Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. Oh.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Yes, they announced eb as a team's
Speaker 1: newest assistant head coach and offensive coordinator. He comes to
Speaker 1: town with over twenty years of coaching experience, most recently
Speaker 1: serving as the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator at the
Speaker 1: past five seasons now. While with the Chiefs, Viennemy helped
Speaker 1: mold their offense into one of the league's best, resulting
Speaker 1: in two Super Bowl titles in the last four years.
Speaker 1: Viennamy got his coaching curse started at his alma mater,
Speaker 1: coaching running backs at Colorado in two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: His first coaching ranks the NFL come as the running
Speaker 1: backs coach in Minnesota, where he helped guide Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: to winning Offensive Rookie of the Year in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. Then, after a two years stint back at
Speaker 1: Colorado as the OC, Viennemey joined the Chiefs in two thirteen,
Speaker 1: where he's spent five years coaching running backs, followed by
Speaker 1: five years as the offensive coordinator. The logan I'm going
Speaker 1: to start with you on this one because you actually
Speaker 1: have experience with Viennemey going on the way back to
Speaker 1: UCLA days. Not too long ago, right, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: it was a very long time ago. Who's counting the years.
Speaker 1: But you kind of knew him as a coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew him as a coach. He was the guy
Speaker 1: that recruited me. He sat of my house, we had
Speaker 1: dinner together, he said, you surely come to UCLA And
Speaker 1: he was this very mild mantled gentleman. And then the
Speaker 1: first practice I went to, I've never seen someone yellow
Speaker 1: at other human being the way he held at somebody.
Speaker 1: And that was his standard. He held people, the running
Speaker 1: back specifically, do a very very high standard. He coached very,
Speaker 1: very hard. But he was also a great guy to
Speaker 1: be around and a guy that you know, showed me
Speaker 1: a lot about what it means to be a good pro. Now,
Speaker 1: I think, okay, so we're a few years past that.
Speaker 1: He now has coaching experience at a couple other colleges,
Speaker 1: and of course, most notably having won that second ring
Speaker 1: at Kansas City just a week or so ago. So Santana,
Speaker 1: everybody kind of wants to know why would he take
Speaker 1: this job, in particular when he was already in a
Speaker 1: good spot. Yeah, that's the big question. I mean that's
Speaker 1: something that still I'm scratching my hand about, like what
Speaker 1: is it that we don't know? And I think we
Speaker 1: won't know until he comes out and have his press conference.
Speaker 1: But I really wanted to understand a little more behind
Speaker 1: a mass. I guess you can say of what is
Speaker 1: favorable on this side than it was having Pat Mahomes
Speaker 1: and being able to take those one year deals. You're
Speaker 1: out the year. So he gets the title of assistant
Speaker 1: head coach. What does that mean? Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: just a nice pay bump, you know, like when you're
Speaker 1: transitioning teams, like that's an easy way to kind of
Speaker 1: say we're gonna upgrade you. We're gonna give you a
Speaker 1: higher position within the team because the assistant that coach
Speaker 1: doesn't do a lot day to day. But it is
Speaker 1: kind of an endorsement saying we think you have head
Speaker 1: coaching material and if something were to happen roun, you're
Speaker 1: gonna take that mantle. But I asked the question, does
Speaker 1: that also say you may be the the guy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, you got you're looking into your
Speaker 1: crystal ball. I love run brings to the table, but
Speaker 1: just you know, you never know how long he may
Speaker 1: have to say, Hey, if they're not gonna do with
Speaker 1: you there, we will do it here. So I'm just maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, one of those things. As many people think
Speaker 1: he should have been deserving of a head coaching position
Speaker 1: quite a few years ago, and here he is not
Speaker 1: coming in as an assistant head coaching offensive coordinator, but
Speaker 1: he kind of gets some of the shadow from being
Speaker 1: under Andy Reid, and many people are saying, Okay, how
Speaker 1: much control did he have versus Andy? And over here
Speaker 1: he should have more control over what he wants to
Speaker 1: do and who he wants to put in place as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't think the control things that big
Speaker 1: of a deal. Like, I mean, that's what Sean did.
Speaker 1: Sean was under kind of Jay and then he goes
Speaker 1: on and it's the head coach, and I think it's
Speaker 1: it's not that important. He got to see the most
Speaker 1: important parts of what Andy does, cultivating the game plan, developing,
Speaker 1: developing the offensive philosophy, the details with which Andy Reid coaches.
Speaker 1: So I think he's gonna bring that here and just
Speaker 1: be doing outstanding job. Okay, So he brings his own
Speaker 1: style and that was one of the things and one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why head coach Ron Rivera said he
Speaker 1: wanted to make the changes. He wanted something different. So
Speaker 1: what type of offense does he bring with him, Santana,
Speaker 1: And that's the question right there too. I mean, when
Speaker 1: it comes down to what I've seen from the last
Speaker 1: war five years, just along with you know, with Andy
Speaker 1: Reid's offense, it's like the West West coach Andy Reid
Speaker 1: hybrid and we're talking about running. We can still run
Speaker 1: with this offense, you know. I mean he showed year
Speaker 1: after year when he had you know, Chars and all
Speaker 1: those other different running backs, that they had backs that
Speaker 1: rush for over a fifteen hundred yards at some point
Speaker 1: in their their career there. So that's gonna be an interesting,
Speaker 1: you know task that we're going to see high play out.
Speaker 1: I believe when it comes to what we have here,
Speaker 1: we have the system, we have the playerff that's built
Speaker 1: for whatever he brings. I think that's a really good point, Tan,
Speaker 1: is that or during his time in Kansas City, they're
Speaker 1: in multiple different offenses, different offenses air quotes right, run, heavy, pass,
Speaker 1: heavy on speaking to the personnel, And I think that's
Speaker 1: what you're getting with a guy like Aaron Bademy, someone
Speaker 1: who understands how to speak to the skill set. You know,
Speaker 1: he had Patrick Mahomes and as we're well aware how
Speaker 1: important the quarterback is to win and the reason why
Speaker 1: they did win a couple of Super Bowls. But look,
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes had to be molded into who he was today.
Speaker 1: He didn't just come out of college Wady. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had the arm strength, but he had to kind of
Speaker 1: adapt to that. Andy Reid is known to be the
Speaker 1: quarterback whispered. Does the enemy bring that same kind of
Speaker 1: talent to be able to develop as Sam Howell into
Speaker 1: that guy. I think it's kind of some of stuff's
Speaker 1: Tandar was sitting on like, you got to speak to
Speaker 1: what they've got, right. You can't just put Sam how
Speaker 1: out there and say you're Patrick Mahomes. You say, how
Speaker 1: do we insulate you? How do we make you a
Speaker 1: better football player? And the fact that he's shown an
Speaker 1: ability to do that I think is extremely important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that you know that I want to see,
Speaker 1: you know how this thing pans out? Just knowing that
Speaker 1: what Sam showed us last year and just in a
Speaker 1: pink size all effort, but he showed us that he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, if things break down, he
Speaker 1: can he can be special too, So just knowing where
Speaker 1: where all the enemy is coming from with the offensive
Speaker 1: style and everything. He has a quarterback here already, not
Speaker 1: say who we're going to get in the future, but
Speaker 1: he has the one here that he can probably work with.
Speaker 1: And head coach Ron Rivera told me out the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl that they're going to do everything possible to give Sam.
Speaker 1: How will the opportunity to be that number one quarterback? Now,
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