Kansas City Chiefs fans are hoping to forget about the ugliness that was Super Bowl 59 but unfortunately, until Super Bowl 60 is played (and hopefully what happens in that game is the Chiefs get back in the win column) we'll have to keep hearing about how the Philadelphia Eagles dominated the Chiefs in the last NFL game of the season.
Justin Reid might not be on the Chiefs roster anymore but he spent the past three years in Kansas City and the Chiefs reached the Super Bowl every year he was with the team. They won two titles with Reid in their secondary but he recently spoke about the one he didn't win with the Chiefs on The Ross Tucker Podcast.
“I think that the Eagles overall were just dominant," Reid told Tucker. "They were just the more dominant team. I don't think that we had our best day overall as a team. I think the Eagles being able to create pressure with the four-man rush and drop seven every time and cloud up all the zones and still create all that pressure on Patrick [Mahomes] was just really, really difficult."
Mahomes was sacked six times against the Eagles and it truly felt like that number could have easily reached the double-digits with how often he was pressured. The offensive line could not stop the Eagles from dominating them upfront and it decided the entire game.
Justin Reid explained what went wrong in Chiefs' Super Bowl loss
Reid didn't stop there though. He discussed how the Eagles never let up off the gas, something that Andy Reid and the Chiefs have certainly been criticized for doing over the years.
"They came in firing, and they stepped on the gas early in the game, and they never took it off. You can only respect the team that puts up a performance as dominant as what they did. We just didn't show up the way that we needed to that day."
It was a humiliating loss for sure and it cost K.C. a chance at being the first-ever team to win three straight Super Bowls. While they still have three Super Bowl victories under Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, the loss still hurt. It's hard getting to -- and winning -- Super Bowls and while it feels like this team can make it back, nothing is guaranteed.
As for Justin Reid, he did not re-sign with the Chiefs in the offseason and is now back in his home state of Louisiana after signing with the New Orleans Saints. Perhaps the move allowed him to open up and be more candid about the blowout loss as he won't have a chance to seek revenge like many others on the roster do.
Nothing he said is incorrect though. The Eagles were far and away the better team and proved it. The Chiefs did very little right and it cost them a chance to make NFL history.
