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The Chiefs will be in the market for a new offensive coordinator, given the expiration of Matt Nagy’s contract and his reported interest in either obtaining a head coaching job elsewhere in the league or becoming an offensive coordinator somewhere that will allow him to also call plays.
Kingsbury has had mixed success in the NFL, producing the best season of Kyler Murray’s career in Arizona while
serving as the Cardinals’ head coach and having overwhelming success with Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels in 2024.
NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero said Tuesday Kingsbury will receive head coaching interest this offseason, but “otherwise will have multiple OC options.”
In February 2024, when Kingsbury took over as offensive coordinator in Washington, he was asked what type of quarterback he wanted to work with.
“The Chiefs’ quarterback,” Kingsbury said a few months prior to Washington drafting Jayden Daniels, who won Offensive Rookie of the Year under Kingsbury’s coaching.
Mike Borgonzi: Must remove Chiefs bias from Titans coach search | ESPN
Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi, despite spending 16 years in various scouting and personnel roles with the Chiefs, said he refuses to allow any previous biases to heavily influence his first opportunity to select Tennessee’s head coach.
Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and offensive coordinator Matt Nagy are among the eight candidates reported to have interviews set up for the Titans’ head coaching job. Borgonzi saw the Chiefs win three Super Bowls with Spagnuolo running the defense, two of which had Nagy as the offensive coordinator.
However, Borgonzi downplayed the impact of their prior successes on the process of finding the right coach for the Titans.
“You have to remove that piece,” Borgonzi said. “That biased opinion on anybody that you might have a relationship with. You have to make the best decision for the organization, and that’s really the bottom line. ‘Who is going to be the best leader and coach for this organization?'”
2026 NFL mock draft: Reid’s predictions on first-round picks | ESPN
9. Kansas City Chiefs (6-11)
Rueben Bain Jr., DL, Miami*Bain’s game is all about power; he’s a heavy-handed defender who regularly overwhelms blockers at the point of attack. Capable of playing 0- to 9-technique, Bain can play all over the defensive line and has flashed in big moments during Miami’s current playoff run. At 6-foot-3, 275 pounds, Bain’s measurables might not fit every team’s wish list but would work well in Kansas City, where defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has preferred dense and powerful pass rushers. Bain had 8.5 sacks this season and would give a boost to a Chiefs pass rush that finished with only 35 sacks in 2025, tied for 22nd in the NFL.
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After 18 seasons as Baltimore’s coach, Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti relieved Harbaugh of his duties after his team was one of the NFL’s most disappointing teams. Harbaugh went 193-124 including the postseason. He led the 2012 Ravens to a Super Bowl title and reached the AFC championship game on three other occasions.
Lions fire offensive coordinator John Morton after one season | NFL.com
Morton was tabbed to fill the void left by Johnson when the former Lions OC left to take the top job in Chicago this past offseason, but he didn’t retain play-calling duties for even one full season. Lions coach Dan Campbell took the responsibility from Morton prior to their Week 10 win over Washington, an explosive, lopsided triumph that appeared to instantly justify Campbell’s decision.
At the time, Morton backed Campbell in his decision, telling reporters “I fully support it. … I want to do whatever it takes to win.”
In the end, however, Morton met the same fate as the last offensive coordinator to surrender play-calling duties to Campbell, Anthony Lynn, who gave up the responsibility in the 2021 season and parted with the Lions at the end of the campaign.
The Stafford-Maye MVP Debate Gives Everyone Something to Get Mad About | The Ringer
In one corner, you have Stafford, a goal-line touchdown vulture on the verge of turning the MVP into a lifetime achievement award. He led his Rams to only the fifth seed, which is why they have to travel and take on the 8-9 Panthers—a mediocre team L.A. already lost to, by the way—on wild-card weekend. Stafford is also throwing to arguably the best wide receiver corps in the league, featuring Puka Nacua and Davante Adams, and benefits from head coach Sean McVay’s offensive genius and an elite offensive line. But most damning of all, he threw eight touchdowns from the 1-yard line. Those are plays where the Rams were likely to score anyway—are we really going to give the MVP to a guy who so blatantly padded his touchdown totals?
In the other corner, you have Maye, who played maybe the cushiest schedule in NFL history. By opponent record, the Patriots played the easiest schedule in the league. The Rams? They had the hardest. The Patriots played just three games against teams that finished with a winning record (one against the Steelers and two against the Bills), and they went 1-2 in those contests. You know who else had one win against over .500 opponents this season? The 3-14, first-pick-holding Las Vegas Raiders. The only winning team the Raiders beat? Maye’s Patriots! And while Stafford may have benefited from some goal-line scores, Maye farmed touchdowns against rock-bottom defenses like the Jets’. The Patriots might have earned the no. 2 seed, but that has just as much to do with the day-care schedule they played against as it does their own team.
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The Chiefs’ third-place 2026 schedule isn’t all it was cracked up to be
But after recording a 6-11 record this season — and completely missing the playoffs — the Chiefs will face the fifth-hardest NFL schedule in 2026, facing nine 2025 playoff teams.
How could this happen? Several factors are at play.
Just three of an NFL team’s 17 games are matchups between squads that finished in the same place within their own divisions. So just 18% of each team’s schedule has anything to do with its record in the previous season.
Six of the remaining 14 games are fixed every year — a home and away game with each team’s three division rivals. In 2025, the AFC West put two teams into the playoffs.
The final eight games are played against AFC and NFC divisions that rotate every year. In 2026, the Chiefs will play the AFC East — another division that put two teams into the postseason — and the NFC West, which had three of its teams make the playoffs.
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