Andy Reid had Brett Favre, Michael Vick and more 👀 Is Mahomes the best he’s coached? Here’s what he told AlbertBreer 👇
Andy Reid coached for the Mike Holmgren Packers, and led his own powerhouse teams, and won for four years in Kansas City before Patrick Mahomes was even on the roster. He’s in his 31st season in the NFL, and that followed a good run as a college assistant.How Reid explains where Mahomes is as a player, at 27 years old, carries weight. So his answer—when I asked him whether the quarterback may already be as good a player as he’s ever coached—is worth your attention.
Consider what’s happened around Mahomes. After he took a beating in Super Bowl LV against the Buccaneers, the Chiefs completely revamped their offensive line, and Mahomes took it upon himself in 2021 to help that group work through some pretty significant bumps early in the year.
He had a few spectacular moments on Saturday in an efficient 202-yard afternoon in which the Chiefs rushed for 168 yards and controlled play from start to finish. One incredible play came on third-and-goal from the Raiders’ 4, three plays after he climbed the pocket to drop a 67-yard bomb to Justin Watson. On the play, Mahomes was chased to his left by star pass rusher Maxx Crosby, and ran to the sideline, looking for an outlet against his body.
“That’s the part of the equation that people didn’t talk much about—they talked about how it hurt Pat, not how it helped Pat in a way that he would have to grow in different directions,” Reid says. “That’s what he did. And he knew it. He knew what he had to do, so he jumped in and you gotta give him credit for that. He jumped feet first and helped teach those kids. Made them feel a part of it, and Kelce did, too.
It started with handling Derrick Henry, who rushed for 71 yards on 17 carries in the first half. Jacksonville held him to 38 yards on 13 carries after the break. “We had to play football,” Allen says. “We had to be more physical than them. We had to stop the run, and we had to create pressure.” “Man, we didn’t start fast,” Allen says. “It wasn’t the way we planned it to go. But we gonna finish hard. I think that’s been the message this whole year is to just finish. Start fast and finish faster. No matter how you start the game, it’s all about how you finish it. When that clock goes zero, zero, zero and we win, it doesn't matter. So I think that’s what [Pederson] meant. That’s the message that we took from it, and we’re not done yet.
The Bears shut Fields down for Week 18, thanks to a sore hip, but they do so with a new coach and GM having learned a lot about their 23-year-old quarterback. He finished the season with modest passing numbers , outrageous rushing numbers , with a lot of room to grow, and a lot of questions to answer. So I figured with Fields’s season complete, this’d be a good chance to get a status check on the former Buckeye.
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