Dolphins wanted Burrow really, really bad…

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I'm not sure people actually read it.

https://www.wigdorlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Complaint-against-National-Football-League-et-al-Filed.pdf


Many players desire to coach for their post-playing careers. Others desire to work their way into management-level positions at one of the NFL’s 32 Teams. Unfortunately, for Black individuals, that is easier said than done.

 Only 1 of the NFL’s 32 teams (3%) employs a Black Head
Coach;
 Only 4 of the NFL’s 32 teams (12%) employ a Black
Offensive Coordinator;
 Only 11 of the NFL’s 32 teams (34%) employ a Black
Defensive Coordinator;
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 Only 8 of the NFL’s 32 teams (25%) employ a Black
Special Teams Coordinator;
 Only 3 of the NFL’s 32 teams (9%) employ a Black
Quarterback Coach; and
 Only 6 of the NFL’s 32 teams (19%) employ a Black
General Manager.

6. These numbers come from a pool of players that is approximately 70% Black.
This is not by chance. Rather, the statistics above and those described throughout this Complaint
are the result of race discrimination.

7. The NFL has effectively conceded this point. Troy Vincent, the NFL Executive
Vice President of Football Operations, recently stated with regard to Black Head Coaches:

There is a double standard, and we’ve seen that . . . And you talk
about the appetite for what’s acceptable. Let’s just go back to . . .
Coach Dungy was let go in Tampa Bay after a winning season. . .
Coach Wilks, just a few years prior, was let go after one year . . .
Coach Caldwell was fired after a winning season in Detroit . . . It is
part of the larger challenges that we have. But when you just look
over time, it’s over-indexing for men of color. These men have
been fired after a winning season. How do you explain that?
There is a double standard. I don’t think that that is something that
we should shy away from. But that is all part of some of the things
that we need to fix in the system. We want to hold everyone to
why does one, let’s say, get the benefit of the doubt to be able to
build or take bumps and bruises in this process of getting a
franchise turned around when others are not afforded that latitude?
. . . [W]e’ve seen that in history at the [professional] level.1

8. Similarly, Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity
& Inclusion Officer, stated:

Any criticism we get for lack of representation at the GM and head
coach positions, we deserve. We see that we’re not where we want
to be. We have to do much better. We’re focusing on all roles at....