NFL schedule makers did the 49ers no favors when they scheduled them to face the Chiefs in Week 7, following Kansas City’s Week 6 bye.
No coach in NFL history has been better at using the bye week to his team’s advantage than Chiefs coach Andy Reid, whose teams are 21-4 after their bye week. in the regular season. Reid’s .840 winning percentage after time off is the highest of any head coach, among those who have coached at least 10 games after weeks off.
Reid was 13-1 after a bye week as head coach of the Eagles, and he is 8-3 with the Chiefs. Reid is only 1-2 in games when both teams have just received a bye, but when his team has just received a bye and the other team has played the week before, Reid was 20-2.
That’s the case this week: the Chiefs had a full bye week, while the 49ers played last week, although they played Thursday night, so they also just got some extra rest.
Despite Reid’s record after the byes, the Chiefs are 1.5-point underdogs in San Francisco on Sunday in a Super Bowl rematch.
