Commanders to report to Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy for offensive coordinator position

The Kansas City Chiefs have been the NFL’s most explosive offense since 2018, with Eric Bieniemy as offensive coordinator, and lead the league in scoring and total offense. However, the most recent report on his coaching future does not refer to a head coaching job, but to the Washington Commanders offensive coaching job, an infidelity. Washington will interview Bieniemy and has “strong interest” in him becoming his next offensive coordinator with him as “the frontrunner.” NFL Media. His contract at Kansas City has expired, so any team could hire him with no impact on Choice’s compensation. The commanders also reportedly had an interview with former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Greg Roman that “went well,” and the franchise has no further scheduled discussions about the vacancy at this time.

The Chiefs have won two Super Bowls in the last four seasons with him leading their offense, while assistants for the teams Bieniemy defeated in the Super Bowl, like Mike McDaniel (then running game coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers in 2019), DeMeco Ryans (then 2019 San Francisco 49ers inside linebackers coach), Shane Steichen (then 2022 offensive coordinator for the Eagles), and Jonathan Gannon (then 2022 defensive coordinator for the Eagles) have all later received NFL head coaching opportunities.

Under Bieniemy (since 2018), the Chiefs lead the NFL or rank second in most crucial offensive categories.

Chiefs offense under OC Eric Bieniemy

* Since 2018

During Bieniemy’s tenure as offensive coordinator, the Chiefs have had 60 games with 25 points or more since 2018 — the most in the NFL — and no other team has 50 such games. Kansas City also has only six games with fewer than 20 points since 2018 — the fewest in the NFL — and all other 31 NFL teams have at least 19 or more such games during that span.

Not surprisingly, two of the Chiefs’ three former offensive coordinators before Bieniemy were hired as head coaches: Doug Pederson and Matt Nagy. Pederson was hired as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2016 and went 42-37-1 in five seasons and won Super Bowl LII against the New England Patriots for the franchise’s only Super Bowl win. He’s also since earned a second head coaching appearance, finishing 9-8 with the Jacksonville Jaguars that season and leading them to their first playoff win since the 2017 season. His inaugural season with the Jaguars ended in a divisional round playoff loss to the Chiefs and Bienemy.

Nagy was hired as the Chicago Bears head coach in 2018 and went 34-31 with the team in four seasons. He won the 2018 NFL Coach of the Year award and led it to an NFC North title. Nagy has since returned to the Chiefs’ coaching staff as a senior assistant and quarterbacks coach.

Ahead of Kansas City’s Super Bowl LIV win over the San Francisco 49ers that ended the 2019 NFL season, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid expressed his confusion over why his current offensive coordinator didn’t get the same head coaching opportunity as Pederson and received Nagy.

“His role is the same as Doug and Matt’s,” Reid said in January 2020. via Sports Illustrated. “He’s the coordinator, he runs the meetings.”

That quote contradicts the perceived disdain that Bieniemy isn’t the full-time offensive player and sometimes splits those duties with Reid. However, Reid has made it a point to allow Bieniemy to call the Chiefs offense for extended periods of time, as the video below shows.

Bieniemy actually had a more productive offensive line with the Chiefs than either Pederson or Nagy during their previous stints as the team’s offensive coordinator.

Bieniemy, Nagy and Pederson as the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator

Patrick Mahomes has led the NFL with 192 passing touchdowns under Bieniemy since 2018, when the latter became the team’s offensive coordinator and the former became the team’s starting quarterback. Mahomes is the fifth quarterback in NFL history to win multiple NFL MVPS (2018 and 2022) and Super Bowl MVPs (LIV and LVII), with Bieniemy leading offense. .

Mahomes since 2018

* Under 60 QBs with 10+ starts over span

Bieniemy has 15 seasons of NFL coaching experience as running backs coach for the Minnesota Vikings (2006-2010), running backs coach for the Chiefs (2013-2017), and currently as offensive coordinator for the Chiefs (2018-2022).