Super Bowl-winning combo will be leading Chiefs into future

Andy Reid posed with the Lombardi Trophy as he took the stage the morning after his second Super Bowl win and simply said: “It never gets old standing right here.” As long as Reid is dialing up plays and Patrick Mahomes is executing them, the Kansas City Chiefs will be in contention to get right back into this spot.

The duo — an innovative play-caller and a young quarterback whose achievements already rival some of the game’s greatest ever — won their second Super Bowl together in the past four seasons when Kansas City beat Philadelphia 38-35 on Sunday.

“As long as Andy Reid is coaching us, we’ll always have a chance,” Mahomes said Monday at a news conference honoring the Super Bowl-winning coach and MVP. “I’ll keep the big guy around a couple more years at least and we’ll try to be back at this game as many times as possible.”

Since Mahomes became the starter in Kansas City in 2018, the Chiefs have made it to the AFC championship game every season and the Super Bowl three times — and won it twice. This title might have been even sweeter than the first following the 2019 season, as Mahomes overcame a high ankle sprain that limited him in the playoffs and quieted the skeptics who doubted whether he could have the same kind of success after the Chiefs traded away game-breaking wide receiver Tyreek Hill. The Chiefs still had the league’s top offense thanks mostly to the combo of Reid and Mahomes.

Mahomes became the seventh player to win the NFL regular-season MVP and Super Bowl MVP in the same season.

The decision to trade Hill has set the Chiefs up well as they head into the offseason in good shape on the salary cap, with 12 projected draft picks, and a strong rookie class from 2022 that only should improve. Most important, they have the coach and QB, with Reid, 64, pointing to Mahomes when he said he has no plans to step down any time soon.