Hah! I feel for Chef's fans. I respect the Chef's fans a lot, they are a great group as far as I can tell. So it is not with malice that I chuckle, but rather because I've been there, I feel the pain.
The biggest flaws in Andy Reid are threefold:
- He is stubborn and will not change. He has run the same outide WR screen behind the line of scrimmage for 20 years and in all that time probably has a net -10 yards. Yet you will see it several times a game because it always works on his chart.
- He is pass happy even when he has a great ground game and is facing defenses that are suspect against the run but great against the pass. And even when his personnel doesn't support it (bad WRs, for example. Or Alex Smith). This year he's 60:40 run:pass ratio, which is typical. See item (1).
- Dude can't manage a clock to save his life. He will lose two or three games a year because he has no time outs left after doing something stupid like burning one to decide whether to challenge, then failing on the challenge and losing a second one (which actually happened a couple of times).
And to be clear, I'm not a Reid hater. He's a good coach that gave us Iggles fans lots of good times. But his flaws prevent him from ever being a great coach. IMHO. If you want to win 10 games every year but never win a Super Bowl, Reid is the guy for you. For example ny old man, who lived through 30 years of 2-12 or 3-13 teams was just fine with 10 wins and maybe one or two playoff wins before being ejected in an embarrassing loss each year. And Reid delivered in stellar fashion.