Duce Staley wants to be a head coach, and the good news is, these days, NFL owners generally like their head coaches to be offensive.
The bad news is, they still like them to be white.
In the last three hiring seasons, 16 of the 20 head coaching jobs, or 80 percent, went to white coaches. That put the number of black coaches at seven, the same as 2006, when Roger Goodell became commissioner, which was three years after guidelines were imposed to improve their atrocious record of minority hiring.
“The Rooney Rule really works,” Goodell insisted Wednesday.