What Andy Reid Special will be the reason that the Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl LVIII?
Andy Reid is one of the best offensive play callers in NFL history. His knack for creating just the right plays that build off of each other to win football games is remarkable. So what Andy Reid Special will win Super Bowl LVIII for the Chiefs this time when they face off against the San […]
Andy Reid is one of the best offensive play callers in NFL history. His knack for creating just the right plays that build off of each other to win football games is remarkable. So what Andy Reid Special will win Super Bowl LVIII for the Chiefs this time when they face off against the San Francisco 49ers?
Last year it was all wrinkles involving two-way motion from the Chiefs wide receivers. In case you had forgotten, the Chiefs scored two critical fourth quarter touchdowns on nearly the exact same concept, just on opposite sides of the field. You can see both scores (one to Kadarius Toney, the other to Skyy Moore) in this Tweet from last year's Super Bowl here:
So simple, yet surprisingly lethal in creating easy walk-in touchdowns for the Chiefs.
Andy Reid understood that the Chiefs had a major wide receiver problem last year coming off the departure of Tyreek Hill. Not a single wide receiver could create for themselves. So he got creative and built a key red zone package that single-handedly won them the Super Bowl against the Eagles.
And perhaps the most beautiful part of those two fourth quarter touchdowns? They were actually set up earlier in the game off of a handful of different two-way motion plays. Pacheco's earlier 1-yard touchdown score using two-way receiver motion forced tough communication issues for the Eagles just before the snap. Pacheco found the end zone easily off the left side (as you can see in the tweet below).
The Eagles knew that kind of play could be coming again later in the game, but they were still left helpless to stop the Chiefs when Mahomes found both Toney and Moore for the critical late-game scores off of similar pre-snap motion.
So what will be the defining Andy Reid Special that wins the day in this year's Super Bowl? Only tonight's game will tell. The Chiefs receiver play is still quite imperfect, so you can bet Andy Reid will do his best to mix up pre-snap communications for the 49ers' Top 5 defense to create easy scores once again.
