to the press on Monday following Sunday night’s 45-10 victory against the Cincinnati Bengals.Let’s round up some of what he said:Reid said all three phases of the game contributed to the victory 2019 Mecole Hardman Kansas City Chiefs , and that it was the team’s best effort of the season.Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsReid praised the Arrowhead fans for making noise while the Bengals were on offense, and said that Bob Sutton and Eric Bieniemy had both drawn up good game plans to defeat the Bengals, which he described as a team with a good offense “that came in hot” to Kansas City.He also praised special teams coordinator Dave Toub for calling the right play against the Bengals’ fake punt — “or whatever that was” — in the second quarter of the game.It was a good-natured session with the writers — as you might expect after such a lopsided victory — and Reid was asked if the defense had “turned a corner” in the game.“I didn’t say we were turning a corner. You said that. I’m saying we took a step in the right direction. That’s important as you go through the year -- that you keep taking steps forward. It’s the same way offensively. We’ve got some things we’ve got to iron out offensively — things to keep getting better at — and defensively as well.”Reid spoke about Dorian O’Daniel’s contributions to the win.Denny Medley-USA TODAY SportsIn his opening remarks, Reid specifically mentioned O’Daniel as a contributor to the win.O’Daniel had four tackles — including a tackle for loss —in roughly half of the defensive snaps in the game.Reid was asked how he envisioned the rookie linebacker’s future, and said that he felt O’Daniel was best-suited to a nickel linebacker role.“We’ve been kind of increasing [O’Daniel] as we go,” he said. “We’ve given him more practice reps. One of his strengths is [his ability to cover receivers out of the backfield]. As we go, he’ll continue to get more play. He can run. You see that he’s a violent tackler.”Reid made a point of saying that Spencer Ware had a big game.Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports“I think this was a big game for Spencer Ware,” Reid said. “He had the injury — one of those where you’re sitting there going, ‘Is this going to be career-ending? Where are we at here?’ It was a pretty significant injury. And then he comes back and works like crazy. We’ve given him play time, but nothing [like he got on Sunday]. And then the yards. We forget the catch he had earlier Mecole Hardman Jersey Cheap , going the opposite direction.”Ware had 59 yards rushing — almost all in the late drive that took almost half of the fourth quarter — plus another 30 yards on three receptions.Reid said that the rehab from Ware’s injury was tough.“Those legs got heavy. And he’s tired,” Reid explained.“And he had to push himself past that wall. You can go run the hill, and do all those things the guys do, but until you’re getting banged on a little bit, and you’ve got to go back in and collect your breath and your thoughts and go back out there and do it again.He’s really had to do that. So this was a big game for him to work through that.” Reid talked about the importance of keeping players like Demetrius Harris as viable receivers in the offense.Photo by David Eulitt/Getty ImagesHarris had only one catch on Sunday night — but it was for a touchdown when the Bengals lost track of him in the end zone.Harris has only five catches on the season — but two have been for touchdowns.“One of the things with this offense is to spread it around, and make the defense cover the whole field at all times — and make sure that everybody’s a viable receiver,” Reid said. “We joke with him about it, but when The Sausage (Anthony Sherman) gets in there, you’ve gotta cover him. He’s not just out there, and can’t catch the football. He’s there Mecole Hardman Jersey Womens , we can shoot him the ball, and he’s able to make productive plays. Everybody that we put out there, we expect to be a viable receiver.”Reid said that as long as they are able to make receptions and score touchdowns, defenses have to regard players like Harris and Sherman as threats, and have to cover them.Other notes from Reid’s Monday remarksReid said the team came out of the game without significant injury — except for linebacker Terrance Smith. Smith left the game in the second quarter, and after the game, Reid characterized it as a knee sprain.He had no other information on the injury at the press conference.Reid said that Tyreek Hill worked hard in the offseason to be an “all-around receiver.”The head coach said that Hill had spent “hour after hour” on learning the intermediate routes and techniques he needed to master to be a receiving threat outside of vertical routes.Reid was asked about how he would decide whether the Chiefs had enough of a lead to bench players to protect them from injury.Reid chose to have a little fun with the press with his answer.“Well, you guys have sat here and asked me about being up by a lot of points and then teams come back and get us,” he said. “I don’t like those questions. Now I’m getting the other end of it.”After the laughter died down, he said Mecole Hardman Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , “Listen, I just go off of my gut. And I have a pretty big gut.” LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for the most yards in the NFL this season and had his second six-touchdown game. But it is the five turnovers the Kansas City quarterback committed that led to the Chiefs dropping their second game this season.Mahomes threw three interceptions and had two fumbles in Monday night’s 54-51 loss to the Los Angeles Rams at the LA Memorial Coliseum. Three of the turnovers resulted in Rams touchdowns, including a fumble and interception return for TDs by Rams linebacker Samson Ebukam.“I gave them 21 points through turnovers,” said Mahomes, who completed 33 of 46 passes for 478 yards. “It sucks right now, plain and simple. You wanted a win like that over a playoff team.”It is the first three-interception game of Mahomes’ career. The first pick came when Ebukam stuck his left hand up at the line of scrimmage and came down with the ball before returning it for a touchdown.Mahomes said he was intending to throw to tight end Demetrius Harris, but that he babied the throw instead of putting more velocity on it.The last two picks came on the final drives as the Chiefs were attempting to tie the game with a field goal.Chiefs coach Andy Reid said the Marcus Peters interception with 1:18 remaining was mostly the result of pressure by Ebukam. The last one, which was picked off by LaMarcus Joyner with 13 seconds remaining at the Rams 28, was Mahomes trying to make a play late.The two fumbles were the results of strip sacks by Aaron Donald, who has a league-leading 14.5 sacks.“He’s made enough of those plays where you have full trust in him Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys Stitched ,” Reid said. “We always talk about protecting the ball and he usually does a good job of that.”Wide receiver Chris Conley, who had seven receptions for 74 yards, said this is the first game that felt as if it had a postseason feel.“Both teams were charged and ready to play like the playoffs. You have to be at your best though, because there are no second chances and do overs.”Despite the turnovers, Reid was impressed with the way Mahomes was able to battle through some early adversity. Early in the fourth quarter, he fired a 73-yard touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill to bring the Chiefs within 40-37. It was Mahomes’ second-longest completion of the season.“He’s resilient and has confidence in himself. Things are going to happen in a game,” Reid said. “The great ones come back firing and tries to rip their hearts out the next series.”For a team that has high postseason aspirations, one concern could be that most of Mahomes’ interceptions have come against quality defenses. Besides the three against the Rams, he threw two in a loss to New England on Oct. 14 and two against Jacksonville on Oct. 7.Rams linebacker Dante Fowler Jr., who has faced Mahomes twice this season Mecole Hardman black jersey , said he felt like Mahomes was getting a little rattled late in the game.“When you are in situations like that, his first year in situations like that, it’s kind of hard. We put the pressure on him and we did a good job,” Fowler Jr. said.For Mahomes, the lessons from this loss were the same as when the Chiefs lost to the Patriots 43-40 on Oct. 14: You can’t make mistakes against good teams.Kansas City goes into the bye at 9-2 and with the best record in the AFC. Reed and Conley are confident that Mahomes will be ready for the December stretch drive.“Patrick is a gamer. We are behind him and we know he will bounce back from this and get better,” Conley said.