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<v 0>You mentioned how systemic racism is playing a role in the lack of advancement</v>

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for minority head coaches in the NFL.

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And while the league has gone out of their way to make creative incentives and

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players, coaches, and media like bring awareness to the issue, it's still there.

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Where's the bottleneck? And how does, you know, real change happen?

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<v 1>You know,</v>

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it's so unfortunate that a lot of people don't want to hear the word systemic

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racism, and they want to sweep it under the rug,

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but you can't sweep something that is out in the open,

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out in public eyes and you see it happening before your eyes.

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And it's unfortunate.

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We got so many guys of color that are qualified to

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be head coaches.

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And that I know you got to always come to mind is going to be Bieniemy.

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You got Leslie Frazier, you got Byron Leftwich,

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Jim Caldwell sitting on the side and you got so many guys that,

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that should have these opportunities, but it's unfortunate that, you know,

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they're not in the same circle as some of the other guys are.

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And I think the owners are the ones that got to sit down and open their eyes.

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And it's about an opportunity.

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They're not looking for a hand-me-down or handout.

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They're looking for an opportunity and that's what we're not getting.

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See my thing has always been,

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and I think what the owners and some of the general manager are missing,

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that they don't know the impact that a black head coach would

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have on his dressing room. Because when you think about it,

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you got 70 to 75% of your team are young

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black man. And I think we're missing that boat from,

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from the owner standpoint and some of the general managers to understand that is

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an impact that you get more out of guys when they realize they're not just

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playing for the team,

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but they playing because I see somebody who looked like me,

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who one day I might get an opportunity to Amar my brother or somebody might get

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an opportunity to be in that same seat.

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Those are the things that you don't look at.