Head coach Andy Reid on what the Jets did that made him believe the fake punt would work and how anxious he got when he saw how high the pass was…
“Yeah, well they’ve been working on it. I mean, they’ve been doing it the last couple, three weeks, and it’s been like clockwork. That one did get a little high. It’s different when it’s in a game, and he’s as good a thrower as there is. So, he’s a real good athlete and he was able to show a little bit of that today. But it’s a little different in a game. Next time he does it, it’ll be better. It won’t be quite as high, but we’ll take it right there.”
Head coach Andy Reid on how much better Patrick Mahomes has gotten at making the right decision on RPOs…
“Yeah, he was spot on today. He was seeing and shooting, and he’s very accurate with those things, seeing them I’m saying, and then his throws are good too if he pulls it. But at the same time, he’s patient with the run part of it, and he’s got a good feel of the game and what’s happening with it down-and-distance-wise, field position, all those things. So, full trust in him with it.”
Head coach Andy Reid on if there’s been a point this season where he’s seen complacency and had to address it and what a performance like Sunday’s says in that regard…
“Yeah, so listen, coaches are always on guard for all that. And you say it a million times, you’re always going to say it. I mean, that’s how coaches are wired. So, I remind them of that, but I really haven’t worried about that with them because these guys are pretty focused. They enjoy playing with each other, and listen, if you’re going to be good at the end of the year, you’ve got to take care of business during the year. So, every game counts as you go forward, and so it’s important that you bear down every week, and that’s part of it as you go. But I haven’t really worried that much about it, no, with them.”
Head coach Andy Reid on what Patrick Mahomes checked out of on his touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill (Was it a run play that was checked to a pass?)…
“If I could tell you, I’d have to make you disappear. No, it was a pass to a pass. I sounded like I was from Philly for about a second there but don’t tell them that.”
Head coach Andy Reid on how great having so many talented guys who can do damage with the ball in their hands is for a play caller…
“Yeah, these guys make that easy, or as easy as it can be in the NFL. I mean, there’s such great competition out here. But the best thing that I see and like is that they’re on the same page. So, they’re thinking right along how the coaches are thinking when we’re over on the sideline thinking we know everything. So, they’re kind of right in line with it and actually executing it in game time, but it’s impressive.”
QB Patrick Mahomes on what it felt like to open up and have a big day out there…
“I mean it’s always fun to go out there and score touchdowns and do all that different type of stuff. We’ve kind of been saying it all year long is we have a lot ways we can beat teams and today they were doing a good job of kind of stopping up the run and we took it to air, threw the ball and we made plays happen that way. Now that you can kind of see it, we can throw the ball on teams, run the ball on teams and it’s about taking what’s there and finding the best way to win a football game.”
QB Patrick Mahomes on what went into the touchdown celebrations with Tyreek Hill…
“No, the first one I was just trying to get him out of the stands. He went up there and I don’t know the rules on that, but I know it’s probably not the best thing to do so I tried to get him back down and the second one, it looked like he was a little dinged up. He made a great play on the ball, I got him over there and luckily he ended up being fine so we’re just having fun out there.”
QB Patrick Mahomes on the fake punt and throw from Tommy Townsend and how important that play was for the drive…
“I thought it was sweet, he ripped that thing. It wasn’t a lollipop at all, I mean he caught it and he ripped it over there, so it was pretty impressive. I actually didn’t know it was happening. I was trying to go for it and Coach (Andy) Reid was – I should’ve known by the way he kind of just said go ahead and he sent the special teams out there. I was like, “man, you’re not even going to think about it?” I guess he already had things planned ahead. I think Toub (Coach Dave Toub) does a great job and he has for a very long time of having different tricks and having different ways to execute at a high level of that special teams group. It gave us a chance to have another play and we were able to score on it. It was a big point in the game.”
QB Patrick Mahomes on if he judges the offense’s performance differently in this game compared to others, seeing as the Jets haven’t won…
“I don’t. If you look at this defense and how they played this year, I mean they may not have won any games, but they’re in games and they’re competing, they’re doing their job. They’re a team that has a lot of talented players and we went out there and we had to execute at a high level. You have to do that in this league, you can’t take anyone for granted because there’s great football players on every single football team that you’re going to go up against.”
QB Patrick Mahomes on if there’s a different feel for him halfway through the season this time around compared to previous ones…
“I wouldn’t say a different feel. The thing to me that I’ve learned from in my experiences is we have a team that can go get whatever we want to go get. Going into the last two seasons you haven’t had that Super Bowl championship, you don’t know for sure, you think you do but you don’t know for sure and I know we have the players in this locker room and now it’s about the effort we put in every single day and the grind every single day of not taking anything for granted. That’s what its going to take and I think we have the leaders in this locker room to try and make a run at it.”