The Cincinnati Bengals once were a team, not that long ago, that the NFL could tout as a sign of progress with coaching diversity, rather than being an example of all that is still wrong, writes @nrarmour https://t.co/OUnQjVyYS7
— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) September 29, 2022
Former Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis, left, was the NFL's seventh Black coach. His staff, including special assistant to the head coach Hue Jackson, right, continued the team's history of championing diversity.
Hue Jackson was a champion of diversity. As a head coach of the Cleveland Browns, he proved that Black men could also be the worst to ever do their jobs by going 3-36-1 over the course of two and a half seasons. 
The Bengals have the least-diverse staff in the NFL this season, with non-white coaches making up 24% of Zac Taylor’s staff. No other NFL staff has less than 30% non-white coaches.
Now I ain't no fancy mathematically-inclined city slicker, but I do believe that those numbers are not very far apart. 
White coaches at the “thinking person” positions and Black men in the running back and wide receiver rooms?
Is this b-word implying that runningbacks and wide receivers are stupid? She may be right, but she's got some balls to say so, if I say so! 
Yet no one’s going to say too much or look too hard because Taylor led the Bengals to their first Super Bowl appearance since 1989 last year, so whatever he’s doing — and whoever he’s doing it with — must be working.
Yeah, it's funny how that works. Go 0-7 in the playoffs with a Black head coach over 16 years and people want to fire him, but go to the Super Bowl with the NFL's least diverse staff and no one seems too keen on shaking things up. I can't puzzle it out. 
Now, this isn’t to say owner Mike Brown, who also acts as the Bengals GM, or Taylor are racist.
Now, I would NEVER accuse you of being racist! I would simply write an article on USAToday strongly implying it.
The author of this piece, Nancy Armour, never once mentions the 16 year long playoff win drought that led to Marvin Lewis's firing. His firing is only mentioned in a passing line about Zac Taylor replacing him in 2019. If you knew nothing about the Bengals or the NFL coming into this article, I wonder what conclusions you might draw from that.
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Also the tweets about the article contain a minor grammatical mistake. I win.
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Rooney rule is already toeing the line of discrimination.
Pushing for more than that will get spicy 🥵
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What exactly do you think is "spicy" about insisting that qualified candidates of color be given a fair shot at top jobs? The only thing "spicy" here is your bigoted attitude.
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I enjoy jalapenos
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Jalapenos? More like JALA-NO-NOs. Am I right, or am I right?
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You’re quite wrong about this.
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I'm sorry, what was your name again? I didn't catch it when you were crawling out from under that rock you live under.
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Why are being such a ledditor lately ? It’s disheartening to see u so bereft off wit and wisdom.
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I'm sorry if I'm not living up to your standards, but sometimes I just can't help being a ledditor.
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I think we need more racial diversity among the players too
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Absolutely
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Tony Dungy and Omar Epps already proved that black people can be good coaches, shitlibs can all go rope in Minecraft
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NO, IN REAL LIFE
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Hue hue hue
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This article makes the accidental assumption that black coaches were holding them back.
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For the sake of diversity, they should've brought on more white, Asian, and Latinx players. But why wasn't the author criticizing this lack of diversity?
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