Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid spoke to reporters via Zoom on Monday, discussing the team’s morale following their Week 14 loss to the Houston Texans.”It falls on me, first of all. Our guys will be ready; they’ll be ready to go. You go through this, and you kind of regather your thoughts, and time is a friend here for you in that area because you spend a lot of time on this,” said Reid, “As you know, getting ready for these games, and there’s a lot of effort that goes into it, and you should feel that. If you’ve put everything out there and you’ve come up on the short end, you should feel a sense that, listen, we’ve got to do better here, and that’s not a great feeling normally. On the other hand, you go back through, and you still have an opportunity to go (and) that fires you up. You just need a minute here to catch it. Now, we don’t have the players in today, so they’re going through that. We’re deep into the Chargers right now as we speak, so that’s how it rolls.”According to Next Gen Stats, the Chiefs have a 15 percent chance of qualifying for the playoffs and will continue to battle until the end. Reid opened up about being in fourth-quarter situations before and feeling the same energy on the sidelines in those moments as in the rest of the season.”I do feel it. I thought there was great energy, actually going into that. I don’t think it was an energy thing that got us in this game here. I felt like the guys were into it (and) were encouraging each other. It seemed very positive. We just had a couple negative things go wrong, that’s where I’m kicking myself in the tail,” said Reid, “On the fourth down, we did have some momentum, if you want to call it that. There was at least a positive feeling going, and I tried to build on that, but it didn’t work out. When they don’t work, it’s not a good thing.”Kansas City will now look ahead toward a rematch with the Los Angeles Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium this upcoming Sunday. Their postseason hopes are very slim, but there’s still a chance of a comeback with four games remaining.This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: Chiefs HC Andy Reid comments on the team morale after the Week 14 loss
