Patrick Mahomes credits Andy Reid for more than just being a great coach

As the new Netflix series Quarterback entered the national spotlight this week, so too has the relationship between Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid.

After several failed attempts to win it all during his tenure with the Eagles, Reid got another chance with the Chiefs and made it count. Despite a few divisional-round losses in the playoffs to start his tenure, things finally clicked into place once Mahomes slid to No. 10 in the 2017 draft and became the team’s starter in 2018.

Mahomes, now regarded as one of the best all-around athletes in the league, credits Reid for molding him into the man he is today, and the player he is today. The former Texas Tech star wants his coach recognized as one of the best of all time.

“He’s meant the world to me… just the best,” Mahomes told Rob Maaddi on the AP Pro Football Podcast. “He’s the best coach, obviously, one of the best coaches of all time, but he’s just one of the best people of all time. Learned how to get the most out of me every day. He doesn’t let me be satisfied with where I’m at. He teaches me a ton.

“Not only the quarterback position, but how to be a leader and how to be a great dad and how to be a great husband. He lets me be who I am every single day. I think if I’d have went to some other places, I would’ve had to learn how to play the quarterback position a different way, and he just lets me play the quarterback position the way that I want to play it. I think that’s what’s made me such a different type of quarterback in this league.”

Michael Vick: Reid ‘might be’ greatest coach of all time

Since Mahomes became the full-time starter under Andy Reid in 2018, the Chiefs are 64-18 in the regular season. They’re also 11-3 in the postseason with three AFC titles and two Super Bowl rings. Mahomes has two MVP awards to his name as well.

Is Reid the best NFL coach of all time? He doesn’t have the most Super Bowl titles, but players that have worked for him still gladly throw his name into the mix.

Former Eagles quarterback Michael Vick said on Tyreek Hill‘s podcast that he considers Reid to be the best of the best.

“I was actually thinking this year like, after Andy won the Super Bowl, he only got two, but he went to like four or five NFC Championship Games [and] every year [the Chiefs were] in the AFC Championship Game,” Vick said.

“He might be the greatest coach of all time. You don’t have to win championships to be considered. You know, I understand [Bill] Belichick and [Tom] Brady and that whole dynamic. But Coach [Reid] did it in Philly, and then he doing it in KC. I’m always shout out coach like I love that man to death, like for real literally I’d do anything for him.”