So, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton are all-in with Brian Flores when it comes to pulling back the curtain on the alleged discrimination that has damned Black coaches in the NFL for decades.
Kudos, my brothers. Not everyone – especially Black men who may still harbor designs of leading somebody’s NFL team – has the wherewithal to publicly join a worthy cause that so many discuss among themselves privately.
Yet for all the fresh allegations that surfaced in the amended complaint filed Thursday, there’s an old and stale reality at the root: The NFL can’t be trusted to do right with its pledges for fairness in filling the highly visible head-coaching roles. And the league certainly has scant credibility in policing itself on this front.
Sure, the NFL also can’t be trusted when disciplining team owners and couldn’t be trusted as it used racist standards to determine payouts from the concussion settlement until forced to do otherwise.
Let’s contain this, however, to the plight of…