By now we’ve all witnessed the NFL’s horrendous and biased hiring practices, particularly when it comes to Black head coaches.
Well apparently, Pete Carroll has had enough.
At the recent NFL meetings, the Seahawks coach reportedly ripped league owners and GMs for their poor track record in diversity hires.
And as you could imagine, that didn’t sit well with the targets of his message.
“He just went off,” a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. “He was saying, you can do anything but until owners get to know these candidates before the actual interviews and understand that they have to hire people who are different than them, it’s not going to really change.”
That source also told Schefter that Carroll said that until owners accept that candidates will look and be different than the owners themselves, the league’s hiring practices won’t improve.
They might be angry, but it’s not like this is some new revelation.
In 2021, there were seven NFL head coaching vacancies and only one Black candidate, David Culley, was hired.
In 2022, there were nine head coaching vacancies and only one Black coach, Lovie Smith, was hired.
And both of those head coaches were hired by the Houston Texans, Smith after they fired Culley after only one season with the team.
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