How Chiefs’ Andy Reid achieved rare coaching feat with win over Chargers on ‘Thursday Night Football’

The Kansas City Chiefs’ Week 2 win over the Chargers in “Thursday Night Football” had anything but a Week 2 atmosphere. With two teams considered AFC West squaring off in primetime so early in the season, the Patrick Mahomes-Justin Herbert had the air of something just short of a playoff game.

Buried beneath the Sisyphean performance of Herbert and the clutch turnover forced by Jaylen Watson was the significance of it for Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, who became the sixth coach in NFL history to get to 100 wins over .500 (235-135-1).

The game had some of the hallmarks of a Reid-coached game: Questionable clock management, a perhaps overly-conservative decision to kick a field goal from the 1-yard line, and a rigid gameplan. But, for the 235th time in his career, those decisions translated to a win.

The company Reid joins is elite. With this feat, he is now in the same breath as Don Shula, George Halas, Bill Belichick, Tom Landry, and Curly Lambeau. Lambeau and Landry both finished their careers under 100 games over .500.

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Reid is the only coach in NFL history with 100 or more wins with two NFL teams, having done so with both the Eagles and the Chiefs. He is now 105-42 in Kansas City, and has won double-digit games in each of the last seven seasons. With a 2-0 start this year, he’s off on the right foot.

Reid is now chasing Tom Landry in the history books, as he is just 15 wins off his total. While he won’t achieve that this year (no, the Chiefs are not going 17-0 this season), it’s a number that should be extremely attainable come next season. As long as Mahomes is at the helm, there’s a good chance Reid will finish his career among Shula, Halas, and Belichick as coaches who retire over 100 wins over the .500 mark.