Is This the Best Coaching Job of Andy Reid’s Career?

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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There were two big questions about the Kansas City Chiefs throughout much of the 2023 NFL season. What was wrong with their offense? And was 2023 going to be a lost year? Now, with Super Bowl LVIII less than a week away, Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and company, are poised to face the San Francisco 49ers, in what will be the Chiefs fourth Super Bowl appearance in five years. ESPN’s Adam Teicher has been covering the Chiefs from inside the locker room for more than a decade, and he’s seen how the season has played out in-person. Today he tells us: how a second round wide receiver stabilized the passing game, how this could be the best coaching job of Andy Reid’s career, and what the game means for the legacy of Andy Reid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Adam Tysher, this Chief's team, the team you cover every day, is making their fourth Super Bowl appearance in five years.
0:09.0	What's the most remarkable part of the achievement this year in particular.
0:14.0	Well, they've done it a completely different way
0:16.3	with the defense leading the way and offense
0:18.6	sort of along for the ride in a lot of cases.
0:20.9	If you remind the clock to Christmas Day, it's hard to believe this would be a team that's still playing in the Super Bowl.
0:27.0	They lost to the Raiders that day at home.
0:32.0	And the Raiders have come to Kansas City and they have delivered a Christmas present to all of the
0:38.0	Raider Nation.
0:39.0	The Raiders prevent the cheese for the moment from winning an 8th
0:44.4	straight division title and they're gonna head back to Las Vegas with a 20 to 14
0:49.9	win.
0:55.0	They've lost four of their last six games, and things look pretty grim at that point.
0:57.0	So it has been a dramatic turnaround for the Chiefs.
1:01.0	Was there any point when you thought maybe this wouldn't happen in terms of the playoffs?
1:06.3	Yeah, it was that Christmas day game. The chiefs lost to the Raiders. Their lead in the
1:11.2	AFC West was down to one game and you were wondering, not only would they not make a deep run, but would they make the playoffs at all?
1:21.0	They were nine and six and already with two games left in the season had more losses in a regular season they'd ever had with Patrick Mahomes and quarterback.
1:30.0	They were struggling to score points, which were not used to with this team, but they hit the playoffs and played their best three-game stretch of the season at the exact right time.
1:40.0	And that tough stretch earlier in the year is why Pat Mahomes played his first ever road playoff game just this season
1:47.3	You did and you seem to enjoy the
1:50.2	the challenge as well
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