Except he was calling plays last night and Reid even said down the stretch Eric B. was the reason for the win.
Patrick Mahomes credits Eric Bieniemy for Super Bowl play of the game
The play of the game in Kansas City’s 38-35 Super Bowl win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona?
How about the Mahomes scramble? Or the Nick Bolton scoop and score? One of the two second-half touchdown passes?
Nope.
It was a 9-yard rush from Kansas City running back Jerrick McKinnon.
“It was a smart decision on him,” Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes said. “And in that big of a moment, you just want to run in and score the touchdown. We work on that stuff every single week to prepare ourselves for those moments.”
“I want to give the credit to Eric Bieniemy,” Mahomes said, “because even though sometimes we get tired of them talking about those moments, they always seem to happen in the biggest games. And he makes sure we go through the details about them every single week.”
Andy Reid: "Eric Bieniemy has been tremendous for us and I think tremendous for the National Football League,'' Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. "I'm hoping he has an opportunity to go somewhere and do his thing where he can run the show and be Eric Bieniemy.''
The Chiefs fooled the Eagles at times in their 24-point second half. One example is the 6-yard touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes to Kadarius Toney early in the fourth quarter that put the Chiefs ahead for the first time in the game. Toney lined up as wide receiver to the right and started in motion to his left. Cornerback Darius Slay was initially in coverage on Toney but left him when the receiver went in motion to the left, apparently thinking Toney was headed to the other side of the formation.
But the jet sweep motion wasn't real. At the snap Toney abruptly changed direction and was uncovered to catch the pass.
"We saw something a little different on tape and we knew we could take advantage of what they weren't doing,'' Bieniemy said. "Kadarius did a hell of a job of finding a way to get himself open.
"We weren't executing the way we needed to and what happened is our guys knew we played for 30 minutes and lulled ourselves to sleep [in a sluggish first half]. This is a team that we can't relax against, because at that particular time our defense was struggling. We had to help our defense. Our goal was to find a way to get seven points every time we stepped on that field. Our guys did a hell of a job adjusting, our guys just playing through the lows and hanging together.''
With all that, sure it might be a gamble, but he may be more energized to be able to have his own offense for the whole game and not just for a stretch.
And the worse part is while he is on an airplane too!
