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Andy Reid roundup: the field http://www.authenticskansascitychiefs.com/cheap-eric-fisher-jersey , the ejections, and Belichick on the horizon Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid spoke to the media following Sunday’s 30-14 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars, and again on Monday morning.Let’s round up some of what he said:On both Sunday and Monday, Reid made a point to emphasize the work done by the Arrowhead grounds crew going into Sunday’s game.Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsIn case you don’t happen to live in the Kansas City area, you might not know that it wasn’t just raining at kickoff.From Friday morning until kickoff Sunday, close to four inches of rain was officially recorded at Kansas City International Airport.In a lot of natural-grass stadiums, that kind of sustained rainfall would have meant the field was a mess for the game.But not at Arrowhead.“I am going to start with the grounds crew,” Reid said on Sunday. “They don’t get enough credit. That field was unbelievable out there. It went through quite a bit of rain and they did a phenomenal job.”Reid called the Jaguars defense one of the best in the NFL.“I look at them as one of the better defenses in the National Football League,” Reid said on Sunday. “They have proven that over a couple of years. They are tough. I was proud of our guys for rallying, making plays and getting down there. I felt like we should’ve come out with two touchdowns, we got one, but made a field goal. I am proud of our guys for doing that.”After watching the game film on Monday, Reid expanded on that theme.“You got back and look at the tape on it, we did some good things against a good football team — on both sides of the ball,” he said. “We made plays on the defensive side — which we’ve wanted to do, and come close in so many cases. We had the turnovers yesterday, which are big. Most of all, the guys played hard on both sides of the ball — and special teams — and we came out with a nice win.”Reid said that the Chiefs players ejected during Sunday’s game were reacting to what the Jaguars players were saying and doing on the field.Going into the game, we knew that Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey had done his best to get under Tyreek Hill’s skin during the week.And it was still going on right before kickoff.Reid said that during the game, there was a lot of talking and pushing going on, and the Chiefs players were responding in kind.But he said that he and his coaches had expected this because they had seen it on Jaguars game film.Eventually this led to Dee Ford’s ejection after two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties were called on him, and Chris Jones’ ejection after a “non-football act” during a Jaguars extra point.On Monday, Reid said there is a simple solution to the problem.“You play to the whistle, and then you get yourself in the huddle, and come back for the next play,” he said. “There were a lot of extra-curricular things going on. They did that for a while, and they’d about had enough of it. But you can’t do that. It’s part of the game. So you’ve got to keep yourself under control.”Reid had more praise for Patrick Mahomes after Sunday’s game.Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images“Patrick Mahomes threw a couple of interceptions,” he said on Sunday. “Now all the sudden it’s like, ‘How is he going to react throwing an interception?’ It didn’t even faze him. He just kept going and firing and made some big plays. He made some big plays to Kelce and a few other guys. Hill had a big play and some great catches.Conley, too.“He spread the ball around and I thought did a heck of a job. It was good to see it didn’t faze him. You are going to throw those when you’re a quarterback in the National Football League. How you react to it becomes very important, and I thought he handled it very well.”After reviewing the tape on Monday, Reid expanded a bit on that.“He didn’t hang his head at all. He was eager to get back out there,” he said. “When he had chances, he made plays. He really slowed down that one throw to Kelce after the penalty on Hunt. That was a pretty amazing throw. For him to get back out and just go — and still lead that group — I thought was important. He didn’t let that affect his leadership — when he talks to the defense and the offense, that’s important from that position.”Reid also wanted to give some of the credit to Chiefs assistant coaches.“Mike Kafka spends the most time with [Mahomes], and Mike has done a heck of a job. We put Joe Bleymaier in charge of getting the plays together, and really studying Jacksonville on a short week, so he could have it prepped for us when we came back in. Joe did a nice job with that.”Still, Reid thinks Mahomes is succesful... well http://www.authenticskansascitychiefs.com/cheap-mitchell-schwartz-jersey , because he’s Mahomes.“He’s got good study habits. He’s got great vision — he’s been blessed with that,” Reid said. “He’s not afraid to communicate with receivers. he can tell them, ‘Hey, listen. This is what I’m thinking here — coming out against this coverage.’ For a young guy to be able to do that, and put it out there for people to hear.”Reid said that Bill Belichick is a master at tailoring his approach to the opponent.Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty ImagesLooking forward to the chess game with the New England Patriots head coach, Reid said Belichick can be surprising.“[Bill Belichick] is going to form-fit his defense to your offense — do what he feels is best. It might be completely different than what he did the week before. He’s done a great job of that over the years. He’ll do the same thing on offense; they’ll fit it to what they think are your tendencies, matchups and everything else. He’s great at that.”Reid is pretty good at that himself.He’s faced Belichick three times as Chiefs head coach and won twice.Other notes from Reid’s Sunday and Monday remarksReid said that with the injury to Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, the team would consider Jordan Devey as the leading candidate to replace LDT at right guard on the offensive line.Reid was asked about being 5-0 this year versus being 5-0 last year. “It’s funny how this thing works. I am getting old. It used to be, we didn’t start fast enough but we always finished strong. Now we start fast but we don’t finish that way and all that stuff. I don’t worry about all of that. Every year is different. We have new players playing. I don’t put any time or thought into that other than you asking me the question. We are just going to take the next game and go through the process and make sure we do the right things and play good football.”Reid was also asked if it was important for the team to learn there were different ways they could win games.“It’s a team. We don’t point fingers or do any of that. We are all in it. We know that every week we expect every phase, offense, defense and special teams to pick up the other phase if one is down. We have been able to do that so far and we have to keep it rolling.” It’s our Monday column, The Re-Up. In this column, I’ll write about some deeper thought I had about the last game and finish with some fun stuff to ponder at the article’s end. Check out last week’s column here.David Butler II-USA TODAY SportsThe Kansas City Chiefs were down four safeties, two outside linebackers, a right guard, a center and a kick returner. Two of those missing players—safety Eric Berry and linebacker Justin Houston—are among the team’s best over the past decade or so.The game was played in Foxborough, Massachusetts—the unfriendly confines of Gillette Stadium, to be exact—and the Chiefs were up against the greatest head coach-quarterback tandem of all-time in Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.In addition to all that, the Patriots weren’t called for one single penalty the entire evening.“They only lost by three, we should be happy!” one of your friends or family members likely said to you, a diehard Chiefs supporter, over the past 20 or so hours.But should you be all that happy? Come with me to hypothetical la-la land, and let’s throw out the score in the fourth quarter of Sunday night’s game for a second. If I told you, based upon what you knew prior to Sunday night, that Patrick Mahomes was to get the ball with a little more than three minutes remaining down seven points against the Patriots, what would be your thought? It would probably be to tie the damn game no matter what, but while doing so, leave as little time as possible on the clock for Brady to beat you.The Chiefs got it half-right, and Brady knew it immediately.Rather than working in anything methodical, the Chiefs offense performed as we’ve become accustomed to seeing it perform since the beginning of this season.It went into overdrive, and a 12-second, 75-yard touchdown play tied the game at 40. The only problem was that there were still three minutes and three seconds left on the clock.“I’m glad when he was running – Tyreek was running to score – I said, ‘Good, score quick.’” Brady said after the game, “because then we had enough time. They had one timeout left, and it gave us a little time to go down and kick the field goal.”And of course it did—we had only watched the end of that movie for two decades.But since I know I’m being nit-picky here and asking the Chiefs to have considered, in a way, taking their foot off the gas, let’s bring the score back into the mix.Mahomes and the Chiefs scored 40 points on the night. FORTY.Loss.To the Chiefs’ defensive locker room we go...“(Next time) we’ll definitely have [Justin Houston] back and that will be a turning factor that they will have to worry about Youth Tyreek Hill Jersey ,” rookie linebacker Breeland Speaks said following what was his first career start. “I feel like we’ll be ready for them. They had 10 days to prepare—when it’s an even field I feel like we’re going to get the job done.”Those words are laced with all kinds of uncertainty. For all the struggles that we have seen in the Chiefs defense this year—they now have a stranglehold on No. 32 in the league by allowing 468.2 yards per game and 500 Sunday night—one thing defensive coordinator Bob Sutton has said that has consistently stuck with me is the concept of the “team being the team.”The idea is that yes, starting safeties Ron Parker and Jordan Lucas was 100 percent never the plan, but s-it happens in the NFL, and sometimes you have to start the backups. When they are on the field, they are the team.Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY SportsThere are no guarantees that Houston comes back fully healthy this year, just like there are no guarantees Dee Ford stays healthy. How about this?—maybe Houston comes back fine, but someone else goes down with an injury. Maybe Daniel Sorensen has a setback. Maybe a right guard who you thought you’d see back in a few weeks won’t be back this season at all.What I’m saying here is that all you have is the moment in front of you. The Chiefs may never get another crack at Brady ever again—and I’m not saying that will necessarily be because the Chiefs fall off. Maybe the Patriots do. Maybe Brady calls it a career after the season.Maybe Brady-Mahomes is a one-time deal. You just never know in the NFL.Coming close in Foxborough was fun and fantastic—but at the end of the day, it was just a glorified loss. Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, a staunch advocate of what’s real, does not believe in the term.“I’m not a big ‘moral victory’ guy, as much as I am a, ‘Learn from what you’ve got to better yourself’ guy,” Reid said Monday. “We [need to] just stay on that, and get better the next week. I don’t care who’s in there — I really don’t care. Get your stuff together and let’s go play, and get ourselves better. You come in here and look at the tape, you bear down on it, and be as honest as you can be. I say this to the coaches — and myself — too. Be as honest as you can be on it — and learn from it — and then let’s get better. Let’s do that collectively.”Reid has been in this game long enough to have 20 seasons of moral victories. You know what matters to him? The victories.STAT OF THE GAMEGIF OF THE GAMETWEET(s) OF THE GAMEFIVE QUOTES1. Patrick Mahomes on whether the go-ahead touchdown was to Tyreek Hill or Kareem Hunt: “A magician never reveals his tricks. So I’ll just leave it at that.”2. Bill Belichick on time management, ball control and the Patriots having the game’s final chance at the win: “We talk about it every week. Again, each situation is a little bit different based on time, timeouts and score and so forth. But this one ended up playing out good for us. We had the final possession. We had the final opportunity and we made it. Josh [McDaniels] called a great game. We had great execution on that drive by a lot of different people. But we work on that stuff every week. Both ways – if they had had it, if we had it, need a touchdown, need a field goal, so forth. We try to be prepared for that.”3. Chiefs TE Travis Kelce on whether the Chiefs scored too quickly: “Not at all, we have full trust in our defense. It is just hats off to the other team for making plays.”4. Chiefs LB Breeland Speaks on what he thought of the Patriots offense: “Gadgety, exactly what we expected. We knew they were going to attack our weak points, they got a little on us on the run. But we feel like we will be back for them. We got to stop what they were killing us on and that’s the run.”5. Patriots CB Jason McCourty on Patrick Mahomes: “He is going to be special. We are looking at a rookie quarterback who goes out in the first half of the game throws two picks, and did not blink at all. He came out and played his game and was able to get on the edge a few times, make big plays and we knew as a defense if we could limit those big plays, that would give us the best chance of not letting the ball go over our head. He was everything we saw in film.” THE BIG THOUGHTPhoto by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty ImagesCall me crazy, but I liked that Patriots fans are so angry with Tyreek Hill that they opted to douse him with beer. Now before you jump down my throat, hear me out. The Hill moment reminded me so much of when Raiders fans did the same exact thing to Chiefs legend Jamaal Charles back in 2013, when the Chiefs won 56-31 in Oakland. I don’t like the action, at all—no one deserves to get beer poured on them, but the feeling that no matter where they go, the Chiefs are now the villains—that’s what I like. A quarterback of Patrick Mahomes’ caliber and the offense that came with him have created a target. Fan bases of the old guard—such as the New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos—will not take kindly to the passing of the torch. We have now already seen that in both New England and Denver this season.POLL OF THE WEEK