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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Bieniemy's "biggest problem" is that he's a 52 year old offensive coordinator who isn't designing the offense, nor is he calling the plays.
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We don't know that, do we? I'm legit asking, because I'm not sure.
Sometimes we don't really know what Andy Reid offensive coordinators do and don't do. Even a task that we can actually see by watching games (playcalling) has some debate over it. Because there have been multiple times during the Reid era where Andy was calling plays for stretches of the season, and then after the fact in postgame, Andy goes, "Yeah, Doug/Brad/Matt/Eric rang that one up." Or hell, I could even be misremembering things, but I thought the "switch" of playcalling duties from Reid to Nagy happened just randomly one game where stuff was working well and Andy said, "I fired myself. Matt's been calling plays for the past game or two."
Andy's always got his thumb in the pie, to be sure, but is 100% of the playbook all Andy Reid-designed plays? I would bet that SOME of them were drawn up by Bieniemy. Or at least, he came up with the idea, Andy workshopped it with him, and it got into the playbook.
I know the spirit of your post was addressing the issue of Bieniemy's past with Colorado, not so much the present with Andy Reid, but right now the question is, "Has Bieniemy changed/learned enough since coaching in college to be viewed as a great head coaching candidate?" We can't say for sure he's had the experience of a fully-in-charge OC the way others around the league are, but we also don't know he's had ZERO experience at some of the OC duties that people are claiming are done 100% by Andy Reid unless stated otherwise.