The Kansas City Chiefs are one of the only NFL teams to boast any sort of coaching continuity over the last decade. Andy Reid's wintry coaching shake-up might be setting up another run of surprising consistency on the offensive side.
Consider this: NFL franchises will employ 21 new offensive coordinators for the 2026 season. That's an astonishing amount of turnover that, generally speaking, is fueled by two scenarios: either a team suffered through some offensive misery in '25, or it was wildly successful on that side of the ball. Either way, change ensued.
Some teams, like the Detroit Lions or Philadelphia Eagles, were never going to make head coaching changes, so they took out their offensive frustrations on a lower tier. Other teams, like the Seattle Seahawks or L.A. Rams, were so productive that other teams poached their coaching staffs. Either way, consistency is lost.
This is what makes the Chiefs' ability to retain their coaches such an anomaly in today's NFL. Reid is entrenched as head coach, the only one of his ilk with a decade or more experience after watching the likes of Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh move on from their respective posts this offseason. Even beyond Reid, however, the Chiefs have been able to build on concepts and chemistry in ways no other team in the NFL can say.
The Kansas City Chiefs were already the model of organizational consistency, and Eric Bieniemy's hire is only going to further that trend.
Defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has been in place since 2019, an incredible span of time considering the level of success and how quickly teams change such components year by year. On the offensive side, Eric Bieniemy stood as Reid's right-hand man for five seasons as OC before giving way to Matt Nagy, who occupied the same role for three more.
Bieniemy is now back for another run as offensive coordinator, and his lack of opportunities to progress further up organizational ladders around the league bodes well for his chances to stick in K.C. Unless things completely fall apart, which sounded like a ridiculous idea until the 2025 season played out, Bieniemy's staying power should be considerable his second time around.
Even if the Chiefs' offensive metrics rebound in '26, it's hard to imagine any NFL team scrambling to make Bieniemy a better offer than what he has now. And unless there's a dramatic fallout or, again, another epic collapse, it's also hard to picture Reid deciding to make a coordinator change in the near future.
Some fans would label the Chiefs' organizational consistency as a detriment, and a miserable '25 campaign certainly brought some concerns into view. But the NFL's coaching carousel has always been a silly ride featuring unncessary changes. Media pressure and unrealistic expectations have caused good, qualified men to lose their jobs. In K.C., the opposite has proven true and it's the NFL's rarest coaching situation of all.