Nearly 60 percent of NFL players are Black, but as of Thursday, the entire league boasts just one Black head coach and he is in Pittsburgh.
NFL fans and media were stunned to learn the Houston Texans fired head coach David Culley after just one season after he was handed a team that had a starting QB who demanded to be traded. Then, that same QB would be accused of sexual misconduct and never play a single down in 2021.
Not to mention, the Miami Dolphins parted ways with Brian Flores after he had back-to-back winning seasons. Flores, who previously worked under Bill Belichick with the New England Patriots from 2008 to 2018, finishes his Miami tenure with a 24-25 record.
Shannon Sharpe, who has never been shy about stating his feelings on race in sports, took to Undisputed and didn’t mince a single word when he stated that Black coaches are held to a higher standard than their white counterparts.
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Skip Bayless also had his own thoughts.
“It dawned upon me that only Mike Tomlin is the last man standing,” Skip Bayless said Friday morning on Undisputed. “The last Black head coach in the National Football League on the eve of the playoffs. It rocked me. Because the gravity of it hit me as we near yet another Martin Luther King Day on Monday.
“There are 14 Black head coaches in the NBA out of 30 franchises,” Bayless noted. “That’s almost 50 percent. I think you would say that’s pretty great, that’s how it should be…there’s one of 32 in the National Football League.”
“At the coaching position, just the head coaching position, it is shameful, it is disgusting, it is embarrassing and it is inexplicably wrong,” Bayless ranted of the NFL.
Currently, the NFL has seven head coaching vacancies, so it’s very likely we enter the 2022 season with more than just 1 Black head coach.
