KANSAS CITY — Somebody is missing from Andy Reid's game prep this week.
The Kansas City Chiefs head coach is getting ready for Sunday's playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers without the customary weekly phone call from his former BYU coach and mentor, LaVell Edwards, who died Dec. 29 at age 86.
"He followed the team," Reid said immediately after the Jan. 7 funeral for the College Football Hall of Fame coach in Provo, Utah. "He'd ask everything from what injuries we had to what we'd do that week. Then he asked about the other team.