Posted on 09/11/2023 10:38:48 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
The NFL presents itself as America’s most cutthroat meritocracy. And yet evidence continues to show that teams screw up the single most important decision they make due to racial bias.
From 2010 to 2022, teams were chronically underrating Black quarterbacks in the draft, a new statistical analysis from SFGATE shows.
QBs selected in those drafts had four times better odds of reaching at least one Pro Bowl if they were Black. SFGATE’s analysis found a statistically significant gap between the rate that Black quarterbacks reached the Pro Bowl relative to their peers despite controlling for draft position.
At every stage of the draft, the average Black quarterback outperformed their non-Black peers. In fact, the analysis found that the average Black quarterback was more likely to receive at least one Pro Bowl selection than the average non-Black quarterback selected 66 picks (roughly two rounds) earlier. The evidence strongly suggests that racial bias is blinding teams in the draft process, leading them to prefer inferior quarterbacks as long as they’re not Black.
In other words, Black quarterbacks are penalized in the draft solely for being Black, our analysis suggests, and it’s a penalty that reverberates years into their professional careers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The problem is that too many blacks are brainwashed to believe that everyone is out to get them. All this crap validates their paranoia.
Nobody who matters cares.
The NFL and it’s fans like winners, not whiners.
SF Gate has a bee in the bonnet because of Trey Lance and Koepernik before that and now a white guy kickin’ butt.
A Koepernick type kerkuffle would have been a concern of mine, if I had been drafting QBs.
The NFL as such is a form of corruption that should be eliminated. A hypocritical pretext for gambling. The same goes for college football, which is really just the NFL minor leagues and has nothing to do with “scholar athletes”.
He was among the first of the “Big QBs” - 6’ 5” & 225 lbs. Almost defensive end size. His college career was at North Carolina State.
Jim Plunkett.
Off the top of my head.... Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Justin Fields, Russell Wilson*, Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray, Geno Smith..... are all NFL QBs who are also black. Where’s the discrimination?!
*: I admit it’s debatable whether or not Russell Wilson is an NFL QB....
Oh, please! I don’t know the actual stats, but I would be surprised if the percentage of black NFL players was less than 95%.
I know! We haven't had a great Jewish tight end since Randy Grossman of the old Steelers! The NFL must be surreptitiously imposing quotas!
Can’t argue with that. White liberals are despicable people.
Tiger pissed off a lot of the black media when he dared to call himself cablinasian*.
CA: Caucasian
BL: Black
IN: Indian or Native American if you prefer...
ASIAN: His mother is Thai...
I thought tha was Mitch Kumstein.
RG III seriously injured his knee in that game, and then Shanahan put him back in making it even worse. And yes, he was never the same. A real shame.
That's true but... it's even better if your guy is big enough to shed tacklers and fast enough to avoid them in the first place.
He did have the benefit of one of the best defenses of all time on his team too.
Yes Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl, and Dan Marino never did. Hey, Sam Snead never won a US Open (and Phil Mickelson probably never will). Life just ain't fair sometimes.
There is also an element of luck that sometimes helps
I would put the Packers in there too. They deftly transitioned from one HoFer - Favre - to another in Rodgers. And yesterday when Jordan Love started the opener, he was just the third individual QB to open the season for the Packers... since 1991!
How do you explain that versus teams like the Browns, Bears, Jets, Seattle, and Chargers (last great QB was Dan Fouts, by the time he is done Justin Herbert may be up there too) who can never seem to find a QB?!
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