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 htismaqe:
It absolutely could be better. But EB doesn't make them better.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Woogieman:
I made no mention or of, or comparison to Bienemy, I made a simple observation. I never thought Bienemy was the brains behind the offense, but there has been degradation of the offense since he left...much of it due to the departure of Hill, Fisher, Swartz, maybe Brown. But there has also been, imho, a severe lack of ingenuity, a staleness to the offense, that a new OC would surely like to put a stamp on if they were interested in a HC job, or even trying to keep their existing job. It's Andy's band, but I sure would like to see the new lead guitar player shred a solo every now and then.
When you win as much as the Chiefs, the product on the field suffers. That’s how the NFL is built. Parity. Having the last pick of every round in the draft catches up to you eventually. Mix in a a ridiculous number of serious injuries to your starters & you’re going to have issues. And yet the Chiefs still have the top seed in the AFC. Life is good. [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.
That's not proof that EB isn't dog shit. However, the fact that he failed miserably at being an OC in college football is proof that he is unworthy of coaching in the NFL. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThrobProng:
That's not proof that EB isn't dog shit. However, the fact that he failed miserably at being an OC in college football is proof that he is unworthy of coaching in the NFL.
He's an asshole. People don't like him. It's partly because he doesn't take shit. But there is no denying the offense was better - and quite a bit better - when he was here. It's certainly possible it is happenstance but it also may be that he holds guys accountable whereas Nagy wants to be your friend. Being we have a players coach in Reid, having a bad guy can sometimes be useful.
With that said I'm not sure Patrick can handle that type of coaching. After EB bitched him out after the Bengals AFC Championship game first half, Mahomes went into a shell and played the worst half of professional football he's ever played. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiTown:
The main weakness isn't discipline. Our main weaknesses would be injuries to WR's/CB, some bad OL pieces, an inability to get to the QB on D, and a pretty obvious downturn from Kelce.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
He's an asshole. People don't like him. It's partly because he doesn't take shit. But there is no denying the offense was better - and quite a bit better - when he was here. It's certainly possible it is happenstance but it also may be that he holds guys accountable whereas Nagy wants to be your friend. Being we have a players coach in Reid, having a bad guy can sometimes be useful.
With that said I'm not sure Patrick can handle that type of coaching. After EB bitched him out after the Bengals AFC Championship game first half, Mahomes went into a shell and played the worst half of professional football he's ever played.
But is he really? Or is it just the case where an asshole was given too much people management responsibility? Because guys like Jamaal Charles and tyreek love the hell out of EB, and it seems very genuine. It seems like a common message that each of them hated going through it but acknowledge that they became way better players because of him.
We've seen plenty of assholes who settled back into assistant roles where their big personality could become much smaller, and they thrived [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
He's an asshole. People don't like him. It's partly because he doesn't take shit. But there is no denying the offense was better - and quite a bit better - when he was here. It's certainly possible it is happenstance but it also may be that he holds guys accountable whereas Nagy wants to be your friend. Being we have a players coach in Reid, having a bad guy can sometimes be useful.
With that said I'm not sure Patrick can handle that type of coaching. After EB bitched him out after the Bengals AFC Championship game first half, Mahomes went into a shell and played the worst half of professional football he's ever played.
I don't buy for one second that EB is the difference between the offense we see today, and the offense when he was here.
Bitching out Mahomes during a playoff game tells me he has no idea how to conduct himself as an NFL coach. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThrobProng:
Nothing motivates people like being yelled at by a guy who is simultaneously "militant about details", and completely inept in every other facet of his job.
You mean being a hardass doesn’t work? This this seems to be a pretty effective method tbh
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
Precisely why you eliminate the Chiefs-related variables. The drop off in offense could just as easily be due to personnel changes and other factors.
Look at his record outside of KC. He's just not that good of a coach.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
When the main weakness in the team is discipline, I think he can turn that one aspect around. He may have weaknesses in some areas, but that's not one of them. He comes off as wishy washy and unorganized off the field but all indications is that he is militant about details on the field. That's the kind of discipline we need. Reid and nagy can very well handle the bigger picture stuff with managing players. They can handle the creativity. Eb just needs to focus on militantly consistent execution. Nothing else. This screams of a guy who can thrive while focusing mostly on running and blocking schemes.
The main weakness in the team is injuries. The 2nd major issue is not hitting on some draft picks.
And whether they have a discipline problem or not, you still haven't showed how EB can solve that. There's a absolutely no proof that his actions instilled discipline in these players. [Reply]
