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New owner, wants his own hires in. From what I could see bienemy did a decent job calling plays for Sam Howell and that offense, before Howell got trigger happy, but I’ll defer to those who study that sort of thing more. As an OC, you can do more with less, put your qb in positions to win and then they may not be capable/experienced enough to do what is required. Howell looked good for the first half of the season, then did not. How much of Howell’s regression was to do with Bienemy’s play calls, his own lack of experience/consistency or the quality of the rest of the offense is up for debate.
As @Aroogah states maybe his personality/coaching style doesn’t work for all organisations,but the majority of players play hard for him, defend his way of working, and feel they improved with him as their coach, whether that’s enough to get him a HC gig, or currently even a Co-ordination gig is up for grabs.
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Of course - but Josh Harris isn't the reason that Bienemy is less attractive as a HC now than on leaving KC.
I'm a Washington fan so I have my own opinions about Howell, and the fall off in the second half of the season was something which happened to the entire team, so as you say, is really tough to gauge in a vacuum, and 6 people will probably have half a dozen opinions over whos at 'fault'.
I skew more towards EB being responsible for not realising he didn't have Patrick Mahomes any more - ultimately if your OC can't get the most out of a young/rookie QB then they are in a tough spot.
It's really hard to discern why someone who led (or close to it) the league in a number of (albeit volume based) metrics through the front end of the season followed it with such a precipitous fall off. I don't think it is EBs fault but I do think it is on the OC to find a way to cope/steady the ship, which EB didn't - even if you accept other factors at play. Clearly there is talent there somewhere with Howell, which wasn't fully realised.
This ties in really nicely with the coaching tree discussion - how do you separate Bienemy the OC from Mahomes before this season? Their successes are inextricably linked, but what VAR (if you will) was Bienemy doing, and what was just a magical offence. If you looked at the front of Washington's season you'd say - more of the same, but then...
kkg337
if not his then whose?