NFL Head Coach Scolds Woke Reporter: “When you say you see ‘you guys’ and look like them and grow up like them that means we’re oddballs to begin with, I think the minute you guys stop making a big deal about it everybody else will as well”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles overruled two woke reporters yesterday when they, and it is so exhausting, tried to make it all about race. But Bowles wasn’t having it and shut them down.
Bowles was asked about his relationship with Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin. Both men are black. Tomlin is a hall-of-fame coach already. Bowles is just starting out as head coach. So of course the woke reporters asked about race
“You and Mike Tomlin are the few Black head coaches in the league, I wonder what your relationship is like with him and your thoughts on Steve Wilks joining that.”
Bowles said:
“I have a very good relationship with Tomlin.
Tampa Bay Bucs HC Todd Bowles SLAMS reporters over questions about race: “We coach ball, we don’t look at color … I think the minute you guys stop making a big deal about, everybody else will.” pic.twitter.com/e9KkoDKsCe
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“We don’t look at what color we are when we coached against each other. We just know each other.
“I have a lot of very good white friends that coach in this league as well.
“As far as us coaching against each other, I think it’s normal.
“Wilks got the opportunity to do a good job, hopefully he does it.
“And we coach ball, we don’t look at color.”
Enter another woke reporter who wouldn’t let it go. She asked about young Black coaches who want to be head coaches in the NFL looking at “you guys has to mean something.”
The woke reporter insisted:
“You have aspiring coaches and football players, they see you guys—they see someone that looks like them, maybe grew up like them.
“That has to mean something.”
Bowles shut down the reporter:
“When you say you see ‘you guys’ and look like them and grow up like them that means we’re oddballs to begin with.
“I think the minute you guys stop making a big deal about it everybody else will as well.”
The reporter tried to clean it up but she just humiliated herself more.
…My line of questioning was directly in line with Todd Bowles’ own comments that day. I would never tell someone whose life experience is different from my own and whose shoes I haven’t walked in, how to feel. My job is to seek clarity and to gain understanding.
— JennaLaineESPN (@JennaLaineESPN) October 14, 2022
I also would never try to insinuate with my questioning that every Black head coach or Black person grows up the same. Three different coaches with three different life experiences. My intent was — in a group of people, a person can look to one and perhaps identify.
— JennaLaineESPN (@JennaLaineESPN) October 14, 2022