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 Womble:
You wouldn't be saying this if Nagy was black and Bieniemy was white.
I’d take Bieniemy over Nagy if he was a freaking reptilian hybrid with lizard skin. We need some of that cold blooded, ass chewing psychosis in our offense. [Reply]
It's true moron. Had Bieniemy been white and Nagy black you be spamming this thread with how Bieniemy has shown he isn't anything special given how bad he was in Washington and UCLA. You would then go onto say how disgraceful it is that Nagy, a black man, gets no credit at all for being the OC of a Chiefs team that just won the Superbowl and is now sitting at 11-1.
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
It's unbelievable that folks don't want back a coach that helped create this freaking dynasty smh :-)
I often watch back The Franchise Episode from the Bills thirteen seconds game and the energy EB had In the locker room after the game was amazing. And that's the sort of energy that influenced the guys to win two superbowls. Fullstop. Ya'll think EB wasn't barking at the guys at halftime in both of those comeback wins? He sets the tone.
He didn't help create a dynasty. He was along for the ride, just like Nagy.
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
It's unbelievable that folks don't want back a coach that helped create this freaking dynasty smh :-)
I often watch back The Franchise Episode from the Bills thirteen seconds game and the energy EB had In the locker room after the game was amazing. And that's the sort of energy that influenced the guys to win two superbowls. Fullstop. Ya'll think EB wasn't barking at the guys at halftime in both of those comeback wins? He sets the tone.
He certainly was barking at them after Tyreek failed to score at the end of the 1st half against the Bengals AFCCG. And Pat came out of the tunnel in the 2nd half and played the worst playoff football of his career. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief:
I’d take Bieniemy over Nagy if he was a freaking reptilian hybrid with lizard skin. We need some of that cold blooded, ass chewing psychosis in our offense.
I mean, as much as I wanted him gone towards the end, this seems very true. We really don't have hardasses on our offensive staff. Start with the WRs where we see most of the same errors recurring [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
He certainly was barking at them after Tyreek failed to score at the end of the 1st half against the Bengals AFCCG. And Pat came out of the tunnel in the 2nd half and played the worst playoff football of his career.
And then Pat came back the next year with the number one offense, won an MVP and a superbowl MVP to go with his ring all WITH EB THERE :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Womble:
It's true moron. Had Bieniemy been white and Nagy black you be spamming this thread with how Bieniemy has shown he isn't anything special given how bad he was in Washington and UCLA. You would then go onto say how disgraceful it is that Nagy, a black man, gets no credit at all for being the OC of a Chiefs team that just won the Superbowl and are now sitting at 11-1.
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
And then Pat came back the next year with the number one offense, won an MVP and a superbowl MVP to go with his ring all WITH EB THERE :-)
He won a Super Bowl last year having one of the worst WR corps in football. Double the drop rate of any other team.
We can do this all day. Neither Bienemy nor Nagy are instrumental in anything. This is Pat's team. There's zero empirical evidence that Bienemy did anything in KC but soak up success. He's a career failure. [Reply]
Y’all are going to stop telling me that Andy Reid calls the plays all the time. It begins today. EB brought discipline and structure to the offense. He held 15 accountable at all times. We have been winning in spite of Matt. I hope somebody actually hires him to be a head coach. pic.twitter.com/6omPbJVF7u
WGAF about Eric B? Seriously? Our team is 11-1 and this is a hill people want to fucking die on? We are who we are because of anchors like Andy Reid, Pat Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Chris Jones. Eric Bieniemy is a footnote in Chiefs history. Period.
Y’all are going to stop telling me that Andy Reid calls the plays all the time. It begins today. EB brought discipline and structure to the offense. He held 15 accountable at all times. We have been winning in spite of Matt. I hope somebody actually hires him to be a head coach. pic.twitter.com/6omPbJVF7u
This is simple. To eliminate KC variables like Andy and Mahomes, you have to look at time spent outside of those.
Matt Nagy took Mitch and the Bears to two of their 5 playoff appearances in 20 years.
Bienemy has been fired everywhere he's ever been and players and other coaches dislike him.
I don't dislike Bienemy, nor do I like Nagy. I think they're largely unimportant when it comes to the Chiefs. I have a problem with this idea that Bienemy is great and Nagy is a stooge. It's simply not true and there zero independent evidence to support it.
Bienemy has reached legendary status with Chiefs fans and it's silly. He's a footnote in the growth of an NFL dynasty. No body will remember him even being here 25 years from now. That will be Andy and Pat. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TEX:
Maybe so, but at least Bieniemy instilled discipline in his players and held people to account. Wasn't out there to make friends. Nagy is a clown IMO.
You'd be hard-pressed to come up with one aspect of the offense that has improved since Nagy got here. Rashee Rice sure had a great 2nd half of his rookie year, but any credit should probably go to Connor Embree, who has been spoken of highly. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Woogieman:
You'd be hard-pressed to come up with one aspect of the offense that has improved since Nagy got here. Rashee Rice sure had a great 2nd half of his rookie year, but any credit should probably go to Connor Embree, who has been spoken of highly.
Nagy inherited a depleted corps offensive skill players. Shitty WRs, a declining Kelce. A revolving door at LT.
Again, find independent evidence that Bienemy is so great. You won't find it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
He won a Super Bowl last year having one of the worst WR corps in football. Double the drop rate of any other team.
We can do this all day. Neither Bienemy nor Nagy are instrumental in anything. This is Pat's team. There's zero empirical evidence that Bienemy did anything in KC but soak up success. He's a career failure.
Yeah Andy says otherwise but you obviously know better :-) [Reply]
