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Bucs' Harold Goodwin: Steve Wilks' firing 'hurt a little bit' amid lack of black hires

TAMPA, Fla. -- New Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant head coach and run-game coordinator Harold Goodwin didn't mince words Friday when asked about his disappointment over the firing of Steve Wilks in Arizona after one season and over the lack of minority hires around the NFL overall.

"That hurt a little bit," said Goodwin, who is African-American. "He's a friend of mine. We worked together back in the day with the Bears. It's hard to build something from the ground up with one year. It's like, 'Hey, I want you to start this Fortune 500 company, but you've got one year.' That's impossible. And that's what he was tasked with. But God will look after him. He'll be OK in the long run and hopefully he'll get another opportunity."

This season has been particularly difficult for minority coaches. Five of the eight coaches fired either during or after the 2018 season -- Wilks, Hue Jackson of the Cleveland Browns, Todd Bowles of the New York Jets, Marvin Lewis of the Cincinnati Bengals and Vance Joseph of the Denver Broncos -- are black. Anthony Lynn of the Los Angeles Chargers and Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers are the only current black head coaches in the NFL.

Meanwhile, of the eight recent head-coaching vacancies, not a single minority has been among the six hires made, though sources told ESPN's Jeff Darlington on Friday evening that the Miami Dolphins are "hoping" to hire New England Patriots linebackers coach Brian Flores, who is black and the son of Honduran immigrants.

Goodwin, who served as offensive coordinator under new Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians while with the Cardinals from 2013 to '17, has interviewed for several head-coaching positions over the years, including with the Bucs in 2016, but he encountered several roadblocks.

"Every time I went in to interview, 'You don't call plays.' Well, I did call plays in the preseason," Goodwin said. Arians was the playcaller in the regular season. "Are we looking for playcallers or are we looking for leaders? Leaders of men, who can help build an organization from the ground up on the football side.

"The next excuse was, 'Well, we don't like your staff.' A lot of my staff is still coaching. Some guys are coordinators in the NFL now that have had a lot of success that were on my list."

Goodwin then alluded to teams not taking the Rooney Rule seriously. Under the rule, which was adopted in 2002, every NFL team is required to interview at least one minority candidate for head-coaching and general-manager positions.

The rule has been scrutinized in recent years, though, as some believe teams have made a mockery of it by bringing in candidates who aren't deemed to have a legitimate chance at earning the job.

"I will give credit to two owners -- the [Buffalo Bills' Terry] Pegula and [Jacksonville Jaguars'] Shad Khan -- they were actually in the interview," Goodwin said. "I can't say that about the others. So those were real interviews. I appreciated that opportunity."

Goodwin said one roadblock he's faced has to do with being an offensive line coach; he said teams want a coach who can develop quarterbacks and has called plays.

That is something Bowles, the Bucs' new defensive coordinator, also said is an issue.

"You can say there's a trend," Bowles said. "Everybody wants the up-and-coming signal-caller. I think it's more of an offensive mentality right now as far as the league, as far as the rules are going, what's going against the defense as far as the plays that can be run, so everybody's rushing to get the next offensive genius, so to speak.

"I don't know if it's a slap in the face, one way or the other. That's just the way the league goes. It'll switch back and we'll see who's standing when those things switch back."

Bowles also noted that NFL jobs are hard to come by no matter a candidate's race.

"There are only 32 head jobs in the league," he said. "There [are] a lot of people who feel like they're being discriminated against and there [are] a lot of people that don't get the chance, regardless of race. You just have to coach your hardest and do your best. If the opportunity comes up, and you have a chance to grab it, you grab it. If not, you be the best coach you can be."
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Shoutout to the Patriots, Superbowl bound again.

I don't think Tom Brady has ever lost to the chargers, long may that record continue.
 
The NFL is funny in that, a team will draft a QB that shouldn't have been a first rounder. They put the guy in too early, usually teams that need to do this have a coach already on the hot seat.

So of course that coach will get fired when that QB fails. The QB will get bail in that he just wasnt ready yet. So then they hire an offensive guy. This offensive guy learns the absolute strengths of the QB.

He caters a philosophy, play calling and gameplan to utilize the strengths and hide the weaknesses. Of course the nfl not having seen the strengths of the QB is taken off gaurd.

The team has success until good coaches figure it out. But bad coaches get exposed also because they dont figure it out. So the team will end up with a 7-9,9-7,8-8 record.

By year two or three the QB and Coach are exposed. The coach will try to save his job (O'Brien..Texans) by being over protective to win, and not lose by much. At the same time the QB wont grow. So either next year he is fired anyway or they look for a new QB.

Same shit keeps happening and fan bases haven't caught on. Let your team build and stop being upset when they don't go QB in the draft. These kids aren't near ready.
 
Feel like AB is turning into the real life Ricky Jerret man...


AB needs to get his head checked out...

cause CTE is real as fuck
 
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ing-rebuild-eye-heralded-qbs-2020-draft-class

Dolphins considering rebuild, eye heralded QBs in 2020 draft class

Even before they hire Patriots linebackers coach Brian Flores as their next head coach, the Dolphins already are thinking about rebuilding and trying to land one of the trumpeted quarterbacks from the class of 2020, which includes Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa and Oregon's Justin Herbert, league sources told ESPN.

The Dolphins know they have to focus on player development and building the trenches next season, putting the franchise on track to select one of the promising quarterbacks from the 2020 draft and rebuild over time, according to league sources.

It is difficult to tank in the NFL with players' contracts not being guaranteed. But the Dolphins recognize that losing likely will be a part of next season, and it will take some time to build the roster to where they want it to be, according to sources.

Dolphins owner Stephen Ross acknowledged as much when he discussed the team's future after former head coach Adam Gase was fired on Dec. 31.

Flores is expected to be a part of the growth process for the Dolphins, who went 7-9 under Gase this season and own the 13th pick in this year's draft. The Dolphins already are eyeing a top-10 pick in the 2020 draft, according to people familiar with the team's thinking.
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I need the patriots to lose so my dolphins can get started on rebuilding the team and hiring Flores
 
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