Arrowhead Pride
On Tuesday, Kansas City’s head coach spoke about the disappointing loss that ended the 2024 season.
While it might seem longer, it’s only been two and a half weeks since the Philadelphia Eagles handed the Kansas City Chiefs a 40-22 defeat in Super Bowl LIX. Just the same, it’s been enough time for head coach Andy Reid to gain some perspective on a very bad loss.
“It was a bad day to have a bad day — for sure,” he told reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday. “Like all games, you can learn some things from it. It hurts for a few days and then you move on quickly. You get about three days into it [where] you mope around a little bit — and then, all of a sudden, you’re onto free agency and you’re doing your thing.”
Reid acknowledged that he bears a big part of the responsibility for the loss.
“We didn’t play very well in certain areas — [and] didn’t coach very well,” he continued. “That starts with me. I’m trying to give the guys an opportunity to be put in the best position — [and] I didn’t get that accomplished. So you go back and you figure out the ‘whys’ of that. Then you try to straighten that out.”
Still, Reid also recognizes it was just one game.
“I weigh the whole season,” he said. “I’m not just sticking with the one game, [because] that’s not how I go. There are a couple ways you can take it, but just the fact that you had an opportunity — and privilege — to play in that game was quite an honor. [It was] a lot of hard work for our players to get to that point. And maybe that’s why nobody’s won three in a row; it’s a tremendous challenge. But the fact that the guys [bore] down and were able to get into that position, there’s a part of that I compliment them on.”
Taking his turn with the press, general manager Brett Veach had similar thoughts.
“If you had told me at the start of last season that we [would go] 15-1 — obviously in the games that our starters played — and then have a chance to beat a good Houston Texans team and beat the Buffalo Bills, I would have been super happy,” he said. “But as we all know, we’re a little disappointed by the way the Super Bowl went. But like everything in life, you learn from your losses.”
And that loss came at the hands of an excellent team led by owner Jerrfey Lurie and general manager Howie Roseman.
“Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles — Jeffrey and Howie,” added Veach. “[They have] an amazing team. We have a lot of work to do to get back to where we need to be. This is the start of the process, so we look forward to that.”
