The Future of Defensive Backs

Shadowlight

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I do not know who checks out caste football. Does Breitbart? Does The New York Times? Does ESPN? Does Fox Sports? Does Sports Illustrated? Do scouts? Do sport recruiting web sites like 247 or rivals?

Because if any of the above do I am throwing down a gauntlet. It is time to state enough is enough. I just re read the SI web piece written this spring on the fall of the white cornerback. Out of roughly 170 NFL CB's there are no white players. Heck there aren't even a lot of safeties. But what about college?

Out of the five power conferences I know of no white CB's on rosters. There could be say one or two back ups but as far as I can tell there are zero and if there are a couple I highly doubt any white CB's played a down this past season.

Jumping to college safeties at power 5 schools there are only a few I can think of off the top of my head. In fact I don't recall seeing one white DB play in the SEC the entire year! If I had to guess there were about five starting white safeties spread across the power 5 conferences. So out of 64 teams and 128 safety spots roughly 5 were white just under 4%. If you include CB's into the equation where there were no whites the percentage of white DB's at these schools is under 2%. So cutting to the chase the white DB's at the power 5 schools make up about one per cent of the starting players.

Even the most vociferous sports scientists who insist that blacks are better athletes than whites have to admit that those above percentages are not reflective of "natural selection." But even if you were to bend reality and suggest it is the result of a natural process how does one explain the generalized atrocious play of these defensive back fields not just in the power 5 conferences but across the college landscape where many games resemble basketball scores as wide receivers run unfettered lengthy plays into the end zone game after game?
And nearly 100% of the time this is taking place against all black defensive back fields. So getting scorched for 60 plus points is a sign that the natural selection of black DB's proves that they and they alone are worthy of playing cornerback of safety? And this trend of bad DB play has been swelling for ten plus years if not more. In fact there seems to be a parallel in bad DB play and the decline of white athletes manning that position.

It is high time for football to get away from this obscenely weird black white DB ratio. It is worth noting once the terrific CB Jason Sehorn retired around 2004 the NFL has been pretty much white CB free give or take a minor blip here or there which only lasted mere seconds anyway. The astounding drive behind this exclusion of white CB's feeds into the toxic racial discussion of superiority giving the lasting impression that white men are incapable of handling the duties of a position that requires a certain type of elite athleticism, notably quickness and speed. So out of 170 CB's there are no white people on the planet playing CB at the NFL due to their lack of ability? Even though a lot of the CB's in the NFL today look plain awful?

The current structure of youth to high school to college football appears to steer white players away from CB and it seems now even away from playing safety. Perhaps a few more white kids are concentrating on more "popular" positions like wide receiver but at the end of the day there are not a hell of a lot of white WR's playing in college football and only a handful are starting at power 5 schools. So in general the white DB and or WR has been on the decrease over the years. They seem to be disappearing into a well with no bottom.

This is not news to caste football members but if another media outlet is looking at this post you have to ask yourself the question? Does the near uniform bad DB play something worth clutching onto so that everyone can come to the understanding that only blacks should be playing those positions because of their innate talent? Isn't that an oxymoron? The play on the field sucks so shouldn't the powers that be look for white players to man the position as well? And let them suck just as bad as the black athletes do today. But I suspect if you pepper in a lot more white DB's including the hallowed CB position we would witness less sucking and football scores that resemble the tough game that it once was and not some outdoor semi jog around basketball facsimile.
 
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foreverfree

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It's been said on CF IIRC that the NFL's liberalization of rules that resulted in encouragement of the air attack was also part of the ongoing groidization of Pete's/Paul's/Roger's Hershey-ized empire.

I believe the adoption of the college OT rule 20-some years ago did the same thing in CFB (I mean *look* at those artificially high scores of OT games!).

John
 
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