Eric Bieniemy to become Offensive CoordinatorAssociate HC at UCLA that leads us Eric benemy he has decided to go back to the Cradle of highlevel football back to college after the NFL opportunities did not pan out yet again for him the way that he would like he'll become the offensive coordinator and associate head coach at UCLA it's reportedly a two-year deal he sent a lengthy email to ESPN where he talked about getting back to where he got his coaching career started and and helping young people and it's all very aspirational and positive he says he wasn't fired by the commanders he chose not to stay now I don't know what what capacity he would have stayed in we've seen no reporting no indication that he was going to be offensive coordinator or some other job with the commanders under the Dan Quinn uh regime as the new head coach there but but kind of a surprise that a guy who you know it felt like for several years at some point he was getting getting going to get an opportunity to be a head coach and then leaves Kansas City to go to Washington with the idea that maybe this is the thing that will be the spring board to him getting head coaching consideration He got interviewed for none of the openings this year except the one in Washington and now he leaves the NFL altoe and look he can he can put whatever positive spin on it that he wants and that's fine and maybe it's all true it just feels like the NFL window closed on the guy and I don't understand Mike Tannenbaum says the NFL window is closed why well Mike I don't necessarily think this is is tremendously Fair okay because uh of what happens and how the windows open and close so quickly one of the things that is interesting about this past year when you talk about the windows opening and closing quickly how is it possible that Jim Schwarz did not get a head coaching interview we could argue about which defense was the best but there's no question that that Jim Schwarz in his first year in Cleveland took that defense to the highest of heights and he didn't get one and I think I honestly think what happened in Washington and again people are going to say oh that's just an excuse but Eric benemy went to Washington and the quarterback had a fairly had productive year yardage wise but turn the ball over a lot and the team was uh 24th in the NFL in total offense and and look if you're Eric Ben enemy and you're going to a team that had not played well particularly well on offense and you go in there you've got to have this injection of adrenaline and you have to make them better from the get-go and the problem that I see anyway is that he came in coaching hard and a lot of the guys on that offense didn't accept it Well Ron Rivera had to come up and and basically say Hey listen to the coach I mean that is when I'm not saying you know it's all over but that to me was a bad sign almost from the start and so look I understand that every body said man Eric B enemy is getting as usual the crap end of the stick I totally understand that but when you go into a new job and you think you have been ignored for a long time you got to go into this new job and be great and H for whoever was to blame in all this the fact is Washington Washington's offense was not markedly improved so and and he basically now has to go somewhere else and hopefully make a big impact on the kids at UCLA because look how would you like how would you like to be a player at UCLA and you have a decent year last year whatever they were seven and five I don't even know what they were but you have a decent year and then your head coach says oh by the way I am resigning to be an offensive coordinator in the same League that we're in right now I mean that is not good so Eric benemy should have some hungry kids to to work with you know to to to probably to think we're going to stick it to Chip Kelly and it was awkward when Ron Rivera Mike Tannenbaum says Eric Bieniemy should have hungry kids the former coach in Washington spoke publicly about the issues with and the concerns that ER bemy might be coaching them a little hard and kudos to Patrick Mahomes for stepping up and saying what he said at the time it's like hey basically like do you want to be great or do you not want to be great like this is what coaches do they get the most out of you and they have different ways of doing it and bm's way works and to me Peter the thing that resonates the most when benemy makes the surprise visit to the Chiefs in the hotel the night before they play the Ravens in the AFC Championship and when Patrick Mahomes talks about that after the fact and says he got chill bumps when bemy was back that speaks to a level of respect admiration love that should be transferable to people other than Patrick Mahomes if this guy got through to the best player currently in the NFL and one of the two or three best quarterbacks who have ever played the game what the hell is wrong with this picture that's what's and no one can get to the truth no one can ever get to the explanation Why Won't Anyone and now it's not just make him an offer to be a head coach it's make him an offer to be an offensive coordinator and part of the problem too Peter the commander squatted on him the commander squatted on him they kept the bird in the hand until they had Cliff Kingsbury if they just would have fired him which they should have done Josh Harris in all fairness Derk be enemy should have set him loose so he could try to find another gig as an offensive coordinator instead of waiting around until it was too late that's part part of the problem in this as well you know I think so much of the National Football League and employment is opportunity and the situation that you're in and look I remember over the years talking to some of New England's coaches who you know during their Super Bowl run and they were always so hungry like during during Super Bowl weeks Mike when they couldn't be behind a curtain when they were just sitting there for an hour three days in a row and the opportunity and so many of them you know it was like they're shedding their cocoon because Bill bellich basically never wanted the outside world to know how good his coaches were now he'll say he didn't or that he'll say that's not true but it is true because so many of them did not have great opportunities outside the organization really until it was too late and look I think a lot of coaches are like that even coaches who you and I would say oh there's a great guy the fact is some of the great guys will do everything in their power to keep a really good assistant coach from moving even if they know it's the best thing for that assistant coach the be enemy story isn't exactly like that I mean Andy Reid really wanted him to get a head coaching job over the years but the fact is it just didn't work out I think it smells rotten without any question but again this year in 2023 when he got to Washington it was a crucial year for him and it just didn't work out hi it's Mike Florio thanks for watching PFT on YouTube hit subscribe for the latest news and Analysis from pro football talk