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Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach shared an interesting anecdote Thursday about how offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy has remained engaged even while away from the team as he tends to his wife, Mia, after she was shot in their Virginia home last week.

The Chiefs record video of each of their practices, and they’ve set up Bieniemy with a live feed to watch remotely while the team is going through drills. Veach said two days ago he received a call on his cellphone while on the practice field with the team.

It was Bieniemy.

“I answer the phone, and he’s like, ‘Hey, put Coach on,’” Veach said Thursday with a grin.

According to Veach, Bieniemy spoke to Chiefs coach Andy Reid and told him to relay a message to rookie running back Emmett Johnson. Evidently, Johnson hadn’t lined up the correct number of yards behind center on one of the team’s drills.

“That’s the thing … it’s so refreshing to have back — that attention to detail,” Veach said of Bieniemy, who returned as the Chiefs’ OC this year. replacing Matt Nagy. “He demands each player knows his assignment. There’s never a safe space with him.”

The Chiefs believed some of their attention to detail slipped last season, which was part of the reason the team went 6-11 overall and 1-9 in one-score games.

Even from afar, Bieniemy is trying to bring that emphasis back.

“Every organization and every team and every player and each position group — everyone needs a kick in the ass,” Veach said. “And so him being out there and hearing that voice, whether it be ‘Finish’ or ‘Alignment’ or whatever … he demands that you are buttoned up on your details, and that is a mirror image of coach and how he wants things run.”

Mia Bieniemy, 57, was shot at the family’s home in Ashburn, Va., on July 26 and critically wounded. Police arrested Elijah Bieniemy, the 27-year-old son of Eric and Mia, and charged him with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and discharge of a firearm inside a dwelling.

Reid said Monday that Mia Bieniemy was “doing better” and “keeps improving by the day.” He reiterated that there was no timeline for Eric, who flew home in the wake of the shooting, to return to the Chiefs.

“He just needs to take care of business there,” Reid said. “And when he gets back here, he gets back here.”

Joe Bleymaier is the acting offensive coordinator in Bieniemy’s absence.