LAS VEGAS — Andy Reid ran as much as Chris Jones, the defensive cornerstone of his 3 Super Bowl-winning groups.
Jones used to be sprawled out at the box, bodily spent and reveling in that new dynasty feeling after the Kansas City Chiefs’ 25-22 win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII. Reid joined Jones at the grass, getting on his palms and vigorously shaking his participant’s shoulder pads.
“What do you think, huh?” Reid shouted to Jones because the confetti fell round them. Reid decreased his face nearer to Jones, then repeated for impact. “What do you think?!”
This childlike glee used to be a unprecedented appearing of emotion for the Chiefs’ veteran head trainer. Reid’s furry eyebrows and mustache and small, spherical glasses give him a definite glance and now have the impact of obscuring his true emotions.
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“He never shows no emotion,” cornerback L’Jarius Sneed stated after the sport. “He’s like a snake, ah! Coming to get you. That’s what I love about him, like a little rattlesnake.”
Rattlesnake Reid sank his fangs into the Niners on Sunday in Las Vegas, as receiver Mecole Hardman scored the game-winning landing in additional time. It used to be the debut of latest additional time playoff laws impressed through the Chiefs’ 2021 additional time playoff win over the Bills. Kansas City didn’t win the toss this time, however the Chiefs nonetheless couldn’t be stopped.
The 25-22 win is Reid’s 3rd Super Bowl in his 5th take a look at. He’s now the 5th head trainer to win a minimum of 3, within the corporate of Bill Belichick (six), Chuck Noll (4), Bill Walsh and Joe Gibbs (3), and the 7th trainer to win all of it in back-to-back years.
“It’s a little bit surreal,” Reid stated in his postgame press convention. “Back-to-back is rare air for this football team and this organization. I don’t know what a dynasty is. You guys have the thesaurus, you can figure it out. It’s a great win because I know how hard it is to do. I know how hard the season was, the ups and downs of the season.”
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Reid’s Chiefs had been a bit of extra definitive of their summation of the season — and in their trainer.
“Dynasty, I think we did all the qualifications for it,” receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling stated within the postgame locker room. “If he’s not the best, he’s one of the best to ever do this.”
“Check the stats, check the numbers,” Sneed stated. “He’s legendary.”
“He’s one of the greatest guys in football, and this just makes him one of the greatest coaches,” stated Chiefs assistant working backs trainer Porter Ellett. “Now it’s becoming harder to argue against him being in the top two or three ever.”
“He was already a Hall of Fame coach before tonight,” stated Chiefs proprietor Clark Hunt. “But adding that third Super Bowl trophy in five years, I think really solidifies his status as one of the best of all time.”
“I wouldn’t want to play for another coach,” heart Creed Humphrey stated. “He’s the best coach in the game right now.”
Reid’s 3 Super Bowl titles put him in uncommon corporate, and he’s no longer completed but. (Jamie Squire / Getty Images)
At halftime, with Kansas City down 10-3, Reid didn’t panic. The offense used to be stalling. Mahomes used to be repeatedly below drive, sacked two times, and working again Isaiah Pacheco fumbled away the Chiefs’ maximum promising pressure. But Reid’s message to gamers and workforce used to be the similar: Keep going.
“When you’re in the Super Bowl and you’re down by seven points, it feels like 20,” Reid stated. “And so, you kind of just calm it down — we’re right there, we’re getting the ball to start the second half and everybody just hang with each other — and good things can happen.”
“When you’re down ten in a big game like this, a lot of coaches can not handle it well and start throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it sticks,” Humphrey stated. “But he stuck to the game plan. And he had a great game plan for us. He did a great job, a masterful coaching job.”
“As good as he is as a coach, he never changes,” stated offensive coordinator Matt Nagy. “He stays the course. He’s a leader of men and he’s a hell of a teacher. And he doesn’t just teach his players, he teaches his coaches how to be good leaders. And then you stick together and you go make things happen.”
The two gamers who scored touchdowns for Kansas City on Sunday provide direct proof of that stick-together high quality that coaches say makes Reid particular. Valdes-Scantling, who scored the primary landing on Sunday, struggled with expensive drops all through the season. Hardman returned to the Chiefs in a business after being do away with through the Jets midseason and struggled this postseason, significantly fumbling out of the endzone in Buffalo, prior to scoring the game-winner.
“Coach Reid is one of those guys that stays the course no matter what,” Valdes-Scantling stated. “We’re all here for a reason and we all make plays, and we all have the special skill set that we have, and him being able to continue that and stay the course with us has been good.”
Ellett is in his 7th season on Kansas City’s workforce. He injured his proper arm in an coincidence when he used to be 4 years outdated and later had it amputated. He by no means performed soccer and wound up getting attached to Reid when a task as Reid’s assistant unfolded. Reid has since taught him the best way to be a trainer.
“He never gives up on a guy. He puts a lot of faith in people. And if you reward the faith, then he keeps trusting you,” Ellett stated “I mean, I’m a good example of that. People aren’t hiring one-armed football coaches who didn’t play football.”
At 65 years outdated, there’s been rising hypothesis about Reid’s long term. How for much longer will he trainer? How many extra rings will this budding dynasty achieve? When requested after Sunday’s win if he could be again training Kansas City subsequent season, Reid used to be nonchalant: “Yeah, I haven’t had time to think about it, but yeah, sure.”
Chiefs gamers aren’t being attentive to any of that noise.
“He’s got a lot left in the tank,” Humphrey stated.
“We won two Super Bowls back to back,” Valdez-Scantling stated. “We’re trying to go for another one.”
Plus, the boss is assured Reid is sticking round for some time longer.
“I know Andy is energized and loving what he’s doing,” Hunt stated. “I certainly expect him to be back next year to defend our title.”
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