The NFL believes it is time for team facilities, and hiring minds, to open.
The former could prove to be a long, slow, process.
The latter is a public admission of institutional racism.
As the NFL tries to get back to work, the league is tweaking the venerable Rooney Rule, which was installed to give minority coaching candidates a chance to at least interview for jobs before being ignored.
On Tuesday, the league tabled a proposal to reward teams via the draft for hiring minority candidates, which amounted to NFL owners saying: “Our hiring history is so racist that we need to incentivize not being racist.