Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid is known as a quarterback whisperer of sorts. That being said, after a great start to the season, the thing he's most known for is biting him right in the rear.

To put it more bluntly: Alex Smith hasn't exactly been great the last few weeks.

In turn, the entire offense has been out of rhythm. Andy Reid says that's the job of the gunslinger.

“The quarterback has the responsibility there,” Reid said, via PFT. “He’s (Smith) a standup guy and he’s always going to tell you he can do better.”

Still, Reid says this is all part of a process.

“That’s how we go about it and that’s how you play, all of those things go into that and that’s how we analyze that,” Reid said. “It’s been fairly successful for us. We’re going to keep doing that. We’re going to tweak what we need tweaked and we’re going to keep working that system that we’re doing and try to get better at it.”

“I’ve got to make sure I’m putting the guys in the right position to make the plays, Alex included, and then when given the chance we’ve got to make them,” Reid said. “Right now it’s one of those things where we’re off by one tick on a play. Now unfortunately that’s costing us and we have to get out of that. We have to all pull together here and keep pulling that rope in the tug-o-war in the right direction. If we do that we’re going to be OK. You have to dance the same dance, everybody has to be dancing that. You have a mistake here or there and bad things happen unfortunately.”

Luckily for the Chiefs, the AFC West is having a bit of a down year. There's still time to right this ship.