Eric Bieniemy dressed for the occasion — a three-piece gray suit with a burgundy tie — but he didn’t need to. Bieniemy comes to the Commanders after 10 seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, on the heels of a Super Bowl win.
. He celebrated in the streets of Kansas City during the Chiefs’ parade, then hours later boarded a plane for his interviews with the Commanders.“We’ve got our guy,” Coach Ron Rivera said Thursday. “It was a very long process … and that was on purpose. We wanted to be very thorough, wanted to get the opportunity to get to meet a lot of [candidates]. … And Eric Bieniemy just happened to be very busy at the time.
“Most importantly, I wanted to sit and have an opportunity to talk to everybody and just listen so I can learn the culture and learn what has taken place and learn the environment, and I think that’s very important when you’re coming into a new position,” Bieniemy said. “You want creative coaches. You also want people who can relate to the people and adapt to the environment in that room. You got to have that connection.
For a coach beginning the fourth year of a rebuild amid a possible ownership change, making wholesale changes to the offense — new terminology, some new concepts and probably a young quarterback, Sam Howell — comes with risk. Those changes called for Rivera to step outside of his comfort zone.“It was to go beyond what I’m used to and what we had done in the past,” Rivera said. “I mean, we had basically the same style of offense for 12 years.
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