LeSean “Shady” McCoy is not a fan of former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy. Many are puzzled as to why Bieniemy has not landed a head coach position. But McCoy has his own reason.
Appearing on FS1’s Speak for Yourself, McCoy questioned if Bieniemy is a good offensive coordinator.
“See, the problem is, a lot of these people that go on social media, ‘oh, he should be the guy for the job.’ They haven’t played there. They’re not in the locker room. I’ve been in the rooms where he’s coaching. He has nothing to do with the pass game, at all. When the plays are designed, that’s Andy Reid. When you talk about offensive coordinators, I could tell you what makes [Giants coach] Brian Daboll a very, very good coordinator. I could tell you what Andy Reid or Doug Pederson [is]. But when I ask about Eric Bieniemy, what makes him good?”
McCoy added that during team meetings, Reid, not Bieniemy, corrected the offensive players in film sessions.
It’s not the first time McCoy criticized Bieniemy. McCoy chimed in September after a heated exchange between Bieniemy and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes went viral. At the time, McCoy of Bieniemy, “all he does is argue with players.”
McCoy played one season with the Chiefs in 2019. The Chiefs won the Super Bowl that year, Bieniemy’s second as offensive coordinator.
Bieniemy’s naysayers have leaned on a similar narrative about why no team has made him a head coach.
However, Jamaal Charles, a fellow former Chiefs running back, fired back at Shady McCoy in support of Bieniemy via Twitter.
Bieniemy was the running backs coach during Charles’s final four of nine seasons with the Chiefs. His sample size is much larger than McCoy’s. Yet, Bieniemy was not an offensive coordinator with Charles.
Meanwhile, former Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who played four seasons with Bieniemy as his offensive coordinator, had a quick but interesting take on McCoy’s stance.
Bieniemy signed a two-year deal with the Washington Commanders to become the team’s assistant head coach and offensive coordinator. Breaking out of the shadows of Reid and Mahomes is one of the factors Bieniemy opted to leave Kansas City for Washington days after winning his second Super Bowl title in five years.
Bieniemy will hope to debunk the narrative against him while in Washington. His success or shortcomings in Washington will go a long way toward the credibility of McCoy’s takes.
