Posted on 03/29/2022 8:23:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The NFL believes it has a problem with having too few minority coaches among its ranks. So, they’ve decided to solve this problem by ordering each team to hire a “diverse person” to their offensive coaching staff.
The league informed teams of the new requirement in a memo sent Monday afternoon.
“All NFL teams will be required to have a “diverse person (female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority)” on staff as an offensive assistant in 2022,” Dallas Morning News reporter Michael Gehlken wrote. “This position will be funded, in part, by a stipend from league office. Rule designed to improve diversity of HC pipeline.”
The move comes as former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores pursues a case against the NFL for racism in their hiring practices. Flores brought the suit after he claimed the New York Giants interviewed him with no intention of hiring him as they had already decided to hire former Bills coach Brian Daboll to be the head coach.
The NFL has had the Rooney Rule in place for nearly twenty years. A regulation requiring teams to interview at least two minority candidates for a coaching position and at least one minority candidate for front-office positions. Women are also included under the Rooney Rule.
Up until recently, there were several minority head coaches in the league. However, after a slew of firings at the end of the 2021 season, Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin was the only minority coach left in the league.
With only two minority coaches hired in the latest hiring cycle, the league seems to have shifted from merely requiring interviews to actually mandating hires.
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What gets me about this “sexual orientation” identity, is that any of us could claim to be a homosexual, and who would know any differently? Any of us could dress in line with the opposite sex and claim to be transgender.
Would anyone claim to be something they are not, just to get a job?????
“...and if so, why do the NFL owners feel compelled to do this?”
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Could be a lot of heat from the players (association). If most of the chiefs are white and most of the indians are black... Oh wait, I’m mixing metaphors. Something about a plantation is the one I think most used here.
Probably also social pressure. I don’t know how they do it, but these groups are extremely successful at making large corporations nervous. Someday their tactics will get exposed.
If you are one of the teams who already has a minority on your offense coaching staff, you’re golden. You actually picked them based on their merits. Everyone else is going to have to fight over the remainder who have experience and talents. Somehow I also suspect there will be a few positions that are more symbolic. But I am cynical that way
Why are they doing this for the offensive coaching staff? What about defense? Isn’t this discriminatory on the face of it?
Can it be a white guy who “identities” as diverse? Honestly, it shouldn’t make any difference, should it?
“Pardon me, stewardess, I speak jive.”
And if I showed for the job interview with a beard and a dress, would they hire me as a transgender? And if I then showed up for work every day in a suit and a tie, would they fire me?
This is all just crazy.
Hmmmm. I interact with people everyday and not one of them is the same as the other. Is that diverse enough? No?
Just have a few of the existing coaches identify as something or other.
12% of coaching staff is black, 13% of population in the US is black.
It sounds like they are well represented to me.
“Why are they doing this for the offensive coaching staff?”
Most of the new head coaches are from offense.
I haven’t watched an NFL game since the 2017 season (when taking a knee became common among NFL players); but I did make an exception on January 20, 2019 (Saints vs Rams), the infamous no-call pass interference. I haven’t watched an NFL game since.
Easy peasy. Just have the white guy’s self identify as a woman. Even Supreme Court nominees will be able to be fooled. Nothing to it. Who can argue? No one, lest they be cancelled...
I doubt if they’re talking about skin color with this!
This is blatantly racist. However, which owner or white assistant offensive coach candidate is going to file the first discrimination lawsuit? Until someone does, this will stand. Funny how they wouldn’t even think to propose such a rule a few years ago for fear of the backlash from non-racist fans or the overwhelming negative press. Like Disney, they don’t care about backlashes anymore, just woke ideology. What a sad state of affairs we are in as a nation.
Doesn’t have to be fake, atall.
US citizens are mutts. Just get a DNA test. Mine came back with ~1% Aztec. So, I am AmerInd. File a copy with your application.
At the very least, it screws up their racist systems.
The NFL swallowed the woke Koolaid many years ago.
this is just fallout.
Just go to the nearest sewage treatment plant and see what floats to the top.
Racist hiring...ignored by the government.
The NFL needs more Asian women players.
The NFL should go away.
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