this won't surprise anyone. But
the way Andy Reid, coached in the Super Bowl,
I think in the way he
develops,
how his Playbook works. And the way he develops
his game plan, I think is well worth considering and this
comes from my Monday column of this week
and I think it is something.
Thing that every team in the league
should know. And quite honestly, the, you know, I'm
not here, blowing my horn about my column, but
what I am saying is that this is something that
every team in the NFL should read
and understand. And I'm just going to read it to you right
now. Miles,
when I talked to Jonathan Gannon on Sunday, he really
fell on the sword for the to play. He's in the fourth
quarter,
the reverse motion
touchdown pass to coderre Stony.
And one series later, three minutes later, the reverse motion
touchdown pass on the other side of the field to Sky more,
they were two of the 16, most wide open TouchDown throes
of the 2022 football season
and it's amazing. When you think about it,
the last to touch Touchdowns of this season
were two of the most wide-open.
Plays diagram diagnosed or
put into play. Excuse me by any team in the NFL this year and
they did it against a
team that had had a superb defense
through the course of the year,
the Philadelphia Eagles
and I want to just read one thing
about
the Canaria Stone eat Touchdown. Okay,
which,
you know, is, you know, has been called corn, dog by Andy
Reid.
So, I'm going to read this to you right now.
I can't follow the Eagles players and coaches for corn, dog.
How could Philadelphia have seen this coming?
Kansas City had called it one time all season
in the second quarter of the season opener
in this same stadium against the Cardinals
on the 23rd offensive. Snap
of Kansas City season.
In the next 77
quarters.
Exactly 1242. Snaps over 19 games.
Andy Reid never called this jet motion reverse again.
Until he called it twice,
in the span of four plays
in the fourth quarter
of the biggest game of the year.
And the reason I bring this up
is that I think there's a tremendous lesson for every
team in the league
on this. And that is
one thing that a Andy Reid has done
as a play designer and a play caller
is to be Be inclusive and he's got a lot of coaches on his
staff who've been there with him
for years
and essentially all except when Matt Nagy left for four years.
Every one of them
of any import has been there during Patrick Mahomes has full
career in Kansas City. They all know how the drill works.
I explained in my column this week that
there is a huge Huge whiteboard
in the
in the office suite of Andy Reid. And I saw the white board
three years ago in fact during the week before the Super Bowl
three years ago
and there was at least 30 plays might have been more written on
there and all different handwriting and all different
colors.
You know, of, you know, marker on the Whiteboard
and
Andy Reid told me that day. You know hey we're See here, you
know, everybody has a voice.
And when I talked to Matt Nagy about this last week, he said,
he's exactly right. We call it the Beautiful Mind board. We
can all go in and put plays in there and then we discuss them
and whether they would actually work
in this particular week's game plan.
The only reason I bring that up
is that the combination of the number of plays that go on in
Randy, in Andy Reid's mind, you know, the
It's sort of John Nash from a beautiful mind that movie of
whatever. Six or eight years ago,
you know, all this stuff is percolating and Andy Reid's head.
And I'm not saying he's the only one
who's a play Meister. I mean Sean McVeigh Shanahan and so
many coaches in the league. Mike Tomlin on defense,
I think,
you know, has a lot of plays percolating in his brain
at all times. But
the thing that I am saying is that
Andy Reid has the faith
in his players and his coaches
to go 1242 plays
without running this at all. And then, on a slippery field
in the biggest play of the Year.
Understanding that
would be fully understandable of Sky. More could areas, Tony,
slipped and fell
while on this,
you know, jet motion. Which is Sprint. Then you stop in your
tracks and Sprint back.
He's got the confidence to call that twice within 5 snaps both
times, it works for a touchdown in my
to me the lesson is,
Playbook cannot be too deep too dense.
It can have too many plays in it
and you should always be willing
to take a chance
in the biggest times of the year with a play. You have not run
in 19 games. It's because you think, in this particular case
against a man defense in the tight red zone
is going to work.
He did it twice,
it worked twice.
It was a slam dunk twice.
The two things that you put it in your column about those
things that I love where a Gannon said Jesus Christ, when
to stop that touchdown.
Because just the defense that we were in, I thought that was
great. And also when Travis Kelce noted two canaries Tony,
they had to be under control because of how that field was
slipping.
Just kind of tells you all of the different elements that go
into making the Kansas City Chiefs, great. You know we
understand what Patrick Mahomes does what Andy Reid does. But
when you have somebody like Travis Kelce who? Yeah, he's
going to be out there screaming. You
gotta fight for your right to party.
He also is one of the key leaders on that offense that
make sure everybody knows exactly what they have to do.
You know? So I loved everything about that. I thought that was
great.
I just hope that people in the NFL and I know that it's
a worker bee society
and I get that but I think if you have a quarterback, you
trust,
if you have a coaching staff you trust, and if you have
a brain
that you trust and you're calling plays
Don't fear calling something. You haven't called in five
months.
You know, if you think against this particular defense it's
going to work. Hey try it. Do it. And you know
I don't necessarily want to get into this
little asterisk on this but
tell you everything you need to know about Patrick Mahomes
on that Sky more touchdown pass.
Okay? There's two amazing things about it
as the Clock ran down 543 Andy Reid was trying to call
timeout, but he didn't get it in in time because he noted
the Travis Kelce was lined up on the wrong side of the field.
He should have been lined up on the left side instead.
He was lined up snug, right
to the right tackle,
the reason that everybody wanted him on the left side
was they wanted him to be
sort of a screen. A beard
a rub for
Basically, for Sky more, if it was needed on that side and
Mahomes said, basically screw it, I think I can beat this
because I sense
that I'm going to get 0 blitzed.
They're not going to have time to cover.
I definitely will have at least one guy open
on this, and as I wrote imagine this
Patrick Mahomes, this was the,
I don't know. 11, Hyundai think 1140 second
play that. Jonathan Gannon had called on defense this year
for Philadelphia
and of all those plays, this is only the eighth time that he
ever zero blitzed
eight times All Season. He 0 blitzed. And on this one it
caused the most
one of the most open
receptions of this year. So look,
Andy Reid, this just in, he's pretty smart.