Shannon Sharpe is fuming over Eric Bieniemy continuously being passed over for a head coaching job.
According to Sharpe, the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator keeps on getting the short end of the stick, despite helping lead Kansas City to its second Super Bowl win in four years on Sunday. Bieniemy also molded Patrick Mahomes into an all-time great quarterback – all within five years as the Chiefs’ OC.
“Hell, the GMs and owners don’t want to hire him. It’s really that simple. They keep moving the goalpost,” Sharpe said to Skip Bayless about Bieniemy during Tuesday’s “Undisputed” on FS1. “It’s just like anything, Skip, 15 times. I got 15 girlfriends, they said ‘Shannon you undateable. You got 15 interviews and you haven’t gotten hired yet, they [would] say ‘You know what, you’re unhireable.’ Why?”
The NFL Hall of Fame tight end-turned-sports pundit said Bieniemy has been continuously passed over for less-qualified candidates, such as former Giants head coach Joe Judge, who never did play-calling in his previous job as a special teams coordinator for the Patriots. He added underqualified former Chiefs coaches, like Doug Pederson, also landed a head coaching job before Bieniemy.
“If you said, ‘You need to call plays in order to get a head coaching job,’ I’m cool with that. But don’t give a guy a job who didn’t call [any] plays,” Sharpe said. “If you say that guy needs NFL experience. Don’t get a guy from college. I don’t know. It’s frustrating.”
Bieniemy played in the NFL as a running back for eight years before switching over to coaching. He primarily worked as a running backs coach – morphing Adrian Peterson and Jamaal Charles into perennial Pro Bowlers – before becoming the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator in 2018.
Sharpe said he understands why Bieniemy won’t leave the Chiefs for another offensive coordinating job – he gets to coach Patrick Mahomes and stay on a powerhouse team. Chiefs head coach Andy Reid also commended Bieniemy for being a pivotal reason for Kansas City winning the Super Bowl against the Eagles. But still, without any offers to spearhead an NFL team, Bieniemy has stayed put.
“Eric Bieniemy has been tremendous for us and I think tremendous for the National Football League,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said to reporters. “I’m hoping he has an opportunity to go somewhere and do his thing where he can run the show and be Eric Bieniemy.”
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