Kansas City Chiefs: Andy Reid has had major impact on franchise

The Kansas City Chiefs are 7-1 and clearly a threat to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl under head coach Andy Reid. Winning is nothing new to the veteran coach, and the Chiefs have done plenty of it since he arrived five years ago.

Andy Reid is far from a perfect coach. He’s never won a Super Bowl. His clock-management skills would make a Pop Warner coach cringe. His press conferences are only slightly more interesting and informative than one that includes Bill Belichick, but Andy Reid knows how to win football games, and in turn, so now do the Kansas City Chiefs.

The head coach won his 201st game on Sunday, tying Dan Reeves for ninth all-time, and is now only four behind former Chiefs coach Marty Schottenheimer. Sixty-one of those have come during his five and a half year tenure in Kansas City in just 93 games including the postseason.

For comparison, in the six full seasons for the Chiefs prior to his arrival the team went 29-66 including a blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens in their only playoff appearance.

With one 30-0 victory on the road against the Houston Texans in a Wild Card playoff matchup following the 2015 season, Reid did something six other head coaches couldn’t do during the 19 previous years to his arrival: win a playoff game.

However, despite all that success Reid is not talked about among the current great head coaches by casual fans. The 60-year-old former BYU offensive lineman has never won a Super Bowl — and “only” coached in one — they say. To be mentioned with the greats, you have to win the greatest of all the games they say.

But to those who have coached with, and for, him, played under him and truly studied his career , know that’s as wrong as a Kansas and Missouri fan sharing a beer together.