Brian Flores made a somewhat obvious statement about the Giants’ hiring of Brian Daboll as head coach: It was influenced by their mutual old boss, Bill Belichick, whose bumbling text messages ultimately led to Flores suing the NFL and three teams for racist hiring practices. “I do think that there are back channel conversations and back channel meetings that are had that oftentimes influence decisions. I think that’s is a clear example of that,” he said of the Giants hiring Daboll and, per the Belichick texts, possibly landing on him before Flores was even interviewed. “There’s Bill Belichick,…