NFL Coach Firings, LaVar Arrington, Transgender Athletes & Much More | The Week’s Best Whitlock Firestarters | 1/15/22

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

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Sports, News, Politics, Sports News

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Uncle Jimmy hosts a collection of Jason’s monologues and interviews from the week that was. How does brand new College Football Hall of Famer LaVar Arrington look back on his time with Joe Paterno at Penn State? Why are the firings of Brian Flores and David Culley NOT what ESPN and the corporate media make them out to be? How is the success of Penn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas the most underreported story of the year? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fearless, I'm Uncle Jimmy and this is Whitlock's weekly fire starters and
0:12.7	here's a list of what's happened on the show in case you've missed it.
0:16.6	On Monday, Jason's going to be discussing the firing of the Miami Dolphins head coach
0:21.5	Brian Flores and Jason's going to show the outdated nature that we have of evaluating
0:27.5	NFL coaches based on race.
0:32.5	As is tradition, the NFL fired a bunch of coaches on Monday morning, a day after
0:38.2	its regular season concluded and ownership looked to blame someone for failing to meet
0:43.5	expectations.
0:45.5	The Broncos kicked things off on Sunday morning, dismissing Vic Fangio a day after Denver
0:51.5	wrapped up its season with a loss to Mike Kansas City cheese. 24 hours later, the Bears
0:58.0	dump Matt Nagy, the Vikings pink slip Mike Zimmer and most surprisingly, the Dolphins
1:05.2	discarded third year coach Brian Flores.
1:09.5	The Flores firing will get the most attention. Miami finished with a winning record, 9 and
1:15.2	8 and ended its campaign with a victory over the Patriots.
1:19.8	Plus, let's deal with the elephant of the room.
1:22.6	Brian Flores is black and we know how corporate media loves nothing more than to accuse
1:30.0	NFL ownership of racism.
1:33.2	NFL owners are Trump supporters.
1:35.9	What could be more racist than voting for Donald Trump over black icons, Hillary Clinton
1:41.4	and Joe Biden?
1:43.7	NFL owners provided January 6 insurrectionists with the flag poles and mousse heads they used
1:50.4	to try to overthrow our government and assassinate Nancy Pelosi.
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