12-08-2020, 06:53 PM
(12-08-2020, 04:44 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: “When you get a guy like EB, who puts in the time, who is a great leader of players and men and somebody that can really control and have a presence in any room he walks in, you understand why these other teams are looking at him to be their head coach. And so we obviously are focused on our goal right now, but we know, with who he is and how he operates, that he’ll have the opportunities to go places and continue to have success.”
“I think the biggest difference is the mentality,” Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said on the #PFTPM podcast in late September regarding the transition from Nagy to Bieniemy. “Coach Bieniemy brings a fierce, aggressive mentality to the offense. Kind of a gritty, punch-you-in-the-mouth-type of mindset, and I think that has rubbed off on everybody, from Pat [Mahomes] throwing the ball aggressively down field. The play calling is a little bit more aggressive and, sure enough, everybody getting the ball has been a north runner. There’s not too much running sideways. Everybody’s getting downhill trying to finish the plays in the end zone.”
Well, as I said in another thread the skills needed to be a coordinator are different from the skills needed to be a head coach. So even if his success as a coordinator is based a lot on Reid and Mahommes, he still may have the skills needed to be a head coach.
Being a head coach is more about motivation, managing personalities, organization, earning respect, maintaining authority, and things like that. It helps to have a good head for scheme, but some of the best coordinators have been complete flops as head coaches.