Talk of the next “NFL dynasty” has continued as the Kansas City Chiefs arrive in Las Vegas to play in their fourth Super Bowl in the last five years this Sunday.
But don’t expect head coach Andy Reid or his players to buy into the hype yet.
“When you’re in the mix of things, like we are, you don’t really look at that,” Reid said as he met with the media in Las Vegas on Tuesday. “You’re so focused in on the next game, and I think that if you make that your focus, you’re probably going to have a problem and get knocked off whatever pedestal people think you’re on.”
While the question is warranted after all the success Kansas City has had with Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes at the helm, the veteran head coach knows there are plenty of strong teams across the league, including Sunday’s opponent, the San Francisco 49ers, that can make things difficult if they get ahead of themselves and lose focus on what happens on the field.
“There’s too much parity in this game to take your energy and put it in that direction,” Reid added. “We’re focusing on this game here against a great football team, and it’s going to take all of our energy to do well against them.”
Reid and Mahomes have won two of their previous three appearances in football’s biggest event, beating the Philadelphia Eagles last season and the 49ers back in 2020.
Since the Whitehouse, Texas-native Mahomes took over as the team’s starting quarterback in 2018, the Chiefs have become one of the NFL’s truly elite teams with a 75-24 regular season record, an outstanding 14-3 record in the playoffs, and six consecutive AFC West titles. (The team has won eight straight division championships overall, but Mahomes was not the quarterback for two of them.)
That includes a 63-20 (.787) mark over the last five seasons, which is better than the previous dynasties from Pittsburgh, Dallas, Green Bay, San Francisco, and New England put up in the first five seasons of their runs.
Four of those five franchises went on to win multiple championships after the initial five-year period, with the exception being the Dallas Cowboys.
