The Giants Are Hiring Mike Kafka As Offensive Coordinator, Who Spent The Last 3 Seasons As QB Coach For Some Guy Named Patrick Mahomes
I am going to react to this news completely rationally and say that Daniel Jones is now going to become the new Josh Allen AND Patrick Mahomes rolled into one now that he has the Bills offensive coordinator as head coach and the Chiefs QB coach as offensive coordinator. If you want to see what Danny Dimes is about to do to NFL defenses next season, please refer to the chaos that unfolded in under two minutes 11 days ago.
In case you don't really care about names and highlights, here is what Chiefs.com said about Kafka:
In 2020, Kafka continued to lead one of the most elite quarterback rooms in the NFL. Under his tutleage QB Patrick Mahomes continued to break NFL and franchise records, including becoming just the seventh player in NFL history to throw for 4,500+ passing yards and 35+ passing touchdowns multiple times in his career. The Chiefs passing game was elite during the 2020 season, ranking first in the league in passing yards per game (303.4) and net passing yards (4,85), third in average gain per pass play (7.48) and tied for third in passing touchdowns (40).
In 2019, Kafka led a quarterback group that finished fifth in total net passing yards (4,498) and net passing yards per game (281.1).
In his first year coaching quarterbacks in 2018, Kafka guided QB Patrick Mahomes as he earned the Chiefs first NFL MVP award after he broke four Chiefs passing records and became only the second quarterback to pass for over 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns in a season.
Here is what Andy Reid said about Kafka:
Here is what Patrick Mahomes said about Kafka:
TL;DR - Everything good Patrick Mahomes has ever done in the NFL is thanks to Mike Kafka
Not only that, but the Giants just went from an offensive coordinator that ran an offense from the Stone Age and another one that ran a QB Sneak on 3rd & 9 to an offensive coordinator that is living in the digital future.
OK, I don't know if being into crypto and NFTs means you are living in the future since I barely know anything about them, but I bet Jason Garrett has never even heard of Bitcoin. So this definitely counts as progress, as does being a standup person.
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The only real downside I can find in the Kafka hiring is that he used to play quarterback for the Eagles. But I can easily spinzone that since his once appearance against the Giants resulted in a big W for Big Blue on their way to winning a Super Bowl after Michael Vick left the game with a broken hand.
Add all of this up and the only thing we have to see is whether Daniel Jones goes to the Pro Bowl next season or if he has to skip it because he is playing in the Super Bowl.
Also you cannot discount how big this news is for the Giants.
Patrick Graham being able to coach a defense with (God willing) at least one more stud edge rusher along with having an offense that doesn't shit down its leg 90% of the game is awesome. It sucks for Graham that he didn't get a head coaching job this offseason but if this Giants defense can play as well as I think it can under Graham without having to battle against the opposing offense trying to move the ball along with his own offense unable to move the ball, he'll be one of the hottest names on the market next year.
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P.S. Yes I am still bummed that Ken Dorsey is staying in Buffalo. Not only because him, Daboll, and Shea Tierney (the Giants new QB coach who was the Bills assistant QB coach) turned Josh Allen into a nuclear football weapon. But also because anytime you can hire a member of the 2001 Miami Hurricanes to your front office, coaching staff or 53 man roster, you should do it simply because they are the greatest college football team ever with a Wikipedia page that makes me laugh every time I see it.
Legacy
The 2001 Miami Hurricanes are considered by many experts and historians the greatest team in college football history.[2] The Hurricanes scored 512 (42.6 points per game) points while yielding only 117 (9.75 points allowed per game). Miami beat opponents by an average of 32.9 points per game, the largest margin in the school’s history, and set the NCAA record for largest margin of victory over consecutive ranked teams (124–7).[3] The offense set the school scoring record, while the defense led the nation in scoring defense (fewest points allowed), pass defense, and turnover margin.[3] Additionally, the Hurricane defense scored eight touchdowns of its own. Six players earned All-American status and six players were finalists for national awards, including Maxwell Award winner, Ken Dorsey, and Outland Trophy winner, Bryant McKinnie. Dorsey was also a Heisman finalist, finishing third.Among the numerous stars on the 2001 Miami squad were: quarterback Ken Dorsey; running backs Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee, Najeh Davenport, and Frank Gore; tight end Jeremy Shockey; wide receiver Andre Johnson; offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie; defensive linemen Jerome McDougle, William Joseph, and Vince Wilfork; linebackers Jonathan Vilma and D.J. Williams; and defensive backs Ed Reed, Mike Rumph, and Phillip Buchanon. Additional contributors included future stars Kellen Winslow II, Sean Taylor, Antrel Rolle, Vernon Carey, and Rocky McIntosh. In all, an extraordinary 17 players from the 2001 Miami football team were drafted in the first-round of the NFL Draft (5 in the 2002 NFL Draft: Buchanon, McKinnie, Reed, Rumph, and Shockey; 4 in 2003: Johnson, Joseph, McDougle, and McGahee; 6 in 2004: Carey, Taylor, Vilma, Wilfork, Williams, and Winslow; 1 in 2005: Rolle; and 1 in 2006: Kelly Jennings).
Overall, 38 members of the team would be selected in the NFL Draft. As of 2013, they had earned a combined total of 43 trips to the Pro Bowl: Ed Reed (9), Andre Johnson (7), Frank Gore (5), Vince Wilfork (5), Jeremy Shockey (4), Jonathan Vilma (3), Willis McGahee (2), Chris Myers (2), Clinton Portis (2), Antrel Rolle (2), Sean Taylor (2), Bryant McKinnie (1), and Kellen Winslow II (1). In addition, Vilma, Shockey, Wilfork, Joseph, Rolle, McGahee, and Reed have won the Super Bowl. It has been estimated that the 2001 Hurricanes would cost nearly $120 million as an NFL team as early as 2009.
Prior to the 2006 Rose Bowl, ESPN’s SportsCenter ran a special in which the 2005 USC Trojans, led by stars Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush, and LenDale White, were compared with the greatest college teams of the past 50 years, as picked by sports fans voting on ESPN.com, to determine their place in history. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes were the only team picked by fans to defeat the ’05 Trojan squad, reflecting the esteem with which the 2001 Hurricanes are held in the college football world.