Unless Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy is offered and accepts the Houston Texans open head coach position that is two dumpsters on fire crashing into each other and falling off a cliff, the 2021 offseason will mark the second straight that Bieniemy will go without a serious look at a head coaching gig. It’s shameful in several ways, especially from a league that allegedly wants to make a difference in hiring coaches of color. In the current offseason cycle, only Robert Saleh — a man of Lebanese descent — has broken the all-white barrier when it comes to advancement to head coach in the NFL.
There are those who know exactly what time it is in the NFL — it’s an ownership problem, which means that it isn’t changing anytime soon — and there are others who insist that Bieniemy simply isn’t qualified to be a head coach, and everybody should just be quiet and expect the status quo. The arguments against Bieniemy are highly suspect at best, they usually go like this, and all of them can be easily busted.