Top five offensive play-callers in the NFL right now

#5 Andy Reid

And then I want to give another guy love, who has done it for a long, long time. Andy Reid first became a head coach before this millennium even started. He coached some of the great Philadelphia offenses throughout the year, which made it to four straight NFC Championship Games, before doing the same in Kansas City with Alex Smith.

However, I don’t think he has ever had as much fun as he now has with Patrick Mahomes taking the calls. Until the reigning MVP went out three weeks ago, no team in the league even came close to the number of vertical concepts they ran. Reid can fall in love too much with the passing game and forget about his backs, but that combination of aggressive play-caller with maybe the most talented pure passers is absolutely lethal.

Even without his QB however, the offense has put up points – 24 versus the Packers and 26 against the Vikings with Matt Moore under center. The way he uses smokes and mirrors through motions and jet sweep fakes, use speedsters to deceive the defense and simply put the ball to his playmakers in space has been second to none throughout the years.

What sets those top four apart a little from Reid is that as incredible as he has been as a play-designer, his offenses have kind of stalled late in the year at times once D-coordinators got the hang of things and that those other guys excelling at game-planning for their respective opponents.

Next up: Frank Reich, Greg Roman and Jon Gruden