Andy Reid appreciation thread

[Hammock Parties]

The guy could easily have tried to pump his superstar QB by throwing on the goal line at the end of the game.

He did the smart thing and pounded it three times for the ****ing win.

Word to your mother, Pete Carroll.



Oh, and he has mind control over the AFC West. 18-1 in his last 19.

[Bump]

because the regular season doesn't really matter to the Kansas City Chiefs!

[MahomesMagic]

Originally Posted by Bump

I used to roll my eyes at the saving shit for playoffs comments.

But they were saving shit for the playoffs

The offense hasn't looked that good all season

Smart, wicked smaht

I said that the regular season Buffalo/KC matchup it was crazy that we didn't attack the middle of the field or use the RPO.


1st drive RPO RPO RPO, middle of the field, TD.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by MahomesMagic

I said that the regular season Buffalo/KC matchup it was crazy that we didn't attack the middle of the field or use the RPO.


1st drive RPO RPO RPO, middle of the field, TD.

imagine having the best regular season in Chiefs history while not giving away your offense so you can dominate the playoffs. That's actually remarkable.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Naw fr tho. I said this same thing right as the play happened.. i ain’t never seen a qb keeper with Pat and im talkin bout this is thru 4 years of games AND practice. If you ain’t never seen something in practice then you know it’s never been scouted! AR & spags was in their bag https://t.co/s1zS9zgw4N

— Saint Bink Saunders (@khalenNOTkaylen) January 28, 2025

Dawuane Smooth was unblocked and still ran himself right into the middle of the pile for Mahomes to go around.

Damn, they REALLY keyed on that pull from Taylor, didn't they? They saw him pulling and completely sold out on the fake up the gut. That's why Kelce was able to get so clean up the field to throw that block at the goal-line. If Smooth (#94) doesn't sell out, Kelce has to seal him and takes Mahomes lead blocker out of play. That probably gets stopped around the 5.

This coaching staff, man...

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Originally Posted by Bump

I used to roll my eyes at the saving shit for playoffs comments.

But they were saving shit for the playoffs

The offense hasn't looked that good all season

Smart, wicked smaht

Same.

It's gonna be hard to complain about anything in the regular season because now there's definitive proof Andy is saving the good stuff for the playoffs. Theres no doubt anymore, Andy treats the regular season like it's preseason, finds the good stuff, stops using it so he can save it for when the "real" games start.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Bump

imagine having the best regular season in Chiefs history while not giving away your offense so you can dominate the playoffs. That's actually remarkable.

I think 8 years ago if you told me any of this, I'd think it was dumb**** fan fiction. My mind just couldn't process any of it happening.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I think 8 years ago if you told me any of this, I'd think it was dumb**** fan fiction. My mind just couldn't process any of it happening.

Tribal Warfare said during the draft in 2017 that Mahomes is "Russell Wilson with Colin Kaepernick's arm strength"

I said "Man, that essentially makes him John Elways -- that's asking a lot, eh?"

And I LOVED Mahomes. Started talking about him in November of 2016. He was my guy in that draft and never in a million years did I think "Okay, this is going to be the best QB of all time..."

Because who ****ing thinks that? Who dares even consider the possibility?

Nothing about this makes any sense at all.

[jerryaldini]

Man this game was about scheme on both sides of the ball. We just gotta be so thankful for Andy and Spags. Article from the perspective of Bills players. And of course the greatness of Patrick Mahomes.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...fc-title-game/
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Start with the fourth-and-5 at the end of the Bills’ final offensive drive. The fact that the ball hit Dalton Kincaid in the hands makes him an easy target for blame. But the only reason Josh Allen was in that position, heaving up a prayer off his back foot, is because of the blitz Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo called. The Bills had seen it on film, but the tendency was different.

“We called protection to slide left,” Bills right guard O’Cyrus Torrence said Monday as Bills players cleaned out their lockers. “From film, they would blitz from where they weren’t showing it from. They showed it from the right, so we were thinking they were doing it from the left. But they actually brought it from the right this time. You could say it was an error, but they just called the better play than we had on offense.”

One of the main differences in the game was the way Patrick Mahomes was able to stress Buffalo’s defense with his legs. The Athletic’s Mike Sando detailed earlier this year how Mahomes scrambles a lot more often in the fourth quarter of one-score games. He’s also added more EPA by scrambles in those situations than any quarterback in the NFL since the beginning of 2023. Mahomes finished the game with 11 rushing attempts for 43 yards and two touchdowns. And 17 of those yards and one touchdown came on two rushes in the fourth quarter.

Bills defensive end Greg Rousseau said some of the situations Mahomes ran in caught them off guard. For instance, Mahomes’ 10-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter came with a formation in which the Chiefs had two tight ends lined up next to Mahomes. Rousseau said he didn’t see that on any of the breakdowns he watched during the week.

“He’s a dual-threat quarterback,” Rousseau said. “Sometimes with him, you look at the film from the regular-season game and he was more so throwing the ball. Then last night he was running the ball a lot more. It was a lot more boots and they kind of changed up the game plan. You kind of don’t know what you’re going to get with a quarterback like him.”

According to TruMedia, this was the second-highest scramble percentage Mahomes has had in a game in his career. The only time he scrambled more was in a 2020 regular-season win against the Bills. He was pressured on 29 percent of his dropbacks. He’s only lost six times in his career when pressured at that rate or lower. This is also the first time in his career he’s had two rushing touchdowns in a game.

“The plays where he got out, it was just Mahomes magic,” Miller said. “He saw a little crease and got out. Whether it was a stunt that we had that way or whether it was a blitz that we had the opposite way. We knew in the playoffs the odds of him running go way up because he’s the guy over there. Just like Josh (Allen). Josh runs a little more in the playoffs. He was just seeing those creases and making it happen. Out of all the stuff that happened, it all came down to just a couple of plays.

But regardless of the ball spot on that quarterback sneak, the Bills had a much tougher time with that play against the Chiefs than they did throughout the season. In the regular season, Allen had 17 rushing first downs on 18 tries on third or fourth down and 1 yard to go. The Chiefs stopped him three different times in those situations. What was often an impossible play for defenses to stop this season became predictable for the Chiefs.

“Those plays you always just have to win your block I would say and hopefully the call is good enough,” Torrence said. “It’s still just a game of inches. You watch film and think you know what the defense is going to do and then they come out and do something different. I think that’s kind of what was getting us a little bit. They slammed a few times and sometimes they didn’t. Crowding the ball real well, things like that.”

Like in other areas, the Chiefs had answers when the Bills didn’t. It’s fair to second-guess offensive coordinator Joe Brady for not adjusting, especially with how well James Cook was running. But that’s also a play that has been Buffalo’s go-to in those spots.

“That has been a staple in our offense when we get to that, we always do that,” Torrence said. “That’s why we never went away from it. If we’re going to get it, we’re going to get it because we’ve been getting it all year. So I don’t feel bad that coach was calling it because he put the game in our hands and gave us a chance to get the first down.”

[trndobrd]

So Andy isn’t just saving his best stuff for the post season, he is establishing tendencies in the regular season in order to set up plays in the past season.

[MahomesMagic]

"This was the best the Chiefs offensive line has looked all season long..

They set this up all game long" ~ @aqshipley #PMSLive #ChiefsKingdom https://t.co/dBvrxu36z2 pic.twitter.com/V7cGpdWokQ

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) January 29, 2025

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by trndobrd

So Andy isn’t just saving his best stuff for the post season, he is establishing tendencies in the regular season in order to set up plays in the past season.

It's both.

For example, Orlovsky said he saw two plays in the AFCCG that came from the Ravens playbook. He had never seen it on tape from the Chiefs before Sunday.

[Hammock Parties]

NOOO

[Pepe Silvia]

You can save it by posting Andy Reid eating Shrimp and Sausage Gumbo.

[ReynardMuldrake]

There was a play early in the game where Justin Reid I think blew up a play in the backfield. I was thinking "That's all film room." He had seen that play before and knew exactly where the ball was going.

But that only goes so far against us in the playoffs. You can watch as much film as you want, but you will still get hit with plays you can't study because no film on it exists. It's such a huge advantage.

[tk13]

That offensive line breakdown on McAfee is a great example of why Andy will run the ball. People complain in every game thread about runs that don't work but sometimes a 3 yard run will set up a TD later. Yeah he's saving plays for the playoffs but even within a single game he's saving plays for the key spots and setting them up. We've seen it both running and passing.