Let's Make NFL History

If anything, Eric Bieniemy, the new Assistant Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator of the Washington Commanders, is OVERQUALIFIED to do playcalling for NFL Offenses.

The "playcalling" critique is suspect and is a glaringly racist construct. It's largely subliminal. You have to pull it out like a tooth. Once it is out it blows up in your face like a Jack-in-the-Box.  

Fresh spanking new OCs a lot of times have never called plays. As Offensive Coordinator, Bieniemy has been to three Super Bowls and twice coached Super Bowl winning offenses. If he is not qualified to call plays, who in hell is? 

Then there is the ongoing "temperament analysis" pretending to dose us fans with a reality check. Here Bieniemy is a hot head. A hard coacher who rubs players the wrong way. Inspires sedition and revenge seeking. Their footnote: Shady McCoy.

"Hard coaches" tend to make enemies. This is true. Some examples include Gregg Williams, Mike Ditka, and Bill Parcells. Parcells beat the 49ers 49-3 in the '86 playoffs and according to Phil Simms was irate afterwards. Won by 46 points.

Like Parcells, Bieniemy speaks of accountability.

Parcells didn't like the Giants getting ahead of themselves. Gibbs was the same. Like that day Steve Buchantz informed Joe Jackson Gibbs Playboy Magazine had picked the Redskins to win the Super Bowl.

Even Vince Lombardi rubbed people wrong at times. This is where people who say this is NOT Vince Lombardi coming to Washington, Part II, are a tad wrong. "Temperamentally" Lombardi and Bieniemy are similar. I'm not saying Bieniemy will get similar results. 

But Eric Bieniemy would not be around if his "hard coaching" didn't get results. His "rap sheet" sure contains a lot of expensive jewelry. 

He's a man who does not like a lot of brain fog in his players.

He sets up interesting possibilities for NFL History. Has an offensive coordinator ever won back-to-back Super Bowls with two different franchises? Has an offensive coordinator ever beaten his former Head Coach in the Super Bowl? As long as we're asking fan-based questions, has any Head Coach won the Super Bowl the same year as an ownership change?

Success in times of chaos certainly pervades Ron Rivera's career. He's not an average coach.

Neither is Eric Bieniemy.