Success of Andy Reid: Impact of Ex-Players as Coaches
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00:00 You've had the opportunity to really play for some awesome coaches and some pretty nice
00:06 people in Lloyd Carr and Andy Reid.
00:09 What can you tell, we got Chief fans that are filing through all night and stuff, what
00:14 can you tell people?
00:15 Oh, well I would say this, the great thing about Andy Reid is he always sticks to his
00:20 script.
00:21 You know, someone asked me the question earlier, like what makes Andy Reid and Steve Spagnolo
00:26 really click?
00:27 Well, they've worked together before.
00:28 They're very different, they seem to be different personalities.
00:31 They're very, very different personalities, but I would say that the tree is Andy Reid.
00:36 You know, the branches, right?
00:38 Become people like Steve Spagnolo and you start to think about the different people
00:45 that have come from his process.
00:47 And so they're on the same page and I think it's interesting how you kind of go from the
00:51 NFC to the AFC and then all of a sudden the success that you didn't have becomes the success
00:54 that you do have.
00:56 And I've always appreciated the way that Andy has played the game because of the fact that
00:59 he's going to do what he wants to do all the time he wants to do it.
01:03 Win, lose, or draw.
01:04 And for a while he got to the NFC championship and he lost.
01:08 Now he gets to the AFC championship and he wins and he goes to the Super Bowl and he
01:11 wins.
01:12 So is this ridiculous when we hear about coaches, like I'm a Buffalo Bill Fed, and we're like
01:17 Sean McDermott can't win the big game.
01:19 Which, by the way, part of the tree.
01:23 He was the defensive back coach when he was Steve Spagnolo was the linebacker coach and
01:30 Jim Johnson was the defensive coordinator.
01:32 So you know all these dudes, right?
01:33 You're looking at all these coaches.
01:34 I'm looking at the entire league right now.
01:36 Either I played with someone that's a coach or either I played with someone that was a
01:41 coach.
01:42 I played for someone that might have been my position coach that eventually became a coach
01:45 or someone that's still a coach.
01:47 I'm thinking about how many years it's been since I've been coming back and forth to the
01:51 Super Bowl and hanging out and just taking in all the sights.
01:53 I mean I've been doing it for 24 years, getting to play in two Super Bowls.
01:57 I mean it's amazing.
01:59 And sometimes people ask me, "You know what?
02:01 Do you ever think you want to coach?"
02:02 I don't know.
02:03 If Antonio called me, I might take that phone call.
02:06 Really?
02:07 So we got some little breaking news.
02:08 So that's the one guy, AP.
02:09 So do you love him?
02:10 Do guys love him that much?
02:12 Is that the thing, man?
02:13 You want to run through a wall for this guy?
02:14 Well I think that this new strategy that some of the coaches are buying into and some of
02:21 the ownership is really leaning on in terms of former players becoming these coaches.
02:25 Because look at this division, bro.
02:27 This is the heavyweight.
02:28 You got Harbaugh coming in.
02:29 You got Sean Payton.
02:30 Former player.
02:31 And you got Andy Reid.
02:32 And then you got AP bringing that Raider attitude.
02:36 I think he lives and breathes the way that the Raider nation is going to essentially
02:40 support him.
02:41 The family is going to let him do what he wants to do.
02:43 And then you got Marvin Lewis.
02:45 Marvin Lewis was my head coach when I was at the Bengals.
02:48 And then there's probably some other people that are in the works that are about to be
02:52 on the list or on the ground right here in Las Vegas.
02:55 So I'm excited to come back and watch him and support him too.
02:58 And the fact that players love playing for him, that's the kind of guy that you want
03:02 to work for.
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