In just the past 24 hours, the football world has had to reckon with high-profile head coaches moving on from the teams where they made history. Nick Saban shocked fans by stepping away from the University of Alabama, while Pete Carroll‘s reign as the Seattle Seahawks‘ head coach came to an end. On Thursday, the New England Patriots confirmed they were moving on from six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick after a lackluster 2023 season.

Many fans and analysts are now wondering whether Andy Reid will be the next iconic coach to leave his position. The Kansas City Chiefs‘ longtime leader remains under contract, but only through 2025 — and as Reid himself pointed out Thursday, he isn’t getting any younger.

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Reid isn’t pondering retirement

Even though peers like Belichick are moving on, Reid told reporters on Thursday that he has no plans as of yet to stand aside and end his decade-long tenure as the Chiefs‘ coach.

“I’m old, but not that old,” Reid quipped.

Reid, who turns 66 in March, led Kansas City to two Super Bowl titles in his first 10 seasons as the Chiefs’ head coach. The Chiefs were a regular playoff team during Reid’s first years in charge after he left the Philadelphia Eagles in 2012, but it wasn’t until the arrival of Patrick Mahomes that Kansas City became a juggernaut — its on-field success turning Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce into larger-than-life stars.

The Chiefs’ success under Reid resulted in the franchise giving him a long-term extension in 2020, worth north of $10 million per year. But that contract expires after next season, meaning the coach and the organization will soon have a big decision to make, even if neither is planning on a parting of the ways right now.

Reid praises Belichick as the best he’s ever coached against

Reid and Belichick have had high-profile showdowns throughout the past two decades. Belichick’s Patriots got the better of Reid’s Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005, and the Pats again bested Reid and the Chiefs in a classic AFC Championship Game in January 2019.

These close, intense matchups produced mutual respect between the two head coaches — and Reid on Thursday honored Belichick by calling him the best coach he’s ever faced.

Reid is steadily making his way up the all-time coaching wins list, ranking fourth all-time with 280 total victories and second all-time with 22 playoff wins. But Belichick is closer to the all-time record, as his 333 combined wins are only 15 behind the late Don Shula — and his 31 postseason victories are the most of any coach in NFL history.