Perspective: Eric Bieniemy, Black and supremely qualified, still can't land an NFL head coaching job.
I don’t know Bieniemy. I don’t know whether he will be the next Mike Tomlin — who guided the Steelers to a Super Bowl trophy in just his second season and has yet, after 16 years, to have a losing campaign — or the next Marion Campbell. Look him up. Actually, don’t.But I am absolutely certain that after all Bieniemy accomplished this season and his previous four directing Andy Reid’s offense, he deserves a chance at least to fail as a head coach.
to the football world in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s Super Bowl victory: “Eric Bieniemy was phenomenal.”So what could give league owners, team presidents and general managers cold feet on Bieniemy other than his skin color? Hygiene? Does he require an Amharic translator? None of the criticisms against him were prohibitive for White coaches in the same situation who went on to get head jobs — maybe even bomb at them and then go on to get yet another.
Not only that, but after McDaniels flopped with the Broncos, Belichick and Brady brought him back, returned some shine to his image with the glint of three more Lombardi Trophies, and then Las Vegas decided to give him a second chance running the whole show. And he’s still not as aged as Bieniemy.
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