the 1992 Bills to make a third successive trip to the big game.The Chargers, despite finishing with the same record as the Chiefs at 12-4, lost the tiebreaker and are the No. 5 seed in the AFC. They will head to Baltimore to face the AFC North champion Ravens on Sunday. The Ravens are No. 9 in the po

Thursday night quotes from Andy Reid that matter Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid spoke to local media members after the Chiefs’ fourth fan final preseason game Thursday night Laurent Duvernay-Tardif Jersey , a 33-21 win over the Green Bay Packers.Prior to taking questions, Reid said that wide receiver Byron Pringle “got [his hamstring] pretty good,” meaning Pringle could very well be a candidate for injured reserve in a deep, deep wide receiver room.Here were the quotes from Reid that seemed to hold a little more weight than the others:On rookie safety Armani Watts, who recorded two interceptions in the game: “He had a big night tonight with two interceptions. That’s what you saw at Texas A&M. He’s an instinctive player. It’s just a matter of him playing more and you will see a different player each week in a positive way I think. He was an instinctive player when he first came here. The more he has played the defense, the better he has gotten. He’s got pretty good hands, those were good catches. He did a nice job.”Prior to the Chiefs drafting Watts, SB Nation called him the most clutch player in the 2018 NFL Draft. When the Chiefs decided to move on from Marcus Peters, they lost someone with a seemingly innate ability to cause turnovers. Perhaps the Chiefs have a player who could develop into a replacement in that regard in Watts.On whether it was important for Reid to see just as many reps from Matt McGloin as he did Chase Litton: “It was, yes. I wanted to give Chad (Henne) a series, and they had some guys they were going to potentially play on defense that were coming back off of injury that they wanted to work in, which was a new defense, so they could potentially throw some things at us. I thought it would be good work for Chad to get that and play him for a series and then get the other two guys in there. I thought they did a nice job Terrance Smith Jersey , both Matt and Chase. Matt has a little more experience, but Chase sure did some nice things. He saw the blitz, got it out of his hands and knew where he wanted to go with it. He did a pretty good job.” Matt McGloin played as good a game as he had to in order to make the roster decision tough, but I’m still hoping the Chiefs go with Litton here. If Chad Henne wasn’t already on the team, I may feel differently, but the Chiefs have the experience there in Henne. Develop a backup with unknown upside.On the current state of the Chiefs’ cornerback position: “I like some of the things I’ve seen. It was good to get Steven (Nelson) back practicing. He is a big part of that. It was good to have Orlando (Scandrick) in the mix. I will tell you, we can’t have enough of those guys. David Amerson is working to get better. I think that’s important.”As I noted here, Reid is never going to go out of his way trash a player. That being said, there are feelings you can take away from the things he does say, and what this statement says to me is he sees Nelson and Scandrick higher in the depth chart than Amerson. It’s not the sentiment you want if you’re Amerson two days prior to the 53-man cutdown day. The chase to Atlanta is on.The regular season is over and there are 12 teams remaining in the run to the Super Bowl. And at the top of the AP Pro32 poll, the new year starts right where the previous one ended.The New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears, the top three seeds in the NFC Khalen Saunders Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , retained their top three spots in the final AP Pro32 poll of the season.New Orleans received 11 of the 12 first-place votes for 382 points in balloting Wednesday by media members who regularly cover the NFL. New Orleans will open the playoffs at home in the divisional round on Sunday, Jan 13.“The Saints lost in Week 1 and Week 17, both at home,” said Ira Kaufman of Fox 13 in Tampa, Florida. “In between, Drew Brees and company established themselves as the team to beat in the Super Bowl chase.”The Rams, who also finished 13-3 in the regular season, will start their postseason at the Coliseum on Saturday, Jan. 12. The Bears will close wild-card weekend when they host the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles on Sunday.The next six spots in the poll are all taken by the AFC’s playoffs teams.The Chiefs, who have the AFC’s top seed, are No. 4. Kansas City, which received the remaining first-place vote — from John Czarnecki of Fox Sports — has won the AFC West for three consecutive seasons. Patrick Mahomes, who finished with 5 Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys 2019 ,097 yards and 50 TD passes, will try to get Kansas City its first home playoff win since the 1993 season.“MVP front-runner Patrick Mahomes finished a brilliant first season as a starter with 50 touchdown passes,” said Newsday’s Bob Glauber. “With home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs, is a Super Bowl berth next?”The Los Angeles Chargers and New England Patriots finished in a tie at No. 5 in the poll.The Patriots, who won the AFC East for the 10th straight season and 15th time in the past 16 seasons, are the No. 2 seed in the AFC. They are trying to reach their ninth Super Bowl in the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady era. They are also trying to become the first team since the 1990s Buffalo Bills to return to the Super Bowl after losing it the previous season, and the first since the 1992 Bills to make a third successive trip to the big game.The Chargers, despite finishing with the same record as the Chiefs at 12-4, lost the tiebreaker and are the No. 5 seed in the AFC. They will head to Baltimore to face the AFC North champion Ravens on Sunday. The Ravens are No. 9 in the poll.AFC South rivals Houston and Indianapolis are Nos. 7 and 8 in the poll. Those teams will open the postseason in Houston on Saturday when they meet for the third time after splitting their previous meetings.“Just wish they had another WR,” Czarnecki said of the Texans. Houston’s DeAndre Hopkins finished second in the NFL with 1,572 yards, but the depth took a hit when Demaryius Thomas was lost for the season with an Achilles tendon injury.Seattle and Dallas, who meet Saturday night in Texas Khalen Saunders Jersey Cheap , are 10th and 11th in the poll. The Seahawks and Cowboys both finished 10-6. They met in Seattle in Week 3, when the Seahawks won 24-13.The team that made the biggest climb from the first poll, which was released before the season started, was the Bears, who started out at No. 28 and finished at No. 3. And the team that had the biggest drop was the Jacksonville Jaguars, who began at No. 7 and ended up at No. 28.The Arizona Cardinals, who finished with the worst record in the NFL at 3-13 and have the No. 1 pick in April’s draft, were a unanimous choice for last place in the poll.