Last year, Eric Bieniemy, then-assistant coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, was the talk of the social-justice-warrior town as he had once again not been passed over for a head coaching job in the NFL.
People were outraged. Pundits claimed the NFL had a racism problem. The “white guilt” elitists in the country insinuated white supremacy was prevalent in the football league. In response, the NFL genuflected and pandered to the perpetual outraged social justice crowd and announced changes and incentives to hire minority candidates.
Bieniemy eventually left Kansas City to go to the Washington Commanders to show the NFL world what he could do independently and out of the shadow of coaching legend Andy Reid. The Kansas City Chiefs won their second consecutive Super Bowl; the Washington Commanders fired Eric Bieniemy after just one year. Moreover, not only was he fired, but the Commanders interviewed him for their head coaching job and decided to go in another direction.
After the Commanders became the latest NFL franchise to reject him, Bieniemy will leave the league altogether. On Saturday, reports surfaced that he will become the offensive coordinator for the UCLA Bruins next season. And just like that, the NFL stopped making excuses, stopped fake cries of racism, and stopped caring about Eric Bieniemy.
However, it’s evident that he was falsely heralded as an offensive genius last year as evident by the fact that the Kansas City Chiefs didn’t miss a beat without him and the Washington Commanders offense struggled. It is clear Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes were the reasons for the team’s success; not the mind of Eric Bieniemy. That was all part of the baseless pundit rhetoric and propaganda used last year to try to advance their agenda. It was the core tenet of their argument before they falsely insinuated racism was to blame.
This isn’t a slight against Bieniemy. He probably should get a head coaching job opportunity in the NFL someday. However, no team should be forced to choose him because of his skin color. They should want him because they believe he could be successful, like any other candidate applying for a job. And, so far, not any of the teams he interviewed for have felt that way.
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Moreover, by most, if not all, accounts, Bieniemy was never the one to use the race card himself. It was mainly pundits and talk show people who stirred up the outrage. So, there’s little reason to have any schadenfreude over Bieniemy being denied a head coaching gig. The important thing here, however, is that no one in the NFL is white knighting for him this year. The announcement of his UCLA position received very little attention. Gone were the repeated histrionics that came with Bieniemy not getting a head coaching job.
Why? Because all the people who were outraged last year never truly cared about Bieniemy. They just weaponized his quest to get a head coaching job to try to prove a point and advance a radical left-wing, social justice agenda. Once it was realized Bieniemy couldn’t do anything for the social justice elitist agenda in the NFL, he was of no further use to them. They used him like a pawn, and when he no longer served a purpose, they cast Bieniemy aside.