![]() One after another, the Kansas City Chiefs players trotted off the field Sunday at the midway point of Super Bowl LVII, an elongated halftime awaiting them. … We’ll use this pain, we’ll use this failure for motivation for us moving forward.” It’s a really good football team, a well-coached football team. “It always hurts, right? Any time you don’t come out on top regardless of what you are competing at, it burns you and it gets at you,” coach Nick Sirianni said. Now an offseason begins lamenting 30 forgettable minutes of football, a pass rush that dried up at the worst time, a defensive holding penalty that will live in infamy and a parade this week in Kansas City and not up Broad Street. They were the best team in the NFC, and for the first half on Sunday, they looked like the best team in the NFL. It left a sour taste for what had been perhaps the best season in Eagles history. But they didn’t play against Patrick Mahomes in any of those games, and that might well have been the difference on Sunday. The Eagles have been 10-0 this season with double-digit leads at halftime and 15-0 when taking a lead into the fourth quarter. So, whether he realizes it or not, Reid - who has now won two Super Bowls in the last four seasons and his second in four appearances (2004, 2019, 2020 and now Sunday) - certainly has fully earned his seat at that table of greats.Ĭall it a collapse if you’d like. ![]() Those guys would be Bill Belichick, Chuck Noll, Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs, Vince Lombardi, Tom Flores, Jimmy Johnson, George Seifert, Mike Shanahan, Tom Coughlin, Bill Parcells, Tom Landry and Don Shula. ![]() If I’m mentioned with them, man, I’d have to think about that for a while.” “I respect the game, though, and respect all those guys and the jobs they’ve done. I’ve had a lot of great players and coaches that have helped me get to that spot. I don’t even know that stuff,” Reid said with a shrug and dismissive wave of the hand. When asked after the confetti settled from Kansas City’s 38-35 Super Bowl LVII victory over the Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium about the significance of hoisting a second career Lombardi Trophy and becoming only the 14th head coach in NFL history to do so, Andy Reid struggled for words.
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