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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A coaching position in the NFL is a high profile job with many critics, especially the fans. You either produce or you will be looking for a job. Affirmative action hiring doesn’t work in high profile positions like coaching where one bears the brunt of responsibility. That said, Tony Dungee ranks as one of my most admired football coaches.
That’s the problem with hiring blacks - once you do it better be for life.
You may get called racist if you don’t hire them, but you are sure to be called a racist if you fire them. The safer practice is to make them a finalist, then hire the white guy.
It is curious that they usually only fire coaches with losing seasons and seldom fire coaches with winning seasons.
Ironically, that seems to apply to both white and black coaches.
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Ditto that
What you said is pure ignorance. DU's over there to the left somewhere. You might want to check it out, since you live by emotion rather than fact.
White is a race, no?
Betty Everett did it first....I believe...
If you suck at what you do, you’re gonna get fired. Don’t suck.
CC
Yeah, “The Bell Curve” was racist, ‘cause facts be racist.
After last April, Wakanda is half the country it used to be.
CC
If your team loses more than wins the coach will be fired..no matter what. Why aren’t there more Samoan coaches or Hispanic coaches...? Very few of either college or pro...
-PJ
Losing black coaches were fired. Winning black coaches were retained. Shocking!
I grew up on the 50s and 60s and coached and played. My father had black players on his softball team in a town where that wasn’t cool to do. He went to state championship every other year or so so I guess it was OK. I learned if you can play, it doesn’t matter your skin color. I grew up and judged employees by performance not skin color based on my experience with sports.
Liberals have destroyed so many things, including sports. Imagine if we made a fuss and got more white players and asians in the NBA to balance things out. That is the consequence of all the bullshit they try to impose. Ruining sports for the sake of PC and obvious power plays and ethnic politics.
“ Wow dude! I may be bigoted at times but what you said is pure racism.”
- not pure racism, it is pure fact.
YESSSS!
When you don't win in the nfl, you don't stay employed very long. Doesn't matter if your black or white.
Cursed Thanos!
I have my money on Captain and Thor.
The number of tick marks in the Win column trump the coach’s ethnicity to any sane owner.
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