Great to see push back on the disingenuous, divisive media reporting:
Tampa Bay's HC Todd Bowles Gets It
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…..and then he will turn into Brian Flores the minute he gets fired. He’s just taking an opportunity to pander because it’s easy to do this week. He’s going against Tomlin and he has a job. However, he never told the media to shut up when they were saying it was unfair that he got fired by the Jets. Don’t get conned by Omarosa style Black people who say race doesn’t matter when it’s convenient. They are usually the first to go running to Al Sharpton and suing people when things don’t go their way.
Pander? Try unite. The women who asked that follow up question should lose her press badge. We'll see if it all plays out like you describe.
No. I said the right word, pander. The reason I say that is because when a bunch of people were advocating for him saying he didn’t have a head coaching job due to race. He never called them a liar. He never told them to stop. He never told Stephen A. Smith to shut up as Smith was one of the main ones talking up for him. In fact, all the hoopla over the summer made it easy for Arians to go upstairs and elevate him. So, for him to talk about race doesn’t matter just because he is going up against Tomlin this week I find rich. It’s hard to unite things when your position changes based on your station in life. For example, I think Flores is full of you know what too and I hope he wins his lawsuit at the same time. He talked greasy about Colin Kaepernick and the other players in their protest. Yet, two years later, the NFL and the owners of the teams are racist. My issue is Bowles is not consistent. It’s not what he said this week when placed in a vacuum. You can’t unite when you are deceitful.
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Curious as to how you think he should have answered what was a wildly inappropriate question. You've got what was probably some random white guy reporter basically asking him if he talks to another coach because of the color of their skin. I get it you are hung up on what he should have or could have said in the past, but that aside (because I dont see what that has to do with the spot he was just put in), what should he have said given the asinine question at hand?
Why should I not give him the benefit of any "doubt"? Why should I assume he will be proven disingenuous? I can't look inside of his soul. I know this much: in the current climate, he had a lot more to lose by saying what he said than by saying what people wanted him to say. I'm good with him.
You can assume what you want. I know what he did. He took all the Social Justice Warrior assistance he could muster after he got fired from the Jets and then turns around and uses the term "Woke Media". Who uses that term anymore besides someone that is trying to score conservative brownie points. Even BLM and people associated with them don't use that term. He's being Brian Flores right now. Flores was saying all the right things according to Conservative media until he wasn't and things weren't so great at his front door. Omarosa did it too. Trust me, I have 55 years of experience in being a Black person and dealing with them. I can smell being a phony with them a mile away. Now there are plenty of Black Conservatives out there who are not phony, that is not what I a saying. Have you ever heard me say Tim Scott was a phony or even say a negative word about him. The answer to that would be no. He is a proven conservative that I happen to disagree with. I can respect that. What I am saying is check a guy's resume before you think he "Get's it" because he made one statement you happen to agree with.
Maybe you are right, and I think you've made some valid points. That said, assuming he's a "conservative" because of his response (how I'm interpreting your words) is a bit of a stretch. Maybe he's just giving an honest response to a completely ridiculous question, to a couple of "woke" reporters looking to create headlines. He could be a super radical liberal for all we know, but that doesn't invalidate what his thoughts were. He can still believe that and have other views that aren't "conservative".
I'm reserving my assessment for what he does subsequent to that news conference. That is my entire focus. People are unpredictable. People in the public eye are especially unpredictable. I have 72 years experience being alive. You never know what people are going to do - not all the time; not with certainty. I never would have predicted Bill Maher would be making some of his recent pronouncements, either.
When a reporter asks a stupid question, why don’t coaches just bypass it and respond, “Next question, please?” Don’t even offer a response. Just move on.
I thought about that too. That would have been a good way to go, but that's me in hindsight. Hard to say what I would say at a split second notice. That said, I kinda think he called it out as a stupid question without calling it that. And the way I took it, I thought he was far more polite than the reporter deserved.
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