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On a previous episode of the PFN Weekly show, Allbright mentioned that Eric Bieniemy is “a titleholder who relays the play calls in but doesn’t make the play calls very often.”
“Andy Reid’s doing the play calling. Like 99 percent of the time Andy Reid is doing the play calling, he designed the offense, all of that stuff.”
Allbright has also mentioned that Bieniemy’s previous interviews have been poor. These poor interviews have likely caused him to fall out of consideration for certain positions in the past. Allbright mentioned that some teams with vacancies aren’t all that interested in Bieniemy. These historical poor interviews could be a big reason why.
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The Andy Reid coaching tree has in recent years sent former Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson to the job of head coach of the Eagles and former Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy to the job as head coach of the Bears. Current offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy has stalled in that spot for three years, passed over for head-coaching offers after his first two seasons of working directly with quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
A week ago, it seemed inevitable that one of the various 2021 vacancies would go to Bieniemy. Now, there’s a sense in league circles that he could once again be shut out of the process.
Bieniemy has interviewed with the Jaguars, Lions, Falcons, Chargers, and Jets. The Texans did not interview him.
Working against Bieniemy is the rule that prevents him from being hired until the Kansas City postseason run ends. Only when an assistant from a potential Super Bowl team is the clear-cut top choice for a given team will that team wait for him. If all other things are equal, the guy who’s available now will be hired.
Bieniemy may sense that his ship won’t be coming in this year. As one league source explained it to PFT, Bieniemy is privately saying that he wants to stay with the Chiefs until he finds the perfect job.
The situation is creating a logjam within the Chiefs organization. Quarterbacks coach/passing game coordinator Mike Kafka is in line to take over for Bieniemy, with Kafka becoming the next guy to eventually graduate to a head-coaching job.
Originally Posted by notorious:
Put yourself in the other teams' shoes.
You are looking to hire a person to run your business. One guy works with the best owner in the NFL, and the CEO is also the best. They have top talent from top to bottom in the company.
It sounds enticing, but your company is a pile of shit, and you need someone who can succeed without being surrounded by the best of the best all the time.
You don't know if he's been key to the company's success, or if he is just a placeholder in which the owner and CEO carry the weight and the prospect is just a guy that nods his head in meetings. If he ever makes a decision and it's bad the great CEO and owner can fix it just because they are amazing.
Now, taking a chance on EB is better than reshitting turds like Gase, but it's still not an easy decision.
The better way to look at it is you have the best manager in the world. A guy who makes everyone underneath him better. I get what you're saying. But these same shitheads keep turning to a bellichick organization that pumps out a bunch of yes men with no mind of their own. Its a very easy decision if the choice is to hire another bellichick stooge or hire from the tree of the best coach factory in football. [Reply]
I still cannot understand what is happening in Houston, Jacksonville and NYC.
If a team interviews EB and doesnt like him. Fine. But hiring Meyer and then whatever is going on in Houston is madness to me. Meyer is going to bring in a college staff for goodness sakes.
People saying he doesnt have a role and doesnt design the offense are being silly IMO. His role is being a leader and holding people accountable. As a HC those are the most critical characteristics. [Reply]
Who the fuck knows about how these interviews are going with Bieniemy?
Like... how? Are these assholes in the meetings? When asked about how they go, are people actually saying, "Well, Candidate A accidentally pissed himself, but had a nice pie chart, so..." Are the candidates themselves talking to reporters and saying, "Aw man I fucked it up!"
How the fuck does anybody know how this shit goes?
Also, random douche reporter guy says Bieniemy can't interview and that he fucked up this round too, and then we see a tweet from another guy that it went really well with the Falcons. So which one is correct? Did he or didn't he give a bad interview?
This is just speculation. All of it is fucking speculation. Nobody heard jack fucking shit and if they did it's what teams and/or the candidate wanted them to put out to the public.
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Who the fuck knows about how these interviews are going with Bieniemy?
Like... how? Are these assholes in the meetings? When asked about how they go, are people actually saying, "Well, Candidate A accidentally pissed himself, but had a nice pie chart, so..." Are the candidates themselves talking to reporters and saying, "Aw man I fucked it up!"
How the fuck does anybody know how this shit goes?
Also, random douche reporter guy says Bieniemy can't interview and that he fucked up this round too, and then we see a tweet from another guy that it went really well with the Falcons. So which one is correct? Did he or didn't he give a bad interview?
This is just speculation. All of it is fucking speculation. Nobody heard jack fucking shit and if they did it's what teams and/or the candidate wanted them to put out to the public.
It's all bullshit.
It’s not mysterious. Reporters “know” these things because someone who was in the meetings leaks the info to them. I use quotations because the leaks could also be misinformation. But it’s not something that can’t be known. [Reply]