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Mike Preston

Mike Preston: With so many NFL openings, it’s past time for more Black coaches to be hired

BALTIMORE — Black coaches are good enough to be coordinators in the NFL, but not head coaches.

That’s the message the league has been sending, with hopes that it will change this year.

There were eight openings soon after the regular season ended Jan. 9, leaving the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Tomlin as the only Black head coach among the league’s 32 teams. Since then, there has been speculation about who will get hired and who has been interviewed, but that’s business as usual this time of year.

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