2024 NFL Season Thread

[Agent_Ro]

What a heart warming story

Thailand trips, relationships and Jayden Daniels: How Kliff Kingsbury got his swagger back in D.C.

The Commanders' first-year offensive coordinator has rediscovered the joy of playcalling and building relationships.

www.espn.com

 

[Agent_Ro]

 

[mike030270]

Super happy Fangio doesn't want to be a HC and is happy with just being a DC

 

[Bow to Royalty]

9/10 these teams already know who they’re gonna hire. All these interview requests are smoke and mirrors. They’ve been working back channels for weeks.

Exactly. And hires mean something. Not interviews. That's why people keep count of how many black head coaches there are, but nobody cares about counting how many black people are interviewed.

 

[5th Letter]

I don’t like this

 

[grYmes]

I don’t like this

Trash.

 

[Gray Matter]

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).

Boston Sports Journal

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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.

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.

 

[Gray Matter]

 

[AP3.0]

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.

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?

 

[grYmes]

Acho got a funny case why is he around?

 

[AP3.0]

9/10 these teams already know who they’re gonna hire. All these interview requests are smoke and mirrors. They’ve been working back channels for weeks.

I said that in my initial post

 

[Bow to Royalty]

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?

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.

 

[Maywood]

 

[Bow to Royalty]

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."