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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Then fans should pay the price for putting politics above winning. If they don't want players who voice an opinion, then we found out the hard way that players can go somewhere where they'll be accepted. But i guess the jokes on peters....???
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We're pretty ****ing far afield with your flight of fancy where Arrowhead stadium was just a mass of cornfed yockels slobbering for Peters to be lynched at the nearest available tree, and that's a significant [let alone a noticeable] factor in the trade decision.
Peters was a known wildcard who dropped out of the top 10 to us on behavioral and mentality concerns.
We took a chance on his mercurial nature late in the 1st, with the express promise that we had looked into his soul and found something we could work with.
Both his talent and his demeanor showed up exactly as they did before, so none of that was unexpected. But what was expected is that we would take the time while he was under contract to get him to buy in to what we offered.
Now the organization has pretty much admitted that they failed in either their assessment of Peters, their ability to mold him into a team player, or his longstanding determination to get back to where he is comfortable.
So we're parlaying a late 1st and 3 years of effort, . . . into a talented player leaving and us receiving 'the equivalent' of a late 2nd.
But your one-track mind wants to go back to how the nameless faceless whitebread masses were just too mean for this fragile millionaire to bear.
It's either Peters' job to block that noise out, or the organization's job to convince him to do so. They're the two entities in the business of marketing their skills and services for millions and billions in profit out of those meanie's pockets.
Now he's gone, and we've never heard word one about exactly why he behaved as he did, even though he knew it was controversial, and even though he knew people were putting words in his mouth and making judgement based on that.