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Interesting. I think though beside a few loud assholes, when it comes to football most are more interested in winning than racism.
Booing to be benched would be more because fans are fickle and there’s no greater player than a back up during a loss.
Maybe naive but I enjoy naive bliss.
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I’ve been rooting for black qbs since the days of Warren moon, I can’t be naive with this, the leagues entrenched view that black qb’s aren’t smart enough to play the position, still runs deep. And now that the qb position is as much about a players athleticism, as well as arm strength, accuracy and ability to read defenses and process information, white qbs are having to take on board elements of play that used to be just “black” running qb things the waters only going to get murkier, and the “intelligence or not” of a player is going to bob back to the surface once again, despite what mahomes, Jackson, stroud, Wilson, Murray and others are doing..
cornelius_blackfoot
Bomani jones has a theory that you can’t have a white qb backing up a black one, that the calls from the fans to bench a black qb when their play dips will get too loud. And with the browns and the contract they’ve given Watson they can’t allow that to happen, if they’d brought back flacco to be in that qb room after the season he had, Watson would have been under pressure from the jump!
I haven’t gone through every roster but the ravens spring to mind when they used to run the Lamar Jackson and Tyler Hundley (sp?!) combo.
Think this theory will be put to the test over the coming seasons with the amount of young black qb’s coming into the league..