Chiefs, Dwayne Bowe: Why Andy Reid is a great coach

[ram29jackson]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1209043/1/index.htm

this issue

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ONE PLAY from the Chiefs' 9--0 start illustrates why they love playing for new coach Andy Reid.

It happened in Week 8, late in the first half, at home against the Browns. Kansas City had a first down at the Cleveland 28. As the Chiefs broke the huddle, they lined up in trips right, with wideout Dwayne Bowe, slot receiver Dexter McCluster and tight end Anthony Fasano, left to right.

Earlier, when Kansas City had used this formation to run Z Out Zebra Post, Bowe noticed one of the defensive backs clap twice and nod in his direction. Then, on the snap, two defenders blanketed Bowe as he sprinted up the right seam, and quarterback Alex Smith had to look elsewhere. After the series, when Bowe went to the sideline, Reid asked, "Hey, 82, what do you see?"

If they were to call Z Out Zebra Post again, Bowe said, he should run a short out instead, taking two DBs with him, while McCluster ran the deep seam route. That way McCluster would be single-covered. With his quickness, he'd easily get a step on his man.

So here came that chance. Reid called Z Out Zebra Post, with Bowe and McCluster instructed to switch their routes. At the line of scrimmage, Bowe got the double clap again; he knew he'd draw two defenders. As he ran the out route, safety T.J. Ward and cornerback Buster Skrine bracketed him. Meanwhile, streaking downfield, McCluster got two steps on corner Joe Haden. Smith threw. McCluster stretched for the ball at the goal line. Bingo. Easy touchdown.

"Hey, 82 ... 82!" Reid yelled to a grinning Bowe when he returned to the sideline. "You got a job doing this coaching thing someday."

McCluster's TD made the score 20--7. The final was 23--17. Bowe had essentially designed the play that made K.C. 8--0. "I've never had input like that," he says. "Some coaches have an ego. Some coaches want to win. Andy's that kind—he just wants to win."

maybe a lot of coaches do this but Bowe considers it new and refreshing. I know there are coaches who actually work with their players strengths but some always just try to force their system down players throats no matter what the players talent level or comprehension is.

ONE SCENE from before the Chiefs' 9--0 start illustrates why Clark Hunt bought into Andy Reid.

Last January, two days after Reid was fired by the Eagles, a four-man contingent led by Hunt was on a plane to Philadelphia. Hunt wondered, as did everyone else on board, whether Reid had burned out. He had coached 14 years in football-frenzied Philly. He had witnessed two sons become addicted to drugs—one of them, 29-year-old Garrett, having died of an overdose while working with the strength and conditioning department in Eagles camp just five months earlier. It seemed only natural to think, This man needs to breathe; he needs six months on a beach.

When the group arrived at Philadelphia International Airport, Hunt asked to spend some time alone with Reid in a conference room. Reid told Hunt that in the last few years he had grown to hate the personnel side of the job. There had been a power struggle in the Eagles' front office among owner Jeff Lurie, president Joe Banner, former personnel czar Tom Heckert and current GM Howie Roseman. Reid had had enough.

"Look, I'm a football coach," he said. "All I want to do is coach."

Hunt planned for a four-hour interview with Reid. It lasted eight. This is what thrilled the Chiefs' owner most: Reid had already watched offensive and defensive video of every Kansas City snap from the 2012 season.

Think about that. Hunt had called Reid on Monday afternoon, around 3 p.m., and here it was, about 10 a.m. on Wednesday, and Reid had seen and taken notes on 1,988 plays from the Chiefs' nightmare campaign. "He knew our personnel very, very well," says Hunt. "The amount [of work] he had done was really impressive. I saw in him an energy, an excitement. He had a twinkle in his eye, as if this were his first head-coaching interview."

Reid wouldn't be interviewed for this story; to keep the focus on the team, he has refused all one-on-ones in the first two months of the season (even when his former Eagles quarterback, Donovan McNabb, now with Fox Sports, came calling). But asked about the "he needs time off" notion during the off-season, Reid told Sports Illustrated, "I love what I do. Garrett loved what I did. It doesn't feel like work. I didn't want to sit home and not coach. What was I going to do? There was nothing I wanted to do as much as coach football. The thing with Garrett—it was not very sudden; this was a long, long process. Unfortunately, [drug addiction] is so rampant in America, and people who have gone through it realize that you don't just, as in my case, lose a son; you lose a great friend. The other side of this is working to move on like a man and handle what life throws at you."

 

[JeremyHight]

Good read, Reid is arguably the best coach Philly has ever had. He never made it over the hill to getting a championship, but there is no question that he made the team better. I completely understand his hatred for the front office stuff, too, his rosters were routinely out-performing their actual talent level.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I would hesitate to call Andy the best coach to never make the Hall...because when you have the likes of Don Coryell still not in...its a problem.

With that said...very good coach. I'd like to see him get that elusive championship.

 

[ram29jackson]

for crying out loud....come on Bowe

The Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to face their first major test of the season this week. Little did they know the challenge would have nothing to do with their next opponent, the Denver Broncos, and everything to do with their best wide receiver, Dwayne Bowe. When local police arrested and charged Bowe with speeding and possession of marijuana Sunday night, plenty of questions emerged around a team that has yet to lose this year. The biggest is just how ready it is to deal with what could be the opportunity of a lifetime.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9973215/dwayne-bowe-arrest-bad-sign-chiefs

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Its not so much Andys a good coach....as it is highlighting just how shitty and egotistically dumb most other coaches are.

 

[Tailback U]

He will play.

Players don't even get in trouble for weed possession anymore, as they shouldn't.

Not sure if entirely true but I've heard that the nfl has really eased up on marijuana testing. They're looking for harder shit, and a lot of players smoke weed often.

 

[Argath]

They announced he was gonna play this week on Tuesday IIRC


Not that it really matters. Bowe's been pretty much non-existent in most of their games this year.