Andy Reid’s record in the game after a regular-season bye is well documented and extremely impressive, but Doug Pederson’s isn’t so bad, either. Even with last year’s loss.
Big Red is 16-2 in his head-coaching career after a bye, with those 16 wins accounting for nearly 10 percent of his 179 regular-season victories. Reid and the Chiefs have their bye this week.
Pederson, one of the brightest leaves to sprout from Reid’s coaching tree, is in just his second year as a head coach. But factor in his time as an assistant and as a reserve player sitting behind some of the recent greats of the game (Marino/Favre), and Pederson’s teams have been almost as dominant after a bye as Reid’s.