Black NFL Head Coaches Are 1-11 and Deion Sanders Is Worse | Ep 1253

Jason Whitlock (0:02)

You're about to get one of those shows that you can only get on Fearless. This is one of those shows that a lot of people object to and think, oh, why is Whitlock doing this? I'm doing it because I'm the only one who will do it, who will only, the only person who will tell the truth and analyze sports from an objective perspective and try to analyze sports in a way that leads to progress and healing and improvement.

I know many of you that are watching on YouTube are like, hey, Whitlock's got a new set, enjoy the new set, we've rebuilt the studio, everything's going to look better and nicer, the Harmony set, the whole nine yards. But more than anything, you need to lock in on this show because I'm the only person on the planet that will discuss what is obvious to everyone. Black NFL coaches, and there are three of them, Todd Bowles, Aaron Glenn, and DeMeco Ryan, and they have started this NFL season one and 11 And we know that if they had started this season 11 and one, there would be major conversation, there would be major analysis. People would be offering all kinds of theories on why they're so successful, why they're having such success. And so now that there are one and 11, there will be one person willing to step out here and say, hey, let me offer some analysis on why they're one and 11 And many of you think that I'm going to, well, it's because they're black.

That's part of it, but it's not the reason. It's the culture around blackness. It's the way young black men respond to black authority and black leadership. That's why they're one and 11, because we have created this very matriarchal culture around blackness. I happen to like Todd Bowles a lot and think that he has the right mindset for leadership. I feel the same way about DeMeco Ryan. I think he could be a successful head coach and has been previously. Aaron Glenn, I think he's a defensive coordinator. I don't think he's a head coach, but I do think these guys face a specific challenge. When they go into an NFL locker room and 65%, 63%, 60%, whatever percentage it is, maybe it's as high as 7% in some NFL locker room. When they go into that locker room and there are a majority number of young black men looking back at them, they're fighting an uphill battle because young black men have not been discipled, haven't been trained, haven't been programmed in a way to be led by black men. I'm not talking about a failure of any of these guys as individuals. I'm talking about the failure of a culture, a matriarchal culture, a culture led by women.

And as I get deeper and further into this, I'm going to bring Deion Sanders and his failure at Colorado into this. Because he epitomizes everything that is wrong with black male leadership. Epitomizes everything. And so let me walk you through how we went from Tony Dungy, Lovie Smith meeting in a Super Bowl, Mike Tomlin, Herm Edwards, all these guys. How we went from that, these guys that all were successful, to a time where now all of these guys are struggling because they can't lead the current crop of young black men in these locker rooms. The young black men in those locker rooms don't respect them. That's not their fault. It's the fault of a baby momma culture that we have accepted as normal. We've gone from, again, Dungy, the gold standard, Hall of Fame coach, Mike Tomlin, off the Dungy tree, Lovie Smith led the Bears to a Super Bowl. Herm Edwards had some success in New York. We went from that to 1-11 in September and early October, and no one wants to talk about it. Hey, maybe they'll recover, and I hear many of you, hey, Todd Bowles lost his quarterback. Hey, the Houston Texans have been close and could have won several of those games. Hey, Aaron Glenn and the Jets are showing signs of life. Hey, you're a prisoner of the moment. But again, as I said, if they were 11 and 1, rather than 1 and 11, what would the discussion be? We know what the discussion would be. And no one, again, wants to talk about what is the environment creating this? Because I'm telling you, Bowles, DeMeco Ryan, and to some degree, Aaron Glenn, they've adopted all the right or most of the right leadership concepts and techniques and mindset. But at the moment, the only one with a victory here is Aaron Glenn. And you know where he got his victory? Against the Tennessee Titans and Robert Sala, the other minority coach in the National Football League. There are four people of color, men of color, that are head coaches in the National Football League. If you throw in Tennessee's 0-4 record, you're talking about 1-15. And that 1 is someone beating Robert Sala.