-- Marcus Peters trade - Chiefs Compensation disclosed - Ian Rap/tweet

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Nobody is putting it 100% on Peters.

It's at least as much on the franchise for failing to either assess him as incapable of being tamed, or failing in their campaign to tame him. 'Taming' being shorthand for whatever it takes to make him amenable to making millions to play football for the team that took a chance on him and drafted him.

Saying Peters is a powder keg and we lit the match when we didn't 'have to' assumes a lot for the narrative. The fans didn't ask for a powderkeg, and they didn't forfeit their right to respond as customers to powderkeg behavior. Further, labelling him a powderkeg is fairly dehumanizing, suggesting that he's a slave to his temper.

You said nobody is putting it 100% on Peters, then you go into all the reasons fans should have no accountability for trolling their own player.

Right, fans had no idea Peters might take it personally when they start calling him a thug, a jerk, and flood his social media with comments blaming him for disrespecting Vegas shooting victims. They had no idea he'd react when they start trolling him after he gave up a TD especially after that week. You expect these kinds of things from your worst players. You don't expect sports fans to go after their own BEST players. If you walk into a bar and poke a hot tempered guy repeatedly, don't act surprised when you get punched in the face.

Peters deserves blame and he's gotten plenty. Dorsey deserves blame and he's gotten plenty. Few here have suggested otherwise. What I see are plenty of people profusely defending fans as if they did nothing wrong. There are a subset of fans who decided to troll one of our best players during a winning streak. They chose social activism over winning. You can excuse that all you want. I as a fan ****ing hate it.