If it was bittersweet for Reid, watching Pederson achieve something in his second year in charge that has eluded Reid through 19 seasons as an NFL head coach, there was no trace of that in Reid's demeanor. Scorn him if you want for the clock management debacle that doomed the Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX, against the same Patriots dynasty Pederson found a way to beat, but this also is true: Doug Pederson was on no team's radar as a head coaching candidate in 2016. He is the Eagles' coach because Reid sold him to Lurie and Roseman, who went to Reid for ideas, after Lurie's Kelly experiment failed spectacularly.