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FILE – Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, second from left, and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs head coach Andy Reid chat earlier than an NFL soccer sport, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, in Baltimore. Harbaugh as soon as beat his personal brother to win the Tremendous Bowl, so going through a mentor in all probability received\u2019t rattle him. Nonetheless, there\u2019s loads of appreciation between the Baltimore coach and Andy Reid, his counterpart on the Kansas Metropolis sideline for this week\u2019s AFC championship sport. (AP Photograph\/Julio Cortez, File)
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) \u2014 John Harbaugh as soon as defeated his personal brother in a Tremendous Bowl, so going up in opposition to somebody he used to work with is probably not all that emotional.
Nonetheless, there\u2019s loads of respect between the Baltimore coach and his counterpart this weekend: Kansas Metropolis\u2019s Andy Reid.
\u201cClearly, it\u2019s an enormous deal by way of the connection,\u201d Harbaugh mentioned this week. \u201cIt goes again a protracted, lengthy, good distance. Utmost respect for Andy, utmost appreciation for what he\u2019s achieved as a coach. We had been collectively for 10 years, the primary 10 years there in Philly. We had been in loads of championship video games, and loads of playoff video games.\u201d
They\u2019ll face one another as head coaches for the primary time in a playoff sport when the Ravens host the Chiefs on Sunday. That\u2019s considerably outstanding given how profitable they\u2019ve been. That is Harbaugh\u2019s fourth AFC championship sport with Baltimore and Reid\u2019s sixth in a row with Kansas Metropolis.
Reid leads their head-to-head sequence 5-2 since he and Harbaugh went their separate methods through the former\u2019s tenure on the helm of the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohn does an exceptional job. He is aware of the entire sport,\u201d Reid mentioned. \u201cHe was an awesome particular groups coach, an awesome secondary coach and he\u2019s been an awesome head coach. Very pleased with him and all he\u2019s carried out and achieved.\u201d
Harbaugh was a particular groups coordinator in 1998 for the Eagles below Ray Rhodes, then remained in that function for eight seasons after Reid took over the next season.
\u201cRay Rhodes was nice to be round for a yr or two. If Ray\u2019s on the market listening, simply thanks very a lot. I\u2019m all the time appreciative of what I realized from Ray,\u201d Harbaugh mentioned. \u201cThen Andy got here in, I hoped to remain, and he gave me a possibility to do it. I used to be younger and simply figuring issues out. That was good of him, and hope he\u2019s glad he did, wanting again on it.\u201d
Reid mentioned he\u2019d recognized Harbaugh\u2019s father, Jack, earlier than maintaining John on his workers in Philadelphia.
\u201cHis dad was the very best. He was actual shut with LaVell Edwards (at BYU). I did a factor at a hospital one time with them. I used to be a younger coach, carrying Coach Edwards\u2019 bag. And I acquired to know them, and we had been like, the three coaches at this complete conference that confirmed up on the hospital,\u201d Reid mentioned. \u201cWe spent a few days collectively and it was nice. I by no means forgot it. So once I met John, I used to be like, \u2018Should you\u2019re half nearly as good as your dad, you\u2019re on.\u2019 And he\u2019s been that.\u201d
Harbaugh grew to become a secondary coach for Philadelphia in 2007, then took over the Ravens the next season. He received a Tremendous Bowl in his fifth season in Baltimore. The opponent in that sport was San Francisco, then coached by his brother, Jim.
Currently, Reid\u2019s Chiefs have been the workforce to beat within the AFC. Their streak of six straight convention title video games has been accompanied by two Tremendous Bowl wins, considered one of which got here final yr.
Reid additionally reached 4 NFC title video games in a row in Philadelphia with Harbaugh on his workers.
Apart from Harbaugh, Reid\u2019s teaching tree consists of one other Tremendous Bowl-winning head coach in Doug Pederson, in addition to Sean McDermott of the Buffalo Payments, whom Kansas Metropolis defeated last weekend<\/a><\/span>.
\u201cYou consider all the good coaches that had been on that workers that Andy assembled and mentored and taught us all a lot,\u201d Harbaugh mentioned. \u201cWe had been an in depth group of men, a workers that beloved one another. I see loads of that on this (Ravens) workers, too.\u201d
Though it\u2019s been some time since he and Reid coached collectively, a number of the classes are straightforward to recall.
\u201cI inform this story rather a lot. One of many issues with Andy, he had this three-by-five card behind his desk on his bulletin board. It simply mentioned, \u2018Don\u2019t decide,\u2019\u201d Harbaugh mentioned. \u201cI acquired the nerve to ask him about it one time, and he simply mainly (mentioned) it\u2019s sort of a biblical precept. Take folks the place they\u2019re at. Assume the very best. Attempt to talk with everyone on equal phrases. I\u2019ve by no means forgot that.\u201d
AP Sports activities Author Dave Skretta in Kansas Metropolis contributed.
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