One thing every NFL team can be thankful for in 2016
By John Buhler
Kansas City Chiefs: Maybe Week 11 was the annual Andy Reid clock game?
Without debate, the Kansas City Chiefs have one of the five best head coaches in the NFL in Andy Reid. In his fourth year with the Chiefs, Reid has his team poised to make a serious AFC playoff push. His teams are usually slow and methodical offensively, while winning games with an ultra-aggressive defense.
This style of play leads to good things like defensive touchdowns and winning the turnover battle. However it isn’t all great, as Reid offenses chew up a ton of clock to score points. This leads to Reid being painfully one of the worst clock managers in recent NFL history.
Reid, Jim Caldwell, and Mike Smith are the Unholy Triumvirate when it comes to clock management. Wasted timeouts in fourth quarters have cost these three coaches so many games over their coaching careers.
Kansas City is 7-3 and thankfully for the Chiefs, Sunday’s loss against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers might have been the annual Reid “are you seriously reading a sundial?” clock management fiasco.
Reid took an inexplicable timeout at the end of the first half, emboldening the Buccaneers to kick a field goal. Tampa Bay would eventually get down the field with Reid’s help and what o you know, eventually won 19-17.
Chiefs fans may have hated the loss, but should be thankful the Reid reading a clock wrong game is in the books in 2016. This means he probably won’t do it in the 2016 AFC playoffs. It’s good to get this one out of the way before the games really matter.