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

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If Kansas City doesn’t win the Super Bowl this year and some Chiefs fans want him gone, the franchise could always bring back the recently fired Todd Haley or see if Romeo Crennel (4-15 with Kansas City) would like to leave his assistant job in Houston and return to the sidelines.

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Reid is a winner and the Chiefs will be as long as he is on the sidelines. He doesn’t give you great confidence when he’s rattling off cliches in press conferences, but if we judged a team’s success on how the coach handled the media the Patriots would be the Browns.

He knows how to utilize an offense that is so full of playmakers it would be easy to hear rumblings from some of them about not getting the ball enough. Yet, he has run plays for his quarterback that have resulted in nine different players catching a touchdown. When Hunt was struggling a bit and not a huge part of the offense early on, he was still saying all the right things, according to Lynn Worthy of the KC Star.

"“I feel good and we’re doing a lot in the air,” Hunt said. “It’s kind of hard to tell what’s going on with the run, but, honestly, I feel like we’re good. We’re right where we want to be. We need to run the ball when we need to run the ball. We do it. The last two games we finished the game running the ball. When we needed first downs we got them.”"

When Hunt scored the first of his five rushing touchdowns this season in a Week 3 win over the 49ers, you could tell Reid was genuinely happy for his second-year running back, per Pryor.

"“So we know how good Kareem is,” Reid said. “We have a lot of trust in him. He’ll get you yards. It’s positive yards. We’re always trying to get him going. He’s a big part of this offense. And so for him to have the two touchdowns is a positive, an absolute positive. I wish you could be down there to see how he handles everything. He’s a beast. He’s really something.”"

Reid is a player’s coach, and he’s a winning coach. That’s a great combination to build trust in not only the players, but management and the fans as well. Despite the fact the Chiefs have gone just 1-4 in the playoffs during his tenure, Reid, who is the only Kansas City coach besides Schottenheimer to take the team to the playoffs at least three straight seasons, has created a winning atmosphere in a city that was starving for it prior to his arrival.

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The good news, it appears, is there’s no reason to think the Chiefs won’t be winning for a long time.

And they have Big Red to thank for that.

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