Mike Florio

So they pivoted to

a reward for grooming and developing and promoting minority candidates.

So the whole thing is just a bad way for the NFL to try to fix the problem.

And just the mere fact that I've gotten 50 emails over the last week and a half from Bears fans who want the compensatory draft picks, it just shows you how it's all kind of gotten warped under the broader question of whether and when and if the NFL is ever going to modernize and improve and diversify its hiring practices.

Well, it does bump everyone else down by a spot, and these teams are very, very sensitive to that.

But you're right.

If they're going to have these policies in place, they have to apply them.

And any flaws in the application undermine the overall purpose of what they're trying to do.

And, you know, we do this every year.

There are issues with the hiring numbers.

And this year we have 10 head coaching jobs that were filled and there were no black coaches that were hired.

The commissioner gets through the press conference where he answers the four questions.

And then, you know, it's like Punxsutawney Phil.

It just disappears until next year when we do it all over again.

I don't think any of the outcomes were surprising.

The thing that interests me more than anything else, because I've been one of the voters for about three or four years now, and last year they didn't tell the voters they were going to release all of our ballots, and then they did, which I think created issues for people who may have lied to candidates about who they voted for.

Like, yeah, I voted for you, and then out comes the ballot.

Oops, no, I didn't.

Not that I've heard of at least one other person who was mad because...

they disclosed all the ballots because that person had indeed told someone else that they had voted for them when they did.