Andy Reid's late-game antics "won't be forgotten" in the Denver Broncos' locker room

No matter how you slice it, it’s hard to look at Dontari Poe’s fourth-quarter touchdown pass to give the Kansas City Chiefs a 33-10 lead over the Denver Broncos as anything but a dagger in the side of a division rival.

After five consecutive years of division championships, the king had fallen, and the revolutionists weren’t going to pass up a chance to stomp on that dictator as they ran by. So Kansas City head coach Andy Reid called on his 346-pound defensive tackle to execute a jump pass, and it worked.

Life comes at you fast in the NFL, one second you’re being mentioned among the greatest defenses of all time, the next second a team is throwing in a dude to become the heaviest player in NFL history to throw a touchdown pass, mostly just for fun.

The thing about these things, though, is they don’t exactly fly under the radar in a professional locker room. If it were baseball, somebody would be getting a fastball placed square in the middle of their back. In football, it’ll be something else, but the Broncos won’t soon be letting go of the fact that they were clowned all over the internet and replayed hundreds of times on every highlight show.

“Of course [it’s upsetting], that’s Andy Reid, that’s what he does, he puts plays like that together,” Broncos linebacker Shane Ray said after the game. “That won’t be forgotten; it’s not like we don’t play each other twice a year. We’ll remember this.”

Unfortunately for the Broncos, it won’t soon be forgotten anywhere in the country, and they’ll have a whole offseason—including a postseason on their couches—to think all about it. They’ll get their chance for revenge, but for now, folks around the country will stick to the fact that Dontari Poe had more touchdown passes on Sunday than Trevor Siemian has had in the last two weeks combined.