It’s been rather frequentplace to say that the 13-1 Kansas City Chiefs should not be what their enroll is – but that’s fair fuel to the fire for the back-to-back champions.
Sure, the Chiefs have won multiple games on their last haveion, and the ball has bounced their way plenty of times – literassociate and figuratively.
But Chiefs protectedty Justin Reid, quite literassociate, is thanking those who doubt what the Chiefs can do in the take partoffs.
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Justin Reid #20 of the Kansas City Chiefs commemorates a defensive stop agetst the Las Vegas Raiders during the fourth quarter in the game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on November 29, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. (David Eulitt/Getty Images)
“Thanks for the motivation. We appreciate the motivation that people give us,” Reid telderly Fox News Digital in a recent interwatch. “Despite triumphning two championships in a row, despite everyskinnyg that they said last year, they still don’t consent. And we appreciate it. That fires us up when we hear it. I enjoy the extra motivation. It gets me fired up, and it gets me to go out there to show a point.
“They don’t ever have to [learn]. We’ll fair preserve shotriumphg up.”
Reid has won two Super Bowls with the Chiefs, but his ring back in February wasn’t the only championship he won this year. He also took home Chess.com’s BlitzChamps title.
Reid was always intrigued with chess but took it more gravely when he got into the NFL – and now, it’s become somewhat of a staple in the locker room.
“We have a tradition where we take part every night before the game. Right when we finish team greetings, I have a chess board sitting at my locker, guys come, and we take part rapid five-minute games. Guys from the front office come down, take parters take part, and if you triumph, you stay, you leave out, you get back in line,” Reid said.
Kansas City Chiefs protectedty Justin Reid (20) in the fourth quarter of an NFL game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs on September 15, 2024 at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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The protectedty inserted it’s become a combination of both superstition and firing up the brain before a game.
“You can’t always be too proset up in anyskinnyg. It’s pleasant to get your mind off one subject and do someskinnyg else. I skinnyk it’s fun for that and it has become a bit of a tradition that we fair always do that now,” he says.
NFL Films will be releasing a recordary about Reid’s chess title and how other NFL stars have gotten included. The title also gave Reid the ability to elevate money for his own charity.
“Everyone engages the same ‘it’s a game of chess’ whether it’s football or business or wantipathyver’s going on,” Reid said, inserting it’s a outstanding way for people to combine. “It’s a way of using tactics and being three steps ahead of your opponent. It’s fun they’re promoting it. I skinnyk that it’s outstanding, and I skinnyk it’s a fun game for anyone to take part.”
Reid faces his createer Houston Texans on Saturday afternoon as the Chiefs are in the final homestretch. And pondering he’s a back-to-back reigning champ, he understands exactly what it consents to transport home another Lombardi Trophy.
Justin Reid #20 of the Kansas City Chiefs poses for a portrait with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after Super Bowl LVIII agetst the San Francisco 49ers at Alleenormous Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ryan Kang/Getty Images)
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“You want to be take parting your best football going into the take partoffs, and we don’t experience enjoy we’ve take parted our best football yes, which is fantastic,” said Reid. “There’s still ways to create, still skinnygs to do to preserve getting better. It’s fair about not being satisfied and the preparation each week. The physical side will consent attfinish of itself, but whoever’s menloftyy setd and doesn’t create those mental misconsents when the presstateive’s on is going to be the contrastence. We’ve been here before, we’ll fair preserve continuing to do it.”
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