Most of the best assistant coaches are the ones getting the interviews and getting hired. Let me give you the names of some assistant coaches out their in the NFL. Brian Schottenheimer, Rob Ryan, Pat Shumur, Mike Nolan, Kyle Shanahan, Wes Phillips and Scott Turner. Now are you understanding? Coaches are hiring their friends and now THEIR KIDS to all the good coordinator spots while legends like Chris Carter and Deon Sanders (and for that matter Brett Favre and Troy Aikman) are either coaching guys on their own time or coaching HIGH SCHOOL football. Stop nepatism in assistant coach hiring and you’ll have more minority coaches than non minorities in the NFL sooner than later.

The real reasons are plain and simple why the most teams (owners/shareholders/ Robert Kraft & Ralph Wilson) won’t take a risk on Head Coaches who are QB’s (Qualified and Black) is because they really don’t possess adesire to or have a need to and are not really required(pretend the Rooney Rule is effective) because he who has the gold makes the rule! (insert Roger Goodell here). The “rationale” of not having sufficient candidates is a falsehood at the very least.

The NFL has over 80% of the contractors (aka) professional football players who are African- Americans and less than 1% of African-American current head coaches. Why is that? It’s America!

If you truly want to hire someone you can, Jerry Jones proved that by hiring that old fart from USC…..(Union of Senior Coaches) if you truly don’t want to hire someone, you can. Ask Lovie Smith about this one! Are we really to believe Lovie is happy being out of the game even though he is still getting paid? I think not!

Like I said, if the NFL was really serious about hiring qualified Head Coaching candidates, why on earth would you need a rule…why not make it the Norm? (not Norm Van Brocklin either!) The NFL is not obliged to follow the federal hiring practices.

Stop this nonsense and deal with the truth, plain and simple. Goodell and his bosses need to look at the men in the mirror….instead of the gameday attendance $$$$$$. As long as the fans are still coming to the stadiums and/or watching on Game Day Sundays, who gives a crap?

Cricket sounds and lonely tumbleweeds nearby.

This is part of many aspects of the new 21st century racism: false racial claims by either racist white liberals who are taught to behave this way or the spinless portion of minorities bowing to peer pressure from those who demand they interpret their “social duty” a certain way instead of just having one’s own mind. This only results in actually holding the country back and keeping it divided; the unintelligent who do these things don’t have an ability to understand this.

Know why Rivera thinks what he does? Because he’s been taught he has to.

Ray Horton – DC – Browns
David Shaw – HC – Stanford
Mel Tucker – DC – Bears
Alan Williams – DC – Vikings

Sure, we’d like to see more minorities obtain head coaching positions in the NFL. But I can’t really argue against any of the HC hirings made this year.

Arians, Trestman, Bradley, McCoy, Kelly, Reid all made sense for the right reasons on their respective teams.

Where’s the problem again?

NFL is such hypocrites.

In the entire NFL today I bet there are only a handful of minority players that will even consider going into coaching after retirement. Some maybe lucky to get a media job but a majority of them will be bankrupt within a few years of retiring.

I have been watching football for almost 40 years, I can probably count on my hand how many form minority players went into the coaching profession. There just isn’t enough canidates in the pipeline to fill head coaching jobs.

i fail to see what the problem is

Good job, whitey. Keep up the good work…

If Fewell had job interviews for all open vacancies and didn’t get the job, there would be many still beating the same drum (the marching band type one, not the Native American one) saying that there is a conspiracy. Maybe he’s just not good enough or yet ready to be a coach, maybe he’s happy in NY and turned down requests for interviews quietly, or the Giants did on his behalf behind the scenes?

All sorts of good coaches may not be good head coaches. Look at Wade Phillips, Norv Turner and Romeo Cronell as constant reminders of that.

Most of the coaching vacancies went to no brainers. Teams like Cleveland, Philly, and others got who they wanted ahead of time. Were they supposed to alter their search and hire a black guy, just because he is black?

I am a black guy. Never been to Africa, nor have my parents. This whole rule is garbage. As mentioned above, there are waaay more minority players than white. Should players be cut simply because of race? No, thats racist. And so is all this talk of complaining about not enough minority coaches.

These owners have billion dollar teams. No owner in their right mind is going to want to go 4-12 with a white coach vs 10-6 with a minority. There is too much at stake to play the race game with coaches.

To be realistic about it, there isnt an owner out there who cares what ethnicity coaches or players are. Teams simply want the best ones available and that is it. They want their team to win. Winning is where the money is at. So, should they take a coach that they feel can win? Or should they select a coach based strictly on whether or not they are non-white? Show me a team that would rather lose than to hire a non-white coach. If you think you can answer that, you have an agenda or are just too stupid to formulate an answer.

And racism is not only applied to whites. Obviously you are BLIND to the world, my friend.”

What’s painfully obvious is that there is a lot of people ingrained with either a victim mentality or guilt “for the sins of my ancestors” mentality, both of which are delusional.

As far as being blind to the world, show me where anyone but a white person has been accused of a hate crime or unfair hiring practices.