is back as offensive coordinator<\/a>, replacing Nagy.<\/p>\nConsidered one of the most imaginative and creative playcallers in NFL history, Andy Reid will retain that role for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still enjoy calling plays,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n
In fact, part of the reason Nagy is leaving is so that he can spread his wings and have more influence on an offense \u2014 whether that is as an offensive coordinator or head coach \u2014 of another team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis gives Matt an opportunity to go out and run his show there and do what he does best,\u201d Reid said. \u201cHe\u2019ll go out and be able to put his own mark on things, and that takes my name off of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though Nagy looks for a team where he can run the offense himself, that\u2019s not to say the Chiefs offense lacked collaboration with Nagy or Bieniemy coordinating the offense.<\/p>\n
Playcalling for the Chiefs has always been a team effort despite having Reid\u2019s fingerprints all over the gameplan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not afraid to delegate and get opinions from people, and then even in certain situations, letting them go ahead and call things in different areas,\u201d Reid said. \u201cWe do this jointly. I keep it open, and I felt that that\u2019s the best way. I want guys to contribute. I want them to work hard and be experts in their area and then cumulatively in all areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Chiefs have added an expert for 2026 who previously coached with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had success,\u201d Reid said, \u201cbringing guys back into the fold.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Bieniemy Brings<\/p>\n
Before Nagy\u2019s second stint with the Chiefs, Bieniemy was the Chiefs\u2019 offensive coordinator, and Kansas City had great results with him at the helm.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs ranked in the top six in both yards and points in every year from 2019 to 2022. And they finished first in yards three times.<\/p>\n
But the productivity fell off after Nagy\u2019s return in 2023. In his three years as offensive coordinator, the Chiefs never ranked above ninth in yards or 15th in points.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not a totally fair comparison, however, because Patrick Mahomes and Kelce were younger, and speedster Tyreek Hill was there for much of Bieniemy\u2019s tenure and not for Nagy\u2019s.<\/p>\n
More than stats, though, Reid lauded Bieniemy\u2019s knowledge and intangibles.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it\u2019s coaches, players,\u201d Reid said, \u201che is a great leader of men.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hope is that Bieniemy will not only lead the offense to the numbers it produced when he was previously the offensive coordinator, but also eliminate the mistakes, penalties, dropped passes and overall sloppiness that plagued Kansas City last year.<\/p>\n
And the Chiefs need to get the most out of arguably the NFL\u2019s best quarterback \u2014 Mahomes \u2014 who is inarguably the league\u2019s most expensive asset while on a 10-year, $450 million contract.<\/p>\n
When asked what he wants in an offensive coordinator, Mahomes stressed qualities that seem to match Bieniemy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want someone that loves football,\u201d Mahomes said, \u201cwants to give everything they can to win, to hold people accountable and then to bring new ideas every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bieniemy could inject some new ideas after an impressive stint as running backs coach under Ben Johnson for the Chicago Bears who ranked third in the NFL in rushing yards while winning their division during Bieniemy\u2019s only year there. <\/p>\n
But don\u2019t get it twisted: It\u2019s still Big Red\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy talks with head coach Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs prior to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,19188,7,118,110,2438,2437,26822,6,499,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-709069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-eric-bieniemy","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-matt-nagy","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patrick-mahomes","18":"tag-travis-kelce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115967472574408870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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