NFL teams must hire Minority assistant Coach

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PALM BEACH, Fla. -- All 32 NFL teams will hire a minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season, part of a series of policy enhancements announced Monday to address the league's ongoing diversity efforts.

The coach can be "a female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority," according to the policy adopted by NFL owners during their annual meeting, and will be paid from a league-wide fund. The coach must work closely with the head coach and the offensive staff, with the goal of increasing minority participation in the pool of offensive coaches that eventually produces the most sought-after candidates for head-coaching positions.

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more diversity is good, but forced diversity feels weird

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They're like kids who can't help themselves. It's obvious and blatant, yet are unable to self correct

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Whoever a team wants to hire, have those coaches take a DNA ancestry test. Every human being has some sort of Native American/African/Hispanic/Asian DNA (IE. Elizabeth Warren-Native American). So how can the NFL control that? Just on a person's looks?

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Coach Malarkey now retired was said that when he got the Titan job. They let him know 1st. That it was his job. He said that it was a travesty of having others study and prepare for the job, while all along knowing who was actually getting the job. So the Giants accusations are not new. They repeatedly happen. Again, they can't help themselves.
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How former Bills coach Mike Mularkey now ties into Brian Flores lawsuit against NFL
Nick Wojton
April 7, 2022, 12:09 pm

Former Buffalo Bills head coach Mike Mularkey has a pretty interesting, and incriminating, way of tying into Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL.

Flores filed a class-action complaint in the Southern District of New York, claiming that he and several other potential Black head coaches have been denied opportunities to advance in the NFL due to the league’s racist hiring practices and flagrant violations of the Rooney Rule.


On Thursday, two others joined him: Steve Wilks and Ray Horton. The latter is the reason why Mularkey has become looped in.

Mularkey, 60, was head coach of the Bills from 2004-2005. His most recent stint as a bench boss was with the Tennessee Titans from 2015 to 2017.

Mularkey was the interim in his first year and then got the job full time. This in between grey area is where Mularkey referenced some damming things against the league.


According to ESPN, Mularkey appeared on the Steelers Realm Podcast in 2020. During his appearance, he reflected upon being promoted to the Titans job and essentially said the whole thing was a sham for Black coaching candidates.

Before he ever was officially hired as the permeant head coach, Mularkey said the Titans told him he had already gotten the job.

At the time, Horton, a Black candidate, was interviewed for the position. The way things are lining up, it appears to be a clear violation of the Rooney Rule.

Here’s Mularkey’s comments on the hiring practice in Tennessee:

“I allowed myself, at one point, when I was in Tennessee, to get caught up in something that I regret. I still regret it. The ownership there, Amy Adams Strunk and her family, came in and told me I was going to be the head coach in 2016 before they went through the Rooney Rule. And so I sat there knowing I was the head coach in ’16, as they went through this fake hiring process knowing a lot of the coaches that they were interviewing, knowing how much they prepared to go through those interviews, knowing that everything they could do and they had no chance to go that job. And actually, the GM Jon Robinson, he was in an interview with me. He had no idea why he is interviewing me, that I have a job already. I regret it. . . . and I’ve regretted that since then. It was the wrong thing to do and I’m sorry I did that, but it was not the way to do that. Should have been interviewed like everybody else and got hired because of the interview, not early on. So that’s probably my biggest regret. . . . It’s not hard to do the right thing. It’s really not. But you can get caught up in this business.”

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If I was an owner of an NFL team I would hire who I felt was best for my organization and team. I would not like to be forced to hire someone to satisfy the politically correct. Seems politics have infiltrated the NFL the past few years and is starting to change some minds about the future going forward. I fell in love with football when I was a young kid and 52 years later I'm still watching. Football was always a theraputic escape from the regular grind of life and the political crap we have to absorb almost everyday of our lives. Can't politicians and politics leave us along at least one day a week so we can all recharge our batteries before tackling the next week of life. Damn. We can't even have a discussion about football, climate change, gun control or health care without making it always about race. I'm getting sick of it to be honest. Talking about race all the time regardless of the issue is taking a shine out of society and our favorite sports.