So here's
here's Andy Reid from yesterday. When the question of
Eric be enemy comes up because again, it's stay with
the Chiefs, go to the Commander's
maybe outside shot, go to the Cardinals, listen to what, Andy
Reid had to say and we'll talk about it on the other side.
I know you mentioned before in the past you're pushing for
him. But if not I know he's on a one-year deal so would you
expect them
to return and if not, you know,
are you still trying to push him to get the last few jobs
for mating?
Yeah, I would tell you the first part of that
and I'm pushing,
you know,
there's no reason he shouldn't get one
one of these jobs so
He's a he's too good of a football coach. Not
The way answers that.
And and look, I think he's at the point where he would like
to cycle through to another coordinator. I think this is
part of how you reward your guys for busting their ass. You
create an in-house. Meritocracy where
you you show? Yeah. This
shining example of what happens if you bust your ass, it's not
just you're going to get more money. You're going to get
a raise, you're going to get more responsibility, you're going to
get a better title. You,
you know, the best.
My offensive assistants becomes the coordinator. When that
coordinator graduates to something else. Ideally a head
coaching job.
You got five years of Eric Bana me not graduating. We saw Mike
cafta had to leave to become an offensive coordinator. He went
to the Giants and then was a head coaching candidate. After
one year, I think Andy Reid is at the point where he would
like to have another offensive coordinator, just to keep that
pipeline moving,
just to continue to have that thing. You can use to get your
staff. To bust their ass every year and contribute to
the overall creativity in the design and implementation of
the offense because you know, the best of the non
coordinators on the staff have the chance to be
the coordinator and then the chance to
become a head coach. I just I feel like
read is ready and reads, been ready to move on from be enemy,
not because of the enemy because he wants that spot for
someone else. I would agree. I would think so, you know, and
and you know, of course, Eric be enemy. He's looking to move
on
it, probably Adds to A little weirdness in the building that
way and I'll and then also to the same to the same point of
what you're making there.
It has a head coach also just,
hey, get sick of like, hey, every year. Is he going? Is he
not as he going? Is he not? And that's another thing that plays
into this, this is 34 years in a row where Andy has to answer
these same questions
and it's tough. And I feel like he's a little, he was a little
leaving. Like, didn't know what to say there because I'm sure
he know
I'm sure sitting there when he was answering that. Question
already knew that the be enemy was not going to be the head
coach of the Cardinals of the Colts, but he couldn't say it,
he was going to be the one that breaks the news or do anything
there.
So we knew that and so he didn't know how to maybe answer
that question in totality
exactly. But you know, I think for Eric be enemy if he wants
to be a head coach. Yeah, I think the best thing would
probably be for him to move on like we talked about yesterday.
So he doesn't get the all with its Andy Reid or all its really
Patrick Mahomes or whatever which is not fair. It's a BS.
Nobody. None of these other guys have ever had that issue,
but Eric be enemy gets that
for some reason,
the Commander's thing
and a lot of ways makes a lot of sense to me.
They have Young quarterback, we know this guy knows how to work
with the Young quarterback and they got a receiving Corps,
that I would say is better than the Chiefs right now.
I mean, McLaren Curtis, Samuel Jehan Dotson,
you know, you. We saw little of that last year, I mean, they,
this be enemy. Could have them doing what we saw the other
night. Zoom zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom fake to this guy. He could
do all that stuff with this group. So I'd be all in favor
of it, but I do think he
needs to move on if he does want to be a head coach at some
point somewhere else.
By the way, the Commander's interviewed Greg Roman for
the offensive coordinator position on Tuesday. Nothing scheduled
with be enemy yet but I go back to the text I got on Sunday
from his agent it was
on the record a lot of times I hear stuff from guys off
the Record, but I think that there's an urgency now and
a concerted effort to try to get Eric Bana me into a good spot.
It would be a good spot in Washington because
look, if Sam, how is it being great? I guess people could
say, well, it's Sam how it's not the enemy but you can't say
it's the head coach because the head coach is indeed.
Pensive guy, not an offensive guy like we see in Kansas City
again. It didn't keep Peterson and Nagy from becoming head
coaches without Patrick Mahomes. What more can Eric be
enemy. Do it really is sad. And I've tried in the past
to get to the bottom of it,
you know, this the interview question and I just, I really
do feel like at a certain level
owners, don't want to be bullied
or feel like they're being bullied by media and fans to
hire someone. They don't want to create the impression. To
their peers that they gave in to the Mob to the people who
were saying you should go do this,
we're going to do what we want. And we're going to resist
this notion that someone is trying to get us to do
something. We don't want to do. But, you know, they listen to
the media supposedly when they round out their list of
candidates. I guess if the media gets too much behind one
guy,
that's when they decide to
Big thymus and refused
to give the time of day to the guy that
that many in the media are saying deserves an opportunity
Chris. Yeah. There's a lot that goes into the process, you
know, media hype?
No, the the connections you have in the league I think are
very important to I do,
you know. Yeah. Are you connected to the guy that's
helping out the organization? You know make the higher is
there somebody? You know, there
is there somebody, you know, they can get in the ear of
the owner and the GM that they trust, that's where a lot of
these hires are made, you know? And, and That's where I don't
know if Eric Betty be enemies getting the benefit of
the doubt and that department or
anything of that nature, you know, he was in college, he was
with the Vikings, he certainly should have those connections
but at the same time again I don't think he's one of those
guys. And part of the process are probably the problem here
and why he's
hasn't moved on.
I don't think he's a politician that way.
That's one thing I continually here.
So you know and in from people that I trust that are credible
so that that's where I think it's. It's hurting him a little
bit in that department. But
yeah. It's it's amazing that we're sitting here and he
hasn't been hired. As we talked about the Optics are weird,
guys, coaching lesser offenses and lesser teams are getting
head coaching jobs and Eric be enemies. Not
On one hand. I respect the Integrity, the other hand when
in Rome, right? Because other guys are politicking and doing
what they have to do to get these jobs. And again, there's
only 32 of them if you really want that job, you got to
figure out what the
pathway is to getting one and maybe sometimes
you have to set aside your own,
you know I'm hey I'm just going to be who I am. Sometimes you
have to modify that approach to get that job that everyone else
wants and you've got to thread the needle, just the right way
to get that position. Over someone else who very much wants it.
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