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Remember the 2018 season? It was an entire calendar year that served as the coming-out party for Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and put the entire NFL on notice that a changing of the guard was imminent— the old being the New England Patriots, the new being the Chiefs, led by head coach Andy Reid. The Patriots did not go quietly into that good night; the dynasty raged, and thanks to an offside penalty courtesy of Chiefs edge rusher Dee Ford, New England went on to win one last Super Bowl, before the all-time run faded into the history books. The Patriots ended the 2018 season on a red zone efficiency heater. New England scored touchdowns on 76.92% of red zone opportunities over their last three games that year. The only teams that fared better over that span of time were the Dallas Cowboys, the Chiefs, and the Detroit Lions. Overall, the Patriots finished in the top half of the league, scoring touchdowns on 62.86% of red zone possessions. Here’s the importance of the trip down memory lane: the Chiefs’ newest coaching addition, wide receivers coach Chad O’Shea, held the same position in New England, along with leading the responsibility of red-zone game plans that year. At the time, Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels praised O’Shea for his insights and attention to detail. “Chad’s unbelievable. He’s one of the best assistant coaches I’ve ever had the chance to work with,” McDaniels said. “His players are always incredibly well prepared. He’s very detailed. They love playing for him. He’s got a great personality. He’s a good communicator. He’s incredibly responsible for any and all of our success in the red zone. He does a lot of that work and prepares us well for that situation in the game…” Former Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman recently expanded on this during his podcast, Games With Names. In this clip, Edelman explains in great detail the effort O’Shea put into making sure his wide receivers were prepared for any situations they might encounter throughout the game. “He’d (O’Shea) have individual 30-play cuts up of each corner,” said Edelman. “Like highlighted examples of what their strengths were. Highlighted examples of what their weaknesses were, or what they struggled with. So, say like you have a corner, and he was a really big guy, he’d show his offhand jam, how this guy did it three or four times, he would look at his stance… so you’re looking individually at that specific guy with the receiver coach.” Then, throughout the week, Edelman said O’Shea would focus on specific downs and distances each day. Fridays were dedicated to red zone, two-minute drill, and situational football. “I always leaned on Coach O’Shea,” Edelman shared. “That’s how you determined if you had a great coach… they always gave you great cut-ups that helped you with your game.” This isn’t an isolated season: since 2007, on 10 different occasions, O’Shea assisted with a top-10 offense in terms of red-zone scoring percentage. Under offensive coordinator Matt Nagy, the Chiefs’ red-zone scoring has been a point of frustration: Kansas City failed to crack the top 10 in red-zone conversion rate in each of the last three seasons. Now, no one is saying O’Shea has a magic wand that will make all of the Chiefs’ red-zone woes disappear, but one thing is certain: he will make sure the wide receivers are ready for the moment when it arrives.

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On Monday, reports surfaced of the Kansas City Chiefs’ plan to fill the vacant offensive coordinator position with a coach who has held that title in Kansas City before: Eric Bieniemy. After one year as the running backs coach with the Chicago Bears, he will return to the Chiefs for the 2026 season. Bieniemy will reprise the role he held from 2018 to 2022, when he won two Super Bowls as the right-hand man to head coach Andy Reid. Between his departure from the Chiefs and working under Bears’ head coach Ben Johnson, Bieniemy coordinated the offenses of the Washington Commanders and the UCLA Bruins, where he was also the associate head coach. His return to an NFL sideline in 2025 put him in charge of Chicago’s backfield, the original position he held for the first five years of Reid’s tenure in Kansas City. The Chiefs’ offense needs a fresh approach, and Bieniemy can blend the knowledge he has gained in his last few stops with the strict attention to detail that helped the Chiefs become champions in 2019 and 2022. 1. Under center offense The Chiefs’ reliance on running plays out of shotgun formations in 2025 limited what they were able to do offensively, and these restrictions led to poor offensive play throughout the season. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, the Chiefs ranked 30th in the NFL in plays run from under center (196) during the 2025 season, but the Bears ranked fourth with 519 plays. Ben Johnson has been one of the more innovative minds in the NFL since his days as an offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions. His ability to blend a power running game with an innovative passing attack centered around play-action has been instrumental to the emergence of the Lions and now the Bears. The Bears averaged 98.6 yards per game with under-center rush looks — the third-highest rate in the NFL — while the Chiefs averaged only 38.1 yards per game (27th ranked). When passing from these looks, the Bears ranked fifth in the NFL with 168.2 yards per game; that is what the Chiefs should look to adopt in 2026. Bieniemy should help Reid bridge the gap between Kansas City’s current offense and the modern ideas that the Chiefs lacked in 2025.. 2. Running back development Bieniemy will return as the offensive coordinator, but he will likely play a key role in the development of the running backs on the Chiefs’ current roster, as well as any additions made through free agency or the draft. It’s worth noting that Kansas City has yet to fill the position of running backs coach after news of Todd Pinkston being relieved of his duties. The team also fired assistant running backs coach Mark DeLeone, according to a report on Tuesday evening. The Chiefs should have a strong selection of top candidates for the job, but Bieniemy will naturally be involved in the development of the position he is most familiar. In 2025, he coached the Bears’ backfield duo of D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai, and both players finished with career seasons. Swift ran for a career-high 1,087 yards and nine touchdowns, while Monangai — a seventh-round pick in the 2025 draft — rushed for 783 yards and five touchdowns. The ground game carried the Bears’ offense, and Bieniemy was at the forefront. Currently, Kansas City has only one running back on the roster: Brashard Smith. Smith was seldom used as a rookie, but flashed when he did see the field. Running back Dameon Pierce spent the final half of the 2025 season on the Chiefs’ practice squad and is slated for unrestricted free agency. In the first three seasons of his career with the Houston Texans, things did not pan out after a noteworthy rookie season in 2022. The organization will also be in a position to add a running back to the roster through free agency and the draft. Bieniemy should play a key role in developing the room and sculpt what the backfield will look like for the foreseeable future. 3. Accountability Even in the modern era of analysis with in-depth statistical…