Chiefs assistant pulled Andy Reid’s red flag to prevent bad challenge
From there, the game ended as it was always going to, with the Chiefs getting the touchdown and the Patriots kneeling out the game after a failed onside kick. As usual, the conspiracy theories have been rolling in.
Coach Andy Reid said the Kansas City Chiefs’ deliberate pace toward the end of Saturday’s playoff loss to the New England Patriots was part of their plan and that the Chiefs executed it well.
As The Associated Press notes, Reid said the headsets malfunctioned “just a little bit, not much”, and that he did not think there was anything unusual about it.
The clock management at the end of the game had National Football League media people saying there’s Andy Reid and his clock management again.
The box score will tell you that the Chiefs ran a no-huddle offense throughout the drive, but their march down the field was about as slow and deliberate as a hurry-up attack can get.
The Patriots beat the Chiefs 27-20 on Saturday.
Andy Reid’s clock management in art form…
“It’s always bittersweet if you’re not winning the Super Bowl, ” Reid said.
He’s been one of the best safeties in the league since he came into the NFL in 2010 and if the Cowboys could add a player of his caliber it’d give them a dynamic duo at safety along with Byron Jones, who had a great rookie season in 2015 after he was the Cowboys No. 1 draft pick. We knew what we wanted … the bottom line is we scored.
“You normally start with your own guys and build a program”, Reid said.
Andy Reid, Alex Smith and the entire offense deserve blame for this.
In the regular-season opener, Pittsburgh complained the coaches’ headsets were filled with the Patriots’ radio broadcast of the game. “When it was all said and done, we probably got just what we thought we’d get out of him”.
The Chiefs squandered a drive before half time, taking a delay of game penalty and settling for a field goal, but that was just a warm up.
“You want to shoot for that and keep yourself in position right from the beginning of the year”, Reid said. They even huddled on a few plays while the clock was running. It gave Tom (Brady) back his full bunch.