{"id":25721,"date":"2025-06-13T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25721"},"modified":"2025-06-13T23:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:15:49","slug":"breaking-andy-reid-makes-statement-after-chiefs-announce-retirement-of-veteran-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25721","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : \ud83d\udd14 Andy Reid Breaks Silence After Chiefs \ud83c\udfc8 Announce Shocking Retirement of Veteran Coach \ud83d\udc40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/.image\/ar_4:3%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200\/MjEyNzI4MzQ3OTk2NzI2Nzkz\/usatsi_25353025.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Reid Makes Statement After Chiefs Announce Retirement of Veteran Coach - Athlon Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coming off a loss to the\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles\u00a0in\u00a0Super Bowl\u00a0LIX to end the 2024\u00a0NFL\u00a0season, the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0announced the\u00a0retirement\u00a0of assistant special teams coach Andy Hill ahead of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Patrick Mahomes\u00a0and tight end\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0formed the braintrust of head coach Andy Reid&#8217;s offense and defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo elevated the defense, Hill won two Super Bowls during his five-year tenure with\u00a0Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have won an NFL record 17 consecutive one-score games, including an 11-0 record in the 2024 regular season. In these games, the small margins on special teams carried outsized importance.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the impact on the gridiron, Reid emphasized in a statement that Hill would be missed for his personality around the team every day.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have won an NFL record 17 consecutive one-score games, including an 11-0 record in the 2024 regular season. In these games, the small margins on special teams carried outsized importance.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the impact on the gridiron, Reid emphasized in a statement that Hill would be missed for his personality around the team every day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/.image\/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_xy_center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620%2Cx_1500%2Cy_722\/MjEyODM3Mzg3MDE1ODI0OTA1\/usatsi_13397630.jpg\" alt=\"Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid talks with chairman Clark Hunt.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is Mr. Missouri, he knows everybody,&#8221; Reid\u00a0said\u00a0of Hill at Chiefs OTAs on Thursday. &#8220;I\u2019m not just saying that, he knows everybody. He\u2019s got a great attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hill played in college for the\u00a0Missouri Tigers\u00a0and made his way back to Columbia as a coach in 1996. He spent 23 seasons on the Missouri staff, becoming one of the longest-tenured assistants in program history and an inductee to the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chiefs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chiefs<\/a> &#8211; Coach Andy Reid and Dave Toub and the wonderful coaches and players that I was honored to be a small part of such a class organization-Top to bottom the best in the NFL!  Our family says THANK YOU! \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5s9mi2kBnN\">https:\/\/t.co\/5s9mi2kBnN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Hill (@CoachHillChiefs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoachHillChiefs\/status\/1932900911233286328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After Hill&#8217;s retirement, running backs coach Porter Ellett became the new assistant special teams coach before his ninth season with Kansas City. He will work under Chiefs&#8217; assistant head coach and special teams coordinator Dave Toub in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll miss him,&#8221; Reid added on Hill. &#8220;Porter has moved over to that, who\u2019s a good young football coach. He\u2019ll do a nice job, but it was nice to have Andy here for the years he was here. He was very well-liked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : \ud83d\udd14 Andy Reid Breaks Silence After Chiefs \ud83c\udfc8 Announce Shocking Retirement of Veteran Coach \ud83d\udc40 - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25721\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : \ud83d\udd14 Andy Reid Breaks Silence After Chiefs \ud83c\udfc8 Announce Shocking Retirement of Veteran Coach \ud83d\udc40 - 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