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Originally Posted by Bugeater
Hmmm. You didn't really answer my question.
Look, I'm sure they'd love to win a SB, but I don't believe that it's a priority for them or any other coach/GM in the league. Their main concern is keeping their jobs for as long as possible. If they happen to win a SB along the way, that's great. If not, oh well, we all made a shit ton of money.
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Andy Reid is an established coach. He didn't come to KC to go 8-8 and worry about his job, I guarantee you that.
He has his guaranteed $ wrapped up in his contract, you act like he could get fired after 2 seasons and miss out on the other 3 years worth of money. Nope he is paid one way or another.
The fact is all Reid has to focus on is winning as much as humanly possible. I dont think 8-8 is part of that plan.
Does he have the ability to push this team to a playoff win? I think so. If he doesn't it wont be because he got to 8-8 and didn't worry about anything more.
If anything the trade for Smith tells us they think they can win now. Had they drafted Geno they would have had a few years to develop him without worry of job repercussions.
Trading for Alex pushed the expectations on them right now so that blows the 8-8 job security crap off the map out the gate.