Andy Reid cannot get overlooked once again for doing what he does better than any other coach

At 66 years old, Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid is still as sharp as ever.

Over the last six seasons, Reid has done the best work of what was already a Hall of Fame career, making the AFC Championship game at minimum and winning three Super Bowls during that span. He has put his team in position to accomplish that feat yet again as the Chiefs have locked up the No. 1 seed in the AFC.

Kansas City owns the best record in the NFL at 15-1, becoming just the eighth team in league history to win that many games in a season. With as much success as Reid has had as of late, many people have taken it for granted. It has become simply expected to chalk up the AFC West title to the Chiefs every year as they win a double-digit amount of games and be one of the final four remaining teams in the postseason.

That is in part why Reid has not been named NFL Coach of the Year since back in his early days with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2002. It’s quite strange that someone who has won 273 games, which is the fourth-most among all head coaches in NFL history, has only won the prestigious award one time. The three men in front of Reid – Bill Belichick, George Halas, and Don Shula – all won it multiple times.

Another factor is that it has become trendy to give the award to a coach that has taken a team from a losing season to a winning record in the following year. Rewarding maintained consistency has become a lost criteria. It’s past time to get back to basics and give more consideration to which coach is winning the most games.