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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
I think the NFL coaching situation would be a lot more diverse if they simply changed the rules about interviewing coaches for promotions. Rather than just Assistant or Head coach designations, position coach to coordinator should be considered a promotion and so you should not need permission to interview.
There's a ton of positional coaches that are non-white and teams would love to give them coordinator jobs. From there, HC gigs happen for those who are successful.
Just saying.
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For the most part teams will grant permission for their assistants to interview elsewhere unless said assistant asks the team to 'run cover' for them and deny it if they really don't want the gig.
I mean with both Hewitt AND MacDonald behind Martindale, surely the Ravens wouldn't outright deny permission to speak to either one of them. Now to be honest, I'm not sure MacDonald would bring us anything that Mike Smith couldn't (I really like Smith) but that'd be a pretty bad look if they just bury all their assistants from even interviewing. I'd absolutely request to interview them both and make them tell me no.
Then lets hear the NFL talk about how they can do more to advance minority opportunity in the coaching ranks.
Make. Them. Say. No.
But Andy won't. Because he's getting himself locked in the same vicious cycle that ended his last tenure. Lord...I'm really not looking forward to the rumors in about 2 years that he's going to take "a more active role in personnel decisions" should our defense not make exponential improvements.