“Guys in the locker room talk about that stuff, man,” Simmons said about racist views coming from people in leadership positions. These recent public revelations are a call for culture change and taking action.”ĭenver Broncos safety Justin Simmons says the NFL has made progress in recent years, but more needs to be done. Inclusion, whether that is race, gender, sexual orientation, age or otherwise, leads to better decisions, outcomes, and impact.
“Collectively, a necessary decision to be made is that inclusion matters. “A key learning from working on these issues over the past three decades is that diversity is a fact, inclusion is a choice,” Vincent told the AP. Troy Vincent, a six-time Pro Bowl cornerback, former president of the NFL Players Association and current NFL executive vice president of football operations, agrees with Jenkins. And so again, we can clap our hands at all of the pageantry that we’ve done now as everybody’s kind of come to this social justice narrative, but until you start to see a change in leadership, whether it be more Black coaches, more Black GMs, a diversity in ownership, then I don’t know how we expect the culture of the NFL to change.” "And I think that’s the culture behind the scenes that we need to change. When he sent those emails, nobody raised a red flag, nobody brought it to anybody’s attention. “But I think if we focus only on Jon Gruden, then we miss the bigger picture, which is that he was able to exist like that because the culture around him accepted it.
“In the case of Jon Gruden, obviously it’s very disappointing to the people who respected him, look up to him and the man he was to our league,” Jenkins said. Among principal owners, only Jacksonville’s Shad Khan and Buffalo’s Kim Pegula are members of minorities. In a sport with about 70% of the players Black, more than 80% of head coaches (27 of 32) and general managers (also 27 of 32) are white. “I think that we understand the culture of the NFL and we can put ‘Inspire Change’ logos all over the field and create logos all we want, but until you actually change what leadership looks like, you can’t expect to change the culture.” “I can’t say that I was surprised at all that that kind of dialogue is happening behind the scenes,” three-time Pro Bowl safety Malcolm Jenkins said on the AP Pro Football Podcast. The fallout from Jon Gruden’s emails has many questioning what it will take to really change the culture in the NFL.
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