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RetroLDN said:
There's a lot of sufficient info in the exposed part of the article which confirms what I've said.. straight from the players (albeit anonymously).

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However, he's black and a former great player for the team so reporters avoided making comments on the off-field issues during the season. I still expect tepid reporting on his tenure, especially due to Mayo being well-liked in Boston media. He had a brief stint with a nbc Boston.
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Read the link. What I got from the quotes from the players and coaches isn't: "This coach must be fired now!" I get that year 1 wasn't a success, but you might or might not want to give him more time.
 
Bow to Royalty said:
Why wouldn't they? They know who they want to consider for the job. Pats know if they're giving the job to Vrabel. Why make them waste their time, Leftwich's time, and anyone else's time with pointless interviews?

If you don't have rules in place regarding who's hired, there's no need for rules regarding who's interviewed.

It's 2025... interviews aren't a sign of change and improvement...hires are.
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You're all over the place

The point has always been to give other non white candidates a chance instead of recycling the same average or sub average white men that ONLY get the job cause of their skin color

Why keep playing a player that only gives you 5ppg when you got a player on the bench that can give you 15?
 
AP3.0 said:
You're all over the place

The point has always been to give other non white candidates a chance instead of recycling the same average or sub average white men that ONLY get the job cause of their skin color

Why keep playing a player that only gives you 5ppg when you got a player on the bench that can give you 15?
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All over the place how? There was a lack of diversity in head coaches pre-Rooney rule. Rule's been around for 20 years and there's still the same lack of diversity.

Forcing interviews just to make teams check off a box is dumb, and isn't fixing the problem.
 
Yall still giving me thumbs down about the Rooney rule.

There were 3 black coaches when it came out 21 years ago. There are 4 black coaches in the league right now.

Teams are obviously bringing in black coaches just to get it out of the way so they can hire who they want... like the Pats.

I don't get how y'all are getting tricked while having the truth right in front of you, haha.

"The Rooney rule is good even though 20 years later we only have 1 more black coach than we did when it went into effect, and it leads to owners wasting black coaches' time by interviewing them for jobs they have no chance of getting."
 
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