I was surprised Flores got the Miami job given he was not very well know. I thought it was going to be a tank job year. Then I was surprised how well Miami did when I was expecting a Suck for Luck year. Flores has done pretty well there and I thought for sure he would be getting another job this year. His team did start off really bad this year other than beating the Patriots starting 1-7. If I owned a team that started 1-7 I think I would fire the coach.
The Rooney rule is stupid as it punishes a team that knows who they want to hire already. Some people may not mind having an interview knowing that it is just a check box for the Rooney rule, some people won't. I think the Giants are safe, it will just be played off that Dabol had a great interview and BB just heard that and brought to the next level. I know many times I have interviewed great people I would be more than happy to hire but did not cancel the remainder of the scheduled interviews.
The real test will be the $100k per loss and can that be proven. I'm not even sure the Brady meeting is an issue if the Patriots don't complain as they knew at that point they were not bringing Brady back and may have given his agent a green light to look elsewhere. The Patriots never even made a contract offer to Brady.