KC Chiefs

I'll be cheering for LJ to have a HUGE game.

10-6 and didn't make the playoffs, FUCK.

Vermeil is now gone, wonder who our next coach will be?

Two outta three ain't bad.

Bob Stoops is in town talking to the Chiefs. Yesterday i heard we were talking to the Jets yesterday about Herm Edwards. not sure what to think so far or who i want as coach.

Mooch.

their gonna get him for a 4th round pick, which I don't think is enough, being a NY fan.

Edwards leaving Jets for Chiefs is bad for the NFL
Peter King, CNNSI.com

"I'm going to be here. No question about it. We got a big job to do here and I'm going to work hard to get it done.''
--Jets coach Herman Edwards, to me, in November.

"I addressed that six weeks ago. I still stand on what I said. I'm the coach of the Jets. The season will end and we'll try to get things going in the right direction. I've always been happy here. I like it here.''
--Jets coach Herman Edwards, at a Dec. 29 press conference.

"You know they've got to have something to write. I'm going to be here.''
--Jets coach Herman Edwards, to me, on Dec. 29.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- What on earth is going on in this league?

Forget for a moment the lack of honor from Edwards, who on Sunday was reported to have agreed to a four-year, $12 million contract to coach the Kansas City Chiefs. Think instead of the impact of what he's done, and what the Chiefs have done by trading a fourth-round pick (a four!) to acquire Edwards from the Jets.

This idiotic, tail-wagging-dog story raises four disturbing questions.

1. Why is it still permissible for a coach with years left on his contract to orchestrate, either tacitly or not, his exit from a team?

2. Why didn't Jets owner Woody Johnson say: "Herm, I'm not doubling your salary after you went 4-12 this year. You're going to have to suck it up and work for the $2 million agreed upon in your contract.''

Players work under contracts they don't like all the time. I'm sure coaches do too. Edwards should have done the same.

I understand that by the end Johnson was ticked off at Edwards and not in the mood to give him anything. But the message should have been sent unwaveringly to Edwards and his representative months ago by Johnson that the contract was not going to be redone.

3. Why is the league sitting idly by and basically allowing coaches to be traded for draft choices? Is it in the best interests of the league for a coach with a perfectly valid contract to be traded? And to be traded for the absurdly low price of a fourth-round draft pick? Do you honestly think the value of a coach who has led his team to the playoffs in three of his five seasons is worth a four? That's absurd enough. But the NFL, in letting a trade like this to happen, is prolonging a practice that is slowly but surely become a sordid, greedy part of the NFL.

What's to stop Houston owner Bob McNair, who has more money than God, from nudging Bill Belichick's agent, winking and saying: "You know, I really like Bill. He's such a great coach.'' All of a sudden, Belichick tells Bob Kraft after the season: "I don't want to work here anymore unless you pay me $9 million a year.'' We'd all be naïve to think something like that would never cross Belichick's mind if he thought he could have a better deal somewhere else.

4. Why didn't the Jets charge the Chiefs with tampering? Could it possibly be because Chiefs president Carl Peterson is the mentor and former boss of Jets GM Terry Bradway? Bradway, in this case, is the steward of an NFL franchise, not Peterson's pal. It is absurd and borderline irresponsible that the Jets got a fourth-round pick as compensation. They could have gotten more by pressing tampering charges.

When the league investigated tampering charges involving Dick Vermeil and the Chiefs five years ago, charges brought by the Rams after Vermeil retired with time left on his Rams' contract, the resulting fight between organizations, plus the desperation of the Chiefs to have their man, led to a second- and third-round draft pick for Vermeil. Maybe the Jets wouldn't have gotten a two and a three for Edwards. But if the price for Vermeil was a two and a three, and the price for Jon Gruden was two ones, two twos and $8 million, don't insult my intelligence by telling me the market value for Edwards was a fourth-round pick.

I've heard the commissioner talk about tampering, and the league says it will vigorously punish anyone at the merest hint of the transgression. Ooooh, NFL owners are so scared. Look at what happened to the Redskins in the Lawyer Milloy case a couple of years ago. Milloy, after moving from New England to Buffalo, said his agent had talked to the Redskins before the Patriots released him. The Patriots charged Washington with tampering, but the league never found anything. What I concluded from that "investigation'' is that someone didn't want tampering to be discovered, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.

What has happened here is an outrage. Pure and simple. Whether Herman Edwards should be making more than $2 million a year is not the issue. (He probably should be, of course.) The issue is Edwards had a valid contract, and somehow he engineered his way out of it. Shame on him, the Jets' ownership, Bradway and the league for allowing it to happen. The question now is not whether another team will be torn asunder by a coach who feels he's underpaid. It's when.

quit fucking crying Peter King, granted, the chiefs might have tampered a little bit, but if the jets don't care, why the fuck should anyone else? they are the ones that are supposed to report tampering charges, and they didn't, so piss off.

Peter King is a chubby bitch. Ever read his Monday Morning QB articles? Nobody fucking cares about what your fat and/or ugly daughters are doing with their lives, or which Starbucks is your favorite. This week he was bitching about his favorite hotel charging $10 to use their gym. Hey fatass, pretty sure you're not going to use that treadmill anytime soon, so don't worry about it.

BTW, great hire by the Chiefs, I like Edwards, he's fired up and passionate, but he's not a crybaby like Vermeil. Now hopefully they fire Gunther Cunningham and get some guys on D that can tackle.

Tony Richardson signed with the Minnesota Vikings today
wish he could have finished his career with the chiefs, good luck to T-Rich the next to years in minnesota

Yeah it would have been nice for him to stay there, but what can you do? I am a bit depressed about Hutchinson going to the Vikings, he will be hard to replace in Seattle

damn, he was the best fullback in the league too

just announced, for the first time ever there will be a tripple header on Thanksgiving. Of course Dallas and Detroit will still have thier games, but that night on the NFL network, the Denver Broncos will be playing at Arrowhead Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs. Guaran-DAMN-tee you i will be at that game. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

Go Denver.

I didn't want to start another thread...but the Buc's are playing on Thanksgiving...woohoo

...NM

This post has been edited by LEE0980 on Mar 28 2006, 08:22 AM

great running back, but this mother fucker is a complete moron! nice hat!

that pos made me laugh out loud

yeah, no shit, this fucking idiot is one of the national representatives for my city

the defense just got a HUGE upgrade...

Ty Law is coming to KC

Too bad the other corner and both safeties still suck.

But the addition of Law and hopefully an improved pass rush with Hali should help your D out tremendously.