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The Official 2017/2018 NFL Thread
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Mike95060
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SteelerFanatic
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lol philly
Bortles is going to shit the bed in Pitt this time around. The Jag's D is good but their offense is horrible. Would be a new year miracle if the Titans pulled one off. Would not surprise me to see the Eagles fall. Sucks to lose a QB as good as Wentz.
Bowling4Bikes
Steee-riiike!
I stated earlier: the Panthers haven't yet figured out how to utilize McCaffrey the most efficiently. once they do, that offense will be most formidable.
So long as Cam is there they most likely never will. McCaffery is in the mold of Darren Sproles though marginally larger. That sixth gear he dropped into to take it to the house was awesome.
Bay Arean
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Well, when you look at Ted Ginn, Jr. there is a small-framed fast guy who has a role that McCaffrey might imitate. I think McCaffrey can't be what he was in college ball as both a kind of halfback and receiver, but he could be a speed threat receiver.
Eldritch
is insensitive
Climber
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This kind of well-intentioned but ultimately BS rule just makes things worse...
League to 'look into' whether Raiders followed Rooney Rule in Jon Gruden hire
League to 'look into' whether Raiders followed Rooney Rule in Jon Gruden hire
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.....
SteelerFanatic
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How would you go about increasing minority representation in the NFL as coaches?
By increasing the number of minority owners? Just a thought.
SteelerFanatic
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You can't force that. People can choose how to spend their money.
Climber
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I wouldn't get butt-hurt when a team doesn't waste time to fly in and interview a black coach just to satisfy some rule when there was clearly only one choice right from the start.
If a team is looking and undecided, then that is fine, but from what I saw there was never any doubt about who the Raiders wanted for their next coach and it's an excellent fit.
Also, just because you throw in the token interview does not mean that increases the chance that you'll hire that coach unless your mind was already open to do so. Artificial requirements like this often create more bad will than accomplish what they're intended to do.
Eldritch
is insensitive
That would accomplish nothing. At the Pro Level, in this day and age, the best man gets the job, period. If I recall correctly, there were 7 African American Head Coaches in the NFL in 2017. That is a drastic over representing of the less than 15% of the population that Blacks in America make up. Really if you want to improve opportunities for minorities in Professional Coaching, you need to increase the representation at the College level in the big schools the NFL recruits from. That is the pipeline for developing coaching staff.
Many Coaches do not have a history as a player, but one suggestion might be to create a program to pipeline retired players from the NFL into some kind of NCAA position coaching program. Since African Americans are wildly over represented in the NFL, that coaching stream could help mix diversity at the pro leadership level more.
saw a suggestion on ESPN that made sense
there's two ways to select a new head coach - solicit for applicants (interview process) or select a person and pursue them (headhunt / recruit)
if a team doesn't know who they want as their next head coach they interview candidates and follow the Rooney rule
if they do know who they want team can notify the league in writing that they are not conducting open interviews and are making an offer to so-and-so.
to limit abuse
*limit this exception with a 5-10 year cool down period after a team exercises it
*may not be used by a team for consecutive head coaches
*may not be used if any interviews have already been conducted (to artificially 'close' a job)
*full offer details shared with league and all team owners (transparency)
this would make sense to me. if a team knows who they want and are willing to pay to get it let them do it. just be transparent about it. i think people understand if there's a "whale" of a HC candidate out there
this removes the charade of pro-forma Rooney interviews and preserves the practice of including them in genuinely open HC searches
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Climber
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Good points.
If you artificially force black coaches onto teams and they aren't as qualified as other coaches you'll create a negative overall impression of black coaches. Do it right or there will always be long term problems.
that's a really good suggestion. another "after football as a player" career that's not the typical talking-sports-face route