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FanHouse Roundtable: Wild Card Weekend ... and the Coaching Carousel

It's a Wild Card Weekend full of subplots: • For the first time since the merger, a sub-.500 team, the 7-9 Seahawks, not only qualified for the playoffs, but will host a game, against the 11-5 defending Super Bowl-champion Saints on Saturday afternoon. • The Jets, who have been talking Super Bowl since "Hard...

NFL Two-a-Days: Is Rooney Rule Working?

It's the season of coaching interviews and the "Rooney Rule" -- the rule that requires teams to interview minority candidates is in place. Is it still serving its purpose, or has it became a source of token interviews? LeCharles Bentley tells us in Two-a-Days. Click below to watch:

Dirty (Half) Dozen: The Coaching Carousel and the Rooney Rule

When Tom Cable, a little-known offensive line coach, was hired as coach of the Raiders to replace Lane Kiffin four games into the 2008 season, the hiring was viewed as just another bizarre Al Davis hiring, even more bizarre than hiring Kiffin, then 32 years old, the year before. When Davis fired Cable Tuesday night after...

NFL Receives 'A' Grade for Racial Hiring; Still Behind on Gender Diversity

The NFL received its highest grade ever for racial diversity hiring practices by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. While the league continues to make strides in racial diversity hiring practices, they are still behind on hiring women, according to the report issued...

Minorities Still Finding Offensive Coordinator Jobs Out of Their Reach

The NFL's 91st season debuts on Thursday night, but only the last half of the league's history provides a distinguishable diversity march. Since minority players were included in 1946, other benchmark years include Bill Walsh's minority coaching fellowships that originated in 1987 and the Rooney Rule that helped create...

Background on Rooney Rule

The Rooney Rule, established in 2003, requires National Football League teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation opportunities.

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