re: Leftwich to Jags

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Like Josh McDaniels getting several NFL Head Coaching opportunities for " coaching" Brady?

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He’s been the head coach of exactly ONE NFL team. He wasn’t great, but he did make the playoffs and actually won a game with Tim Tebow as his QB. But his “coaching”—I don’t know why y’all think Brady just walked right into the league as a 6th round draft pick and just took over and started teaching his coaches at 22-years-old, but whatever—Brady (in the way you imply it) is maybe 1% of why he got that opportunity. The rest was because he had offensive success, but most importantly, because he coached under and learned from Billy B. You know who else got a head coaching job because he was a coordinator under Bill? African American Romeo Crennel. Who, in 5 seasons as a HC never made the playoffs and only had 1 winning season. He didn’t fired because he was black, he got fired because he’s sucked as an NFL HC.

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Many of us understand that Southerners do not think Blacks deserve these jobs.

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Jesus Christ you and your ilk. And you could just as likely to be white as black as far as I know because plenty of white people think like you. So when I say “your ilk,” it doesn’t mean black. But you honestly believe, 2022, that “Southerners” as a whole, do not think blacks deserve NFL HC jobs? I’m relatively liberal for this website when it comes to race, but fans—fanatics—of NFL teams could not give less of a shite about the color of their favorite team’s head coach. As long as he wins, he could be goddamn green.

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unfortunately we cannot express to young recruits how the SEC fanbase really feel about them.

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I mean, are you fricking serious? You simply cannot be this stupid. Because college players aren’t there for very long, of course fans are gonna see them more as labor or commodities. But that has absolutely zero to do with race. There are exceptions, but most are black players. I’m an LSU fan. Joe Burrow has transcended LSU fandom into the NFL like we’ve never seen. Because he’s Big Dick Joe Burrow. But LSU fans absolutely still love Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, Jarvis Landry, Clyde, Devin White, Trey White, the list goes on and on. And almost all of them are black.

But even if you could make a rational argument that it’s SEC fans who look down on the black players of their schools—and you can’t—if you think the Southeastern United States has some sort of monopoly on racism, then I can only assume you’ve either never been there or never left there. If there is legitimate racism remaining—and there’s a lot less than the media would have you believe—then it’s pretty evenly spread out. Probably more insulting in the “progressive” northern cities or states as it’s more subverted in the soft bigotry of lower expectations. Or the old hypocritical standby of “Yes, I’m all for that progressive policy that will help blacks, just not in my subdivision, not at my kids’ schools.”

Motherfrick, I love Byron Leftwich. Have loved him since he played in college with a fricking broken leg. He couldn’t walk and had to be carried down the field by a couple of his OL between plays, but stayed in there. It was amazing, and I’ve had a tremendous amount of respect for him ever since. As a Saints fan, he was one of top 2 or 3 guys I was initially thinking might make the best candidates (the other was Flores. And I’m even intrigued by Eric Beinemy. Both black men). And he gets a great opportunity today to become the young HC of the team that drafted him like 7th overall, has a young roster with a very talented young QB he can develop and help grow, and that has a good bit of draft capital. But instead of reading this thread and being happy for him and excited to see what he can do, I’ve got to come in here and pull your fricking pants down and spank your hiney because you can’t beyond the inteligencia of child? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you.