The first week of February was a week of headlines about racial inequality in the NFL's upper ranks.
WASHINGTON — The first week of February was supposed to be the beginning of 14 days of hype for the NFL leading up to next week’s Super Bowl.
The Flores suit has spawned a lot of discussion of who leads teams in the NFL, the most popular professional sports league in the United States. The data shows a huge racial discrepancy between who plays in the NFL and who coaches there. And that current tally is not a one-year, momentary aberration. The past 10 years have shown a very similar pattern in head-coach hires.
One big question is what's behind that pattern and if you look closely at the numbers, you can see the depth of the forces underlying it. The gap in the offensive coordinator numbers is especially noteworthy. The modern NFL is driven by scoring, and offensive coordinators are often singled out for being creative and inventive, the kinds of people who get offers to be head coaches. Of the 62 head coaching jobs filled between 2012 and 2021, 31 had been offensive coordinators, only 18 had been defensive coordinators.
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