Kansas City, Mo. ? The Kansas City Chiefs hired former Dallas Cowboys head coach Chan Gailey as offensive coordinator Wednesday, handing him one of the NFL’s weakest attacks.

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, who was fired after this past season as head coach at Georgia Tech, inherits a massive rebuilding project and will be working for a head coach, Herm Edwards, who has a reputation for being an offensive stick-in-the-mud.

But unlike Solari, a respected offensive line coach who had never been a coordinator until 2006, 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.

The Chiefs also interviewed Paul Hackett, Mike Shula, Eric Price and former New York Giants head coach Jim Fassel.