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Well, you're assuming that everything else besides experience is equal, which I think is probably a bad assumption. What if, between the two populations, one of them has much more interest and desire to become coaches, for example? That would lead to them being "overrepresented" in coaching. Or what if, between the two populations, one of them has more coaching talent? There are probably several other possible explanations, too, if we brainstormed hard enough. What's interesting to me is that I can't think of any organization where the demographics will be consistent across all levels of the organization. If we're talking military, I would expect the infantry to be demographically different from the group of all lieutenant colonels in charge of battalions. If we looked at, let's say, Walmart, I would expect the demographics of the loaders/unloaders to be different from the demographics of store managers, which in turn will be different from the demographics of VPs. I mean, is there any particular reason the NFL should be the exception if no other industry (or perhaps a miniscule amount) has consistent demographics across all levels of the organization?

First of all, I would hope that 100% of the sport uses two legs for walking. Next, why are we assuming player ratios and coach ratios should be the same? Different skillsets, no?

Really good post. To answer your question, when you're dealing with numbers and sample size that low, 3 years is just a blip and not necessarily a meaningful trend yet. It'd be akin to asking why this baseball player who usually bats .300 is only batting .200 over the past two weeks.

Very good post, and I hit the like button on it. Flores, however, is black and self-identifies as black. Now he may also be "latino" depending on how you want to define that (if being from Honduras is enough without any regard to genetic makeup, then he's "latino") that but his parents are Afro-Honduran. Basically, back in the day, conquistadors would bring African slaves with them while doing their colonizing, and that's how Africans ends up in Honduras.

haha, this post contains at least two bad assumptions, maybe three

Yeah, if someone who's hired and managed both Flores and Daboll isn't allowed to be a reference and therefore influence the decision, that's just stupid. Stick to effing the Dolphins, Flores.

To be clear, I don't think there's a problem with minority hiring in the NFL. (I do support Flores because I think he was getting railroaded by Ross, and I additionally believe his accusations against Ross). But if there were a problem, the Rooney Rule seems to suck at addressing it.

I think in one the Freakonomics books (not a fan generally, but this example is interesting), there was a daycare that had a problem with parents picking up their kids late. So the daycare started charging the parents $5 whenever they came late. Did parents stop coming late? No, what actually happened following this change was that the number of late pickups *increased*, because from the parents' point of view, they were now paying for the privilege of being late and no longer felt bad about it. This could be similar to what's happening with the Rooney Rule. Owners and executives might feel like the Rooney Rule is in place to take care of racism, so they themselves don't have to check their own behavior and make sure they're giving black coaches a fair shot. In fact, they may feel that since they're being forced to interview two black coaches for every job opening, something they dislike and from their point of view wastes resources, they can be allowed to be racist in the final hire in order to balance things out. Here's a very common situation in life: (1) There's a problem (2) Your solution to the problem sucks or makes it worse. Unfortunately, too many people in power don't understand this.

Ha! I get what you're insinuating but frankly, McDermott would be dead on a slab somewhere by now because his benefactor would be worried that McD made it too obvious the fix was in. Ironically, the grosser the incompetence, the more likely it's just incompetence and not malfeasance because cheaters are mindful to "make it look good". McD was too stupid to have been fixing.

Josh is one in a thousand. Literally you can have a thousand QBs with Josh's profile coming out of college, and only he will turn into a great QB. Most will bust. Anyway, with Willis, he doesn't have Josh's size and he doesn't have Josh's intelligence. Poor comparison in the first place.

Hopefully this is Josh's Machiavellian move to improve head coach. McD probably thinks Brady is here to replace Dorsey in a year or two. Little does he know...

It'd be a great get. Heck, I would've given him OC over Dorsey, that's how good this hire would be.

Josh needs to have secret meetings with the Pegulas. They have to come to an understanding that if McDermott continues to flub situational football and game management next season, the Pegulas will fire him. Josh needs to take control of his career, for the good of his career and for the city of Buffalo. If he wants to win Super Bowls and bring home trophies to Buffalo, he needs to surround himself with elite talent at important positions like head coach, GM, WR2, CB2, DE. Now that Josh has reached superstar QB level, he has control over these things and should work with the Pegulas to win Super Bowls.

If what we're good at is drafting and developing DBs, why not use picks on DBs until we've produced our own Legion of Boom instead of de-emphasizing CB2, for example? The Bengals beat KC with coverage.

What if your boss asked you to cheat or steal?

Yes, Flores is more qualified for head coach. He's had decent success as a head coach relative to his team's talent level. Daboll has no head coaching experience, and the coordinator skillset is different from the head coach skillset. Additionally, even Daboll's coordinator resume is a mixed bag, as he's been fired a few times from offensive coordinator after producing lowly-ranked offenses before finally landing in Buffalo with Josh Allen. To be clear, I do think Daboll is a good coordinator and I would've given him the head coaching job after 13 seconds happened to McDermott.

Michael Silver is a disgusting human being and should be ignored. He and all his ilk. I also don't think Flores' career is over. If we replaced Frazier with him, many people here would jump for joy, me included. (I'd replace McDermott with him, too, but that's more controversial).

We can all agree that the 58% doesn't mean there is pro-black racism or anti-white racism in hiring NFL players, right? There are probably advantages -- whether genetic or cultural or both -- for blacks to be better athletes. For that matter, asians are very underrepresented in the NFL. Again, we are mature enough to understand that there are probably genetic or cultural reasons for the lack of asian players, not incredible anti-asian racism. You can figure out where I'm going with this.

Trying to show that his interview was a sham, but everyone already knew that sham interviews occur anyway. The real meat of the lawsuit is still the Dolphins stuff and Ross' shenanigans.

Time will tell. If over a a 10-15 year period, the Rams still have achieved more, despite the Bills having the better QB, we'd have to conclude that they had the superior strategy. Bengals feel like they just had a fluky run to make it this season (even though their future is bright with Burrow). Also, when you draft overall #1 to land your franchise QB, it's hard to give the organization too much credit. For example, I think the Bills deserve much more credit for drafting Allen because there were so many question marks and naysayers about him.

This is a very bad take. Kaepernick clearly had the support of the ruling class, of which Ross is a member. Here, publicly going against Ross and exposing Ross' misconduct will certainly not enrich Flores. The ruling class will view this as a black man biting that hand that feeds him. I think that's exactly right. All the "Flores just ended his career" takes ignore that Ross was already doing that. Flores must've felt that he had close to nothing to lose. Look, usually I'm as "racist" as they come, but I have to admire what Flores is doing here. Instead of going meekly into the night, he's taking some swings and trying to bring people down with him. That the Dolphins might suffer at his hands is a very nice bonus.

One other thing about this. The Rams have the best special teams in the league by DVOA, so it's not like their strategy has cost them depth or on the margins. At least not yet. They are still a well-rounded team despite having elite talent in many places and despite given up many assets to acquire that elite talent.

This will be a replay of last year's Super Bowl where a D-line dominating an O-line is the story of the game.'' It'll be a good results for the Bills as it will encourage McBeane to make aggressive moves to bring high-end talent onto the team to support Allen. The McVay/Snead era for the Rams and the McDermott/Beane era for the Bills both started in 2017. Both regimes have been highly successful but the Rams are going to be the one who's been to 2 Super Bowls, winning 1. This, despite the Bills having the better QB. Hopefully McBeane will think about that a little bit and take some lessons from the Rams.

Just hire an experienced playcaller from the same system so terminology won't change. Josh will do the rest.

Hopefully we don't end up running the ball too much next season. I thought the push/pull between McD and Daboll eventually led to the perfect balance towards the end of the season. I don't want McD dominating some inexperienced coordinator.