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Kansas City Chiefs: Should Eric Bieniemy consider Colorado job?

By Cullen Jekel

KANSAS CITY, MO - DECEMBER 29: Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy watches pregame warmups prior to the game against the Los Angeles Chargersat Arrowhead Stadium on December 29, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MO - DECEMBER 29: Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy watches pregame warmups prior to the game against the Los Angeles Chargersat Arrowhead Stadium on December 29, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images) /
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Reasons Why Bienemy Shouldn’t Listen

1. NFL Stock is High

The NFL Coaching Carousel is a funny thing: most always, once the Super Bowl ends, all of the head coaching jobs are taken. That leaves out the guys coaching in the biggest game of the year, the guys who have had the most success of the season.

Why? Why do owners insist on getting the new head coach in the door so quickly? What’s the difference between hiring a head coach in, say, the second week of January and the first week of February?

It doesn’t make a lot of sense. And then there’s another problem, where an owner can’t officially name a guy the team’s new head coach if his current team is still playing. Word leaks. Guys get blowback. Teams and owners get blowback. Feet get cold. Then it’s awkward all around. Let’s ask the Colts and Josh McDaniels about this scenario.

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    • Point is, the best coaches get overlooked. That apparently happened to Bieniemy this year. With the Kansas City Chiefs winning and winning, owners of teams with vacant head coaches talked to him, sure, but didn’t want to wait for him to become available to officially hire him, so they went with other, less successful coaches.

    Guys like Joe Judge, who my sources confirm is a real person but also confirm that no one has ever heard of him. Or Kevin Stefanski, who will definitely work out in Cleveland and not flame out like the Browns’ last 100 head coaches.

    Still, Bieniemy’s stock is as high as it’s ever been. It could get higher, but probably won’t. And if the Chiefs (God forbid!) don’t repeat next year as champs, Bieniemy could have his pick of NFL jobs.

    Which would you want: Colorado or the Cincinnati Bengals with Joe Burrow under center?

    2. The Program Appears Down

    The Buffaloes only went 5-7 last year, and while I mentioned earlier that the team won 10 games in 2016, that seems a bit off the course for this school, at least in this decade. The team’s most recent winning season other than 2016 came in 2005.

    What’s more, it will be hard to keep the signing class Mel Tucker put together before he bolted for the Spartans and started this entire conversation. Those kids should have the right to leave if they so choose. Don’t give me that hogwash about the kids picking a school and not the coach. They picked the coach! And with him gone, they should be able to leave, too.

    But, I mean, come on. That won’t happen. Instead, it’s worse: the new head coach will (maybe) have a year with a signing class that he didn’t sign and who obviously don’t want to be there. Messy, stupid situation.

    Plus, the Buffaloes have lost its starting quarterback in Steven Montez in addition to losing its top all-around playmaker early to the NFL Draft in wide receiver Laviska Shenault Jr.

    Hope the next head coach is happy with a rebuild.

    3. The Worst Power Five Conference

    Maybe “worst” isn’t the right word. Maybe the Pac-12 is the “most overlooked” Power Five conference. Regardless, with USC and UCLA down and Oregon and Washington flailing, the Pac-12 is often overlooked when it comes to getting teams into the College Football Playoff.

    I would think that whoever takes this job would want a shot at winning it all. Well, that’s what Eric Bieniemy would surely want, I bet. Realistically, this job is what Mel Tucker just proved it to be: a stepping stone to somewhere better. (Or East Lansing, a place I’ve not visited but sounds worse, which is literally the opposite of “better,” than Boulder.)

    Does Bieniemy seem that type of guy to you?

    He doesn’t to me. Instead, he seems like the type of coach who will want to win wherever he lands. Having just won the Super Bowl, he probably wants to win big, too. Can that happen at Colorado? It happened 30 years ago, but that’s like three different lifetimes in the world of college football.

    Consider: the Buffaloes were in the Big 8 in 1990.

    And while, as I noted, that Pac-12 South is there for the taking, that doesn’t seem to hold much water with the College Football Playoff Committee.

    The Pac-12 has its work cut out to get back to the level of the SEC and Big 10, and even the ACC with its one show-horse in Clemson.

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