{"id":39281,"date":"2025-12-08T16:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39281"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:02:14","slug":"breaking-what-chiefs-andy-reid-said-about-that-disastrous-4th-down-call-vs-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39281","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: What Chiefs&#8217; Andy Reid said about that disastrous 4th-down call vs. Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"article-3624943\">What did Chiefs head coach Andy Reid say about Kansas City&#8217;s disastrous 4th-down call against Houston on Sunday Night Football?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kansas-City-Chiefs-head-coach-Andy-Reid-1.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid looks on during the third quarter of the game against the Las Vegas Raiders at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Chiefs lost a brutal game on Sunday Night Football. Kansas City fell 20-10 against a surging Houston team, which puts them under .500 at 6-7 on the season. One crucial play ended up costing the Chiefs during the fourth quarter, and it came up repeatedly during postgame interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Chiefs head coach Andy Reid took responsibility for a disastrous fourth-down call against the Texans on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put the guys, offensively, in a tough position with the fourth downs [calls],\u201d Reid said, per ESPN&#8217;s Nate Taylor. \u201cI was trying to stay aggressive with it. I take full responsibility for that. I thought we could get it. It&#8217;s important that you take advantage of opportunities. In hindsight, it was wrong. I messed that one up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City went for it on fourth down during a pivotal point in the game. Reid called a shotgun passing play with Hollywood Brown lined up in the backfield. The played resulted in an incomplete pass to Rashee Rice with Patrick Mahomes targeting him over the middle of the field.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_2659,h_1495,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,w_1200,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/voltaxMediaLibrary\/mmsport\/si\/01kby2tyg2rb90zpggh6.png\" alt=\"Andy Reid Won't Be Able to Defend Going For It on Fourth Down Late vs.  Texans\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, making an aggressive call like that was a career first for Reid. He had never before went for it on fourth down with the score tied in the fourth quarter or overtime and with his offense inside its own 40-yard line.<\/p>\n<p>Failing on that conversion gave the Texans the ball in great field position. They scored a touchdown to go up 17-10 just a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Was Chiefs&#8217; fourth-down failure a bad call or good defense by Texans?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3624761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3624761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Houstons-defense-scrambles-Patrick-Mahomes.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Houstons-defense-scrambles-Patrick-Mahomes.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Houstons-defense-scrambles-Patrick-Mahomes.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Houstons-defense-scrambles-Patrick-Mahomes.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Houstons-defense-scrambles-Patrick-Mahomes.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Houstons-defense-scrambles-Patrick-Mahomes.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Houstons-defense-scrambles-Patrick-Mahomes.jpg?resize=150,84 150w\" alt=\"What Chiefs' Andy Reid said about that disastrous 4th-down call vs. Texans\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3624761\">Denny Medley-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On paper, Reid made a good call by going for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Next Gen Stats and ESPN Analytics&#8217; model agreed with the decision to go for it on fourth down. But Houston simply played great defense.<\/p>\n<p>Even Patrick Mahomes praised Houston&#8217;s defense for making that fourth-down attempt extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did a good job of passing off the crossers,\u201d Mahomes said. \u201cI tried to get the ball to Rashee. I think I was a little late. [Texans cornerback Derek Stingley Jr.] made a great play breaking on the ball. We just have to execute at a higher level in those big moments. It&#8217;s something we haven&#8217;t done this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Chiefs, they will face another stingy defense in their next game.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for the Chiefs is a Week 15 matchup against the Chargers.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did Chiefs head coach Andy Reid say about Kansas City&#8217;s disastrous 4th-down call against Houston on Sunday Night Football?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39,19,18,128,447],"class_list":["post-39281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-andy-reid","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-rashee-rice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: What Chiefs&#039; 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