Foxworth added he doesn’t want to disparage or “tear down” any of the newly hired white coaches because “the best coach” he ever had during his time as an NFL cornerback was John Harbaugh, who was hired as the Ravens leader from a special teams position. Dec 10, 2014, 3:45pm EST. Other times, he'll be discussing football and remind himself that he was neither a star nor a Super Bowl champion, so he cannot talk in clichés and expect people to care. "I was faced with: So are you going to be this ex-jock-turned-media, vapid personality that spews cliches?" Most of them, he did not. "Why am I doing this and spending obscene hours at work?" "Domonique is really intellectually curious and playful and is not afraid to throw out ideas on the go," Kimes said. During the 136-day lockout of players in 2011, Foxworth got to know the billionaires running NFL franchises. He's out of the business world, for now. . Former NFL star and former NFL Players Association President Domonique Foxworth was … Among other things, Tepper said, “He dresses like me, so I have to love the guy.”. Sometimes he will appear on an ESPN show and be asked to talk about important matters and not want to come across as too highbrow. Domonique Foxworth buys District home for $4 million. ", "I'm almost certain that it's going to be a mess on day one, but that's all right," he added. The post ESPN gives contract extensions to Domonique Foxworth, Field Yates appeared first on Awful Announcing. Like the assumptions he had about his own post-playing life, they are mostly wrong. Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy remains at the top of the list for minority coaches looking for an opportunity to become a head coach with some considering him the best available option across the board, even better than Rhule and Dallas Cowboys new hire Mike McCarthy. "That's entertaining also.". But at his core, he's still very much a corner, out on an island, doing his own thing. While more than 70 percent of the NFL’s players are black, there are just four minority coaches among 31 teams — with the Cleveland Browns still trying to narrow down their next leader. In it, Foxworth interrogated the costs and benefits of his football career. 212.869.1100 info@maxxtalent.com. Most of the discussion revolved around the most recent of the two hirings with the Carolina Panthers picking former Baylor coach Matt Rhule and the New York Giants reportedly set to hire Joe Judge, who won three Super Bowl rings with the New England Patriots as their special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach. "And I kind of tried to make a promise to myself that I would never be that.". The longtime ESPN employee is estimated to have a salary of about $800,000. Fox Sports’ Joe Buck is a three-time National Sportscaster of the Year and one of the most iconic sports broadcasters in history. By Mark Holan . An ACL injury two years earlier with the Ravens marked the beginning of the end of his playing career, but he already was looking beyond. He's not in the NFL anymore. “There are other people who deserve the job and have followed the pipeline, they followed all the rules, they’ve done what they’re supposed to do and they’re not getting an opportunity.”, READ NEXT: Star Receiver Seems to Forget Mike McCarthy Doesn’t Coach the Packers, ESPN Analysts Rip NFL Teams for Showing ‘Bias’ in Hirings, Copyright © 2020 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Versatility covering the country’s most popular sport might be key going forward. "7-year NFL veteran Domonique Foxworth saw 'Concussion' and it made him question everything," the USA Today story blared. On the other: "I have no guarantee that I won't be like Dave Duerson, Mike Webster, or Junior Seau.". One co-worker called Foxworth the "most insecure secure person" she knows, and the former Western Tech and Maryland star probably would agree. And if you force them to put in writing their decisions, they can’t write down, ‘I had a feeling’ … and then look at us and say, ‘Yeah, I hired this guy to run my multi-billion-dollar industry because I had a feeling, because he looked like me, because he made me feel good. On the one hand, he can afford to live comfortably and send his kids to exclusive schools. He went to business school because he felt he was as smart as the NFL owners he came to negotiate with. It’s your unconscious, personal bias. But "super geniuses"? It marks an important salary turning point for NFL coaches, but Smith argued such a deal would never have been done with a black coach. Clinton Yates, his colleague at The Undefeated, the ESPN website for which Foxworth writes about sports and society, will meet him there. Star Receiver Seems to Forget Mike McCarthy Doesn’t Coach the Packers. A pair of ESPN personalities will be sticking around for the foreseeable future. His brain always had been good to him. he said. Foxworth joined ESPN and The Undefeated back in the summer of 2016, and he’ll continue contributing to The Undefeated with his new deal, while also making appearances on various ESPN studio programming, include Get Up, First Take, and Outside the Lines. He also said Judge could turn out to be a great coaching hire for the Giants in the end. "You can't be a professional cornerback and be scared to get burnt a couple times. "I don't fear failure," he said. Of all the lessons he'd learned at Harvard, perhaps the most enduring was to value what he considered most important in life. Follow the Heavy on NFL Facebook page for the latest breaking news, rumors and content! Yates joined ESPN back in 2012 as a Patriots beat writer for ESPN Boston, but has progressed from that role into his current position as an NFL Insider, host of Fantasy Football Now, and podcast and ESPN Radio hosting gigs. “Maybe he deserves the job, but that’s not the point,” Foxworth continued. https://sports.yahoo.com/matt-ryan-49ers-2021-makes-230356773.html In October 2015, after barely a year on the job, he resigned. He retired in 2012 after a seven-year NFL career because he was more comfortable as the players' union leader than as a Ravens cornerback. His past five years read like a series of midlife crises. "Didn't want to be the ex-jock sportscaster guy," he explained, which is funny to consider now, because the headline of his attention-getting column last January could have been written only about a former athlete. That was scary. In May, he started to write for The Undefeated. It’s your bias. I don’t want to read too much into these two extensions, but with layoffs rumored at ESPN at an undetermined point in the future, the company seems to be placing value on personalities covering the NFL on multiple platforms. Foxworth played college football for the University of Maryland.He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft, and also played for the Atlanta Falcons and Baltimore Ravens. 1983 In the company he keeps among D.C.'s well-to-do, he doesn't like having to announce that he went to Harvard. This Story Tagged: NFL Kansas City Chiefs Tyrann Mathieu ESPN Cover Story “There is a problem when it comes to black men in the National Football League being afforded the respect they deserve and something needs to be said about it,” Stephen A. Smith said on Wednesday’s show with analysts Domonique Foxworth and Marcus Spears and moderator Molly Qeriim. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. He called on Aaron Rodgers to embrace the Black Lives Matter movement. Some of ESPN's 'First Take' analysts had some choice words about how NFL teams pick their coaches after two surprise choices were hired for head coaching jobs. In boardrooms, around conference tables, they were, for the most part, regular, hardworking people. Foxworth slowly has come around to seeing why. He has been called the N-word for what he has written, but at least he has an audience now, from his 31,000-plus followers on Twitter to the NFL executives who've reached out for his thoughts on how to gain a competitive advantage in their organizational management. A pair of ESPN personalities will be sticking around for the foreseeable future. @stephenasmith called the NFL’s Rooney Rule ‘bogus’ after recent coaching hires.
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