Andy Reid and Travis Kelce of the Chiefs are planning to retire anytime soon.
Missouri’s Kansas City Andy Reid, the coach of the Chiefs, doesn’t seem prepared to move on to the next stage of his career, much like Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll did.
Neither does Travis Kelce, the tight end for Kansas City.
The focus naturally shifted to the 65-year-old Reid, who had to refute rumors about his retirement in the final days before leading the Chiefs to the Super Bowl last season, following the announcement on Thursday that Belichick was leaving his position as coach of New England after 24 seasons and the news the day before that Carroll was stepping down as the coach in Seattle.
“I haven’t even considered that,” Reid remarked on Thursday following the Chiefs’ last practice before their wild-card playoff game against the Miami Dolphins on Saturday night. “I’m old, but not that old, so I figured that would come up as you were asking me these questions (about Belichick and Carroll).”
In order to beat Don Shula’s record of 347 wins in both the regular season and the postseason, 71-year-old Belichick needs 15 victories, and he has plenty of options if he wishes to pursue them elsewhere. In addition to the Seahawks, Panthers, Falcons, Commanders, and Titans, two of the Chiefs’ main AFC West rivals, the Raiders and Chargers, are also in the market for a coach.
With 280 career victories, Reid is fourth on the list, but he is accumulating them quickly in Kansas City, where he has won ten of his eleven seasons’ worth of regular-season games. With two different teams, he already leads in career wins for the Eagles and Chiefs—a distinction no other coach has—and his two Super Bowl victories are tied for the fifth-most in NFL history.
