Andy Reid addresses retirement, 3-peat talk and the Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift attention

Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid has plenty he could be worried about as his team attempts to win a third consecutive Super Bowl, but retirement and Travis Kelce’s relationship with Taylor Swift are not causes for concern.

On The Athletic’s new NFL podcast Scoop City, Reid talked about preparing his team for this season now that some of his star players have taken their stardom to the next level.

“I’m OK with it … as long as they’re ready to go,” Reid said. “And so training camp is kind of that proving ground. If you’re not ready to go, it’s going to be obvious quickly. Just from the whether it’s a conditioning test or the long drive drills that we do.
Those things that are, you’re going to find out who’s in and who’s not in and who’s put their time.”

Reid thinks there is no one better able to handle the fame of dating a megastar like Swift than his star tight end.

“I think it’s great for him,” Reid told Dianna Russini and Chase Daniel. “He can handle it. Matter of fact, I think he probably loves it. To a point. I think there’s a great escape for him. I said that about Taylor, too. I mean, she comes to the game, she can kind of escape having to be the show. And Travis can do that. And when he goes to her concerts, she’s a star. And he can be hanging out there and be the support or the waterboy.

Reid, 66, has faced a lot of questions about how long he will continue, but the coach insists he isn’t thinking about retirement. Taking advice from his parents, he thinks he will know when it is time and the end of his current contract — which runs through the 2029 season — could be a point to consider that end.

“I know I’m on the bottom side of this thing and not on the top side of the net,” Reid said. “So as it’s coming, but I don’t know what it is. And, this is a great place to coach, and I’ve got good players. I’ll be 71 at the end of this contract, and that seems like really old, you know, I don’t really know. And, so I well, we’ll see, see where it all goes.”