The NFL has an actual problem with illustration within the head teaching ranks … and Skip Bayless says he is aware of why — previous, white NFL house owners simply aren’t comfy socializing with Black coaches and their wives.

“These older white house owners simply aren’t that comfy with a Black head coach as a result of they should work together, they should go to dinner with the wives or the [significant others] or no matter,” Bayless stated on FS1’s “Undisputed” this week whereas discussing 53-year-old Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy‘s failure to land a gig as HC.

“[White owners are] simply not that comfy. Once they do have an interview, it’s gonna be a faster click on with a younger white scorching candidate.”

After all, the NFL solely has 4 Black head coaches … Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh, Todd Bowles in Tampa Bay, newly employed DeMeco Ryans in Houston and Mike McDaniel in Miami.

Regardless of a majority of the gamers within the league being Black, folks of shade have lengthy had points getting employed, particularly as head coaches.

The NFL has instituted pointers just like the “Rooney Rule” — dictating entrance places of work should interview a minority candidate earlier than making a rent.

Nonetheless, solely 4 of the 32 groups characteristic a Black man within the prime job, and it would not seem change is on the horizon.

As for the best way to repair the evident problem, Bayless admits it might not be a repairable downside … ‘trigger, how do you modify how the house owners suppose?

“It’s simply tradition, it’s simply the best way life is. And, I don’t know the best way to defeat it, as a result of every of those guys is an impartial proprietor within the umbrella of the NFL and it’s laborious to legislate ‘you need to rent a black coach’”

“You’ll be able to’t except it’s within the man’s coronary heart to do the precise factor, and each infrequently we’ve got the Rooneys in Pittsburgh who did the precise factor.”