Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid talks preparations for Indianapolis Colts
All right, um, as far as injuries go for today’s practice, uh, Kingsley won’t practice but doing well. He had *** concussion and, uh, But he’s doing pretty good right now. So, and then Xavier, uh, tweaked his ankle *** little bit. He did the walkthrough. We’ll see, see about practice as we go forward here. Um, look forward to, uh, challenge of playing in Indianapolis, good football team, well coached, and, um. You know, so I look forward to coming to GH Field at Arrowhead Stadium, and it’s *** great venue here, and we love playing here. So that time’s yours. I go, we’ll return to practice this week. Yes, yeah. Coach, uh, *** lot of people, *** lot of players have discussed consistency and lack of just what have you seen about it just hasn’t been able to be consistency. What can you do at this point in the season to try to. Yeah, I mentioned it to you after the game, just the, you know, the penalties, those in this league, uh, they, they get you even though you might overcome it, you’ve utilize certain, you know, plays to do it and um plays are valuable as you go through. Uh, *** game here, so, um, and that become you gotta take care of it, you gotta take care of that part of it, start there. And then you know take care of the turnovers and make sure we’re giving the guys. Good stuff to work with, you know, which we look at first. He’s listening to Travis’s podcast, and he said he kind of felt like most of the issues have been self-inflicted like you guys are just making those mistakes when you went back and evaluated and is that how you feel like it really is up to you guys to clean this stuff up? Yeah, yeah, that’s *** um. And I told you I started with myself, um. You know, could do better, way better, so, uh, giving the guys better stuff to work with and so everybody goes through and. Honestly looks at it that way then good things normally happen. So yeah, I’d tell you yes, we’ve got good guys and they work hard and so um. We’ll make sure we take care of it. And when you look at your offense, you’ve been pretty good so on an every down basis yards per drive, one per drive. What, what’s the balance between like adjusting to the record versus maybe overreacting? Yeah, um, oh, we’re not overreacting, but there’s *** certain urgency, you gotta have, and, um, to, to make sure that you clean up some of the stuff we’ve had and, uh, so, uh, overreacting doesn’t help. Uh, what helps is that you take care of your business individually and then collectively as *** team. What you have to do and and the coaches are part of that, uh, big part of that too, so we’re all in it. Along the lines of what Sam just asked me your point differential, I think is like 3rd highest or something for *** team that’s at 5 and 5. So I mean there’s obviously good things. Did you feel like what you’re doing is working, or do you think structurally you need to be adjusting? I know you, you’re gonna get in *** tweak and there’s mistakes you want to clean up, but is the framework of the offense still the right path? I mean you guys see it all, so I mean you know this, but when you do it in crucial situations when there’s ***. I would say they get you and then it’s over it’s tough to overcome at times. So we gotta when when you’re whether it’s *** 3rd down in short or whether you’re down at the 2 yard line and you gotta back up, you know, those type of things, uh, those come back and haunt you when you’re playing good teams. You might be able to overcome it against *** not very good team, but against good teams you gotta, you know, you gotta be sharp. And there’s not, it’s not, there’s not *** huge secret to that, and you guys watch it like we watch it, so it’s, uh, um, you gotta, you gotta take care of them as coaches, we gotta make sure we’re giving the guys the, the stuff, uh, that they can do the best at. And. Interesting or I guess concerning to you that you guys have not had as quick *** starts as you would like probably on offense and are there ways that you’re figuring you guys need to give maybe Patrick more rhythm in the first quarter than. You know, past years. Yeah, Nate, I look, every year is different, so I, I approach it that way. Every game’s different, so I go back and we look at everything and, and so for games that maybe didn’t start, well, why, you know, why, and let’s answer it and um. Uh, or whatever, when I run the boat, let’s look at why. And that’s the way we address it and we do it on every play. And make sure we come up with. *** better solution. You’re, you’re known for uh having your teams historically approved as the season goes along, um, but how much of that is I guess tied to maybe changes in the offensive scheme, right? Like if you start the year in West Coast, you can’t actually go full air raid. How much of that can be morphed or shifted throughout the course of the season and you know, statistics say you guys, for instance, run the ball well under sitter, but I don’t know how much of that was baked into the scheme of the season, but yeah. Yeah, um, you’re not, we’re not in *** position where we need *** wholesale, that’s not what where we’re at right now, um. We gotta just clean up some things. Yeah, it’s not, but the nice part about this offense is you got *** lot of directions you can go with *** whole lot of things that different, uh, things that you can do with it. So it’s important that we do the right things. We get ourselves in the right place. uh, coach, just *** little bit about the Colts. I mean, it’s *** relatively young head coach in the game and you just wonder maybe what the personality of, of their team looks like you guys have played them every once in *** while. No, listen, he, he’s done *** nice job there and um. Quarterbacks playing well for him. Um, defensively, they’ve got *** great scheme, um, and they’re Uh, very accurate what they do, solid. And um so we and then special teams, they just done *** good job there, so. He’s got *** good, good football team all the way around. It’s not by chance that he’s sitting where he’s sitting and record was. So is there any, you know, chance that just maybe as an organization you guys have played so deep into every season for so many years now that there’s just kind of like fatigue, you know, like not like someone you can’t get up and get going, but just like, you know, 5 extra weeks every year, 5 extra weeks of being exposed to what you want to do and people have an extra tape on you is is that potentially part of the problem? I’m really tired of these press conferences. Um. No, yeah, I don’t think so. I, you know, there’s enough changeover in today’s world that, um, you know, it keeps it fresh and so on, but I think we’re OK there, how would you evaluate Patrick’s year just compared to previous? I, I mean, listen, he, he’s really having *** good year. We just, we’ve got *** couple things that we gotta clean up just all the way around, but he’s. He’s played great football, you know, he’s kind of, you know, the, the, the margin between winning and losing in this league is like this, and so we’ve got to take care of this and, and get ourselves where we do, do *** little bit better all the way around. Yeah, listen, I mean for, uh, being away for *** few weeks there, I thought he did *** nice job. He got to clean up *** couple of things, um. You know, so, uh, with the penalties and that, but, uh, his effort, his attitude and everything was, was great. He was able to keep everything, uh, focused back to the football part of it. Um, he, you know, he, he had to take care of business and he took care of it and that’s where he’s at.
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid talks preparations for Indianapolis Colts
Updated: 4:15 PM CST Nov 19, 2025
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid spoke to reporters Wednesday days after the team lost a 22-19 heartbreaker in Denver. Reid spoke about Josh Simmons’ return, the team’s mistakes and sloppiness and situational football. You can watch his full press conference above or watch highlights below. Reid’s opening statement, injury update: Reid on cleaning up mistakes – “I start with myself”:Reid says ‘there’s a certain urgency’ to clean up mistakes:Reid – Against good teams, Chiefs “need to be sharp”Reid on slow starts during the 2025 season: Reid talks about the Colts:Reid on Josh Simmons’ return:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid spoke to reporters Wednesday days after the team lost a 22-19 heartbreaker in Denver.
Reid spoke about Josh Simmons’ return, the team’s mistakes and sloppiness and situational football.
You can watch his full press conference above or watch highlights below.
Reid’s opening statement, injury update:
Reid on cleaning up mistakes – “I start with myself”:
Reid says ‘there’s a certain urgency’ to clean up mistakes:
Reid – Against good teams, Chiefs “need to be sharp”
Reid on slow starts during the 2025 season:
Reid talks about the Colts:
Reid on Josh Simmons’ return: