If ever two drifting forces might have needed to gravitate to each other, it was the Chiefs and Andy Reid after the 2012 season.
It wasn’t just that the Chiefs had been a particularly hopeless 2-14 that year, were confined to a poisonous cultural cycle in the organization and reeling from a murder-suicide committed by linebacker Jovan Belcher that December.
It also was that Reid had become mired in a rut in Philadelphia, where he’d been 12-20 his last two seasons after going 118-73 in his first 12.
Moreover, he was mourning the death of his son Garrett from a drug overdose at the Eagles’ training camp that August, a circumstance that left some to wonder whether Reid would be better served to get away from coaching for a time.