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It's only "troubling" if you believe it sets some sort of precedent. Like if Eric Bienemy was speaking to the press tomorrow and voiced his support of BLM, Andy Reid would feel compelled to fine him based on the "Del Rio Doctrine". But of course that's ridiculous. Reid, like Rivera, can do whatever the hell he wants. He can not fine him because he agrees with him, or because he has no problem with his assistants speaking their minds, or because he judged that those comments wouldn't be a distraction to the team. (The situation would be slightly different if this were a player, since they're unionized and there are rules regarding team discipline. But assistant coaches have no such protections.)
We don't know the answer and my guess is that we'll never find out, since I doubt the team wants to dwell on this. It's an internal team matter with a non-unionized employee.
Technically, he ended his own career. He opted out of his contract. Maybe he would have been cut/released had he not, but he choose to opt out and to not then sign a contract offered to him (even if a low one).I consider having your career ended prematurely to be worse than keeping your job and getting fined $100K, but YMMV.
Not really. Nobody should be punished for having the wrong opinions about stuff in the news. Even if it's only one person.
Just so I'm clear, the principle you're articulating is that it's always bad for private employers to punish employees for the content of their speech? To take an extreme example, if Trump's 2024 campaign manager expressed his opinion that January 6 was an attempt to overthrow our democracy (or vice versa with Biden's campaign manager), it would be troubling for them to lose their jobs over having the "wrong opinions"? What if JDR had gone much further and expressed open admiration for Hitler or Stalin or John Tesh?
Appeal to who?massraider said:
Dan Snyder? If we know anything about him at all, it's that he's the type of guy who has implemented thoughtful, considered, HR policies and practices for issues such as this.
Generally, yeah.ignatiusjreilly said:
No. "Agreeing with the candidate" is a bona fide job qualification for people who work on political campaigns. It would be fine to fire somebody in this example.
I honestly don't care, but I'll concede that "Hitler was a pretty swell guy" lies so far outside the mainstream that I would have a hard time faulting an employer for stepping in here. I grant that that's a problematic edge case.
Oh, this is where you were going. Yeah I definitely agree that it was Del Rio's call to make and I don't question his right to make it. I'm saying he made the wrong call and should be criticized appropriately.
I think that criticism shouldn't even extend much beyond: You coach a bunch of young black men. Maybe sit this one out.
I don’t know who Donald Trump is eithersquistion said:
It wasn’t like his performance or numbers had declined right?squistion said:
Trent Dilfer was let go immediately after winning the SB. He bounced around the NFL after that, and Kaepernick might have done the same if he had been willing to be a backup.
His 2015 numbers were very similar to Johnny Manziel. Then he went 1-10 in 2016. Of course he was going to be asked to take a pay cut. HIs completion percentage and yard/attempt were always meh. So yeah, he was weak sauce
As a Washington fan, I watched a team that was 6-4 and in contention for a playoff spot when Alex Smith got hurt fritter it away with a 1-5 finish while trotting out the likes of Mark Sanches and Josh Johnson at QB. On that evidence alone, you will never be able to convince me Kaepernick wasn't blackballed.
Assume you mean Rivera here. Anyway, the point I've been making is that sometimes people make judgment calls that you disagree with and all it means is that, if you had been making that decision, you would have done it differently. There's no broader lesson. It's just a bunch of stuff that happened.
Mariota was willing to be a backup, was Kaep? At what point was he willing to be a backup.Mariota wasn't the same athlete, never accomplished half of what Kaep did, and has been handed backup jobs and now, starting jobs in the NFL, but yeah, Kaep's play fell off.
Oh my Lord, make the argument that he wasn't good enough to deal with the distraction. I'll buy it, maybe I agree. He just wasn't good enough to secure even a backup position? LOL
Good catch. I hadn't seen that part.
I am a 49ers fan, he sucked at the end. When defenses adjusted to his running and forced him to be a pocket passer he was bad. It’s not hard to see. Before they adjusted he was really good. He never developed as a passer.
Even a control freak like Snyder doesn't want to get into the business of having a formal appeals process whereby assistants could undermine his coach's authority. If he ever did that, I guarantee you Rivera would resign immediately, as would all 31 other HCs in the league if their owners did that to them
I would argue there's a subtle difference between "We're going to use the power of the state to smack you down for expressing opinions" and "We don't like the way you handled this situation with an employee who said something we object to," but I nonetheless agree it's dumb for legislators to tie funding requests to speech in any way. Either the funding request makes sense on its merits or it doesn't.
matttyl said:
So yes, he opted out. Why are you hellbent on lying about it? What do you have for this dude?
Political goggles are what allow people to convince themselves he couldn't even get a camp invite because he wasn't good enough.
Which is common with qbs possessing his skill set. The hits take a toll more on running qbs, He exceeded expectations in the league.
I feel like I'm missing some context here. Virginia is (was?) trying to lure the Commanders to move? Is that the piece I'm missing?
That doesn’t invalidate what I said. In fact it reinforces it. Kaep opted out of his contract.
He could have been the starting QB for the Broncos but decided he wanted to take the risk and milk that last year left in his contract with the 49’ers.
