Kansas Metropolis Chiefs head coach Andy Reid met with the media by way of Zoom on Monday — the primary media alternative with Reid after the bye week.
In his opening assertion, Reid spoke about vast receiver Rashee Rice’s surgical procedure. We now have extra details about that right here.
Then Reid took questions, which we’ve rounded up in 4 takeaways:
So far as the remainder of the crew goes, Reid defined that it’s usually wholesome out of the bye week.
When it comes to the Chiefs’ present 53-man roster (that doesn’t embrace Rice, Hollywood Brown, Charles Omenihu or Isiah Pacheco), the pinnacle coach solely had one participant to say.
“The one one which was engaged on one thing was [Mike] Danna,” mentioned Reid. “Mike had harm his pec, and so he’s working via that. However he can be the one one which was working this previous week on one thing.”
Reid didn’t have an replace on working again Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who at the moment stays on the non-football damage record. Reid did say that the Chiefs are glad to have Edwards-Helaire within the constructing.
Reid defined why he believes each Kareem Hunt and JuJu Smith Schuster had been capable of hit the bottom working.
In two video games, Hunt is averaging 85.5 yards a recreation and was capable of rating towards the New Orleans Saints. Smith-Schuster had seven catches for 130 yards towards the Saints.
“They form of understand how we function,” mentioned Reid of Hunt and Smith-Schuster. “They know the offense, they’re comfy with it. Kareem had clearly been away for some time, however he was capable of decide all the things up rapidly, and he and Pat [Mahomes] are excellent mates. They stayed in contact all through the years right here. So he was welcome again in.
“You’ve gotten that a part of it — the consolation half — you’re welcome again in to get issues rolling, and that opens up one other avenue there for him psychologically.”
Reid addressed among the issues with the red-zone offense
At their bye week, the Chiefs are twenty ninth in red-zone landing proportion, changing for six factors simply 38.9% of the time. Solely the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots — who’ve mixed for six wins — are worse.
“We will do a greater job of not stopping ourselves and with issues — whether or not it’s penalties or dropped balls,” said Reid. “We’ve bought a few these. Schematically, we return and we hammer via that, and we may help out the blokes in among the areas too there. Simply put him in a bit of bit higher place. However the issues which might be hurting us proper now, that are apparent, however the penalty state of affairs’s hurting us, and we’ve bought to maintain that, and that’s one thing we are able to management and focus in on, do a greater job with.”
Reid spoke about what it would take for a commerce candidate to work with the Chiefs immediately.
The NFL commerce deadline occurs on November 5 this 12 months.
“I feel that helped JuJu and his state of affairs coming again in and leaping in,” started Reid. “It helped Mecole [Hardman] coming again (in 2023), however I’m not [saying] different guys can’t are available and assist out. I don’t suppose that’s a difficulty. It’s simply gonna take him a bit of bit longer to determine it out and get on the identical web page with Pat and all these issues. It [won’t] be fairly nearly as good as what you’ve seen with these different guys which were in it.”
With that famous, Reid wished to watch out to not say his crew is essentially taken with a commerce.
“And I’m not saying that we have to convey anyone else in. You requested the query; I’m simply saying that I’m answering your query on that.”
