>>air offensive talent wise
>
>Right. And that's another piece of the puzzle to me. If the
>idea is that GOOD Black candidates need to get a fair shake, I
>want to get crazy and also expect that GOOD Black candidates
>aren't regularly having to take bad jobs just to get a job and
>help get the NFL out of hot water. And everyone here should
>know: showing up on Sundays with a bullshit QB is a great way
>to end up with a 'don't hire this dude no mo'-level bad record
>after 2-3 years.
>
>It is one thing if you and the GM swing and miss on a QB
>(draft, free agency, whatever). It is another thing altogether
>to get handed a screwed up set of players with a shaky QB room
>and then you're asked to make some chicken salad..especially
>when you doing badly will get labeled by many of the excel
>meatheads as 'See? This is why you can't hire Black coaches!
>They don't win!'.
>
>So hey..if Eric B doesn't see a path to a good QB, good
>offensive weapons AND a decent staff, I don't blame if he says
>'I'm gonna stay over here with Andy and Pat and roll up hella
>stats'.

Leftwich basically had the same choice with a potentially great QB and an otherwise crap team and a crap GM in Jacksonville.

These guys have to weigh their options, take a chance with a HC job with a crap team that's doomed for failure and chill as an assistant but risk getting passed over and forgotten while these young white guys eat up all the jobs.

You look at a guy like Jim Caldwell who got a raw deal in Indy and a rawer deal in Detroit and at 67 will probably never get another shot. Then there are guys like Sherman Lewis and Jimmy Raye who were hot names as assistants for years but never got a HC shot.

Pep Hamilton was once a hot name that nobody talks about now.