APThe number of minority play-callers in the NFL has now doubled.
According to Chris Mortensen of ESPN, the Colts have struck a deal with Stanford offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton for that same position in Indianapolis. Hamilton coached Colts quarterback Andrew Luck at Stanford.
Hamilton joins Ravens offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell as the only African-American coaches who are responsible for designing offenses and calling plays during a game. With NFL owners leaning toward offensive minds, diversity in the ranks of play-callers becomes critical to establishing diversity among head coaches.
It’s a point that was first raised recently by Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports, who joined PFT Live on Friday to address the issue.
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Good to see him getting recognized. Had to change his offence in one year from the style of Andrew Luck and throwing the ball to a predominant running game.
Great hire
great hire,with a good draft Colts should be right back in it.
Hard to second-guess Ryan Grigson with his decisions thus far. Also, Colts deserve some credit for their history of hiring of diverse candidates (Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, Pep Hamilton).
Super Bowl!
They hope Pep can Rally them.
Great hire. Low risk, high reward.
When’s the pep rally?
I just keep thinking Pep Strebeck, the character Tom Hanks played in Dragnet.
Dang! I heard his name surface for the Oakland gig and was hoping he was selected instead of a retread OC. It seems like a good hire for the Colts.
I really despise the race issue being brought up when hiring coaches. Let them be hired by their track record and shut up about it. I don’t see any griping about the minority status of white football players. Drives me nuts.
Diversity in the NFL will not likely grow until it grows more in College ball. Players are not the only thing the NFL swipes from the NCAA.
Wow! I was right.
He likely had the jets for leverage.
Will his title for the Colts now be “NFL Professional OC for the Neck Beard?
Go Colts!
I’m a bit torn on this. I am glad BA is out of the picture and we are going to be able to incorporate a more WCO? I guess the safe way of thinking is to bring in one of the proven NFL OC’s that were fired from their HC position like Hue Jackson or Pat Shurmer. But then if they have a couple of good years with Andrew Luck, they leave to become a HC somewhere else which would set Luck back having to learn another new system. So in that regard I hope this is a the right move. I have got to believe Andrew Luck had a say in this hire and is probably very happy.
Go Blue.
Great hire! Hopefully Pep does a excellent job and then becomes the Raiders head coach in a year or two. Once our slow witted Front Office realizes that Dennis Allen is a terrible head coach who doesn’t know how to put a coaching staff together…sheesh.
Do you mean “offfensive” play-callers or “newly-hired” play-callers? Because there are certainly more than two minority play-callers.
Jim Caldwell
Ray Horton
Todd Bowles
Perry Fewell
NFL Team: We really like this minority candidate. But we’ll instead hire this less qualified individual because he is white.
Yup, that makes sense in billion dollar organizations.