BBTV Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 ... 1 "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBTV Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Lovie Smith? Is this Texans saying that they can’t fire a black guy without replacing him with one? I get that there’s no way they could sell McCowm, a white guy with no experience, over experienced minority candidates, but when those candidates have mediocre resumes? Certainly there’s better non-white candidates than Lovie. 1 1 "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCarp1231 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Two Notes- Lovie Smith is in serious final talks to be hired as the HC of the Texans Alvin Kamara was arrested for assault after today’s Pro Bowl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Lovie looks awesome now 1 3 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabcake Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 I saw some moron on bleacher report (I know, it’s redundant) comment that Lovie Smith was one of the worst head coaches of all time. I know he wasn’t great, but he got to a Super Bowl with Rex Grossman. That immediately puts him in the below-average tier at worst, which would skyrocket him above guys like Hue Jackson and Adam Gase. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDAWG Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 33 minutes ago, BBTV said: Lovie Smith? Is this Texans saying that they can’t fire a black guy without replacing him with one? I get that there’s no way they could sell McCowm, a white guy with no experience, over experienced minority candidates, but when those candidates have mediocre resumes? Certainly there’s better non-white candidates than Lovie. A local Houston media guy says it was likely a business move in that it would have been really hard to sell team sponsors on Josh McCown. If they had hired McCown, NRG Stadium would be a ghost town on Game Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorWhom Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 37 minutes ago, GDAWG said: A local Houston media guy says it was likely a business move in that it would have been really hard to sell team sponsors on Josh McCown. If they had hired McCown, NRG Stadium would be a ghost town on Game Day. Implying NRG Stadium isn't already a Ghost Town on Game Day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 1 hour ago, GDAWG said: A local Houston media guy says it was likely a business move in that it would have been really hard to sell team sponsors on Josh McCown. If they had hired McCown, NRG Stadium would be a ghost town on Game Day. Rasputin's gonna recycle and repeat next year though. 1 On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJWalker45 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 12 hours ago, Crabcake said: I saw some moron on bleacher report (I know, it’s redundant) comment that Lovie Smith was one of the worst head coaches of all time. I know he wasn’t great, but he got to a Super Bowl with Rex Grossman. That immediately puts him in the below-average tier at worst, which would skyrocket him above guys like Hue Jackson and Adam Gase. Those two are F Tier coaches and should be left on the curb with discarded Christmas trees. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted February 7, 2022 Author Share Posted February 7, 2022 12 hours ago, BBTV said: Lovie Smith? Is this Texans saying that they can’t fire a black guy without replacing him with one? I get that there’s no way they could sell McCowm, a white guy with no experience, over experienced minority candidates, but when those candidates have mediocre resumes? Certainly there’s better non-white candidates than Lovie. 12 hours ago, GDAWG said: A local Houston media guy says it was likely a business move in that it would have been really hard to sell team sponsors on Josh McCown. If they had hired McCown, NRG Stadium would be a ghost town on Game Day. Lovie Smith was a good coach for the Bears for the bulk of his tenure. His faults were in wanting more personnel control which led to crappier defenses, and the offense was being constantly f'd with due to a woeful combination of underperforming quarterbacks and bad offensive coordinators. The locker room under him was pretty much pristine. Players love him, almost to a fault. I can't speak for how things went for him in Tampa, but the University of Illinois tenure was weird under Lovie, which surprised me. I thought he'd do well in Champaign, but the recruiting never developed and I don't think he ever commanded guys that young the same way he did in the NFL. It'd be cool to have him join the NFL again for one more go as Head Coach. 3 1 Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCap Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 15 hours ago, BBTV said: Lovie Smith? Is this Texans saying that they can’t fire a black guy without replacing him with one? I get that there’s no way they could sell McCowm, a white guy with no experience, over experienced minority candidates, but when those candidates have mediocre resumes? Certainly there’s better non-white candidates than Lovie. For the Texans race is immaterial. It's how willing you are to toe Megachurch Rasputin's (thanks to @the admiral for that one) "praise Jesus" line. I have no idea what Lovie Smith's religious beliefs are. Smart money is he's at least nominally Christian. And probably willing to play along with Easterby. That's all it takes. 1 PotD 26/2/12 1/7/15 2020 BASS Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal Regular Season Champion 2021 BASS NFL Pick'em Regular Season Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDAWG Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 So it has to be Dennis Allen in New Orleans right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Lovie is a devout Christian and his treat-players-as-adults approach is one that everyone should be able to respect, even if a Tampa 2 defense hasn't worked in ten years. 5 1 ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosioux76 Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 On 2/3/2022 at 2:05 PM, Cujo said: The Giants allegation is the only one with some merit in regards to racism. As we know, when a team targets one specific coach from the get-go, they still go thru the motions, bring in a number of candidates, and "get that Rooney Rule interview out of the way." Now if NY offered the job to Daboll, verbally or in writing, before they interviewed a black candidate, then they really slipped up. All teams have likely done this, but they do it in the correct order, interviewing a minority before making the hire. Why Flores still went to that interview when he knew Daboll is somewhat puzzling, but that's honestly besides the point. All this being said, I think we can all agree the Rooney Rule is so incredibly flawed. I honestly don't know what the NFL will be able to do to 'fix this', short of forcing teams to hire minority head coaches. Hopefully this lawsuit opens some eyes and progress is made down the road. Unfortunately, Flores, outside of rejoining back to Belichick's staff, will likely be blackballed for speaking up, which also speaks to racism amongst league owners and brass. You're absolutely right that the Rooney Rule is flawed. It also translates down to how teams communicate with sports media. Maybe it's always been this way and I never noticed it, but this off-season it seems like the teams are releasing a lot more information on who they're interviewing, or they're freely leaking it to sports media. Basically, it's like they're showing their Rooney Rule receipts. I've followed the Vikings closely, and the list of candidates receiving one interview was remarkably diverse. The list of four finalists came down to two black and two white. At that point, it all looks good. So before any hirings get announced, as consumers of sports news, we're left to believe that teams are choosing from a robust and diverse pool of candidates. But so far, eight of the nine openings have been filled or appear close to being filled, with Lovie Smith as the lone black candidate to be in line for a job. (The Saints have yet to announce a hire.) If anything, it's an outcome like this that gives more credence to Flores' claims than the actual incidents outlined in his lawsuit. Even if teams truly believe they hired the right people for their jobs, which is fair, at a macro level — where you compare the hired coaches with the pool of interviewees — you can easily see how someone would be left with the impression that there's some level of racism at play. And if not racism, an extreme injustice of another level. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBTV Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 1 hour ago, gosioux76 said: But so far, eight of the nine openings have been filled or appear close to being filled, with Lovie Smith as the lone black candidate to be in line for a job. (The Saints have yet to announce a hire.) the guy the Dolphins hired identifies as 25% black, which makes him black enough to net the 49ers two 3rd round compensatory picks for developing a minority coach. Basically any team with any white coach on its staff that might be hired away should make them do a Ancestry test and hope that they find some trace of non-white blood so that they can get draft picks. Or photoshop a family picture and give him a black grandma or great grandmother. "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted February 7, 2022 Author Share Posted February 7, 2022 3 hours ago, the admiral said: Lovie is a devout Christian This was 80% of the qualification for the job. 1 1 Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 If only one day, it would come to something akin to this... https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/black-white-twins-meet-sisters-5256945 1 I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDAWG Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 to the surprise of nobody: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorWhom Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Is Goodell the most corrupt commissioner in the NFL? Or is he just laughably incompetent? Between this, the Zeke suspension, Flores lawsuit, and the obvious fact they're desperately trying to cover up Snyder's history of abuse, the NFL is giving DC a run for it money on who can be more corrupt. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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