Kansas City Chiefs implosion could hurt stock of assistant coaches
By Matt Conner
The Kansas City Chiefs were once the source of a couple head coaches in waiting. Their recent implosion has undone almost all such forecasts.
It wasn’t so long ago that Matt Nagy was considered an up-and-coming head coach, the next piece of fruit picked from Andy Reid’s coaching tree. The Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator was helping to frame an attack that was the best in the NFL through the first third of the season, and Nagy’s name was being tossed around for potential head coaching openings at season’s end.
The same could be said of Dave Toub, although he’s been a potential candidate for some time. He even garnered a few interviews last year and it only seems a matter of time until someone finally pulls the trigger on asking one of the best special teams coaches in the game to lead a team on his own.
However, the Chiefs implosion over the last 7 weeks has to have done something to the draft stock of both gentlemen. Is this the year that an owner wants to sell someone from the Chiefs to a fan base? That’s not likely.
A recent ESPN story listing the top head coaching candidates for this coming offseason only listed a single Chiefs coach, Dave Toub, and it was at the very bottom, among other honorable mentions—a way to cram in a few other names on the list. There was no featured spot for anyone, for Nagy or Toub or even others who’ve been mentioned in the past like Eric Bieniemy.
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It will be interesting to see if the Chiefs can get hot again and add to the coaching stock of its assistants. Or maybe their losing streak will be the thing that creates continuity for one more year under Reid—that is, if he doesn’t want to make sweeping changes himself to shake things up for 2018.