Gary Sheffield, Jr
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We can all agree Brian Flores’ firing in Miami made no sense, but USA Today’s Mike Freeman claims he was fired because he’s black. Of course he did.
Black coaches often talk privately about how the leash is much shorter for them than their white counterparts.
Flores is a perfect example of this.— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) January 10, 2022
Flores earned a 24-25 record as head coach in Miami and didn’t make the playoffs once during his tenure. That said, when two of an organization’s three winning seasons are under one coach and two of this season’s wins are against Bill Belichick, that guy isn’t the problem. Brian Flores led the team to seven straight wins this season and seemed like the solution. If you’d asked us preseason, nine wins for that roster in Miami would have sounded like a success. So what happened?
Well, Mike Freeman believes Flores would still have the job had he been white.
We’ll chalk this one up to the polarizing environment Twitter has orchestrated. Media talking heads like Freeman disagree with a firing and then draw a baseless conclusion that divides America. Not every black coach who loses his job does so because of racism — sometimes a team has their reasons and the general public isn’t informed enough to figure out what those reasons are.
Rumors have surfaced that Flores wasn’t getting along with players in the locker room. Of course, we have no way of confirming or denying those rumors, but it’s a journalist’s job to avoid drawing conclusions that can’t be backed up by anything other than emotion. Mike Freeman is just another race-baiter who’s gotten comfortable taking the easy way out of these nuanced coaching decisions.
And again, we disagree with Brian Flores’ dismissal, but to conclude this was racially motivated is dismal reporting.
We’ll chalk this one up to the polarizing environment Twitter orchestrated when they invented this app
And of course Oukick sends out Carlton to find that one journalist out of a million. Great job Dhjango Steven…. It’s like clockwork with you. #SkinnyPaleWhitlock
Way to go full racist to show how intelligent and tolerant you are. Maybe next time you can even throw in an Uncle Tom reference.
Not every black coach who loses his job does so because of the same racism MLK fought — sometimes a team has their reasons and the general public isn’t informed enough to figure that out.
“Not every black coach who loses his job does so because of the same racism MLK fought ‘ (but some do? That’s unacceptable)
the Irony
Right on
Facts.
Gary, thanks for the article. Flores was fired as the result of a power struggle between him and the GM (who happens to be black). This happens every day in businesses all across the world and it happens to white, black, HIspanic, Asian, gay, straight, women, men, etc etc. Flores was not especially fired for being black. That is a dumb, lazy and illogical argument. What else should we expect from the cuckold journos out there and liberal idiots who just want a fake headline.
I read that there may have been some dissention with the GM Chris Grier, who happens to be black. So if racism was involved I’d think that both would’ve been fired. I agree that Flores should’ve been given another year, especially with the way they rallied the second half of the year. Someone will scoop him up quickly. (Oh yeah, and it’s not his fault the Dolphins drafted Tua over Herbert!)
Seem to have read recently the owner wants his ass kissed by coach also so maybe Flores didn’t think that was in job description.He’s going to end up in better situation.
Its more likely HE WAS HIRED … BECAUSE HE IS BLACK …. but its The NFL so I officially don’t care!
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Lolll everyone without 18 masks on knows this is facts.
Lolololol and Lamar Jackson won’t get the Max Money in the league at his position cuz he’s black and Justin Fields won’t get enough of a shot when he proves to continue on his trendlines to bustville. They will just never let it go until one of these guys they project this on to comes out and says “Yo Fuck all of you MSM fucking idiots I’m my own man and can handle my own business and these are the actual reasons I was let go.”
Maybe Maga athletes will tale over sports and Conservative Maga men will take over sports to show us all how to REALLY play sports with all their great athletes? Lmbao …I know I know…if it wasn’t for those pesky tryouts and having to compete against other GROWN ASS MEN you would be on top. #Charlottesville #January6th
Sincerely
Jesse Owen’s
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Tom Brady, Christian McCaffrey and hundreds of others disprove your idiotic, racist rantings, clown . But keep paying money to this site
I would like to say the nfl isn’t racist, but perhaps it is. I mean Ray Lewis literally committed murder and no one even blinked. A.B. has been given chance after chance, anyone remember Pac-Man Jones? Ray Rice? …all forgiven, Jon Gruden.. fired. Now known as “former coach disgraced Jon Gruden”…but anyway the dolphins were ignorant for firing Flores, but it wasn’t because he was black.
Does the writer ever consider that a article like his could hurt a black man from being hired because a owner will think if it doesn’t work firing him will get some woke writer screaming racism.
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I think he was hired because they thought he could do the job. I think he was fired because they thought he wasn’t doing it well enough. I’m going with that scenario.
Freeman says black coaches are on a shorter leash than White ones. How about Marvin Lewis?
His removal was idiotic. That said, racism had nothing to do with it. Bad ownership had everything to do with it, no matter what racists like Balls In The Face say.