There will likely be much weeping and gnashing of teeth among members of the “woke” sports media next week as the ax is expected to fall on a number of black coaches as the annual clearing out of the garbage for underachieving NFL teams is only days away.
The casualties are expected to include Denver Broncos head coach Vance Joseph who is putting the finishing touches on his dismal legacy of the coach who has presided over the first consecutive back-to-back losing seasons in 46 years. Johnson’s tenure hit rock bottom during a butt-ugly Monday Night Football collapse against the hated division rival Oakland Raiders on Christmas Eve during which even the ESPN analysts were suggesting that his team quit on him.
Joseph is expected to be shitcanned nearly as soon as tomorrow’s finale against the L.A. Chargers wraps up but he has his defenders in the media calling for GM John Elway to keep him around.
Likely joining Joseph in the unemployment line will be Arizona Cardinals coach Steve Wilks who could be the one taking the fall for what will be a 3-13 dumpster fire in which the team was rarely even competitive.
There is also Todd Bowles of the New York Jets whose team will finish at a miserable 4-12 after Sunday’s sacrificial slaughter in Foxborough and possibly even Marvin Lewis of the Cincinnati Bengals who must have made a deal with the devil to have lasted this long.
Already gone is stumblebum Hue Jackson of the resurgent Cleveland Browns who lost all sixteen games last season but have been one of the NFL’s hottest teams since shitcanning that loser.
Sports Illustrated has recently been giving ESPN a run for its money as the most overtly politicized “sports” forum in the nation and in a piece that was just published, is already bemoaning the lack of minority coaches once the housecleanings have taken place.
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We’ll get to the hot seat tracker below, but first, a look at a crisis the league may soon be facing in both coaching and personnel decision-makers. The NFL could soon have its fewest black head coaches since the pre-Rooney Rule days. And the outlook is just as grim at general manager.
The 2018 season had eight head coaches of color (seven black and one Hispanic), which tied the mark from ’11 for most ever. If no black coaches are hired during this cycle, the league would go into next season with just two black coaches—the lowest since 2002, two years before the Rooney Rule was instituted.
Hue Jackson, Vance Joseph, Todd Bowles and Steve Wilks all started this season as NFL head coaches. One has already lost his job, and the other three likely won’t have jobs next week—and Marvin Lewis could quite possibly join that group as well. That leaves Anthony Lynn, Mike Tomlin and Ron Rivera as the last minority men standing, and the latter two have warm seats themselves.
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This speaks to the miserable job done across the league in building a pipeline of qualified non-white candidates. (There’s also the issue of teams violating the spirit of the Rooney Rule and interviewing a minority for the sake of fulfilling the rule.) When I spoke to the mayor of Pittsburgh this summer about the city’s institution of the Rooney Rule, it was clear he not only wanted to hire a diverse staff but also build a system where diversity was bred from the lower ranks to the top. It’s a concept that has eluded the NFL.
It’s going to give an entirely new meaning to “Black Monday” when these bums get the bum’s rush.
In a nutshell? The case will once again be made for skin color to be an immunization against accountability for a job poorly done and the push will begin to put the so-called “Rooney Rule” on steroids to force the league to impose quotas and outright affirmative action.
And who ultimately gets screwed? The fans – AGAIN!
