Chiefs’ Andy Reid wins 250th NFL regular-season game tying Tom Landry for fourth on all-time list

Andy Reid continues so as to add to his Hall of Fame bonafides. Every week after the Chiefs head trainer handed Cowboys Hall of Fame trainer Tom Landry for fourth all time in blended regular-season and postseason wins, Reid controlled to notch his 250th regular-season victory with a 23-20 win over the New York Jets on Sunday evening. 

Coincidentally, Reid’s 250th regular-season win brings him right into a tie for fourth all-time with … Landry, who went 250-162-6 from 1960-88 with the Dallas Cowboys. Reid now sits in the back of handiest Don Shula (328), Goerge Halas (318), and Bill Belichick (299) on the regular-season wins list.

Including the postseason, Reid has 272 occupation wins, surpassing Landry’s overall of 270 wins that had been tallied all the way through his adorned 29-year run with the Cowboys that integrated two Super Bowl wins, 5 Super Bowl appearances and 20 consecutive profitable seasons from 1966-85. Reid’s 22 postseason wins are 2nd all-time to simply Belichick’s 31.

Reid, 65, is in his twenty fifth season as an NFL trainer. Prior to Kansas City, Reid loved a extremely a success 11-year run with the Eagles that integrated an NFC championship in 2004. Reid additionally led the Eagles to 5 NFC name game appearances that integrated 4 immediately from 2001-04. 

This season marks Reid’s eleventh with the Chiefs, who had no longer received a playoff game since 1993 sooner than Reid guided the Chiefs to postseason win in 2015. Reid additionally helped Kansas City snap its 50-year championship drought when he guided the Chiefs to victory over the 49ers in Super Bowl LIV. 

Since then, Reid has led the Chiefs to 2 extra Super Bowls; they fell to Tom Brady’s Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV sooner than defeating Jalen Hurts’ Eagles on this previous yr’s Super Bowl. Reid now has 132 wins with the Chiefs after profitable 140 video games in Philadelphia. 

Like Landry, Reid’s affect on the game is a vital a part of his training legacy. Landry spearheaded the 4-3 “Flex” protection that wreaked havoc on opposing offenses, particularly all the way through the Nineteen Seventies. His Cowboys groups additionally popularized the shotgun and pre-snap movement. In 1977, Landry’s offense featured most likely the NFL’s first third-down speciality again in Preston Pearson after he was once changed within the beginning lineup via then-rookie and long term Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett. 

A large a part of Reid’s legacy is his prolific offenses and in particular his extremely a success quarterback partnerships. He loved a extremely a success tenure in Philadelphia with Donovan McNabb sooner than having extra luck with Alex Smith all the way through his early years with the Chiefs. Reid has loved a mythical partnership with Patrick Mahomes, who like Reid seems to be destined for a place within the Pro Football Hall of Fame when his occupation is finished.