A question for NFL team owners and their advisers: Why is it that you’re content to hand Black assistant coaches an industrial-sized roll of Scotch tape and ask to hold a team together after a head coach is fired in-season, but so infrequently inclined to hand them the reins to a team from Day 1, with the full support and resources and time to succeed?
The former has happened twice thus far this season.
Two weeks ago, after Houston Texans owner Cal McNair had seen enough from the power-hungry but results-poor Bill O’Brien and fired him, Romeo Crennel was named interim head coach.