How will the Kansas City Chiefs’ offense attack the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII? Andy Reid is certain to have something special up his sleeve, at least that’s what one former player believes.
Speaking to former Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles about his collaboration with Bud Light for the Super Bowl, we were able to ask him what he thinks his old head coach might have planned for the big game.
During Charles’ time in Kansas City, he was often used on screen passes. Reid did anything he could to get Charles out in space and allow him to make a play. That’s something that he expects to see during Super Bowl LVII, with all the different playmakers the Chiefs have who can do damage after the catch.
“There’s definitely some screen packages in Coach Andy Reid’s playbook this week, coming up,” Charles said. “I hope you see some, you know, because he’s always been having great success in every game this year so far in the screen game. So, look out for (Isiah) Pacheco and (Jerick) McKinnon definitely getting involved in the screen game. Maybe Trav (Travis Kelce) because, you know it’s crazy, you’ve got two weeks to prepare for the Super Bowl, they could come up with all types of crazy plays right now.”
Reid’s creativity as a play-caller and designer has been on display often this season, most recently with the “Snow Globe” play against the Las Vegas Raiders. Back in Super Bowl LIV, they used “Shift To Rose Bowl Right Parade” as one of the more unique plays called.
I asked Charles whether they had such unique play calls back in his day. He said that Reid wasn’t quite the creative mastermind he is today and was really just honing his ability to design and call trick plays.
“Not quite,” Charles said. “We really didn’t have any crazy plays. Every year, Coach Reid, got better at creating plays. The only plays we had when I was there, we had (Dontari) Poe. We had him playing the wildcat, the D-Tackle playing quarterback. That’s the creativity in there. Now, it’s getting out of control, you know what I’m saying. It has improved a lot, the creativity of the offense, it definitely expanded more after Poe as the wildcat.”
Speaking about some of those plays involving Poe from back in the day, Charles identified a specific play as a turning point for Reid’s confidence in designing and calling trick plays. It was Poe’s touchdown pass to Demetrius Harris on Christmas Day in 2016.
“That’s when it started going crazy,” Charles said. “From right there.”
There’s no telling what exactly we’ll see from a trick-play standpoint, but Charles seems to expect to see something unique come Sunday.
