The divisional round gets underway this weekend as the remaining eight teams battle for an opportunity at the conference championship game. The Kansas City Chiefs will travel to Orchard Park, New York, to face the Buffalo Bills in what is expected to be another classic matchup.
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid has seen everything in his Hall of Fame-bound football career, including exceptional play at quarterback. He rarely makes glaring comparisons between the signal callers he’s coached over the years but made an exception on Wednesday when posed with questions from reporters during his press conference.
“I tell you all the way around, his preparation was phenomenal,” Reid explained. “His attitude is phenomenal. His [drive to] compete is phenomenal. So you love all of that. We’re lucky to have him here; that’s for the city and the organization here. He’s a heck of a football player. He’s such a well-rounded, good person that he’s great in the locker room; very hard for a guy like that.
“Have the respect of the team and the organization and is able to fall into both areas and be comfortable with both areas without getting labeled whatever, you know, schmooze, but he handles both so well. That’s a great characteristic for him to have for him.”
Reid started his career as an assistant coach with the Green Bay Packers in the early 1990s, working with a then-unknown quarterback named Brett Favre.
“I’ve been around two guys like that. He and Brett Farve, neither one time great on the clock,” Reid continued. “But people do have a hard time getting to them into catching them and all that, so I guess he’s got field speed. I’m not sure there is such (a thing), but he runs well on the field.”
Favre is already in the Hall of Fame, and it’s highly expected that Mahomes will one day join him, so getting that comparison regarding running speed is welcomed.
