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The MMQB NFL Podcast

The Rooney Rule, Marc Ross, & The Mailbag | Wednesday Mailbag

The MMQB NFL Podcast

SI NFL

Sports, Football

3.9944 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Albert Breer breaks down the changes made to the Rooney Rule and the minority hiring incentives before talking to former Giants VP of Player Evaluation, Marc Ross, about his experience dealing with the partial lockout in 2011, and of course, the mailbag

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0:00.0

Hey guys it's Albert maybe May we got plenty to get to this week we'll cover all the big

0:07.4

news topics in the takeaways we've got a great guest coming on is going to give us

0:10.8

awesome insight on a couple of hot button topics.

0:13.2

As always, we'll get to all your questions in the mail back.

0:16.1

Let's go.

0:17.1

All right, welcome in, it's the MMQB podcast with Albert Breyer.

0:23.0

Normally this time of year things would be quiet and you would stand a reason given that everything

0:29.0

that's going on in our country it'd be really quiet from an NFL standpoint. We actually have plenty to get to this week in the

0:34.8

podcast. We had a great guest coming up for you who's going to be able to hit on a couple of

0:39.0

really relevant topics for us and give us a ton of expertise on those. We of course get to your

0:44.7

questions in the mailbag but we'll kick things off with the takeaway like

0:47.7

takeaways like we always do and we'll start here my first takeaway is that the NFL's trial balloon on incentivizing diversity hires didn't go, I think, the way they expected it and you know the feedback that I got from

1:04.7

different guys across the league when it came to this and when the news broke

1:10.3

and it was Jim Trotter from NFL Network that broke the news on Friday afternoon was very, very

1:15.2

mixed. And just in case you haven't heard it, the proposal that was on the table and this was worked

1:21.3

through the NFL, the NFL's diversity committee

1:24.8

which is chaired by Steelers owner Art Rooney the Fritz Pollard Alliance

1:29.0

which is headed up by former Cardinals general manager Rod Graves.

1:33.2

They came up with this plan to incentivize diversity hires.

1:36.5

And basically, there are different levels at which teams can benefit here.

1:43.2

If you hire a minority general manager,

1:46.8

your third round pick the year after moves up 10 spots.

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