Andy Reid, Sean Payton, Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh are building their own wing in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, one victory at a time.

With 747 regular-season and playoff “Ws” to their names, the distinguished coaches of the AFC West keep on stacking their legacies with pure gold bricks.

At an average age of 65.5 years, they’re the sunshine boys of NFL coaching, stubbornly refusing to fade into the sunset.

“I’m the youngest!” Payton reminded us all earlier this year.

Indeed he is. Payton was born six whopping days later than Harbaugh during the final week of 1963, when gas was 31 cents per gallon and Frankie Valli ruled the pop charts.

Reid, who leads this fab four with 301 NFL victories and three Super Bowl rings, sits confidently atop the throne of Chiefs Kingdom at age 67.

And when Carroll, who celebrates his 74th birthday in September, hits the sideline with the Las Vegas Raiders, he will officially become the oldest head coach in NFL history.

“I got to get my act together,” said Carroll, who came out of retirement in January to wrestle with coaching legends he deeply respects. “I got to play up to those guys.”

The West will be won by an old cowboy that you best not try to mess with.

In 66 combined years of service as a head coach in the NFL, they have suffered a grand total of 12 losing seasons in a parity-driven league.

What has allowed Reid, Payton, Carroll and Harbaugh to do far more than survive well past most coaches’ expiration date in the Not For Long, but consistently thrive?

Well, they are as distinctly different as their personalities.

As comfy as an overstuffed couch, Reid epitomizes the Ted Lasso motto of “Be curious, not judgmental.”

Payton is a my-way-or-the-highway curmudgeon from the old school of Bill Parcells.

Carroll bounces through life like the Energizer Bunny on a hugging binge.

And Harbaugh is Mr. Khaki Pants, who wants to beat the britches off everybody.

But there is one big commonality that serves these very unique guys extremely well. Reid, Payton, Caroll and Harbaugh are all comfortable in their own skin and remarkably consistent in who they are.

Those are qualities not to be underestimated, especially in pro football, where second-guessing a coach is a sport unto itself.

What’s more important, players will quickly tune out or turn on a coach who fails to strike a consistent tone in victory or defeat.

“Either you have a philosophy or you don’t. If you change it from year to year, you don’t have one,” Carroll told Eric Williams of Fox Sports in 2023, explaining a coaching tenet he learned decades earlier from a savvy mentor named Monte Kiffin.

As a guiding principle, it’s far easier said than done.

But when faced with adversity that ignites white-hot takes on social media, a coach who doesn’t firmly know himself will get burnt.

This stubborn sense of self-reliance, however, does not mean stuck in your ways.

During an episode earlier this year of Storytime with Sean, when Payton waxes poetic about his journey from a quarterback at Eastern Illinois in the mid-1980s to becoming the king of New Orleans by leading the Saints to their lone NFL championship in 2010, he emphasized the motivational power in constantly striving to find more efficient ways to do everything from calling plays to developing the football IQ of young players.

It’s this endless curiosity that keeps these aging coaches young and engaged.

The imagination of Reid, whose beautiful football mind becomes touchdowns in the talented hands of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, can be found on ideas he has scribbled for years on index cards.

Index cards? Really? Didn’t they disappear into a dusty corner of the attic about the same time as the Rolodex and VCR?

As legend has it, Reid carries index cards with him everywhere, from the front seat of his car to the table at a restaurant to the night stand next to his bed, just in case an idea for a crazy trick play or a beautiful alignment disguise hits him in the middle of the night.

So when the Chiefs found and exploited a flaw in Denver’s blocking scheme to swat away a chip-shot field goal by Wil Lutz in the final second of the fourth quarter to thwart the Broncos’ upset bid and preserve a 16-14 K.C. victory, maybe that piece of dumb luck was really 90% preparation.

At an age when many successful guys would rather go fishing or take a nap on the couch, Payton, Carroll, Reid and Harbaugh remain obsessed with a 24/7 passion that is football.

“The AFC West is tough,” Reid told Chiefs reporters prior to training camp, “and it’s not getting any worse.”

Pro football is a young man’s game.

No need to remind Payton, Reid, Carroll and Harbaugh.

They know all too well the Darwinian nature of the NFL.

Evolve. Or perish.

But that only makes it more remarkable how these old guys rule.