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K.C. Chiefs Exposed: The Scrupulous Underbelly

LadnerMorse June 9, 2017 No Comments

How dare they employ such players as these?! To take advantage of the misfortunes of others like that? What have we come to?

 

 

 

 

While GM John Dorsey didn’t draft Eric Berry, he did make Mr. Berry the best paid Safety in the history of the NFL earlier this offseason. I’m sure Berry wasn’t primarily signed because of his benevolent heart but it’s clear that the good-natured personality of players is on the checklist of qualities that Mr. Dorsey and his team of prospect evaluators are looking for when they choose to draft or sign players. Now, these “good-natured personalities take many different forms:

 

 

 

 

Of course, the Chiefs are not just about dancing… or feeding the poor in their free time. Here’s a favorite quote of mine by Joel Thorman over at ArrowheadPride, “Chiefs guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif got a big $40 million extension this offseason. What did he do to celebrate? Oh, you know, just some geriatric medicine training.”

 

 

 

 

The drive to create a team of caring individuals with a myriad of personalities wasn’t the brainchild of John Dorsey’s alone. Head Coach Andy Reid has been at it since he was a kid growing up in the shadows of Dodger Stadium (and just 25 miles from where I grew up). In a piece by B.J. Kissel called, “A Life of Family, Football and Friendship: The Andy Reid Story” he reveals,

 

“Andy Reid grew up in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles and lived in the same house until he left for college. It was an ethnically diverse neighborhood. Throughout his childhood in Los Angeles and even into his high school years, race relations were volatile, particularly in his neighborhood, but that didn’t matter to Reid. All of these children were his friends—the ones he’d begun playing football with when he was 5 years old.

He would be seen as a leader among his peers for keeping things together and uniting his teams.”

 

Kissel goes on to talk about Reid’s relationship with Mike Holmgren who hired him as part of the Packer’s staff. In 1992, they had 5 future NFL head coaches on staff including Any Reid, Jon Gruden, Dick Jauron, Ray Rhodes and Steve Mariucci. Holmgren said of Reid,

 

“They were like sons to me, but Andy, I don’t know, we just hit it off. It was just a friendship. I was his boss, but I hope he would say it was a friendship—that’s the way I wanted it to be.”

 

That appears to be Andy Reid’s biggest M.O. (modus operandi) for his life. When Jeremy Maclin was cut a week ago, Andy Reid came out and called him a personal friend but that football is a business and that this was the “worst part of the job.”

 

That “friendship” part of Andy Reid is apparent following football games too, when ex-players of his come up and give him a big hug and they whisper like lovers in each other’s ears. Now, Andy Reid employs the same approach that Mike Holmgren took with him by hiring a guy like Greg Lewis to coach the wideouts, who Reid originally signed as an undrafted free agent WR in 2003.

 

Some fans may question the recent drafting practices of player like Tyreek Hill, Marcus Peters, or Demarcus Robinson. However, did you know that Peters is Vice-president of the “Family First Foundation” an organization established ten years ago whose focus is to mentor children on the importance of education, literacy and self-esteem.

 

While there are Kansas City Chief fans who have “regressed” to the point that they’d accept “any” player with “any” background and even prefer that the Chiefs embrace deceased nemesis Al Davis’ old slogan, “Just Win Baby,” I’m not one of those fans. I get a deep sense of pride and a great amount of personal pleasure knowing that our coach and team have a “scrupulous underbelly” because values still count in my world.

 

I prefer a guy, who, in the offseason… writes a cookbook with his brother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I prefer a guy, who, in the offseason… plays the piano.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I prefer a guy, who, in the offseason (and all year long)… has a sense of humor (Thank you Ramik Wilson!).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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