NFL Week 17

[bukie]

Packers clinch the 1 seed, Vikings are eliminated, Eagles clinch a playoff spot.

[Soul]

That’s going to be a tall order going into GB and winning. Road teams have done well this year…except in GB.

[soccer10k]

Hotter take: The NFL is just kind of broken as a sport by default right now, and despite changes to try to make it "more safe", it's never really going to be appropriately safe in the form it is.

 

Is that really a hot take? I mean, you've got giant dudes running into each other all the time. Unless you make it flag football, it's going to be a very violent sport and you're going to have terrible injuries and a good amount of concussions.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I don't follow the NFL that closely and maybe other sports are similar, but I found this piece about nepotism in NFL coaching to be interesting: https://defector.com/just-how-big-a-problem-is-nepotism-in-nfl-coaching/

 

Overall, the league averages 3.4 coaches per team who are related to a current or former NFL coach, and the percentage of coaches at the supervisory levels—the ones with hiring power—is even higher. Eleven of 32 head coaches are related to a current or former NFL coach. There are 24 coordinators who are related to current or former coaches, almost a full quarter of them.

[bukie]

I don't follow the NFL that closely and maybe other sports are similar, but I found this piece about nepotism in NFL coaching to be interesting: https://defector.com/just-how-big-a-problem-is-nepotism-in-nfl-coaching/

 

Overall, the league averages 3.4 coaches per team who are related to a current or former NFL coach, and the percentage of coaches at the supervisory levels—the ones with hiring power—is even higher. Eleven of 32 head coaches are related to a current or former NFL coach. There are 24 coordinators who are related to current or former coaches, almost a full quarter of them.

I think it applies to not only every sport, but almost every corporate entity, the #1 criteria for hiring is prior experience (even if that experience was effectively destroying a franchise), but after that, the #2 is knowing someone already in the business, and nepotism is a built in version of that.

 

However, the NFL does seem particularly egregious for inbred coaching hires. How many chances did Rex Ryan get to fail because he was the son of Buddy Ryan?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I don't follow the NFL that closely and maybe other sports are similar, but I found this piece about nepotism in NFL coaching to be interesting: https://defector.com/just-how-big-a-problem-is-nepotism-in-nfl-coaching/

 

Overall, the league averages 3.4 coaches per team who are related to a current or former NFL coach, and the percentage of coaches at the supervisory levels—the ones with hiring power—is even higher. Eleven of 32 head coaches are related to a current or former NFL coach. There are 24 coordinators who are related to current or former coaches, almost a full quarter of them.

I think it applies to not only every sport, but almost every corporate entity, the #1 criteria for hiring is prior experience (even if that experience was effectively destroying a franchise), but after that, the #2 is knowing someone already in the business, and nepotism is a built in version of that.

 

However, the NFL does seem particularly egregious for inbred coaching hires. How many chances did Rex Ryan get to fail because he was the son of Buddy Ryan?

 

Yeah, it was the scope that got me. For a sport that creates more ex-players at the college and pro level than any other, having so many legacy coaches as the norm was really striking. Especially when the article gets into some of the specifics and how comparatively unqualified they are(the Belichick sons in particular made me raise my eyebrows).

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Well ok then

 

[JudasIscariotTheBird]