flores filed suit against the National Football League and some of its constituent teams on February 1 before he was a member of the organization, his hiring following within the following weeks. We are now into September gearing up for the start of the regular season, and the lawsuit is still ongoing—though that certainly is not a surprise.
Earlier during the offseason, the NFL pushed to have the suit go to arbitration, or rather through the league’s own private channels, to which Flores and his fellow plaintiffs—other NFL coaches, Ray Horton and Hue Jackson—strongly objected in papers filed in court in response this past week.