https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...nsive-coach-expands-rooney-rule-include-women
I get what they are trying to do, but it seems like it's a over-reaction to the last hiring cycle where Leftwich seemingly turned down a job and Flores did his thing. Then there must be "something" with Bienemy because he didn't even make many short list this time around.
The one thing I didn't like is they didn't mention how many NFL teams are in violation of this. I'd actually be a bit shocked if there was more than a handful of teams that weren't already complicit with this. If this was a documented problem (and maybe it was) maybe I'd feel different about it, but the article didn't give any offensive coaching staff breakdown numbers. So maybe this was more of a PR stunt to put a rule that most everyone is already in line with.
Hidden in the last paragraphs were interesting notes that there are a record 15 minority DC this year and the percentage of minority coaches overall is up 5% to almost 40%. So while the HC numbers don't look great at the moment, the numbers in the rest of the staffs on paper seems pretty healthy at a glance.
I get what they are trying to do, but it seems like it's a over-reaction to the last hiring cycle where Leftwich seemingly turned down a job and Flores did his thing. Then there must be "something" with Bienemy because he didn't even make many short list this time around.
The one thing I didn't like is they didn't mention how many NFL teams are in violation of this. I'd actually be a bit shocked if there was more than a handful of teams that weren't already complicit with this. If this was a documented problem (and maybe it was) maybe I'd feel different about it, but the article didn't give any offensive coaching staff breakdown numbers. So maybe this was more of a PR stunt to put a rule that most everyone is already in line with.
Hidden in the last paragraphs were interesting notes that there are a record 15 minority DC this year and the percentage of minority coaches overall is up 5% to almost 40%. So while the HC numbers don't look great at the moment, the numbers in the rest of the staffs on paper seems pretty healthy at a glance.
