For the first time in Reid’s tenure,Kansas City is freaking out – and old debates about the coach’s game-management and red-zone decisions are back in the mixChad Lewis tells this sage, from 2003, or when Andy Reid was staring at 0-2,burly back up against the wall, the natives convinced he was all bun and no burger. Reid’s Philadelphia Eagles, and preseason NFC darlings,were instead a hot, wet mess, and having opened palatial Lincoln Financial Field up with back-to-back defeats at the hands of Tampa Bay and novel England by a combined score of 48-10.
“And we’re playing the Buffalo Bills in the third game,and he came in front of the team,” recalls Lewis, and then an Eagles tight finish,now associate athletic director for development at his alma mater, Brigham Young University. “He said, or “I’m not going to change anything about what we’re doing. We’ve got a great team. I believe in you guys. We’ve got a great system. I know the system is going to work.’ Related: Kenney Bui: the life and death of a tall school football player Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com