On the Monday following the final regular season games of the NFL season, many teams fire their underperforming coaches and start searching for upgrades. This year, however, the day has created some racial controversy.

As a result of this purging, four underperforming African-American NFL head coaches lost their jobs: Arizona Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks, Denver Broncos head coach Vance Joseph, Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis, and New York Jets head coach Todd Bowles. Since the Cleveland Browns fired Hue Jackson midseason, this means the NFL went from seven black head coaches at the start of the season down now to just two, and this has people upset.