Gailey will try to turn around one of the NFL's weakest offenses. He replaces Mike Solari, who took the Chiefs from being one of the league's top offenses to one of the worst in two years.
Kansas City ended the season with a 4-12 record and on a nine-game losing streak after scoring only 226 points. That's 70 points less than any Kansas City team has scored in 30 years.
Gailey, fired after last season after six years as head coach at Tech, inherits a massive rebuilding project. He will be working for a head coach, Herm Edwards, who has a reputation for being an offensive stick in the mud.
But unlike Solari, Gailey brings a wealth of college and NFL experience.
In 14 seasons in the NFL, he has been on the staff of 11 playoff teams and coached in the Super Bowl four times, including three with Denver. He has been either a head coach or an offensive coordinator eight years.
At Georgia Tech, he was 44-33 and took the Yellow Jackets to six straight bowl games.
But he ran afoul of boosters for never beating archrival Georgia, winning an ACC title or finishing in the Top 25 and found himself out of work.
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