The Bruins are moving on from Bieniemy, sources told Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. The former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator and NFL running back joined UCLA’s staff in 2024 as the offensive coordinator and assistant head coach following the hire of Deshaun Foster as the team’s head coach.
UCLA went 5-7 in 2024 and was 3-6 in the Big Ten. The Bruins averaged 5.4 yards a play and scored just 18.4 points per game. Only eight teams across the top level of college football averaged fewer points than the Bruins and UCLA scored more than 20 points just twice all season.
Bieniemy, 55, interviewed multiple times for NFL head coaching positions while he was the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator. He joined Andy Reid’s staff in 2013 when Reid became the Chiefs’ head coach and was the team’s running backs coach through the 2017 season. He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2018 as Patrick Mahomes became the team’s starting quarterback.
However, Bieniemy never got a head coaching job in the NFL and moved on from the Chiefs after the 2022 season. Five NFL teams had job openings that offseason and he interviewed for just one.
Bieniemy became the offensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders in 2023, but he spent just one season with the team as the organization went through wholesale changes following the season. Washington’s new ownership group changed the coaching staff and hired Dan Quinn as the team’s head coach with former Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury serving as the offensive coordinator for No. 2 overall draft pick Jayden Daniels.
Before coaching for the Chiefs, Bieniemy was the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Colorado, for two seasons and had served as an assistant coach with the Minnesota Vikings. It’s unclear just where Bieniemy’s next coaching stop will be and it’d have been hard to fathom four years ago that Bieniemy would be leaving his third job in three seasons at the end of 2024 instead of being the head coach of an NFL team. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar:
The offense was the best in the league with a bunch of bums. Just saying...one could make a case that either Bienemy was more important than some thought, or Nagy has more of an impact (negatively) than some think.
Personally feel it’s a combination of both. [Reply]
EB was booted out of the UCLA OC job. He sucks shit now, and he sucked shit when he was with KC. Thank goodness for Reid, because it's clear the offense was productive in spite of EB, not because of him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
The proof says otherwise. Last time he was here we had the best offense in the league with Juju, MVS, Watson, Pacheco, Hardman etc on the roster. Way less talent than we do now.
What proof?
You cannot just ignore all the other variables with the Chiefs and say EB was IT, the one that didn't.
Again, find some corroborating evidence. But you can't so we will do this same old song and dance of presenting you with facts and you hand wave them away with BS like racism and he didn't get a fair shot. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
I disagree. Jawaan and wanya are making the same technique mistakes over and over again. We have WRs who make all kinds of mistakes with flattening routes, not hitting their spots, etc... And drops gallore. Less than last year, but we've all questioned why these guys werent hitting the jugs til we're blue in the hands. We are one of the most penalized offenses in the league. And if we're being real, mahomes has been way more mistake prone than we are used to.
That doesn't mean we're a disaster. I believe that come crunch time we'll tighten things up in the final stretch and win the super bowl. But even with last year's super bowl we won despite issues with playing disciplined offense.
All of those issues could be the result of something else. Bad players, hurt players, personnel and playbook changes, position coaches like Heck and Embree.
Have you never done data analysis before? You need to eliminate those variables and the only way isolate EB's performance is to look at his resume outside of KC.
Consistently and continuously fired, not wanted by anyone else, and in general not popular amongst former players and coaches. But yeah, it's racism, or circumstances or whatever that has caused Bienemy to not succeed. Can't possibly be himself [Reply]
You cannot just ignore all the other variables with the Chiefs and say EB was IT, the one that didn't.
Again, find some corroborating evidence. But you can't so we will do this same old song and dance of presenting you with facts and you hand wave them away with BS like racism and he didn't get a fair shot.
When he was here our offenses were better. That's simply a FACT but you EB detractors are so rooted in your denial that you're coming up with feeble excuses. If Dave Merritt leaves and the secondary sucks are people gonna say "no that has nothing to do with it"?? Smh grow up ya'll :-)
And btw Andy confirmed just now that he's spoken to EB :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
When he was here our offenses were better. That's simply a FACT but you EB detractors are so rooted in your denial that you're coming up with feeble excuses. If Dave Merritt leaves and the secondary sucks are people gonna say "no that has nothing to do with it"?? Smh grow up ya'll :-)
And btw Andy confirmed just now that he's spoken to EB :-)
Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar:
The offense was the best in the league with a bunch of bums. Just saying...one could make a case that either Bienemy was more important than some thought, or Nagy has more of an impact (negatively) than some think.
Or you could look at all the evidence presented and realize is just doesn't matter who is OC. This Andy and Pat's team. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
When he was here our offenses were better. That's simply a FACT but you EB detractors are so rooted in your denial that you're coming up with feeble excuses. If Dave Merritt leaves and the secondary sucks are people gonna say "no that has nothing to do with it"?? Smh grow up ya'll :-)
And btw Andy confirmed just now that he's spoken to EB :-)
It's a fact the offense was better. It's also a fact that about 50 different things could have contributed that, 49 of them not related to EB. You have to show any reason why anybody should believe EB was anything more on this team than present. Again, prove he's a good coach and I will stop. But you can't produce that evidence so you just keep going back to the same tired shit.
By the way dumbass. I'm not an EB detractor. If he wants to come back, I'm fine with it. I'm just not expecting miracles because I actually realize what he's capable and don't worship him because of the color of his skin. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
It's a fact the offense was better. It's also a fact that about 50 different things could have contributed that, 49 of them not related to EB. You have to show any reason why anybody should believe EB was anything more on this team than present. Again, prove he's a good coach and I will stop. But you can't produce that evidence so you just keep going back to the same tired shit.
By the way dumbass. I'm not an EB detractor. If he wants to come back, I'm fine with it. I'm just not expecting miracles because I actually realize what he's capable and don't worship him because of the color of his skin.
If he's not a good coach and had no influence then why did Andy invite him to meet with the team ahead of the crucial AFC game AND HAVE HIM INSTALL PLAYS?? If he's useless surely Andy wouldn't waste his time doing that? [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
Then was let go in his second stint with them HENCE WHY HE WAS AVAILABLE FOR KC TO TAKE.
And btw you just contradicted your whole argument as EB HAS WON TWO SUPERBOWLS :-)
He was stating how embarrassing it was to be sacked by a team like UCLA. You replied that Spags got sacked by the Giants. He pointed out that the Giants won a Championship when he was there...ie. they aren't/weren't a dumpster fire org like UCLA. It's not a contradiction. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
Then was let go in his second stint with them HENCE WHY HE WAS AVAILABLE FOR KC TO TAKE.
And btw you just contradicted your whole argument as EB HAS WON TWO SUPERBOWLS :-)
LOL
I've repeatedly said "outside of KC". Find literally ANYTHING from outside of KC that supports your argument. You can't and that's clear so you just keep talking in circles. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Womble:
He was stating how embarrassing it was to be sacked by a team like UCLA. You replied that Spags got sacked by the Giants. He pointed out that the Giants won a Championship when he was there...ie. they aren't/weren't a dumpster fire org like UCLA. It's not a contradiction.
So Spags winning a championship matters but EB's two with KC doesn't? :-) [Reply]
