Ya can’t win!

[jaxvid]

We all know how insidious the caste sytem is. Sometimes it is so bad it is funny. My hometown Detroit Lions fans are in an uproar because for the fortieth year in a row the offense sucks. This despite them drafting a bunch of highly rated black recievers the last few years.

QB Joey Harrington threw 5 interceptions last week but is only taking marginal heat because the receivers were all well covered. Here is the response of the media and fans to the lack of catches by the receivers: Coach Marriucci's offensive schemes do not allow for the receivers to get enough "separation". Get it? It is the coaches fault they are not open.

This would be really funny except David Kircus was released this year because "he could not create seperation between him and the defensive backs" and before that it was Bill Schroeder who could not "separate" from coverage. So for the white recievers it was because of athletic shortcoming's but for the black recievers it is the fault of the white coach.

 

[Trainer]

"Can't create Seperation"???



That's pretty creative. lol. Subtle enough to fool 99% of fans and 90%
of the media. It's actually quite interesting how arguments are
taylored and then used to defend any position.

So now Detriot fans and media are blaming Marriucci's system? Right. I
don't watch Detriot games often since I am in FL as we usually do not
get those games. But I have also heard that the heat is on Harrington
due to his increasing propensity of interceptions throwing.

What's your take on Joey?



I saw one preason game on TV when they played the Rams and the
offensive line looked like somplete crap. It was pretty painful to
watch. There was little to any blocking whatsover.

So maybe teams realize the Lions can't run nor block so they put
pressure of QB and because you have overrated WRs' , INTs' are the end
result.

F the Lions. I can't believe they cut Kircus and Schroeder. Then again, no one went to pick them up.

WTF is it Green Bay? They lose Walker for the year, so why not pick up
some other guy like say Kircus or Farmer. A white guy who would have no
problem playing in the cold and would complement Farve's "blue collar"
toughness and desire.

NFL just sucks now for white skill players.

 

[surfsider]

I don't recall Marriucci's system creating any "separation anxiety" when it was employed in San Francisco.

 

[Don Wassall]

You rarely hear the Lions receivers referred to without the adjective "great" being attached to them.


Let's see, there Charles Rogers, who missed most of his rookie season and all of last year because of injury. There's Roy Williams, who certainly had his moments last year as a rookie but had a lot of clunker games too, especially in the second half of the year. I watched Harrington throw Williams a sure touchdown pass in the end zone Sunday, but it was intercepted because halfway through the route Williams decided to improvise when the ball was already in the air. Quarterbacks take the heat for a lot of stupid mistakes like that.


Then there's Mike Williams, he of the lumbering tight end speed who hasn't shown much of anything to this point. But these guys are already "great" because the media annointed them so.


Kircus and a younger Bill Schroeder would be two nice starters to have. Tell that to the average fan though and he'll laugh in your face much like Bobby Bowden does when asked if whites are capable of playing halfback.

 

[Spooge]

I blame Matt Millian for some of the issues. The guy played in
the NFL when there was a great number of whites who were
superstars in key positions for their excellent play (Howie
long, Riggins, Mark Gastenau, etc.) Hell he may have even been in
the league when Rocky Blier was playing. The point is, Millan as
head of football operations for the Lions has the capacity and ability
to put more melanin challanged players on the field but he chooses not
to. My god why don't some of these teams put more whites on
the field as a simple experiment? Perhaps a 50/50 ratio What
could it hurt?

 

[White Shogun]

My god why don't some of these teams put more whites on the field as a simple experiment? Perhaps a 50/50 ratio What could it hurt?

Because conventional wisdom is that blacks are all around better athletes. If you lose while holding to that conventional wisdom, then, well, what else could be expected? You played with the best BLACK players available to your team, right?

But if you EXPERIMENT, and put players on the field, well, that everyone just KNOWS aren't as good as even the most mediocre black player, then you should be fired for being an idiot. Simple, really.

In case the reader is new to this site, the views expressed above are not my own nor those of Caste Football.

 

[JD074]

Exactly. Because of the preconceived notions about white players, it's perceived as a huge gamble to do that. Coaches are fired left and right; there's enormous pressure on them to win, and right away. If they don't they're gone. And I'm sure the ridicule from the media and fans would be enormous if, for example, a coach started a white RB for several games and he didn't play well. Coaches have to be conservative and that means not playing whites at certain positions.

 

[White Shogun]

And I'm sure the ridicule from the media and fans would be enormous if, for example, a coach started a white RB for several games and he didn't play well.

I'm not sure it would matter if he played extremely well, the onus of the team's losses would probably fall squarely on his shoulders [the white RB], much as it does on the white quarterbacks and coaches even now, even if they're playing above and beyond what should be expected of them, e.g. Joey Harrington.