Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid made an appearance on the Fox Sports show Speak on Thursday to talk about his team’s 2023 season.
The 65-year-old head coach explained how the Chiefs’ defense was able to carry Kansas City throughout the season and was a crucial part of the Chiefs’ back-to-back Super Bowl campaigns.
“That was the one consistent part of our team,” Reid began. “Steve Spagnuolo does a great job with the defense, as do his guys. You can go right down the line with the coaches, the players — you saw this last year, you saw a bunch of young guys coming into the secondary, you saw the veteran players on defense help teach these young guys and show them the way.”
Reid alluded to the veteran players’ leadership and how those lessons taught during last season’s training sped up the development of the young players, leading to Kansas City possessing one of the best defenses in the NFL.
“By the time we got to the playoffs, all of a sudden our defense was doing a great job,” Reid continued. “Defensively, I knew coming into training camp, I could tell by the coverages, the jams, they were tighter. Whether it was zone or man the guys were growing up. You had this feeling, ‘We are going to be really good on defense.'”
The Super Bowl was a microcosm of the entire season, as Kansas City’s defense kept the Chiefs within striking distance, while the offense gradually figured things out.
