Tag: Andy Reid

Latest updates on Chiefs’ Saturday practice from NFL’s pool report

Information on the Kansas City Chiefs’ latest practice prior to leaving for Tampa for Super Bowl LV.

The Kansas City Chiefs are officially wheels up and heading to Tampa to face the Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV.

Prior to leaving Saturday afternoon, the Chiefs got in a quick walk-through.  KC Star reporter Herbie Teope, also the NFL’s designated pool reporter, caught all the action. Teope confirmed that Britt Reid will not be traveling with the team or coaching in Super Bowl LV. He also confirmed that Andy Reid will be in Tampa to coach the game, despite the multi-vehicle car accident involving his son.

As for the practice day, Teope noted that the players appeared to be in good spirits.

“Good energy,” Andy Reid said via the NFL’s pool report. “It’s important to have that. This was just kind of a review day, so we go back through all the situations and make sure we have all those covered.”

While there is no practice participation or injury report for Saturday, Teope spotted two Chiefs players back at practice on Saturday. Backup C Daniel Kilgore was back, as he was cleared to play in Super Bowl LV, returning from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Also returning to practice was RB Darwin Thompson, who missed Friday’s practice with a non-COVID illness.

Chiefs starting LT Eric Fisher was officially placed on injured reserve today, but he was spotted at practice by Teope. He was encouraging his teammates from the sidelines with his left leg in a scooter as he’s already had surgery to repair his torn Achilles.

“He’s a part of the team,” Reid said via the NFL’s pool report. “We got a lot of the guys that are a part of it and we ask them to come out. Fish is a big part of it. I mean, he’s a reliable guy and he’s been here a long time.”

The team will be dealing with familiar territory as soon as they touch down in Tampa. According to Teope, the team plans to stay in the same hotel that they stayed at back in Week 12 when they faced the Buccaneers in Tampa during the NFL’s regular season.

“You know where the meeting rooms are, most of the guys are in the same room,” Reid said via the NFL’s pool report. “So, they kind of know where they are there and how to get where they need to go.”

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Andy Reid’s son involved in accident that leaves child with life-threatening injuries

Andy Reid’s son Britt, a Chiefs assistant coach, was involved in an auto accident Thursday that left one child with life-threatening injuries

A son of Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid was involved in an accident Thursday. Chiefs assistant linebackers coach Britt Reid was in a multi-vehicle crash that injured two young children — one with life-threatening injuries, according to the Kansas City Missouri Police Department.

Britt Reid, 35 has worked on the team’s coaching staff since his father arrived before the 2013 season.

Per KansasCity.com:

According to the police report, the incident occurred at 9:10 p.m. Thursday. A gray Chevy Impala ran out of gas on the southbound entrance ramp from Stadium Drive on Interstate 435. The driver called relatives for help; they responded to provide aid, and parked their vehicle, a Chevy Traverse, south of the Impala with the lights on.

Police say a Ram Laramie Sport pickup truck, which Kansas City TV station KSHB reported was driven by Reid, 35, was traveling on the entrance ramp to get on the interstate. The pickup truck struck the left front of the Impala, then continued south before hitting the rear of the Traverse.

The drivers of the two vehicles were not injured, but the two children, ages 4 and 5 and sitting in the back of the Traverse, required medical attention. The 4-year-old was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the police.

The Chiefs released a statement:

“The organization has been made aware of a multi-vehicle accident involving Outside Linebackers Coach, Britt Reid. We are in the process of gathering information, and we will have no further comment at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved.”

Ian Rapoport of NFL Network says Britt Reid will not be with the team Sunday when it  meets the Buccaneers in Tampa.

Reid has worked on the Chiefs’ defensive staff in Kansas City since 2013 when his father first arrived as head coach of the team. He was promoted to OLB coach when Steve Spagnuolo’s staff first arrived in 2019.

Super Bowl 55 Strategy Guide: Understanding the Kansas City Chiefs and how they play

You know the Chiefs are nearly unstoppable. Let us explain how they do it.

What a difference a year — and a ring — can make.

Prior to leading the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl championship last year, Andy Reid was seen as something of a bumbling also-ran destined to be somewhat forgotten in an era so thoroughly dominated by Bill Belichick.

Now he’s the mastermind of one of the most exciting offenses we’ve ever witnessed, primed to win another Lombardi Trophy with a team that figures to compete for a spot in this game for years and years to come.

He won’t have to deal with Belichick in Super Bowl 55, but there is the matter of preventing Tom Brady from doing Tom Brady things in his tenth(!?) Super Bowl.

But frankly it might not matter how heroic Brady gets in his first appearance in the biggest game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Because Reid, despite having a supremely talented offense, hasn’t stopped pushing boundaries and trying to find new ways to create space for some of the best playmakers in the game.

Meanwhile his defensive coordinator, Steve Spagnuolo, has his own history with stopping Brady: He was the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants when they took down Brady’s juggernaut 2007 Patriots team, which had entered the game undefeated and as the highest-scoring offense of all time.

Not that anything Spagnuolo does now directly correlates to what he called back then. He’s elevated the Chiefs defense to championship-level with crafty, evolving game plans meant to confuse and/or pressure QBs.

Let’s take a look at the personnel and philosophies that have powered Kansas City’s return to the Super Bowl.

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Everything the Bucs (should have) learned after failing to stop the Chiefs offense in Week 12

Nobody knows how to stop the Chiefs. But we have figured out what *not* to do.

Before we get started, let’s get one thing out of the way: There’s no blueprint for stopping — or even slowing down — this Chiefs offense. When I first started planning this piece out, I was intending on writing about how the Buccaneers defense could possibly go about doing the impossible.

Then I re-watched the film of the Week 12 game between these teams — a 27-24 win by the Chiefs that wasn’t as close as the score might indicate. Kansas City gained 543 yards, Mahomes had thrown for 359 of them by halftime and the Chiefs led 27-10 heading into the 4th quarter.

Re-living that game made me immediately abandon any thought that I could find solutions for the NFL’s most unsolvable problem. I’ll leave that job to Todd Bowles. Instead, I’ll focus on the things that the Bucs did in that first game that they should definitely NOT do this time around. Let’s start with a lesson that Tyreek Hill single-handedly taught Bowles in the first matchup …

Andy Reid confirms Eagles never requested to interview Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy for HC job

Andy Reid confirms Eagles never requested to interview Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy for HC job

The Eagles went with Nick Sirianni as the team’s new head coach, but during his Wednesday Super Bowl press conference, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid broke some news of his own.

Despite reports that Eric Bieniemy was a person of interest in the Eagles head coaching search, Reid confirmed during the zoom meeting that Philadelphia never put in a formal request to interview the star offensive coordinator.

For Bieniemy, the biggest concerns are the Andy Reid coaching tree and how much influence the former NFL running back truly has on the Chiefs’ offensive success.

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Of course Andy Reid wore a Hawaiian shirt on a Super Bowl Zoom

A tradition continues.

I’ll admit it: I was really nervous.

Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid appeared on Super Bowl 55 Opening Night via Zoom, and although everyone noticed how the reflection from ring lights in his glasses was hilarious, my big takeaway was he wasn’t wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

This was a big deal. Reid has a long history of wearing the flowery threads, including at the NFL annual meetings. On Opening Night last year, he had a Hawaiian shirt with Chiefs logo on it, which was the best.

WHERE WAS THE SHIRT?!?!?

On Tuesday, thank goodness, there it was! And everyone rejoiced, as they should:

Whew.

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The Buccaneers will win the Super Bowl if they do these 5 things

Here’s the blueprint for beating the Chiefs.

Super Bowl 55 is upon us, and there’s a pretty simple narrative taking hold: Can the presumed best QB of the next two decades beat the GOAT of the past two?

We figure Patrick Mahomes is going to dazzle us. That’s what he does, playing in an Andy Reid offense loaded with talent.

We’re wondering if 43-year-old Tom Brady can keep up, playing in a Bruce Arians offense that is also loaded with talent.

While Brady has been markedly better later in the season, he’s still had bouts of inconsistency and will need his coaches to game-plan him into situations where he can succeed.

The Bucs will definitely need Brady to be near the best current version of himself to have a chance. But they also need a couple of things to go right on defense.

Here’s a look at what Tampa Bay has to do if it wants to pull the upset in Super Bowl 55.

The reflection from ring lights was the star of Andy Reid’s Super Bowl press conference

He’s super focused.

The entire build-up to the Super Bowl has been completely different this season due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Kansas City Chiefs aren’t traveling to Tampa until Saturday, and the “Opening Night” media day has been reduced to a bunch of Zoom calls with reporters.

And while this year’s Opening Night didn’t bring the typical circus atmosphere, it wasn’t without its quirks.

In order to give the players and coaches a TV-ready appearance, they were set up with some ring lighting on their end of the Zoom call. We could see what that looked like from Tom Brady’s perspective.

But someone didn’t account for the reflection on Andy Reid’s glasses because the end result was wild.

He’s staring into our souls through Zoom.

From fogged face shields to those ring lights, Reid has had quite the experience this past year with reflective surfaces.

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Bills are slightly ahead of Chiefs in one respect

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott compared to Kansas City Chiefs’ Andy Reid.

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This week the Buffalo Bills are getting all the comparisons to the Kansas City Chiefs because they’re fresh off of losing to KC, 38-24, in the AFC Championship.

On the field on Sunday, things didn’t look particularly close. But in one sense, the Bills are kind of ahead of the Chiefs already.

To start, let’s put it into Sean McDermott terms.

Buffalo’s head coach, while discussing the Chiefs and their head coach Andy Reid at his end of season press conference, said Kansas City has just simply been at this thing for longer under Reid’s watch.

“They’re in Year 8 and we’re in Year 4,” McDermott said. “In fact, that’s a little bit of a feel for how long they’ve been building their program and where we are.”

If McDermott is going to give himself that sort of comparison, he should also give himself credit. In his own first four seasons leading the Bills, McDermott has actually done better than Reid has with the Chiefs in one distinct and way.

In his first four seasons with the Chiefs after parting ways with the Philadelphia Eagles, Reid did win more games, 43 to McDermott’s 38. Still, both teams did not win their first division titles until that fourth seasons as well. Oddly enough, both also made the postseason in three of those first four years and both missed the playoffs in Year 2.

However, where McDermott has Reid beat is in that same realm.

McDermott won two playoff games with the Bills from Year 1-4 with both coming in 2020. In Reid’s third season, Kansas City won a Wild Card round game, but lost their second. After winning the AFC West in Year 4, the Chiefs were one and done in the postseason.

So hey, Sean, give yourself a little credit. The Bills can say they’re further along in terms of postseason victories. There is no debating that.

Having said that, just a few days removed from losing big to KC, both McDermott and Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane expressed a desire to improve, as did the coach.

“There is still a gap in terms of where they are and where we are,” McDermott said.

“They were clearly better than us. We have work to do,” Beane echoed.

“They’re the gold standard. This is three-straight AFC Championships they’ve been in, in a row, and now back-to-back Super Bowls,” Beane continued. “They’re the gold standard of the AFC and maybe the league, we’ll find out here next week.”

Next week, of course, being Super Bowl LV. The Chiefs will look to defend their title win from last season in the hopes of becoming back-to-back champions. Regardless of that outcome, the Bills will want to be part of the equation that keeps Kansas City out of three-straight Super Bowls in 2021.

Andy Reid, Tyreek Hill react to Eric Bieniemy missing out on head-coaching jobs

Another offseason without Eric Bieniemy landing a head coaching job has caught Chiefs players and Andy Reid’s by surprise.

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The Kansas City Chiefs are a week away from attempting to repeat as Super Bowl champions when they face off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, February 7th. The matchup will be the coaching staff’s top focus, including offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, who was unceremoniously passed over by several teams with head-coaching vacancies.

Bieniemy interviewed for nearly every head coach opening this cycle to no success for a third straight year. The veteran coordinator has been at the helm of one of the most prolific offenses in football and has continuously been considered a top candidate. While Andy Reid is happy to have his offensive coordinator sticking around, he was hopeful that this would be the year that he earned an opportunity.

“I’m glad I have him,” said Reid. “But I’m not so glad I have him. I was really hoping that he would have an opportunity to take one of these jobs. You guys know what I think of him. I think he’s great and I think he would be great any of the numbers of teams that opened up and help them win football games and also develop men into men. I just think he’s a great person.”

The seven teams that interviewed Bieniemy during their head coaching search passed on the coordinator of the league’s best offense. Chiefs All-Pro receiver Tyreek Hill credits Bieniemy for making him a better player as he put up league-leading numbers all season.

“I’m not a GM (general manager) or anything, but I will say, Coach Bieniemy has helped me a lot,” said Hill. “The man, the player, and everything I’ve become for this Chiefs organization. It’s very shocking that he didn’t get a job. I know deep down inside he’s going to look at himself in the mirror and say, ‘What can I do better so I can get that job?’ He’s that kind of dude. He wants to get better and he wants to become a head coach. His time will come. I feel like everything happens for a reason. His time will come.”

The Chiefs ranked atop of most offensive categories in the 2020 regular season. They were explosive last Sunday in the AFC Championship Game against a physical Buffalo Bills defense. The focus now for Bieniemy is on capturing another Super Bowl victory as his head-coaching aspirations will hold for another season.

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