Andy Reid knew what he was doing.
When I got the assignment to write a "What We Learned in 2018" column, that was the first thing that popped into my mind. Not that I ever necessarily thought Reid didn't know what he was doing, but when I think back to last summer I recall being at least a little bit skeptical about the decision to trade Alex Smith and turn a successful Kansas City Chiefs offense over to an untested Patrick Mahomes. I'm a big one for having to see it before I believe it, and I just figured Mahomes, like most young quarterbacks, would be prone to some growing pains, and that it could set the Chiefs back in the short term.