I think what you mean is, the Bills can re-structure Knox’s contract without his consent, which suggests that this is a negotiated pay cut. Interesting…
You still haven’t explained how Wilson could have found a better landing spot. I don’t believe any team was going to just hand him the keys, especially after the draft. Where do you think he could have landed that would be better than Pittsburgh?
Disagree. If Wilson waits until after the draft, teams will make other plans and he could find himself out in the cold. Pittsburgh is perfect for him…pretty solid team around him, he’ll get to compete for the starting gig, and they are unlikely to draft a QB early. Please explain how he could have done better…no team is handing him a starting job.
Yeah, that Rapp contract is a bit of a puzzler…he wasn’t even a starter last year. Maybe they just really want to have some continuity…
Maybe they aren’t drafting Williams😎
Off the top of my head, I'd rather have Stafford, Purdy, Love, Prescott, Murray and maybe Hurts. But Baker is probably the best QB in that sinkhole known as the NFC South, at least for now...
I'd say it puts them firmly in QB purgatory...they are committed to a guy who's at best a top 12-14 QB in the league. Maybe good enough to win the woeful NFC South, but that's the limit.
I don't agree with the bold part--I think the preferential treatment is explicit and obvious--but I agree that the league has done a good job of threading the needle, both legally and from a PR standpoint.
The bold is why I believe the policy has never been legally challenged. Who would actually have legal standing to challenge it? Not an easy hurdle to overcome, but the policy is discriminatory on its face.
The bolded is simply not true. The policy is discriminatory on its face: Black coaches are given preferential treatment on the basis of their race...Teams that hire and develop them get rewarded if someone else hires them and that's not the case with white coaches.
People just assume that in a league where more than 50% of the players are Black, at least 50% of the coaches and executives should also be Black, but that is a flawed premise. There is no known correlation between success as a player and success as a head coach or GM. If you look around the league, only about 1/3 of head coaches and a few GMs are former NFL players. Most of the best coaches in the league right now have no NFL playing experience. Why should the percentage of Black coaches (and especially GMs) be expected to greatly exceed the percentage of Black people in the general population?