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Within the secret work Andy Reid and the Chiefs offensive are maintained for the postseason

Andy Reid, have you been clinging?

Every year, we hope that NFL’s old offensive genius dazzles us with Kansas City Chiefs’s play book. Reid, 66, has been the chief coach of the Chiefs since 2012 and was the chief coach of the Philadelphia Eagles before that, from 1999 to 2012. There is no shortage of films about their different ideations and its different iterations.

And if Reid is the architect, Patrick Mahomes is the carpenter, who converts the concepts into reality.

But this year, Kansas City’s offensive has not been as elegant as we expect.

As the Chiefs dynasty becomes more powerful, there has been a predominant thought that Reid and Mahomes are sitting in such a strong position that they do not need to enter the depths of their play book to the postseason. When starting, Reid chooses the most difficult calls in his play book. Until then? It is not vanilla, but it is not exotic either.

“There are definitely special moves that we practice throughout the season we cling. To Fox Sports.

Take the Rose Bowl turn that the Chiefs used in the Super Bowl Liv. Reid saw that work watching the Rose Bowl tape of 1948. The Chiefs presented that game of tricks in Minicamp in 2019, but they kept it for 1,093 minutes of play, until they faced a quarter and 1 against the 49ers of San Francisco in the Super Bowl.

“We practice it every week, making sure you have it,” said Henne. “And then, at the right time, he takes it out, just to give him something a small nuance and something different that the defense has not seen.”

This year’s AFC championship game showed that there is something really in the idea that Reid saves concepts. An example was the fourth call of Kansas City against the Bills.

The Chiefs rushed to the line and ran with action with Isiah Pacheco before Mohamses rushed to a first attempt. It seemed nothing out of the ordinary. But KC had been clinging to that play from a victory over the 49ers. What victory, exactly?

Well … the Super Bowl victory in 2020.

“I don’t know if you remember the work we ran for a touchdown through [Kelce] In the first Super Bowl, “Mahomes said Sunday.” Just put me to the limit, have a couple of options for the boys to throw it and then [the Bills] Remove that in the man’s coverage, just use your feet and get the first Down. “

He says something about the importance of this work that the last time the Chiefs called it was in the AFC championship game and the Super Bowl.

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What makes it work is the game action. When the chiefs align in this play in this formation, they run the ball. They do not pretend the transfer, they make the transfer. Most teams cannot afford to break that trend once every five years. Most teams will break the trend once every few weeks. But the chiefs seem to treat this play with the same care that one could treat the fire ax behind the glass: break in case of emergency. Kansas City runs with fullback or corridor. And when, once every half decade, bosses need a crucial conversion, the game action is waiting.

“He always adds some wrinkles here and there as he advances,” Reid said. “We have experienced those who return to the low season and the camp.”

Ironically, that was not even the concept that attracted more attention.

The Chiefs threw something more obviously novel in the Bills: an inverted spolet with a reading option. People in the media and, more importantly, in defense of Buffalo said they had never seen anything like that.

“I didn’t see that in any of the breakdown I saw,” said the defensive wing of the Bills Gregory Rousseau to Ty Dunne in “Go Long.”

That is because the Chiefs did not run the play this season.

But, um … well, Gregory, you’ve really seen it.

The Ravens ran against the Bills this season.

Yes, this formation left Baltimore’s play book. Reid and his staff must have seen Lamar Jackson hurry up for a touchdown of that formation in that exact game against Bills in week 4, As “A a z de z” Charles Goldman identified. Kansas City must have seen the beating of the Ravens de Buffalo and thought: Let’s try that.

The result was a couple of touchdowns in the AFC championship. (And the touchdown in week 4.)

My question is: When did Reid decided that I wanted to use that training? Because the Chiefs played the Bills in the 11th week.

There was another work in which the bosses sat. Reid said he had been keeping the whole game, and it is not clear how long he had been clinging to that before that. But Henne said the work was in the play book when he arrived there in 2018.

In the third and 9 with 1:30 remaining, Kansas City needed a first attempt to effectively finish the game. And the Chiefs got him checking on the floor towards Samaje Perine, who caught the ball behind the scrimmage line, but due to the design and expert game time, he managed to obtain the necessary courtyards after capture to obtain the victory.

How did that play so perfectly join?

Well, it was the work that the Chiefs had been keeping for that exact moment. And not only that, Reid introduced some wrinkles, a double movement of two receptors, which clearly prevented the defense from knowing what would come.

“We look, before the game, if it is reduced to a third down or a fourth attempt and the game is at stake. The coaches talk about it. Quartbacks talk about that. That was a kind of our option No. 1 there as A game for this game, “Reid said. “It was just a matter of waiting for them to be in the appropriate coverage for the work … Matt [OC Matt Nagy] Pass an endless time in that. “

It is fascinating to consider that, in such a tight game, Reid still had his best game waiting for him at the end of the game. Not all the Playcaller would have that discipline. The former coach of the OC lions and the current Bears, Ben Johnson, for example, seemed to have a new game of tricks every week. But at a certain point, it was fair to wonder if the lions would have something left for the playoffs when they needed them most.

Reid could have a different philosophy.

“He will dig in his pocket,” said Henne. “At the right time, it is when you really dive and take it out.”

The common wisdom that Chiefs support us during the regular season is true and not. They demand what they need to obtain the victories they need. It is only that, with its performance and consistency reaching new heights, they may not have as many moments of despair as other teams. In turn, they may not have to use that “option No. 1” on the Reid game sheet. They don’t pass them simply because they have them.

“He clings to some things, but at the same time, coach Reid, Patrick, all those boys are competitors,” said Henne. “Then they will do anything they can do to win a game, whether regular season or playoffs. But at the same time, it always has something in your back pocket.”

There is still a lot of material in the Reid pocket for the Super Bowl. Even with Kansas City on a streak of 17 consecutive victories in games of a possession, Reid will have a concept that has been saving for Nick Sirianni and Vic Fangio and Philadelphia. It could come from the 1965 Sugar Bowl. I could come from the Division I Championship of Division I 2000. It could come from the Johnson Lions.

Be careful, eagles.

Before joining Fox Sports as a reporter and NFL columnist, Henry McKenna spent seven years covering the Patriots for USA Today Sports Media Group and Boston Globe Media. Follow it on Twitter in @Henrycmckenna.

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