Last year, the Chiefs blew out the Patriots in a Monday night game that had people questioning what went wrong and New England’s overall direction.
It went on just long enough for Bill Belichick to cut off discussion by saying that the team was “on to Cincinnati” for their next game. Chiefs coach Andy Reid was on the winning side in 2014, but he was a loser in Green Bay this year in a Monday night game that didn’t wind up quite as one-sided on the scoreboard as it looked on the field.
Reid didn’t want to actually talk about the game during his postgame press conference, saying over and over that the loss was his responsibility whether the question was about Alex Smith’s play or the fact that Reid didn’t actually commit any of the penalties called against his team in the game.
“It was my fault,” Reid said. “We are not disciplined enough. It is my responsibility to make sure they do things right.”
Reid then took a page from Belichick’s book to draw a curtain on blaming himself for everything under the sun. Like the Patriots, the Chiefs will be facing the Bengals a week after their Monday night flop and Reid said that the team is “moving on to Cincinnati.”
We don’t know if that will work out as well for the Chiefs as it worked out for the Patriots, but we do know that any coach whose team is scheduled to face the Bengals after playing on Monday night should probably prepare themselves for a rough loss.
