Vikings: 3 best replacements for Gary Kubiak as OC

Why would you not want to hire the best player’s position coach?

Patience is the biggest key here, as Mike Kafka‘s Kansas City Chiefs are one of four teams left in the NFL playoffs. This usually does not bode well for coaches on any of these championship-caliber staffs leaving for other jobs because teams want to fill their vacancies as quickly as possible. However, being able to pry Kafka out of Kansas City would be a hire worth waiting for.

Kafka spent a few years in the NFL as a backup quarterback. The former Northwestern Wildcats star spends his days now as Patrick Mahomes’ position coach. Though he is under Andy Reid by way of Eric Bieniemy, he is more in line of moving the sticks aerially like his head coach than he is pounding the rock like his offensive coordinator prefers. Either way, Kafka is due for a promotion.

Kafka may get to stay in Kansas City for at least a little while longer, but you better believe somebody is going to try to poach some top coaching talent off Reid’s staff soon. The craziest part in all of it is you do not even have to call plays to get a head-coaching job in this league if you have served under Reid. Just ask Doug Pederson and Matt Nagy how that goes. Will Kafka be different?

Perhaps getting an opportunity to not only improve from quarterbacks coach to an offensive coordinator, but have an opportunity to call plays as well is too good to pass up? Again, you do not need to be able to do this to be an NFL head coach one day, but it is not a bad skill to have on one’s resume. Kafka should be seriously looked as an NFL offensive coordinator by someone this cycle.