The issue I have is having a policy where you interview a person based solely on the color of his skinsardis wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 10:45 am I have to side with Flores on this one and hope he wins. NFL owners enact these bogus anti-racist rules and give the appearance they're "woke" to satisfy their media partners and sponsors, yet they are the least diverse group in corporate America and have the benefit of anti-trust as well. Any other employer would have been shut down with the injuries they cause on their employees and never have to answer to it? They don't even try to set up a fund to help them despite the billions they make? Sports owners are the worst of the worst in the corporate world and should get everything coming to them.
Look at the Redskins owner. Do you think anything is going to happen to him by pimping out cheerleaders to major sponsors? Of course not. Shit, a friend of mine who is a partner at another firm loses his position just because he dated a woman in his firm that was at a lower position. NFL owners get away with shit.
They have a commissioner, and I get that NFL is an old boys club, an very exclusive old boys club, but they shouldn't need a written policy, they shouldn't even had a Kaeperneck situation. Goodell should be proactively demanding that organizations are diverse either based on the population of the US, or in the makeup of the league - and if a Jack Del Rio is hired over a Brian Flores, then Goodell should be reaching out and demanding to know why that person was hired, be able to defend it.
Flores is Latino, I think anyways.
I heard on ESPN this morning someone saying, a black commentator (and I assume the same goes for Latinos), that the NFL's worst nightmare is a strong, outspoken, smart black man - and I'm llike, no, not at all, that should be the best thing that the NFL wants because it makes the hiring easier. No one wants to hire someone who isn't qualified for the position. Flores talks about the Bill Bilichek text he received that let him know he wasn't going to be considered before he ever interviewed and I get why he was mad but he had a chance to go in there and change their mind. And to assume he is more qualified is a stretch for a coach that ultimately ended up being fired for coming up short as the Dolphins head coach. Yea the NFL has nepotism and they hire college buddies or people they were on staff with a decade ago somewhere else. That's where Goodell should be on top of it demanding they qualify those hires. He should also be suggesting they interview specific people for the job.
But the Rooney rule is stupid - any rule that focuses on diversity without emphasizing qualifications is going to lead to these token situations.
There are 32 head coaching jobs in the NFL. Flores had one them and was an assistant to the Patriots for a decade. I can see him having a point if he *didn't* get 1 of 32 jobs available in the world. But he also didn't take them to the playoffs, and he has had some bad losses along with some good wins. Tua being inconsistent in his development didn't help. I don't know how you can claim discrimination when you *got* the job.
