Aug 20, 2015 at 12:37a ET
Aug 20, 2015 at 12:37a ET
The message was delivered, even if the pass intended for Jeremy Maclin wasn't.
Andy Reid dialed up a long bomb from Alex Smith to Maclin as his first preseason play to set the tone for an autumn to come.
“Coach let us know a few days before that he was thinking about it," Smith told ESPN's Adam Teicher, "Almost to just to kind of set the tone a little bit."
Kansas City was dead last in the NFL in pass plays over 25 yards.