Arrowhead Pride
After 19 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, head coach Mike Tomlin decided to step down after losing his seventh straight playoff game — a 30-6 beatdown at the hands of the Houston Texans. That came after the Baltimore Ravens fired head coach John Harbaugh following his 26-24 Week 18 loss to Pittsburgh, ending his 18th season at Baltimore’s helm.
With those changes, there is now just one NFL head coach who has been with his team for at least 10 seasons: Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, who has served as the team’s head coach since the 2013 season.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Reid has been there four years longer than Sean McDermott, Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, who took their jobs with the Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers in 2017. Two other coaches — the Cincinnati Bengals’ Zac Taylor and the Green Bay Packers’ Matt LeFleur — debuted in 2019.
Reid led the Chiefs to the NFL championship game in five out of the six seasons from 2019 through 2024 — winning the title game three times — but even that wasn’t enough for some fans, who found themselves annoyed at the team’s 6-11 finish.
Still, Reid’s job seems pretty safe. Or is it?
That’s what we’re about to find out in Kansas City.
