{"id":999061,"date":"2020-06-18T16:18:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=999061"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:15:32","slug":"doug-williams-open-the-valve-for-black-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=999061","title":{"rendered":"Doug Williams: &#8216;Open the valve&#8217; for black coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/18\/doug-williams-aims-open-valve-black-coaches-quarte\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2018\/05\/11\/redskins_hbcu_football_17021_s1440x959.jpg?38ee4b81f9b4ccf2a99f00d05e55ab87790d4572\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>Doug Williams used to hear a common refrain whenever the NFL&#8217;s lack of minority head coaches came up. The justification \u2014 or excuse \u2014 given was that there wasn&#8217;t anyone \u201cin the pipeline\u201d qualified to oversee a team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Williams, the former NFL quarterback, now Redskins executive, &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/18\/doug-williams-aims-open-valve-black-coaches-quarte\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jun\/18\/doug-williams-aims-open-valve-black-coaches-quarte\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Doug Williams: &#039;Open the valve&#039; for black coaches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Williams used to hear a common refrain whenever the NFL&#8217;s lack of minority head coaches came up. The justification \u2014 or excuse \u2014 given was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907880,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999061\/revisions\/1907880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}