The Houston Texans are once again looking for a head coach after three straight seasons of firing theirs following a single year in the lead role.
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith believes African-American coaches shouldn’t fill out that job application.
Talking on his show, “First Take,” on Monday morning following the firing of Lovie Smith, who is the third African-American head coach to be let go in Houston since 2020, Stephen A. Smith sounded off on the Texans and CEO Cal McNair.
“African Americans need not apply,” he said. “This is not an organization that has been fair to African Americans as far as I’m concerned. And I have these two as an example. You could use Romeo Crennel and the kind of situation they put him in in the past. I don’t like this organization.”
Before Lovie Smith, Crennel (2020) and David Culley (2021) were terminated after one season. Crennel took over once Bill O’Brien was fired during the COVID year, going 4-8 with his group.
Then, Culley went 4-13 before he was let go, making way for Smith this season.
TEXANS PART WAYS WITH LOVIE SMITH AFTER ONE SEASON AS HEAD COACH
Houston hasn’t had the most competitive roster these last few years, especially after trading DeAndre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson, two of their most important players who were key in making the playoffs in 2018 and 2019. Both of those seasons, the Texans won the AFC South but were never able to make a run for the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
O’Brien was playing both the head coach and GM role at the time of the Hopkins trade to the Arizona Cardinals in March 2020, which received tons of backlash from fans and experts alike, some of which calling it one of the worst trades of all-time.

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