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This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 670 The Score. Ah, I did it. You guys were supposed to yell at me. 104.3 The Score.
See, we're not even used to that sounding incorrect, so you're not going to get us to correct you.
Oh, man.
It sounds normal to me. It didn't insult my ears.
Well, you knew it. 104.3 the score. Yes, you can still hear us on 670. Always. And the Super Bowl week is actually here, so that means Super Bowl opening night, whatever you want to call it. It used to be media day.
It used to be so much more simple. Yes. Can I just say really quick?
I like when Dustin calls it Big Game 60. Ha ha.
As for all that, I've got to give a shout-out to all the weird reporters and weird questions. No, no, listen. Through the years, and for years and years and years, and I get it. Like, I've been a serious reporter who needed to ask questions about who's healthy and who's not, and I needed my questions. answered so i get it when it comes to the beat writers but those guys have been eschewed and poo-pooed through the years saying there's no place for these guys now watching the presentation that they put on an nfl network last night they're they're they're showing highlights of the fun questions they've made it bigger than ever and guess who started make the the people from around the world that come in and ask the silly questions so shout out to them and um never mind the serious reporters i guess
well unfortunately serious reporters did have a point at the roger goodell press conference because that is one where when the commissioner speaks you want to know what he's saying the rooney rule was something that was instituted in the nfl with the idea that when you encourage diversity in hiring you get better candidates in your actual hires but that's not what we've seen a lot of times it's been treated as a formality a lot of times it's been treated as something where even the interpretation is starting to get messy as we've seen even regarding the bears when ian cunningham goes to atlanta and we don't understand why t and cunningham it sure seems like a promotion or else he wouldn't have left but to the league it's not so the bears don't get the compensatory pick for example
No better example of that than also in the head coaching cycles. And when you consider the head coaches who were hired and how Eric Biennemi, who was with the Bears, is the one minority who gets hired as an offensive coordinator even. There's a problem with the representation, knowing that your league doesn't look this way. You know, that's the other part is people talk about they talk about the merit. They talk about, well, you know, they're just hiring the best candidates. Inherently, when your league is not represented that way, you can't say that the coaches are completely different. That's not how it works, especially when the success is indicated, especially recently. that coaching staffs who are more reflective of how the league looks, whether it's players being head coaches, former players, they're more successful as we've seen as a whole so far.
I think the disappointing thing for me is, in all of this, is understanding it's been, what, 23 years now since the Rooney Rule was first instituted, before we got to this version of the Rooney Rule. And I was hoping that head coaching and front office executives, what they look like, would go the way of the black quarterback. Because I grew up, you know, Warren Moon, Randall Cunningham, Doug Williams. Like, there were guys who were stars, but there were a lot of teams out here, frankly, that just did not want to allow it, did not want to consider it. And I thought with exposure of these interviews that you're required to do, whether it's front office, whether it's coordinator, got to have two external minority candidates.
The Bears are doing that right now. since Declan Doyle left, that simple exposure would be the way to take some of the unknown, or if you want to be more harsh, fear of giving someone that maybe doesn't look like you an opportunity or even a chance.
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