Cincinnati Bengals once led NFL coaching diversity charge. Now, they're part of the problem | Opinion

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Former Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis, left, was the NFL's seventh Black coach. His staff, including special assistant to the head coach Hue Jackson, right, continued the team's history of championing diversity.

Hue Jackson was a champion of diversity. As a head coach of the Cleveland Browns, he proved that Black men could also be the worst to ever do their jobs by going 3-36-1 over the course of two and a half seasons.

The Bengals have the least-diverse staff in the NFL this season, with non-white coaches making up 24% of Zac Taylor’s staff. No other NFL staff has less than 30% non-white coaches.

Now I ain't no fancy mathematically-inclined city slicker, but I do believe that those numbers are not very far apart.

White coaches at the “thinking person” positions and Black men in the running back and wide receiver rooms?

Is this b-word implying that runningbacks and wide receivers are stupid? She may be right, but she's got some balls to say so, if I say so!

Yet no one’s going to say too much or look too hard because Taylor led the Bengals to their first Super Bowl appearance since 1989 last year, so whatever he’s doing — and whoever he’s doing it with — must be working.

Yeah, it's funny how that works. Go 0-7 in the playoffs with a Black head coach over 16 years and people want to fire him, but go to the Super Bowl with the NFL's least diverse staff and no one seems too keen on shaking things up. I can't puzzle it out.

Now, this isn’t to say owner Mike Brown, who also acts as the Bengals GM, or Taylor are racist.

Now, I would NEVER accuse you of being racist! I would simply write an article on USAToday strongly implying it.

The author of this piece, Nancy Armour, never once mentions the 16 year long playoff win drought that led to Marvin Lewis's firing. His firing is only mentioned in a passing line about Zac Taylor replacing him in 2019. If you knew nothing about the Bengals or the NFL coming into this article, I wonder what conclusions you might draw from that.