During his time on the Chiefs staff, Brad Childress may have had the most unique job of any NFL coach. His official title: Spread game analyst. His task: Track offensive trends showing up around all levels of the sport and helping to integrate them into the Chiefs offense.
“It’s hard not to look at what those college offenses are doing and say, ‘That’s a hell of a good thing these guys are doing,” Childress told the Ringer’s Kevin Clark in 2016. “And that is when you steal those things.”
And steal them the Chiefs have.
Childress left his post as spread game analyst at the end of the 2017 season (and most recently helped Matt Nagy install a similar offense in Chicago), but the influence of his work was never more apparent than during the Chiefs’ 38-28 win over the Chargers in Week 1. Andy Reid’s offense racked up 362 yards and four touchdowns, with most of that production coming on play designs straight from Saturdays. While the Chiefs weren’t running a pure spread offense, it was the closest thing we’ve seen to one in the NFL.
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