Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid Quotes
November 19, 2025
OPENING STATEMENT: “Alright, as far as injuries go for today’s practice, Kingsley (Suamataia) won’t practice but (is) doing well he had a concussion, but he’s doing pretty good right now. Then Xavier (Worthy) tweaked his ankle a little bit, he did the walk through, but we will see about practice as we go forward here. Look forward to the challenge of playing Indianapolis. A good football team (and) well coached so look forward to coming GEHA Field At Arrowhead Stadium. It’s a great venue here and we love playing here. With that, time is yours.”
Q: Will Isiah Pacheco return to practice this week?
REID: “Yes.”
Q: On penalties and what the team can do at this point of the season to be more consistent.
REID: “I mentioned it to you after the game, just the penalties. In this league they get you. Even though you might overcome it, you’ve utilized certain plays to do it and plays are valuable as you go through a game here and you have to take care of that part of it, start there and then take care of the turnovers and make sure we’re giving the guys good stuff to work with which we look at first.”
Q: On Travis Kelce mentioning on his podcast that most of the team’s issues are self-inflicted.
REID: “Yeah, I told you I start with myself. It happens. I’d tell you, yes. We have good guys, and they work hard so we’ll make sure we take care of it.”
Q: What’s the balance between adjusting to this team’s record and overacting to it?
REID: “Yeah, we’re not overreacting, but there is a certain urgency you got to have. To make sure that you clean up some of the stuff we’ve had. Overreacting doesn’t help, what helps is that you take care of your business individually and then collectively as a team. It’s what you have to do.”
Q: Is the framework of the offense still the right path?
REID: “You guys see it all, you know this. When you do it in crucial situations, that gets you. Then it’s tough to overcome at times. Whether it’s a third down and short or where you’re down at the two-yard line and then you have to back up, those types of things, those come back to haunt you when you’re playing good teams. We might be able to overcome it against a not very good team, but against good teams, you got to be sharp. There’s not a huge secret to that. You guys watch it like we watch it. As coaches we got to make sure we are giving the guys the stuff they can do the best at.”
Q: Is it concerning that the offense hasn’t had as quick of starts as you would like and do you think you need to give Patrick Mahomes more rhythm in the first quarter?
REID: “Yeah, Nate (Taylor) every year is different. I approach it that way. Every game is different, so I go back and we look at everything. So, for games that maybe we didn’t start (quick), why? And let’s answer it or whatever. We’re not running the ball, let’s look at why. That’s the way we address it, and we do it on every play and make sure we come up with a better solution.”
Q: On the offensive scheme shifting throughout the season.
REID: “We’re not in a position where we need to wholesale that (the current offensive scheme). That’s not where we’re at right now. We need to just clean up some things. The nice part about this offense is you got a lot of directions you can go with it. A whole lot of things – different things you can do with it. It’s important that we do the right things and get ourselves in the right place.”
Q: What are your thoughts on the Indianapolis Colts?
REID: “He’s (Colts Head Coach Shane Steichen) done a nice job there. The quarterback (Colts QB Daniel Jones) is playing well for him. Defensively, they have a great scheme, and they’re very accurate with what they do, solid. Then special teams, they’ve just done a good job there. He’s got a good football team all the way around. It’s not by chance that he’s sitting where he is sitting record wise.”
Q: You’ve played deep into the season every year now. Do you think part of the problem is that everyone has so much film on you guys and fatigue?
REID: “I’m really tired of these press conferences (laughter). I don’t think so. There is enough changeover in today’s world, it keeps it fresh and so on. I think we’re okay there.”
Q: How do you evaluate Patrick Mahomes’ year compared to previous years?
REID: “I mean listen; he’s (Patrick Mahomes) really having a good year. We’ve got a couple of things we got to clean up all the way around, but he’s played great football. The margin between winning and losing this week is like this (motions small). We’ve got to take care of this (the small margin) and get ourselves where we can do a little bit better all the way around.”
Q: What did you learn about Josh Simmons last week?
REID: “Yeah, listen, for being away for a few weeks there I thought he (Josh Simmons) did a nice job. Got to clean up a couple things – with the penalties and that. His effort, his attitude, and everything was great. He was able to keep everything focused back to the football part of it. He had to take care of business, and he took care of it and that’s where he is at.”
Chiefs Player Quotes
November 19, 2025
QB PATRICK MAHOMES
Q: How can you turn the corner and be more consistent?
MAHOMES: “Yeah, I think it just comes with the history that we’ve had and knowing that we have the guys to do it. It’s about going out there and proving it now and getting better at practice, getting better in the film room (and) getting extra time at the facility. But talking with the guys throughout the building this week, I think guys are excited for the opportunity to go out there and prove that. But like I said, you got to go out there and do it. You can’t just keep talking about it, you got to go out there and do it, and it starts with me and has to feed through the entire team.”
Q: What was the most frustrating part about the loss in Denver?
MAHOMES: “For me, it was just getting the ball with four minutes left and not getting points and not getting a first down or really anything. Just being in those moments before and knowing how important it is to get some momentum in your team by at least moving the ball a little bit and changing the field position and not being able to do that was big. That was the most disappointing part for me because even though I didn’t feel like we played to our best level (and) our best standard, there was still an opportunity to win the football game, and we weren’t able to do that.”
Q: On the offense being improved from last season but capitalizing on situational football.
MAHOMES: “I’ve preached that for the last few years. These games are a couple plays here and there. There’s not a lot of times in this league where you’re blowing teams out. There’s a couple plays here and there that you have to make and we’ve been able to make those plays these last few years and we’re not doing that this year. Now it’s about giving ourselves more opportunities to make those plays and then when we get those opportunities, going out there and doing it. I’m excited for it. We have a lot of good football teams coming up, starting off with the Colts, but it’s a great opportunity to go out there and get our season turned around and get going in the right direction.”
Q: Have you seen common denominators on the deep passes that you haven’t connected on?
MAHOMES: “Yeah, I’m just not making the throws. That’s pretty much the biggest thing. Guys are getting open and giving me chances to make the plays down the field. I give them chances to make plays and if you look at the one to Tyquan (Thornton) later in the game, it wasn’t necessarily the best thrown ball but it gave him (Tyquan Thornton) a chance and I think that’s something I can learn from with guys like Xavier’s (Worthy) early, is that it might not be the perfect pass that’s going to be a touchdown and catch like that, but if I can throw the ball and just give him (Xavier Worthy) a chance to make a play, he’ll make the play on it, then he can make the play and score the touchdown from there. Being better there and giving guys chances usually works out.”
Q: On Xavier Worthy’s deep route in the first quarter and if he had the right angle.
MAHOMES: “Yeah, the angle stuff is one thing. I think what I’ve learned from just playing for awhile now is that those deep passes – like I said those deep passes don’t have to be perfect. I think we always want to make the perfect throw, but if he (Xavier Worthy) wins like that, you can flatten his angle (and) you can throw the ball with more air underneath it then he can adjust and that’s why he is the player that he is so why not give him that opportunity and try to throw the ball perfectly down the field and it looks awesome when it happens but obviously there’s more misses than there is completions. If you look at the best deep ball throwers in the league and in the history of the NFL, they weren’t always just these perfectly thrown balls, but they were giving guys chances and they were going out there and making plays.”
Q: On Colts Defensive Coordinator Lou Anarumo and if the Colts run the same type of defense as the Cincinnati Bengals when Coach Anarumo was in Cincinnati.
MAHOMES: “They (Indianapolis Colts) definitely do some of the stuff, (Colts Defensive Coordinator) Coach (Lou) Anarumo is a great defensive coordinator, a great coach, and he has his stuff, but what I think makes him such a great defensive coordinator is that he tailors his scheme to the team that he’s playing with. He wants to go with their strengths. Getting their guys in the best position to succeed and even from some of the trades that they’ve made, they’ve adjusted their defense as well. I think that’s something that makes him a great coach is that he’s not stuck in his ways of how he calls things, he adjusts his scheme to the team that’s around him and obviously they have done a lot of great things this year.”
Q: Do you care whether you are under center or shotgun?
MAHOMES: “Nah my preference is to win so whatever way that happens, I’m good with.”
Q: Is it difficult to prepare for a guy like Colts Defensive Coordinator Lou Anarumo when he changes his scheme so much?
MAHOMES: “Obviously, there’s going to be some difficulties there but at the same time we’ve played him (Colts Defensive Coordinator Lou Anarumo) so many times that you just go back and watch every game that you’ve played against him and see the different things that he has done to you, the changeups he has thrown at you and then you know there is going to be a wrinkle that he has this game (and) try and make a positive play out of it. It doesn’t have to be a home run shot or whatever it is but getting the ball to a checkdown, getting the ball to a guy that can get five to six yards and then get back into the flow of the game. I think that’s something that’s important against him is that he’ll continue to throw different things at you just to make sure that you’re not settled with what he’s calling and that’s something that I have to continue to be great with throughout the entire football game.”
Q: How have you felt on your decision making with run pass options (RPOs)?
MAHOMES: “I feel like I’ve done a good job of it. I think there’s times when I should hand it (off) and there’s times I should throw the ball more. You have to continue to read and get better and better with it. More than anything, I think it’s just giving guys chances either catching the ball or running the ball even if the perfect look is not there. There’s times where I might’ve thrown it and we got five or six yards and that’s a positive play, but you can hand the ball off and kind of keep defenses honest as well. That’s stuff that I’ve worked with throughout my entire career and it’s something that has been huge in our offense for a long time. I think for us, it’s just continuing to get better and better each and every game.”
Q: On his RPO mechanics.
MAHOMES: “There’s multiple. There’s times – (Offensive Line) Coach (Andy) Heck and (Head) Coach (Andy) Reid and all of them, they coach multiple ways of reading it. There’s times where we’re reading a certain guy and there’s times, we’re reading coverages and there’s times where you’re reading space. It just kind of depends on that week and the team that you’re playing and being able to adjust accordingly. Like I said, our goal is to get five or six yards every single time we run RPO, either running the ball or throwing the ball and I think we’ve done a good job at that throughout this season, but at the end of the day, like I said sometimes you have to hand the ball off, even if the throw gets you five or six yards just to keep the defense honest and to set up other stuff throughout the rest of the game.”
Q: On lack of intermediate throws.
MAHOMES: “It’s just kind of the coverages that we’ve been getting. Teams are playing more man coverage against us, which gives more opportunities to throw the ball down the field but until we can prove that we can hit those throws down the field teams are going to continue to play man coverage. That’s something that’s going to be important for us is to hit some of those throws and once we start hitting some of the throws like you saw this last game against Denver, you hit one deep throw and all of a sudden the offense opens up and then you’re able to hit other throws as well. I think we’ve always done a really good job of being able to take what’s there, it’s just about hitting some of those deeper throws to loosen the defense up and then give us opportunities to throw the ball everywhere throughout the offense.”
Q: Can you pinpoint why you have had slower starts on offense this season?
MAHOMES: “I mean there has been games where we’ve had great starts, and we’ve usually won them and there have been games when we don’t have good starts and we’ve lost them this year. I think just learning from those. I mean this last week, you just hit the throw to Xavier (Worthy), that’s a great start and then to Tyquan (Thornton) after that. It’s just little things here and there but those little things add up, and I think that’s something that we have to continue to get better and better at. I have to be better at getting us going in the right direction. If I’m going to make that throw to Xavier I have to hit it, if not I have to hit Travis (Kelce) to keep the chains moving. Those are decisions that I have to make and when I make those decisions, I have to go out there and execute them.”
Q: How do you handle the sense of urgency throughout the week?
MAHOMES: “Just like if you were going to a big divisional game or a playoff game or whatever it is, you just have to know what’s at stake. You try to prepare yourself throughout the week and do the little extra stuff so that your mind can be settled on gameday and then you can go out there and just play, knowing that you need to go out there and win the football game and knowing we’re going – we’re playing against a really good football team that’s playing great football right now. It’s a great opportunity at the end of the day. Obviously, we’re 5-5, not where we want to be at, but we get to write the rest of this season’s story, and it starts this week with the Colts at (GEHA Field at) Arrowhead (Stadium) and I’m excited for us to go out there and do it.”
Q: How do you hold teammates accountable?
MAHOMES: “First, you have to go out and do it. I’m always a big, you have to go out and show you’re going to put in the work and I think if you do that, you can ask guys and push guys to do more. We have a lot of great dudes in this locker room and you can see that their mindset and the way that they’re walking around the building this week is that they’re pushing themselves to be even better, knowing that we’re this close, you just have to continue to push yourself to kind of breakthrough that barrier and get to where we want to be at as a football team. I’m excited. Like I said, it’s not where we want to be at and it has been a rough kind of high-low season, but we get to write the rest of the story so let’s go out there and do it.”
Q: On Josh Simmons’ performance Sunday.
MAHOMES: “He’s (Josh Simmons) a great football player, and he has gotten better every week that he’s played, and he’ll continue to get better. For him, it’s just continuing to stack days on days of just getting better, pushing himself to be the best player that he can be. Like I said, since OTAs when he got out there and the way he was rehabbing and the way he was getting back at it to training camp and to the season, he’s gotten better and better. I think the sky’s the limit, and he has got to keep pushing to get better.”
Q: On the decision of RPOs based on opponent.
MAHOMES: “Yeah, there is. The first play of the game this last week with that safety pressure and we knew they might get into a run blitz type of thing and you throw the ball to Rashee (Rice), you get a first down and kind of get things going. That’s the stuff that you want, but then there’s times where you throw the ball and it might get three yards like I did Travis (Kelce) later in the game and you want to make sure you give guys chances to run the football on plays like that. Just reading the coverages, understanding what the defense is doing and then making the best decision you feel like for the team.”
T JOSH SIMMONS
OPENING STATEMENT: “First, I want to thank the entire Kansas City and this club for having my six for the time I was away from the team. It showed how much love this team and city has for me, and I can’t wait to give it back to them.”
Q: Is there anything that you want to share about your absences?
SIMMONS: “I kind of want to keep that in house. (With) all due respect. I know everybody wants to (know), but it’s something I kind of want to keep inside.”
Q: How do you think you played in your first game back?
SIMMONS: “There’s always room (for growth). But I think as a front we swung as hard as we could. There are obviously some things you can’t control. They’re (Denver Broncos) also a really good football team. I think it’s just kind of picking up on the film and cleaning some stuff up.”
Q: Do you feel a little rust?
SIMMONS: “A little bit. I mean 15 (Nik Bonitto) is an extremely gifted player, so going against that wasn’t fair looking back, but I think with the teammates that I had throughout that week they helped me up and kind of helped brush that stuff off.”
LB NICK BOLTON
Q: On Colts RB Jonathan Taylor.
BOLTON: “Obviously this year he (Jonathan Taylor) looks fresh (and) he looks rejuvenated. He’s running the ball very well, doing a lot of different things for them (Indianapolis Colts). Obviously scheme wise, some things are similar (and) some things are different. They have a lot of key guys that are the same. They find different ways to use those guys and get them out in space and obviously get the ball to 28 (Jonathan Taylor) whenever they get the chance to.”
Q: What have you seen differently from Colts QB Daniel Jones?
BOLTON: “First and foremost, taking care of the football. He’s (Daniel Jones) doing a great job of getting the ball out to his pass catchers and giving them a chance to make plays with the ball. They do a great job of getting guys out in space, attacking schemes and he’s doing a good job at getting people the ball on time and on target. I think he’s confident, looks driven and a great opportunity for him and another opportunity for us to play at home.”
Q: On Colts rookie TE Tyler Warren.