It doesn't matter when you're twice and sometimes three times as good. In the NFL, owners would rather lose with someone that looks like them than win with a Black head coach.
The day after the regular season ends has become an annual tradition in which multiple head coaches get served their walking papers. We knew that there would be coaching changes in Denver, Jacksonville, and Las Vegas due to reports that Vic Fangio was done with the Broncos before Monday even began, Urban Meyer was fired last month, and Jon Gruden resigned in October. Matt Nagy, Mike Zimmer, and Brian Flores lost their jobs on Monday.
This column is not about the guys that will be fired this week. It is about the ones that should get hired, but it is not about the ones that are obsessed with younger white coaches with paper-thin resume.
Bill O'Brien and Kellen Moore were brought in.
O'Brien is being considered for the head coaching position in Jacksonville as well as the offensive coordinator position in the Carolinas.
White men fail up.
Things went terribly wrong when O'Brien was an NFL head coach. The Texans were 4-2 under O'Brien in the playoffs, despite his 52-48 regular season record.
O'Brien traded away Jadeveon Clowney, gave Miami two first-round picks, and got rid of one of the best wide receivers in the league. O'Brien made comments to DeAndreHopkins that were offensive to black people, and had a verbal blowup with Watt because the coach had used a negative word about black people.
O'Brien is in charge of a loaded and ridiculously-talented offense at Alabama that basically runs itself, so people think he deserves to be back in the NFL.
When the Cowboys were in the middle of the season, Kellen Moore was going to be interviewed by the Jaguars, which was going to happen in September when the analysts were trying to jump him to the front of the line.
The chyron at the bottom of the screen read, "Chances, this is a guy whose name you're gonna hear when people are interviewing for head coaches next January."
Jeff Saturday said that Kellen Moore is putting the game in the hands of the quarterback, which is what you want when you are on the field.
The Kansas City offense is the second seed in the conference, while the second seed in theNFC is the offense of the man who won the Super Bowl, the man who is Eric Bieniemy.
When you are Black and you want to be a head coach in the NFL, you need more than a resume and adulation from your players and coaches. That is the way it is.
Bieniemy and Leftwich have been reported as targets for positions and will also get interviewed, but there is nothing different about the previous ones that left them without head coaching jobs. What do you expect from a league that is run by owners who are more comfortable with the ones they already have than with the ones they want to change?
Black Monday is a day of gloom for white coaches, but it is just another day of the week for the Black ones.
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