Patrick Mahomes: Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Rei...

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs head coach Andy Reid says Patrick Mahomes is one of the best participant he is ever coached because the staff go in seach of a third-straight championship win at Tremendous Bowl 59 on Sunday.

With victory over his former staff, the Philadelphia Eagles, Reid would turn into simply the third coach to bag at the very least 4 titles – together with Invoice Belichick (six) and Chuck Noll (4) – whereas his 301 profession wins ranks fourth all time, Don Shula holding the report with 347.

Reid’s NFL teaching profession began as an assistant with the Inexperienced Bay Packers in 1992, earlier than taking up the Eagles in 1999 after which the Chiefs from 2013, with Corridor of Famers Brett Favre and Terrell Owens among the many gamers he has led, in addition to Donavan McNabb, Michael Vick and Travis Kelce.

Talking to Sky Sports activities on simply how extremely he charges his present quarterback, Reid mentioned of Mahomes: “He is an amazing particular person, an amazing chief.

“He has the offense down pat – no pun meant – and he’s throughout, if not the finest, certainly one of finest I’ve ever been round. And he is younger!”

Reid and Mahomes are a mixed 17-3 within the playoffs, the pair reserving a fifth Tremendous Bowl go to up to now six seasons this week, having already received three – and two on the bounce

Mahomes continues to be solely 29 and with the possibility already to clinch a fourth title as he chases Tom Brady’s report haul of seven.

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“To me, it begins with Coach Reid, he units the tone,” Mahomes informed reporters this week, crediting his coach together with his success.

Reid’s reverse quantity, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni, has additionally been fulsome in his reward. “I can not inform you how a lot respect I’ve for him and the job that he is accomplished,” Sirianni mentioned.

“The tape simply oozes off of how good a coach he’s. You possibly can watch a tape and actually see a staff and be like, ‘man, this employees is a particular employees’ and that is how I really feel after I watch him.”

Reid too talked about his employees round him when figuring out how the Chiefs have been in a position to keep so constant through the years.

“It is a mixture of issues; the gamers we have now, the teaching employees, [general manager] Brett Veach bringing in the precise folks and Clark Hunt as proprietor giving us all the chance,” Reid informed Sky Sports activities.

“We have got that entire mixture of chemistry that goes on, which permits our consistency to happen.”

Reid: We’ve to deal with the Eagles – not the three-peat!

The 66-year-old coach, who has promised this week to return for at the very least yet one more season with the Chiefs, can also be not taking the problem posed by the Eagles on Sunday flippantly.

Two years in the past, Philadelphia and Kansas Metropolis squared off in one of the crucial thrilling Tremendous Bowls in NFL historical past, with the Chiefs battling again from a 10-point deficit at half-time to in the end triumph 38-35.

“There may be a lot parity on this league proper now, the competitors is such that you already know these video games are going to go the space and almost definitely come right down to the fourth quarter as to who wins,” Reid mentioned.

“You undergo the entire completely different conditions and situations that may happen over coaching camp and the offseason, however very seldom do you must use all of them – however we have had to make use of them this 12 months! The ball has bounced the precise manner a few occasions for us.”

On chasing NFL historical past and an unprecedented three-peat, Reid added: “If you’re within the mixture of it, you are so busy attempting to prepare for the following opponent that you do not actually at that.

“On this enterprise, in case you’re wanting again or wanting ahead, you are in all probability going to get your tail kicked.

“We attempt to take a look at the staff we’re enjoying, and ensure that we maximise all the things we are able to presumably do to have success towards them.”

The Chiefs have not at all times been at their dominant finest this previous 12 months, regardless of reaching yet one more Tremendous Bowl, with 11 of their 15 regular-season wins coming by solely eight factors or fewer.

They’ve are available for some criticism from a good few disgruntled followers complaining of beneficial remedy from referees, however with little substance – NFL commissioner Roger Goodell labelling it a “ridiculous concept” earlier this week.

Sky Sports activities’ Pheobe Schecter believes Kansas Metropolis’s continued success is not any fluke.

“No manner wouldn’t it be simply luck for them to be again right here and attacking that three-peat,” she mentioned on the Inside The Huddle Podcast. “That does not simply occur.

“That occurs since you’ve accomplished the precise issues, and in case you do the precise issues, you may find yourself with a constructive consequence.”

The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles in Tremendous Bowl 59 on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday February 9, stay on Sky Sports activities NFL and Fundamental Occasion from 10pm forward of kick-off at 11.30pm; 17-time Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar headlines the half-time present