Kansas City Chiefs - 33, Miami Dolphins - 27
ANDY REID: Listen, all-in-all -- well let me give you a couple things. Mike Remmers didn't finish, he hurt his back and came out. And then Charvarius Ward was cleared for his head. He was checked for that and he was okay.
Other than that I'm glad to get the win and get out of here. Good football team, Brian's done a nice job with it and players played hard and so on. Special teams I thought did a nice job today. Very nice job. Their special teams are one of the top in the NFL and I thought our guys came out and really did well and Butker finished up with a big field goal there.
I thought the pressure on the quarterback was good. I thought the defensive line did some nice things with the run game and the pass game part of it. Really until that fourth quarter we had a pretty good thing going.
Then we have got to finish. We got to finish on both sides of the ball make sure we take care of business there. Had a lot of yards but we have got to take care of the ball, too many turnovers and can't do that against good football teams.
So I appreciated the effort the guys gave us and I just thought that they bore down and did a nice job with it to finish it off in that fourth quarter.
Q. Five straight division titles now, what does that mean to you and that locker room knowing that you've won five straight division titles and you always preached parity, but five straight is pretty impressive.
ANDY REID: Yeah well listen, it's been -- they don't give those away, so they give the hats away but they don't give these championships away. So I'm proud of the guys for that, we all know that we need to keep going, so it's a nice accomplishment by the whole organization, I mean this isn't one person or anything else, I mean this is a whole organization from the Hunt family down to Mark Donovan and Brett Veach, I mean everybody's had a piece of this.
So -- and we all know that we got to keep going and keep improving. So that will be the goal going forward.
Q. This was the second time in three weeks you've had trouble defensively finishing out a game, counting the Tampa game. I was wondering if there's something you can put your figure on that's kind of a common thread there?
ANDY REID: Probably the primary thing is that we end up winning the game, which I don't want to lose focus on. They're a good football team, playoff-caliber team, so we could have helped out offensively too, so it was a team thing that we just, we need to finish and I'll take responsibility for that, I could have been more aggressive with the play caller and so on, so it starts with me and that's where we roll.
Q. Also, that fourth down you had on the final drive, where you went for if and threw the pass to Tyreek, was that a difficult decision or were you thinking we're going for this the whole time?
ANDY REID: We were going for it the whole time. Yeah. Yeah.
Q. Kind of a general question here, I understand, but the Dolphins defensively, it looked like, especially kind of in the middle part of the game, they were focused more on coverage than pressures, but anyway curious what you saw with that and what gave you guys trouble and how you guys were able to break through against a good defense.
ANDY REID: Well, listen, I tried to run the ball a little bit there and they were zero blitzing and I could have changed things up a little bit. That was my responsibility to do that, so they did a nice job. They did a nice job. They just kind of went all in on it and came after us and normal situations you call some other things, but I should probably have done that.
Q. Can you just put into context the year that Travis is having this year, 136 yards today I feel like he's been Mr. Reliable when you all need him the most?
ANDY REID: He's done a nice job. Like any game, there are things that he can do better, but I mean let's not slight him, he's done great and he's loving every minute of it, he and the quarterback have a good relationship. So they're working it together, they have a lot of trust in each other.
Q. Xavien Howard, 25 for them, how important and I know he got you for one but how important was it to find creative ways to maybe free up Tyreek Hill as far as you guys having sets in that middle portion of the game?
ANDY REID: No, he's one of the best corners in the National Football League and that catch he made was phenomenal and we have seen him do it before. If you under throw it an inch, it's just, he can go up and do what he did. He's playing as well as any corner in the National Football League right now. So we had a couple and he got that one, so I would like to have that one back.
Q. Patrick doesn't have days where he throws multiple interceptions very often when you had him over on the sideline what's his attitude like when he comes over? I imagine he's pretty even keeled, but do those things affect him during the game?
ANDY REID: No, no, I don't want them to affect him I want him to keep firing so just learn from it and let's go. If it was that or was it a receiver or was it a -- whatever it was, let's just learn, all of us, let's learn from it and let's not let it happen again.
Q. Kind of similar, but seemed like they had some heavy concentration on Tyreek Hill and I know you guys have seen that plenty this season and pass seasons. What's sort of the balance though in wanting to get maybe one of your best weapons involved versus just kind of spreading out to what else is available?
ANDY REID: Well Pat does a good job of doing that, he spreads it around, gives everybody an opportunity, we have got good players and he's willing to get it to them.
And they did. They had a plan for him, for both he and Kelce and that's a tribute to Pat though moving people around and using his throws to other people.
Q. With regard to Patrick he's played so remarkably so consistently that I think it's easy for sometimes for people to forget he's human. What does it say about him though that he can go through a stretch like that and then just kind of have the same sort of game he normally does?
ANDY REID: Yeah, well it's a tribute to his greatness. He works through it, like anybody else, any other player, he's got to work his tail off to be great. So I don't want to slight that part either, so he spends a ton of time at it, he works with his teammates, he's engaging with them, he's honest with them, he's honest about himself, he's honest about guys that he's working with and he brings it all together, so it's a tribute to the kid.
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