Race-baiting Media Blast NFL Teams For Not Hiring KC Assistant Coach

It’s beginning to look a lot like “Eric Bieniemy Season.” Bieniemy is the highly successful offensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs. His explosive offense features quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and the receivers Tyreek H and Travis Kelce. This is a perennial Super Bowl contender. His race is a reason he has been denied an NFL job as a head coach.

Because of Bieniemy’s success as KC’s offensive coordinator, he is an annual favorite among sports media to ascend to a head coaching position. Presently, there is only one NFL black head coach. Which makes “Eric Bieniemy season” more of a focal point this year than ever before. The media demands that he gets one of the many open positions currently available.

Stephen A. Smith is one of those who is outraged that this week Denver hired a new head coach not named Bieniemy. No less than a white coach.

“It’s just a damn shame when I see something like this,” Smith screeched on yesterday’s First Take program. “In regards to Eric Bieniemy and his resume, and then you put that up against Nathaniel Hackett’s resume.”

Hackett was the new coach of Denver. He previously served as an offensive coach at Green Bay.

“You just scored 10 points in an NFC Divisional playoff game,” Smith said of Hackett, referring to the Packers’13-10 loss to San Francisco last week. “And a couple of weeks later you get a head coaching job, but Eric Bieniemy with those qualifications doesn’t get the job. I’m telling you right now, as a black man, it is sickening, it is insulting, and it bothers the living hell out of me.”

This is what you get every winter during “Eric Bieniemy season,” when the KC assistant is held up by media as the greatest black head coaching candidate for any open NFL job. However, since he’s been passed over numerous times, there are suspicions that Bieniemy just doesn’t interview that well. Denver actually interviewed him. He had five interviews in the last year.

Hackett could also be suspected of being hired to lure Aaron Rodgers from the Broncos in a possible trade.

Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio calls the “bad interview” theory “BS. As one source with knowledge of the situation explained it to PFT over the weekend, Bieniemy did a great job in last year’s hiring cycle. And he continues to improve, as he receives (and he has) specific feedback on how to make his presentation even better.”

Fox Radio’s Doug Gottlieb commented that, during interviews, Bieniemy does not offer a lot of details about what he would offer as a head coach. This may not be Bieniemy’s race, but his limitations.

Still, others believe Bieniemy’s rap sheet stands in the way of a head coaching job. Bieniemy was charged with a Colorado bar fight in 1998, an assault on a female victim in 1993 and a DUI offense in 2001.

A year ago, the ESPN Undefeated race baiter Martenzie Johnson alleged black assistant coaches must work twice as hard as whites to get head coaching jobs. He also wrote that when offensive coordinators like Bieniemy succeed, the “goalposts” for their advancement get moved back.

All these criticisms of NFL hiring procedures explain “Eric Bieniemy season” to a T.