Colts owner Jim Irsay is free to run his team as he’d like, and Monday he did just that. But, in an NFL coaching world rife with hiring issues, Irsay also must reckon with what it means to push aside and pass over so many more qualified candidates just to get his guy.
Talk to people in the coaching world who are fighting for a more equitable and diverse system, and the refrain you’ll hear is that this is less about skin color than it is about résumés.
Stacking up a lifetime of work only to be passed over in favor of Sean McVay’s binder ring repairman can be a maddening experience, which is why some coaches feel so cynical and defeated about the modern hiring process.