Andy Reid
Andy Reid
Andrew Walter Reidis an American football coach who is the current head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. Reid was previously the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, a position he held from 1999 to 2012. From 2001 to 2012, he was also the Eagles' executive vice president of football operations, effectively making him the team's general manager. He led the Eagles to five National Football Conferencechampionship games, including four consecutive appearances from 2001-2004, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 March 1958
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
We utilized him in training camp. We have to make sure that most of his concentration is on the tight end spot. But he is a guy we could use to get us through a game at fullback.
The one thing the guys have done an inch more than last year was coming out and challenging themselves even more. I said this last year that they challenged themselves, but this year they have added onto that.
There are things that we still need to do. There's certain things at stake and our guys understand that. Also, we need to keep improving as a football team. That's the mentality that this group has taken on. They understand that they haven't reached their peak.
We have had success getting guys through here with this injury, ... I know it's magnified when it's your quarterback or a player of his magnitude. I understand how it becomes magnified, but we have a track record of being able to manage that injury, and we will see if we can't do the same. If he can't function at some point, we'll shut him down.
I think they will be very conscious of him and it's important that we do spread the ball around. He is still going to have his share of big plays, but I think as we went on during the year, people understood that we were going to utilize him a lot and they tried to take measures to stop that. What it did was allow the other guys to catch a lot of balls.
I think that is a tough thing on everybody. They were two of my favorite guys on the team. I really think highly of them as people and football players. It came down to a situation where we made a decision not to go with them.
You are going to take care of the big guys and make sure they get enough liquid in them and just kind of keep a close eye on them. Things just sometimes happen, and it's a shame.
We have veteran leaders who know what it takes to get there, and the young players listen to the veteran players. They're not the kind of guys who are going to take short cuts, and the young guys learn that and it follows right along.
We'll handle this situation in-house, just like we always have. You guys know that.
We'll go back through and look at all of it. We've got to look at ourselves first, if we're putting guys in the right position to make plays and did they make the plays.
We'll let the young guys play -- see what they can do -- and make a decision after that. I've been pleased up to this point with the backs, and we'll see how it goes.
We?ll let the young guys play and see what they can do. We?ll make a decision after that. I?ve been pleased up to this point with the backs.We?ve got four backs that we feel pretty good about.
T.O. has friends on the team, so they're going to feel for T.O. and like him. I expected guys to come talk to me. Jeremiah, being one of the leaders, did that. I didn't have a problem with it.
I'm sure everybody has their opinion on him. Obviously there are some guys that like him and guys that didn't like him. He doesn't get into that. Every week people try to taunt him.