Q&A's With Cp and Herm 7-27

[booger]

Q&A with CARL PETERSON - 7/27
Jul 27, 2006, 6:09:27 PM

TRAINING CAMP

CARL PETERSON: “We’re happy to have both Tamba (Hali) and Brodie Croyle and it was pretty well acknowledged that they wanted to be here. They were in Kansas City waiting for the go-ahead. It was a five-year deal with Tamba, the 20th pick of the first round, and a four-deal with Brodie Croyle.”



Q: Were you at all nervous that you weren’t going to get it done in time for camp?

PETERSON: “I was always cautiously optimistic. Again, I want to give a lot of credit again to (Chief Operating Officer) Denny Thum and (Mgr. of Player Compensation)Woody Dixon who do such a great job with our cap and contract. They stayed at it last night and again this morning. With the number of first round draft picks signing around us, which was 19th and 21st picks done, it was pretty obvious where Tamba fit in. I know that he’s very excited about being here and both he and Brodie were not going to miss this.

“Let me say this: we have 91 players. We have 88 with us right now; three are excused. That’s Ty Law, Willie Roaf and Priest Holmes. They’re excused for personal reasons and we’ll update you on that later. Everybody else is here that should be here and all are under contract.

“Tomorrow before practice we will announce who will be on PUP (physically unable to perform). Frankly, we have a fair number in comparison to past years. It’s simply a precautionary category for players so that they can start slowly at camp. It’s usually players coming off post-season surgery or some type of injury. They may be activated within a day or a week or a month. We’ll give that list to you tomorrow.”

Q: Where do you stand with Eddie Kennison right now?

PETERSON: “I stand just fine with Eddie. Eddie’s under contract; Eddie’s on the plane and Eddie’s going to get himself ready to play another year with the Kansas City Chiefs.”

Q: Does it concern you at all that he might leave camp?

PETERSON: “No concern at all. If a player wants to leave it’s his choice. It’s $14,000 a day (NFL fine) and after five days you can send a letter that eliminates a player’s participation for the (coming) year. I would be very surprised and very disappointed with that.”

Q: He says he’s disappointed with his contract. Is trying to resolve this dispu a priority for you?

PETERSON: “We have a lot of people who are unhappy with their contracts. It’s amazing. Every player would like to make more money and I appreciate that, but there is only so much cap and cash. I have had that conversation with Eddie and he knows exactly where the Kansas City Chiefs on this matter. He’s here and he’s going to practice and, frankly, I don’t care to talk about it any more.”

Q: Why is Willie Roaf not here?

PETERSON: “Personal reasons, like Priest Holmes. We do expect him. Herm and I have talked with his agent and the same thing with Priest. These are veteran guys and they don’t have to be here the very first days. They have some personal things to take care of as does Ty Law. We respect that but we do expect Ty very shortly.”

Q: Is it about Willie’s contract?

PETERSON: “No, not at all.”

Q: When do you expect these three?

PETERSON: “Well, we expect Ty pretty soon and the other two we haven’t set a date yet. We’re going to continue to give them some time.”

Q: With Priest’s health is there any way to tell at this point if he will play or not?

PETERSON: “It’s very difficult to tell at this point Like we said, tomorrow we’ll announce the players on PUP and anticipate very much that he will be one of those players.”

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by rocks

A few weeks ago I saw Turley on the NFL network and they asked him about the line. His answer was:
IF Willie plays the line we will be fine. (not verbatium) my memory is not that good. But the part that got me was IF. I thought Willie was in the fold?

I remember that, too, actually, now that you mention that. He also said in the 4 downs that he would start this year with the Chiefs, whether it be right or left tackle...

[Chan93lx50]

Come on Roaf I know you have enough gas in the tank for one more year!

All the hype I have going into this season will blow right out my ass if Roaf retires

[kcxiv]

DO some research on other sites. On another site, someone justheard a Turley interview and he just said that Roaf may not play. Roaf's Legs are really bothering him. I want him to play, but i dont know if he can.

[Cormac]

Roaf will play. There is no way he'd be taking until now to decide that he has to retire. Besides, having just signed Ty Law, he knows the organisation is dedicated to doing the best they can. And on top of that, there is the question of 2000 yards for LJ. He's not there for personal reasons. I bet that reason is he is hardly excited about his 15th (or whatever) training camp.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by Cormac

Roaf will play. There is no way he'd be taking until now to decide that he has to retire. Besides, having just signed Ty Law, he knows the organisation is dedicated to doing the best they can. And on top of that, there is the question of 2000 yards for LJ. He's not there for personal reasons. I bet that reason is he is hardly excited about his 15th (or whatever) training camp.

I have no doubt in my mind that he "wants" to play. Its a matter of will his body let him. He is giving his body a chance to recover. If his knee's cant hold up no matter how bad he wants to play he wont be able too. Rumors have it that his body is aching big time.

[2bikemike]

Originally Posted by Mecca

I hope for the sake of this team Roaf has 2 more years in him because the tackle crop for next years draft is pretty crappy.......

This is it for Roaf. He will be done this year. I hope there is some free agent worthy of taking over. I doubt seriously the light bulb comes on for any of the current crop of understudies.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by kcxiv

DO some research on other sites. On another site, someone justheard a Turley interview and he just said that Roaf may not play. Roaf's Legs are really bothering him. I want him to play, but i dont know if he can.

Aren't you always promoting other sites? You don't need to go to another site, Bob Dole heard the same thing from the horse's mouth months ago.

Putting mouth and month next to each other looks funny.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by tk13

Aren't you always promoting other sites? You don't need to go to another site, Bob Dole heard the same thing from the horse's mouth months ago.

Putting mouth and month next to each other looks funny.

i dont promote shit. I visit plenty of sites, and post in a few. Even if Bob Dole reported whatever, most peeps on here dont even know about it.

[tk13]

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=142654

Here, this thread that nobody apparently knows about had almost 2000 views. Do some "research".

[booger]

Last year was pretty much the same with Shields and Roafs reversed in how they felt in the offseason heading into TC. Remember Shields had arthritic knees and bad back pain that really nagged him. He underwent physical therapy and DV took it easy on he and Roaf among others to take the stress of their bodies.

This year it looks flipped around.

Roaf came off an ACL tear his last year in NO, the hamstring last year, and rumor of another hamstring injury this offseason while training. ( can't remember where i heard the last one and it is RUMOR as far as I know) Not to mention the hellish bouts he has had with gout.

I don't doubt that he really wants to play. As far as his contract, didn't they just recently throw more $$$ incentive at him for this year to try to make it easier for him to stay another year?

Also you can go back to the team site and watch today's Q/A with herm. They ask him who lines up at LT and RT tommorrow. He says same as OTA's. Teicher asks is that Black at LT and Turley at RT. Herm says yes but we could flop them around.

Also when asked about camp position battles he mentioned it will be interesting to see who our OT's are. I took it as both starters and depth.

I think Roaf is probably having a tough time with this and giving him more time, as much as he needs is in our best interest. Definatley doesn't help the nervousness of the situation though.