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[JoeyFlex5]

If I was a Baltimore local, I'd fly a drone carrying "Karl Dunbar is still available" sign over the castle.
Three times a day.

BTW, Cullen was the first coach linked to Minter after he got the job and still nothing. What happened there? Was he just a DC candidate?

I’m a local with a drone. $100 a flight and I gotchu fam

 

[All_black_everything]

PJ Volker gets another DB role, so looks like that group is finished.

Leaves QB, RB, WR, TE, DL, and OLB at the positional level. Still need a ST coordinator too.

 

[allblackraven]

I’m a local with a drone. $100 a flight and I gotchu fam

You should do that out of pure passion for our football team.

I'm a little disappointed.

 

[JoeyFlex5]

You should do that out of pure passion for our football team.

I'm a little disappointed.

I have no passion anymore. Not even a new coaching staff can change that.

I’ll be passionate again when we’re hoisting the Lombardi and no sooner

 

[allblackraven]

I have no passion anymore. Not even a new coaching staff can change that.

I’ll be passionate again when we’re hoisting the Lombardi and no sooner

Fucking harbaugh, squeezed the joy out of you, too

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Fucking harbaugh, squeezed the joy out of you, too

Never thought the day would come. Up until that AFCCG vs the chiefs I was one of the most rabid ravens fans on earth. Ain’t been the same since.

 

[redrum52]

Never thought the day would come. Up until that AFCCG vs the chiefs I was one of the most rabid ravens fans on earth. Ain’t been the same since.

Not as defeated as you but that game changed me as well

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Not as defeated as you but that game changed me as well

These mfs be putting me into a depression every season.

Only time I cheered and got legit fired up over the ravens since that game was when I thought Likely caught the game winner vs the chiefs week 1, and when he caught the TD vs the bills in the playoffs.

2 plays in the past 2 seasons. Everything else had me doing the Stephen A unimpressed meme. Even the Likely catch vs Pitt I was like so what we’re gonna miss the kick anyway.

 

[Raven y de Velez]

I think your opinion is horrendously wrong and is a very off base.

People love to parrot the idea of hiring the best candidate and not basing it on skin color, but two issues here.

1. The NFL isn't *forcing* teams to hire minority head coaches; just interview them. They can still hire whoever they think is the best coach.
2. The NFL is VERY much a boys club where nepotism runs rampant (Harbaugh showed this way too frequently.) These coaches are being given an opportunity they very likely otherwise wouldn't get. They have the ability to a) get interview experience and b) network and put their name on the map. Maybe they aren't going to get the particular job they interviewed for because the team has someone picked out, but they have the chance to leave a lasting impression that might get them a future position with that team OR get them mentioned in future coaching search cycles.

If it's racist to give opportunities to historically marginalized and oppressed minority groups, I would encourage you to think really hard and re-evaluate your definition of racism.

In Argentina Raven defense, we dont quite understand the whole picture regarding the Rooney Rule because there is almost none racism in Argentina, at least when it comes of who's in charge, who is in a position of power and who gets access to certain jobs depending on skin color or where you come from

For example, the president of the Futbol League was a garbage man who married the daughter of the truck sindicate, became president of a small club and climb the ladder thanks to political favors and influence

This guy right here

 

[Truth]

Thrilled to get Anthony Weaver, especially in the current capacity of being there as a leader and not necessarily the play-caller. He feels like somebody who could be a better head coach than coordinator, and this role allows him to essentially be closer to the former than the latter.

 

[airconteka]

Everyone should be evaluated based on their ability to perform the job.

Nothing more. Regardless of race, religion, or gender.
Within the realm of what's normal for a fully developed person, of course (I'm not going to put Epstein in charge of a youth team, to give a crude example).

I know that reality isn't like that, and they still have to fight against that exclusion, but it should change, of course, in an ideal world, not in the current one.

P.S. Unfortunately, someone imposed the concept of Argentina as racist and full of Nazis and blah blah blah, even though the USA had more Nazis (paperclip). I don't believe that. There are good people and bad people, like everywhere else

How about you guys start a separate thread to discuss this? I am sure most really don't want to go through this issue in this thread.

 

[Grendelwulf]

Never thought the day would come. Up until that AFCCG vs the chiefs I was one of the most rabid ravens fans on earth. Ain’t been the same since.

Don’t blame you one bit

 

[drjohnnyfever]

Browns officially name their Offensive Coordinator.

Fair enough. I quoted you but it also wasn’t necessarily aimed at you, more the topic in general.

And I also don’t think it’s racist to make sure minorities are getting exposure to the front offices, don’t think there’s anything wrong with it at all.

I’m just wondering why there’s a good crowd here that seem bent out of shape about the lack of minority hires at HC and OC while simultaneously praising the hires of minter and Doyle for the ravens.

Part of it is because the teams don't really take it seriously. It's just a checkbox in the hiring process - that is to say, most teams already know who they want and I don't think it comes down to color/race at all.

Yet, when you have idiot teams like the Brownies, who announce a hire, but are awaiting compliance with the Rooney Rule, that pretty much tells you some teams just check the box merely because it's required.

I was a little shocked there wasn't more made of the Brownies statement about Switzer about a week ago. To me that announcement read, "We found our guy, but we have to interview a couple more black guys to make it official."

 

[rmcjacket23]

they are on defence
not on offence

27% vs 7%

and offence is where these coaches are getting hired as HCs from
and QB coaches are where these OCs are getting hired from
and there's massive underrepresentation (for various reasons) of minorities at QB coach and on the offensive side of the ball in general

Well yeah, because there's a historical massive disparity of minorities at QB in general. Many of your QB coaches played QB. Since historically QB has been a white-person position overwhelmingly, you would expect it to have less black coaches. It's not impossible for a QB coach to be one without having played QB, but it's obviously a bonus.

You're not going to reduce or eliminate the perceived nepotism by forcing people to hire minorities as assistant coaches. They'll just do it and not promote them. Or they'll hire them at positional coaches that historically don't lead to OC jobs (and subsequently HC jobs).

 

[rmcjacket23]

I don't think the Rooney rule was designed to be virtue signalling. I think the older Rooney, who proposed it, the one who hired Tomlin, was not a racist and he genuinely thought that if they got minority coaches in front of owners, they would pick the best candidate, as he had. It's very naive to have faith in billionaires to be decent people.

What was virtue signalling was all the other owners who voted for the rule to be put in place with no intention of ever hiring a minority head coach.

Possibly the only way to get billionaires owners interested in different candidates would be if teams start appointing underage age minority boys and girls as OCs and QB coaches.

I mean... I don't really see racism at all in any of the NFL's owners. Granted, I don't know them personally, so they got be walking around yelling N at everybody they see. But through their actions, I'm not seeing it.

Racism, to me, implies that these Billionaires are somehow afraid of a black person achieving "power". In this case, the HC of a football team doesn't really have that much power. He has a clear lineage to somebody that is his boss, and is most likely, a white person. If the Owner doesn't like his performance, he can fire him. For pretty much any reason he wants. And that's true for any gender, skin color, etc. I think we're giving too much credence to the idea that the HC of an NFL team is somehow this very powerful position. It's really not.

I think the rise in black assistant coaches has been quite rapid in the last 1-2 decades, and I think the lag for OC-level coaches will continue until a good generation or two after we realize the influx of black QBs in the league, which really hasn't been that long.

 

[rmcjacket23]

Fair enough. I quoted you but it also wasn’t necessarily aimed at you, more the topic in general.

And I also don’t think it’s racist to make sure minorities are getting exposure to the front offices, don’t think there’s anything wrong with it at all.

I’m just wondering why there’s a good crowd here that seem bent out of shape about the lack of minority hires at HC and OC while simultaneously praising the hires of minter and Doyle for the ravens.

Because they want minority coaches to be hired, as long as it's not on their team. For their team, they just want the best candidate for the job.

 

[rmcjacket23]

Part of it is because the teams don't really take it seriously. It's just a checkbox in the hiring process - that is to say, most teams already know who they want and I don't think it comes down to color/race at all.

Yet, when you have idiot teams like the Brownies, who announce a hire, but are awaiting compliance with the Rooney Rule, that pretty much tells you some teams just check the box merely because it's required.

I was a little shocked there wasn't more made of the Brownies statement about Switzer about a week ago. To me that announcement read, "We found our guy, but we have to interview a couple more black guys to make it official."

So I think the opposite on the Browns. The Browns I think somewhat did what they should do, which is "I'm not going to do two random minority interviews right away to knock out this rule". They were behind on interviewing minorities because they actually wanted to interview minorities that could actually get the job. Like Mike McDaniels. It just so happened that a small group of minority candidates didn't want the job and declined to interview.

When you're Buffalo, and one of your first interviews is Anthony Lynn, you're 100% publicly just saying "we're making a mockery of this rule".

And honestly I'm fine with either approach. But I think for once the Browns actually showed some mild integrity here.

 

[Dean]

From the picture on the Raven's website...Minter and Doyle look like twins...anyone else seeing this?

 

[29BmoreBird22]

I’m just wondering why there’s a good crowd here that seem bent out of shape about the lack of minority hires at HC and OC while simultaneously praising the hires of minter and Doyle for the ravens.

I think it's okay to hold two things at once, though.

I think it's okay to...

1. Be really excited for Minter and Doyle and think they will both be great for the Ravens
2. Wonder why a sport that is 53% African American with other minority groups sprinkled in sees probably 75%+ of all coaches be white.

I don't follow the NFL as a whole nearly as closely as I used to when I was younger, so I only really know about the Ravens. There's a chance there weren't great minority coaches available this cycle outside of Salah. I really don't know.

But it's okay to say that while there weren't great minority coaches this time, it would be great to see the NFL have more representation amongst its coaches across all levels of coaching.

 

[Dean]

I think it's okay to hold two things at once, though.

I think it's okay to...

1. Be really excited for Minter and Doyle and think they will both be great for the Ravens
2. Wonder why a sport that is 53% African American with other minority groups sprinkled in sees probably 75%+ of all coaches be white.

I don't follow the NFL as a whole nearly as closely as I used to when I was younger, so I only really know about the Ravens. There's a chance there weren't great minority coaches available this cycle outside of Salah. I really don't know.

But it's okay to say that while there weren't great minority coaches this time, it would be great to see the NFL have more representation amongst its coaches across all levels of coaching.

How about the best person for the job based on experience...that's the way it should always be. Period.