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PHOENIX — It took less than a week for Andy Reid to get from Philadelphia to -Kansas City.
The Eagles fired their coach after 14 years on Dec. 30, 2012. After a clandestine meeting at the Philadelphia airport with Chiefs brass, Reid agreed to take the job Jan. 4, 2013.
Matt Nagy, an Eagles assistant who followed Reid to the Chiefs, still remembers what happened in Reid’s first meeting with his new players. After spending a stressful season under fire in Philadelphia — he was booed as often by locals as another red-clad large man with facial hair, Santa Claus — Reid was treated as a conquering hero by veterans Tamba Hali, Derrick Johnson and Eric Berry.