*cough cough racist cough

I am offended as a black guy that most black people blame their problems and shortcomings on whites and you are a prime example, I’m doing fine and not salty at all. Probably bc I don’t spend my time stewing over racial ish like you do in every post, get a life stop looking for other races to kiss your butt and apologize for horrible things that happened to our people a hundred years ago, I am a human not an African American, once you realize that for yourself you will be much happier. Peace

Not accepting criticism from readers shows that your journalistic purpose is not to deliver the news but to steer it in the way you see fit, or the to hide the obvious weaknesses in your article…

Simply weak… only morons will eat this stuff up!

Ed McCaffrey and Wayne Chrebet were/are miles from being “great” players. They played a few years for New York teams, made a few catches, got a lot of ink. They weren’t bad, but they were hardly “great”.

I’m not stupid, at this point in time racism is still prevalent more so I think with older folks of ALL races not just white, but being of the mid 20s age group I can really tell we are moving forward doing a comparison of my age group to the older ones, a of now we still do need some regulation of jobs to make sure there is no discrimination there like the Rooney rule basis, to get better we need be able to move past programs that look out for certain races and move towards programs that look out for ALL people, get rid of NAACP and African American, Latin scholarships, traditionally black/womens only schools.
Like I said I’m not stupid these things will be around for awhile, but it should go both ways, this is a prime example of how whites are looked down upon as inferior or not as good, just like black qb’s which both are unfair, but if whites dared to have a whites only scholarship, or a qualified white guy guy doesn’t get a job because the organization doesn’t have enough minority candidates, I can see the next Rooney rule having a minority quota and we will run into this problem sooner or later. Maybe not as bad as the real world since this is a very exclusive business where all candidates are great.
Lets just stop the stereotypes and keep it all fair, whites included, they are getting more discriminated against with all the over sensitivity in the NFL and the real world.

Take for example… Jared Allen. Everyone always talks about he’s a “high effort” guy who’s “motor never stops”. No one ever talks about how fast his first step is, despite him being one of the more explosive pass rushers in the league.

Look at JJ Watt’s scouting reports a couple years ago, and you’ll see “hard worker, non-stop motor, more all around player” etc. But you’ll also see “not an explosive athlete, will not bring much in pass rush”. And yet we all saw how wrong that was this year. And again we see it with Bjoern Werner this year, same notion of not being as explosive a pass rusher as Moore, Jones, Jordon or Mingo, but he’s a more “all around DE” and a “high motor guy”.

Look at Kuechly and Harrison Smith’s scouting reports last year. “Not great athletes, lack speed, etc.” Yet they were two of the best athletes at the combine for their respective positions.

It’s silly how consistent you see these types of stereotypes for white players. Even white QBs like Ponder, Gabbert and Luck “surprised people with their athleticism and speed in the running game”. Meanwhile a guy like Geno Smith who rarely runs is just placed in the same bubble as RG3, Newton and Vick, he just happens to “choose” not to use his athleticism.

Black DE:
Strengths – Big, nasty animal with freakish athleticism. Absolute monster with a mean streak and jarring club move. Physically dominates his opponent and delivers train wreck tackles. World class speed and uncanny jumping ability. Beast.
Weaknesses – Takes plays off. Needs some work on his technique to become more effective at getting off his blocks. Lacks determination and hasn’t yet realized his full potential. Below average football IQ.
NFL COMPARISON: GRIZZLY BEAR

This has been going on forever… Before Welker and Jordy Nelson every white WR was compared to Ed McCaffrey or Wayne Chrebet. Who cares… They were great players.
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Ed McCaffrey and Wayne Chrebet were/are miles from being “great” players. They played a few years for New York teams, made a few catches, got a lot of ink. They weren’t bad, but they were hardly “great”.

Players also get compared to people with similar height/weight even if they play drastically different. Lazy writers take a player and look for another player who looks like he could be his brother and then say they are similar. It saves them from actually having to look at tape.

For receivers, if you’re tall and skinny with a good 40 you are a long strider and more fast than quick. If you are short then you are automatically more quick than fast. If you’re slow – you have good hands. If you’re big – you are a good blocker. There are no such things as big, tall receivers with a good 40 who are quicker than fast and are terrible blockers.

smh. America finally catches up. This has been said about black QB’s for the longest time. Most modern black QB’s were either compared to Donovan McNabb (if they didn’t run) or Michael Vick (if they ran). If a white QB ran then he was compared to Steve Young.

People call it sensible and non-racist until it’s done to a white person. Then it’s stereotypes. Wow.

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On the contrary blackandbluedivision, I think nearly everyone on here would agree with you, that Black QB’s are profiled as well, because of color. So are White QB’s. They can’t be fast because they are white, right? According to popular opinion it would seem. Black QB’s can’t read a defense and are always “run first”, because they are black, right? That seems to be the accepted norm. Neither of these things are true, but they are accepted because the media tells us that. I am sick of it both ways.

I am a white male, and my wife is black. She and I are planning on having kids. She and I are both athletic, however I am faster than she is and she is smarter than I am. I sure hope my son can play football someday and not be racially profiled no matter what position he plays.
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I don’t think anyone has ever said a white QB “can’t run.” They just don’t. When Jake Locker came out and Tim Tebow came out and others they were labeled as runners. But, (aside from Tebow) they were compared to white QB’s. I’m sorry, I’ve never seen a black QB compared to a white one. White QB can be compare to any QB in league history but the media won’t dare taint a legendary white QB by comparing him to a black one.

You forget the fact that the author of this article did say that Swope ran a 4.3 40 (which is pretty fast). So, if NFL.com says he doesn’t have great speed then they are incorrect.

Nobody said life is fair, and dispelling stereotypes is part of it. As long as there is subjectivity in the talent evaluation process on every level of football, there will always be stereotypes because our vision of the athlete it takes to play a position is often inspired by the characteristics of our idols and heroes.