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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
so i had a thought while watching this...
one could argue the two men most responsible for getting head coaching opportunities for black coaches in the nfl were bill walsh and tony dungy. having worked for, or been recommended, by those guys went a long way.

there’s no current analogue to either guy.
which is to say, it’s disheartening that nfl owners don’t care about improving the hiring record. but are there any coaches other than arians explicitly trying to do something to make things better?
well, i was gonna mention belichick. and positively. flores is one of his guys. romeo’s one of his guys. mayo will probably be at least a d.c. at some point.

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28 Dec 20
my read: they would have cut him after the thing with the stripper, but they thought he was better than taylor heinicke.

now they know he's not.
also, you guys are reading this wrong. i wasn't talking about washington releasing him. we knew that was going to happen before 2021 started. i'm saying it's possible he may never spend a full season on anyone's roster ever again. ask paxton lynch about it
my other haskins thought: once you decide you wanna go to the grownup league, you gotta be grown. period.

some guys aren't built to leave college early. haskins passed on two years of eligibility. possible he should've used em, even if i can't blame him for getting the money.
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27 Dec 20
this is unreal
i can't imagine wanting to tell my followers "i am a herb," but do you, man.
seriously, look at this herb. literally, look at him.
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27 Nov 20
something that may seem obvious but some should probably hear: anyone who was the first _____ at _____ was a bad, bad man. had to be.
when i was growing up, i hung out a lot at the barbershop right near prairie view's campus. i'd be there just about every day for a while, and all the older professors got haircuts there. one was a dude named professor stewart.
prof. stewart didn't have much reason to go to the barbershop, but mr. kirby would always comb his hair up and cut it like mr. clarence cut cuba gooding's hair in coming to america. scissors moving, but no hair hitting the ground.

prof. stewart would get up and pay with a check.
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8 Oct 20
his career, going back to virginia tech, has had such an interesting arc. i'm not sure when he's caught a break.
gets to virginia tech as a five-star recruit. shares the job with sean glennon as a freshman (tangent: if you want to see a game where it seems like the defense has 15 players, check out va tech-lsu from 2007).
plan was to redshirt him in '08, but tech lost to east carolina in their first game, and the line was too bad for glennon to do anything behind it.

sooooo welcome back, tyrod. that's...not really a good break for tyrod. you get to play because you're fast enough to save yourself
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8 Oct 20
every word kevin says in this quote is true
something folks probably can't get from watching on tv is how the former athletes who are now my colleagues take the same approach and pride in their work from the field and use it in broadcasting. and they're *much* more open to critique than us "real" journalists.
and @Foxworth24 isn't just jumping on tv talking. he's hitting the road, doing magazine features, something i personally wouldn't have had the confidence to do until very recently. a rare talent indeed.
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7 Oct 20
last time i saw kyle allen play, he was no better than haskins. but alas.
what’d he ever do to you?
re: haskins, this is also what happens when the folks who drafted you move on. daniel jones won’t see the pine as long as gettleman is there, for example.
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