The Kansas City Chiefs and head coach Andy Reid are competing for their third Super Bowl title in five seasons.
After it took 21 seasons for Reid to finally capture a Super Bowl title, Reid is seeking his third Super Bowl title in five seasons. Just the fourth coach to make five Super Bowl appearances, a third Super Bowl title would put Reid with Bill Belichick, Chuck Noll, Bill Walsh and Joe Gibbs as the only head coaches to win at least three Super Bowl titles.
Reid has never had a losing season with Kansas City in his 11 seasons, and has double-digit win seasons in each of the last 10 years. During that stretch, Reid has eight straight AFC West championships, six straight conference championship appearances, four AFC Championships and two Super Bowl titles. The Chiefs are just the third team in NFL history to make four Super Bowls in a five-season span, joining the 1990-1993 Buffalo Bills and the 2014-2018 New England Patriots
The Kansas City Chiefs are 128-51 (.715 win percentage) in Andy Reid’s 11 seasons, as Reid has 15 playoff wins with the franchise. He is the only head coach in NFL history to win 100 games with two different franchises and the only head coach to win 10 playoff games with two different franchises. He also has taken the Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles to four consecutive conference championship games, the only coach ever to accomplish the feat for two organizations.
Reid is second in postseason victories with 25 (trailing only Belichick, who has 31), but he became the fourth head coach with 200 wins and multiple Super Bowl titles last season (Belichick, Don Shula and Tom Landry). Reid will join Belichick as the only coaches with 200 wins and three Super Bowl titles if he closes the deal on Sunday.
Reid’s strength as a head coach is his preparation for games, especially when he gets an extra week to do so. In his career coming out of the bye, Reid is 21-4 in the regular season, 7-1 in playoff openers and 2-2 in the Super Bowl. That combined record of 30-7 (81.1%) shows how well Reid’s teams perform when they prepare for an opponent.
ESPN Insider Predicts Extension Coming For Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid
There’s been persistent rumors and speculation that Kansas City Chiefs head Reid might call it a career after Super Bowl LVIII – regardless of the outcome. But one NFL insider believes that it’s more likely he signs on for more years after the big game, rather than hang up his headset.
According to ESPN NFL insider Dan Graziano, sources in the know have told him they would be “very surprised” if Reid retires based on what he’s been telling everyone in Las Vegas leading up to the Super Bowl.
“The Andy Reid retirement rumors have been floating for a few weeks, and Reid has been asked about them in Las Vegas. But the sources with whom I’ve spoken would be very surprised if Reid, 65, walked away at this point,” Graziano wrote.
Graziano believes that it’s more likely that the Kansas City Chiefs make some changes to Reid’s contract to more properly put his salary near the top of the NFL. He noted that Reid is likely the third-highest paid coach in his own division right now behind Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton and newly-minted Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh.
“I think we can expect the Chiefs to address Reid’s contract this offseason and bring it more in line with the market. My understanding is that Reid makes something in the range of $12 million per year, while Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton is making around $17 million annually and new Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh signed a deal that pays him $16 million to start. It would certainly be tough to blame Reid — a two-time Super Bowl champ who’s one win away from his third — if he didn’t believe he should be the third-highest-paid coach in his division.”
