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The NFL still has a major problem appreciating the talent of black quarterbacks [1]
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Date: 2022-07-27
x Shannon Sharpe spitting 100 percent facts about Patrick Mahomes! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/yRPSoMziLW — Brad Henson Productions (@BradHensonPro) July 27, 2022
As a Kansas City fan, I have to speak out there, and this isn’t just about our home team. It is about the way in which claims have been made for decades against black quarterbacks. A Super Bowl MVP. League MVP. Four AFC championship games. One of the highest win percentages in the league. Record-setting stats. Still, for one coach, he “isn’t a tier one” because of… street ball?
Robert Griffin III knows what it is like, having been in their position as a QB for Washington in the past:
x Why are these anonymous defensive coordinators attacking 2 Black NFL MVPs in Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes. They add flare to the position and have won games at historic levels. Stop screaming for them to get off your lawn and accept that there is more than one way to win. — Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) July 27, 2022
Attacking a black quarterback from the position that they aren’t smart enough and don’t follow progressions? Just a few facts, my friends:
Dr. Judson L. Jeffries, a professor of African American and African studies at the Ohio State University, says Black quarterbacks have been historically perceived as less intelligent, seen instead as simply athletes. “The knock on Black quarterbacks was they didn’t have the intellect or academics to play the position,” he tells CNN. “They could run, but when it comes to learning a playbook, reading defenses, learning sophisticated schemes, they weren’t able to do that.”
Lamar Jackson,the quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens, receives derision at the hands of coordinators who see him as not really a premier player. Why? Similar reasons. Despite the fact that Jackson is one of only two players in league history to ever win the NFL MVP award unanimously.
Research studies have shown that the problem remains in the NFL, and it isn’t going anywhere soon, unfortunately.
We are not the only researchers to find evidence that Black and White quarterbacks are evaluated differently. In 2017, economics professor Brian Volz examined NFL data from 2001 to 2009. Controlling for factors including injury, age, experience, performance, team investment, and the quality of a team’s backup, he found that Black quarterbacks were twice as likely as White ones to be benched.
Streetball? Unprepared? Not smart enough for the position? In the photo above you see something most teams don’t have — players who know what it means to win it all. that’s rarified air there, and their fans know it. Rather than celebrate the successes of black quarterbacks, though, it seems a lot easier to tear them down.
Sorry, consider that a pass on my side.
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