Andy Reid is focused on winning more with the Kansas City Chiefs and will enjoy winning the Super Bowl when he’s older.
Andy Reid is now a Super Bowl-winning coach but it’s not something he’s obsessing about.
While winning Super Bowl 54 over the San Francisco 49ers has sunk in for the Kansas City Chiefs head coach, now is not the time for him to fully enjoy the fruits of his labor. It hasn’t even been a month since Kansas City won it all in Miami, but Reid was back at it representing the Chiefs at the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this week.
“No, it’s sunk in, but you only have a short time to enjoy that and you gotta move on,” said Reid. “So that’s where we’re at. We took a little bit of time off after the game, after the parade and then we dove back in and got busy. That won’t stop throughout training camp.”
“Maybe someday when we get a little older and we’re out of the game, we can sit back and say, ‘hey, you know what, we did pretty good there.’ But right now, it’s about buckling down and making sure we take care of business.”
Reid is 61-years-old and will turn 62 here in a few weeks. At an age where people may be slowing down towards retirement, Reid has no time for it. After years of only good quarterback play, Reid finally has a superstar at the position in Patrick Mahomes. He’s only 24-years-old and Reid will want to coach the best pure talent he’s had to work with since Brett Favre for as long as he can.
Reid might be a Super Bowl champion since he was on Mike Holmgren’s staff with the Green Bay Packers in the late 1990s, but he knows how hard it is to even get back to the Super Bowl. The last team to repeat as Super Bowl champions were the 2003-04 New England Patriots. New England barely beat Reid’s Philadelphia Eagles to even do that down in Jacksonville 15 years ago.
You can sense by Reid’s posture and tone of voice the Chiefs are behind on their offseason plans. Teams that didn’t qualify for the postseason have had an extra two months to get ready for 2020. Reid’s 2019 season only just ended. Many years from now, Reid will reflect fondly on his Super Bowl 54 victory on from the comfort of his porch, but he knows it’s time to get back to work.