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“I love that,” Kelce said on Wednesday’s “New Heights” episode. “I think it’s great. I think it’s a marriage that’s gonna pick up right where it left off. E.B., he and who he is as a coach, you can see kind of his personality, what he brings to the table in that Chicago team. I know (Bears head coach) Ben Johnson has his own version of that. He’s a very tough guy. And what he did in Detroit, he brought over as well.“
‘And you can see those running backs over in Chicago and their body of work was definitely an Eric Bieniemy style of football, man.”
Did Kelce give clue about future?
Bieniemy was the Bears’ running backs coach last season, and Chicago had the third-ranked rushing offense in the NFL.
As Kelce, 36, ponders whether to retire or return to the Chiefs, he seemingly dropped a hint about his plans.
“I can’t wait to see him back in the building, man,” Kelce said. “He’s one of my favorite coaches of all-time, one of my favorite people of all time. I’ve had so many unbelievable growing moments under him as a player, as a person, and I just love the guy. And it’s gonna be awesome to see him back in the building and see him back wearing the Chiefs logo, baby.”
As first reported by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the Atlanta Falcons have requested an interview with Chiefs assistant GM Mike Bradway for their general manager vacancy. This comes after Atlanta fired GM Terry Fontenot and HC Raheem Morris when the team failed to reach the playoffs for the 2025 NFL season.
Bradway first joined the Chiefs in 2018 as the team’s Assistant Director of Player Personnel. He spent three seasons in that role before he was promoted to Senior Director of Player Personnel. After four seasons in that role, Bradway was promoted to his current position, assistant GM, replacing the aforementioned Mike Borgonzi, who left for Tennessee.
Bradway isn’t just a Brett Veach guy; he’s also an Andy Reid guy. Prior to his time in Kansas City, Bradway spent 10 seasons from 2008 through 2017 with the Philadelphia Eagles, with roles ranging from area and regional scout to Assistant Director of College Scouting.
Most disappointing Kansas City Chiefs seasons since 2000 | ABC 17 News
Stacker compiled a list featuring the most disappointing Kansas City Chiefs seasons since 2000 using data from Pro Football Reference. Each season was selected based on the number of wins by which the team underperformed its preseason over/under for that season. Ties were broken via the lowest preseason over/under.
#5. Kansas City Chiefs 2004
– Preseason over/under: 10 wins
– Season record: 7-9 (3 games under)#4. Kansas City Chiefs 2007
– Preseason over/under: 7.5 wins
– Season record: 4-12 (3.5 games under)#3. Kansas City Chiefs 2008
– Preseason over/under: 5.5 wins
– Season record: 2-14 (3.5 games under)#2. Kansas City Chiefs 2025
– Preseason over/under: 11.5 wins
– Season record: 6-1 (5.5 games under)#1. Kansas City Chiefs 2012
– Preseason over/under: 8 wins
– Season record: 2-14 (6 games under)
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Eagles reportedly interview Matt Nagy for offensive coordinator | Bleeding Green Nation
Eagles fans are already well-aware of Nagy for one reason or another. He has local roots from going to high school in Lancaster County and playing college football at Delaware. Nagy had a seven-year Arena Football League quarterback career before getting his first NFL job on Andy Reid’s staff in 2008.
Here’s a snapshot of his pro coaching career:
- 2008-2009 — Philadelphia Eagles coaching intern
- 2010 — Philadelphia Eagles coaches’ assistant
- 2011-2012 — Philadelphia Eagles offensive quality control coach
- 2013-2015 — Kansas City Chiefs quarterbacks coach
- 2017 — Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator
- 2018-2021 — Chicago Bears head coach
- 2022 — Kansas City Chiefs senior assistant and quarterbacks coach
- 2023-2025 — Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator
Bills owner Terry Pegula: Coaching staff ‘pushed to draft’ WR Keon Coleman | NFL.com
During the course of the Bills’ postmortem presser following the Monday firing of coach Sean McDermott, Beane was asked about the perception that the roster lacked talent, particularly at receiver. Coleman, a second-round pick in 2024, who has struggled to find traction and has been benched multiple times for disciplinary and other reasons, was mentioned as an example of the lack of development at the position.
“Can I interrupt? I’ll address the Keon situation,” Pegula chimed in. “The coaching staff pushed to draft Keon. I’m not saying Brandon wouldn’t have drafted him, but he wasn’t his next choice. That was Brandon being a team player and taking advice of his coaching staff who felt strongly about the player. He’s taken, for some reason, heat over it and not saying a word about it, but I’m here to tell you the true story.”
In defending his general manager, who was promoted to the role of president of football operations on Monday, Pegula created a stir.
The response begs further questions about the degree to which the front office and staff were on the same page throughout the process. It’s also awkward for Coleman, who remains on the roster and has two years remaining on his rookie contract.
GM Lynch says WR Brandon Aiyuk has played last snap for 49ers | ESPN
“I think it’s safe to say that he’s played his last snap with the Niners,” Lynch said. “It’s unfortunate. A situation that just went awry. And I will look long and hard at what could have been done differently, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out. And I think that this was a case where that happened.”
Lynch added that a transaction with Aiyuk — a release or, more unlikely, a trade — would come in “due time.” That move will end one of the more tumultuous player-team standoffs in recent memory.
After an extended contract stalemate in the summer of 2024, the 49ers and Aiyuk reached agreement on a four-year, $120 million extension with $76 million in guarantees on Aug. 29, 2024. Any hope that the accord would get the Niners and Aiyuk on the same page dissipated publicly less than a month later when Aiyuk and coach Kyle Shanahan had an awkward exchange on the practice field on Sept. 27 because Aiyuk was wearing red shorts while the rest of the team was in the required black ones.
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Chiefs’ new wide receivers coach Chad O’Shea may boost red-zone success
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.”
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