Reid's biggest hurdle as the Eagles head coach was in the NFC championship game, as he struggled to lead Philadelphia to NFC titles. From 2001-2004, the Eagles made four straight NFC championship games, but they lost each of the first three before finally winning the NFC in the fourth straight appearance.

“There aren’t enough superlatives,” said Brad Childress, who became the Minnesota Vikings’ head coach in 2006 after having been Reid’s offensive coordinator in Philadelphia and worked for Reid again in Kansas City from 2013 to 2017. “He wasn’t born on third base.”

“I love BYU,” Reid told the Deseret News in March of 2022 after participating in head football coach Kalani Sitake’s high school coaches clinic. “I bleed blue. I have a (BYU) football helmet in my office and I am all-in.”