Posted on 03/31/2021 8:37:33 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
It's time to address the elephant in the room. Racism has helped Mac Jones' stock and hurt Justin Fields' in the lead-up to the draft. Yes, it really is happening.
Now before you freak out, take a breath, and keep reading because I don't mean what you likely think I mean. No, I don't think draft pundits are sitting at their keyboards and purposefully finding reasons to knock Fields while talking up Jones simply because of the color of their skin.
That would be what I would call blatant racism or conscious racism if you will. Racism has more nuance than that. There is such a thing as unconscious racism and every single person in this country has acted on it without realizing at one point or another.
70+% of the NFL is black. Nothing else needs to be said
BS!
ownership is white and the millions of dollars are akin to the chains holding players captive.
One guy is a National Champion. The other guy is not.
Every mobile QB in the NFL, at some point, becomes ‘not so mobile’. They can do things in college that they cannot do in the NFL. The game is just too different. IN the same way that the stud in high school isn’t much of a stud in college.
The coaches and scouts see things in a radically different way than the rest of us.
Both will be drafted. Let them get on the field to see who the better player is.
I don’t know what the controversy is, I don’t care. Every single time I hear “racism”, I turn it off, click somewhere else, turn the page. I’m beyond tired of this, and it now simply makes me angry.
No disclaimers, no saying I love this or that, but. To heck with it, anyone pimping victimhood due to racism is a cancer, and I hate them. Period.
Puh lease...
Justin Fields hurt his stock by his own inconsistent performance in the last conference games and the Championship game. Jones had 5 TD to Fields 1!!
Gimme a break. He’s doing well at tryouts now because he has to.
RD3, Johnny Manziel, Dwayne Haskins, Cardale Jones, Colin Kaepernick, and other “athletic”, mobile QB’s haven’t panned out or are constantly getting injured to be long term NFL QB’s. These so called mobile QB’s will run first at the sign of trouble instead of making their read progressions. If this writer would take off his race colored glasses and actually study the NFL he would know that pocket passers last longer and are far more effective pro QB’s than their more athletic counterparts. Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and Ben Roethlisberger were/are pocket passers who played into their forties!
The best players are hired. Nothing racist about that. But hire the best in other professions and if too few blacks, women, queers, Asians, Hispanics are in the mix, it’s racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. Go figure.
NFL needs more Asian players. Hey, NFL, stop the hate.
Jones versus Fields? Fields is obviously the better athlete yet tries to be too precise. Jones has a dad bod yet approaches the game as a gunslinger. They are products of their coaching. Race has nothing to do with the choice. They both should be good NFL quarterbacms. The choice rests on what your team’s needs are.
and the millions of dollars are the chains the players willingly wear.
Back when I cared about the NFL—and my home team won the Super Bowl on its home field, so if anything would have brought me back that would have done it...
Anyway, back when I cared, there was the year (2015) when the two top picks were Jameis Winston of one race and Marcus Mariota of the other. The discussions of which one would shine and which would flop were not laced with racism as everything everyone talks about these days is. However, the discussions turned out to be a waste, since both have become flops. Wouldn’t be surprising if 2021 is the same, but I won’t be watching to know, for I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
I don’t think their failure rate is any different than the whites. My issue with any of them is when they get themselves into trouble for stupid stuff that sets the team back 4-5 years. Think Michael Vick, Steve McNair-not too smart. There’s also the Johnny Manzel’s and Ryan Leafs. Remember the Ohio State guy and the gambling? The racism thing might be the fear that a black given the reins to the organization will perform down to the level of what’s expected of him-on and off the field. Russell Wilson would be is an exception but like Obama he’s legally blonde. So what do you have? A while wuss writer giving his opinion of big dumb whitey. The answer is 3-5 years away so THEY can have fun with it.
Go ahead and enjoy watching your Millionaire, Anti-American, Criminal Thug, CryBulllies.
Me, I’d rather watch my Crocus and Daffodils bloom.
Got lots of tending to do . . .
Cardale Jones was a ‘mobile quarterback’?
Probably the biggest thing hurting Fields is that Dwayne Hawkins was such a bust. He seemed like a supreme talent. One has to try to evaluate whether the Ohio State system produces the results of the player.
I could make the same case for Mac Jones and the talent around him in the receiving core, though. How good is he really.
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