Rumor: Bills Rival Andy Reid Could Retire from Chiefs
Add another rumor - if it even qualifies as that - to the coming NFL Coaching Carousel.
Could NFL Sunday Week 18 mark the final regular-season game of the career of long-time Buffalo Bills nemesis coach Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs?
Frankly, as is too often the case with stuff like this, this could very well simply be the creation of the media wishing to stir up traffic. Indeed, the phrasing on this one - "It's fair to wonder,'' Mike Florio writes at ProFootballTalk.com, obviously anointing himself as the arbiter of what's "fair'' - calls into question the validity of the gossip.
So as we wonder if Reid himself thinks this is "fair'' ... We do indeed have Pro Football Talk suggesting that the retirement talk surrounding Reid might be very real.
"He hasn’t said anything publicly about it, yet,'' PFT writes. "It would be foolish for the team and members of the current coaching staff and potential external candidates to replace Reid to not be considering the possibility — unless and until there’s definitive word from Reid that he’s returning for 2024.''
As Reid is 65, we suppose it would be "foolish'' to assume anything - though 65 as a "retirement age'' isn't really the way the NFL works.
PFT plows on, speculating, "It’s possible he’s already made a decision. It’s possible the decision will hinge on whether the Chiefs make another run deep into the postseason ... It’s possible that the players needs to realize this might be it for Reid ...''
In other words ... it's possible. In a world in which Bill Belichick might be leaving New England and Pete Carroll might be leaving Seattle and on and on and on ... so many things are "possible.''
Reid is already locked in as being one of the greatest head coaches in NFL history - a sure-fire Hall of Famer when his time is done. He also is taking his Chiefs to the playoffs once again, and Bills Mafia knows all about how that can work.
We get the motivation to speculate here; PFT just positioned itself to be "first to report the story'' ... if it ever gets to actually be a story. But yes. "It's possible.''
