Posted on 12/31/2018 8:55:08 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Four black coaches were fired Sunday or Monday, including the Jets’ Todd Bowles, who was let go shortly after his team’s final loss Sunday. The Jets had a 14-34 record in the last three seasons under Bowles.
Marvin Lewis, who had been at the helm of the Cincinnati Bengals since 2003, was fired Monday. Though he had resurrected the moribund Bengals and took them to the playoffs multiple times, he never won a playoff game and this season was Cincinnati’s third consecutive one with a losing record.
Also fired Monday was Denver Broncos Coach Vance Joseph, who had presided over the first back-to-back losing seasons for the Broncos since the early 1970s. In Arizona, Steve Wilks had been the Cardinals’ coach for just one season when he was fired Monday after his team compiled a league-worst record of 3-13.
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The two black head coaches still in the N.F.L. are Anthony Lynn of the Los Angeles Chargers (12-4), who are headed to a wild-card playoff game Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, and Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers (9-6-1).
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Yes, the fraction of black coaches is lower than the fraction of black NFL players, but the skills to coach and to play are not exactly the same. Coaching takes more brains, and there is a difference in average IQ for whites and blacks.
Gonna be a lotta knee-taking going on...
and which race is the minority in the player’s ranks? What? Cant hear ya..
Sometimes, the hard truth is just like what Linda Rondstadt sang years back :”You’re no good! You’re no good! You’re no good! Baby, You’re no good!”
This is perfect equality. Black coaches in the NFL now suck as badly as the white ones.
Dirk Koetter was fired too. He had a losing record for 3 years. “Logically”, he must be black.
I guess the only solution is offered by example in South Africa. Just hand over the teams owned by white males to a black ownership. Not sold it - given! That would solve all of the NFL’s problems.
I don’t really give a sweet eff what color NFL coaches are, as long as they make their teams stand for the National Anthem.
“Coaching takes more brains, and there is a difference in average IQ for whites and blacks. “
Wow dude! I may be bigoted at times but what you said is pure racism.
They suck more ... affirmative action at its best
Dude ... hes right
Black coaches matter!!
Pittsburgh still has Mike Tomlin. Thank goodness.
Not long after Johnny Cash performed before prison inmates, Linda did a set before prisoners, too. One of her numbers was “You’re No Good.” I flinched. The inmates loved it.
It’s not racist. It’s an inconvenient truth.
If that’s racism, so is the Bell Curve.
Race had nothing to do with it.
Stop it already with the f***ing race card NY Slimes. All of those firings were justified. In the case of Marvin Lewis it was long overdue. The ownership in Cincinnati gave him more than enough chances to get the Bungles to be a top echelon team in the AFC and he failed. Does anyone doubt if Lewis were white he would of been fired years ago?
Packer coach McCarthy was fired recently too.
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