Kansas City Chief’s head coach Andy Reid, Centrum, talks to Quarterbacken Patrick Mahomes (15) Next to tight end travis Kelce (87) before an NFL football match for the pressing Saturday 10 August 2024 at Everbank Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. Chiefs 26-13. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union] There was a time that Andy Reid was a sympathetic figure, a master for the regular season that seemed to be intended to be a bridesmaid all the time on the NFL side line.
Through 13 seasons with Philadelphia Eagles, Reid reached a Super Bowl (2004) and lost the NFC championship four times. That is why owner Jeffrey Lurie and Eagles decided that another voice was necessary and fired the coach with the most victories in franchise history.
Reid, 66, was reborn in Kansas City, where he-eventually-remained synonymous with Super Bowl and became all the time leaders for a second franchise.
Chiefs did not reach the AFC title game until Reid’s sixth season in Kansas City, and since the managers turned that corner they have not looked back. They have won AFC West Division nine years in a row and Reid has not lost a game after the season since the AFC championship 2021 to Bengals.
It was a chance meeting on the road – Reid and a Gunslinger from Texas Tech, Quarterback Patrick Mahomes – who did not damage the development of the managers from door mat to dynasty. The couple won their first Super Bowl after the 2019 season.
It is not the mind for Reid this week, according to Mahomes. He said Reid has tunnel vision. A hot topic during the open week before going to New Orleans for Super Bowl Lix and a chance for a third Super Bowl victory in a row? Perfection their snap -cadence.
“That’s what he focuses on,” Mahomes said. “I think the only time I’ve heard (Andy Reid) say [three-peat] Is to the media when you all ask him about it. “
Come Monday and the beginning of the big game festivities in the New Orleans background for Chief’s bid to become the first team in league history that won three consecutive Super Bowls-the questions to start quickly and furiously. Reid will seek the historical victory against its former team, Eagles, on February 9.
And Reid, now with 301 wins combined between the regular season and the playoffs, and Mahomes-17-3 in the playoffs and offers his fourth Super Bowl-Ring-is on the way to adding their shimmering heritage. A fourth Super Bowl ring for Mahomes would put him in a three-way tie for the second most all the time with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw.
It would also be over halfway to Tom Brady’s seven Super Bowl victories.
“I think you always want to leave a legacy and make your impression on the story, but more than something you just want to achieve a goal you have with your teammates,” Mahomes said. “When you start (training camp) in St. Joe is your goal of winning Super Bowl. We know it’s a difficult process, we know it’s a hard week in and week out, but I’m proud of how our guys have Went with that process., It is enough to win a win. “
Before the season and when he watered through issues and rumors of retirement, Reid signed a new pact that goes through 2029 and made him the league’s highest paid coach. With victory no. 18 of the season this week, Reid can be only 22 shy for George Halas (324) for the third on the NFL’s list of all the time.
And on Sunday evening, Reid was able to have four Super Bowl victories as head coach, tie Steeler’s coach Chuck zero for others on the All-Time list and two shy by Bill Belichick’s record six rings. Belichick won two more as assistant coaches and has 333 wins as head coach, others to Don Shula (347).
“We all know that it is out there, but what is important is how you take care of business,” Reid said about the historical consequences of another Super Bowl victory in an interview with Rich Eisen from the NFL network this week. “What will help you is that you focus on and take care or business today while we do our practice or in the meetings we have today. Take care of it and everything else you let chips fall where they can.”
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