Is Andy Reid now in the Best Ever conversation? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Andy Reid, the guy who couldn’t win the big one while he was here, can’t stop winning the big one.
And his resume is reaching historic levels.
Three Super Bowl championships. Five Super Bowl appearances. Eleven conference championship games. Twenty-six playoff wins.
But maybe the most impressive thing about Andy Reid is that he’s built two franchises from the ground up, taken both to Super Bowls, taken both to at least five conference title games, won double-digit playoff games with each.
Big Red never won a championship in his 14 years here, and that’s a hole in his resume. A painful one for Eagles fans. But think back to where this franchise was before Jeff Lurie hired him in 1999. The Eagles had won two playoff games in the previous 18 years. They had been to one NFC title game since the AFL-NFL merger in 1966.
And his impact was immense even after he left. It was Doug Pederson – who never would have been here if Andy didn’t sign him as the Eagles’ opening-day quarterback in 1999 and give him his first NFL coaching job in 2009 – who led the Eagles to their only Super Bowl title.
Love him or hate him, this franchise would not be where it is without Andy Reid.
Then think about where the Chiefs were before Reid arrived in 2013. Five winning seasons the previous 15 years. No Super Bowl appearances in 44 years. No back-to-back seasons with a playoff win in the franchise’s 53-year history.
And now this.
Big Red has revitalized two once-proud franchises and led both to their greatest extended periods of success.
Only nine other coaches in NFL history have taken one team to five conference championship games. Guys like Madden, Shula, Landry and Lombardi.
Reid has taken two teams to at least five.
He’s coached 25 years and had three losing seasons. All in different decades.
I can’t sit here and say Andy Reid is the best coach in history. Bill Belichick won six Super…
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Publish date : 2024-02-12 22:00:48
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