Mellinger: Marcus Peters is gone. The Chiefs have some explaining to do.
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Marcus Peters is gone. The Chiefs have some explaining to do. BY SAM MELLINGER smellinger@kcstar.com February 23, 2018 07:27 PM Clark Hunt, Andy Reid and Brett Veach deserve an opportunity to explain, because as it stands right now they have cloaked their franchise with failure. That word is not used without thought. That word is not used without intent. The Chiefs on Friday agreed to trade Marcus Peters to the Rams, reportedly for draft picks. Without hearing from the men who made this decision, the explanation that makes the most sense is one lacking in guts, ambition, commitment to success, and realism. A difficult situation presents itself, and the Chiefs hit the eject button. Starting with Reid being hired and paid more than any NFL coach who has not won a Super Bowl, the Chiefs have branded themselves as a place for second chances, where strong personalities are welcomed and supported. Here, then, they failed with their strongest-willed and one of their best players. This was supposed to be their edge. Let players show their personalities. Get the most out of them. Except with Peters, the Chiefs failed to do it, apparently allowing the situation to become so untenable they traded him without a strong market of interest. Again, Hunt, Reid, and Veach should be allowed to explain. This has all the markings of the Chiefs pushing Peters out, but there is always a chance the trade return was so overwhelming the Chiefs couldn’t resist. So these words are an initial reaction, not the final judgment. Still, the following is true: Peters plays one of the most important non-quarterback positions in football, creates more turnovers than anyone else in the league, and just turned 25 in January with a year left on his rookie deal plus up to three more years of club control. And he’s gone. For what? The Chiefs traded a cheap, young star at a premium position despite the limited leverage of just two teams interested. Why? For draft picks? So they have an opportunity to select Peters’ replacement? That’s not the action of a successful franchise. That’s the action of a franchise with more blown leads than wins in playoff games. One more time, maybe there is a better and more sensible explanation, but here’s what it looks like at the moment: Hunt, who cowered when given the opportunity to stand up for his players’ rights last fall, wanted the headache gone. He has been outspoken about wanting players to stand for the anthem, and talked Peters into staying in the locker room for the song. Hunt is a conservative man by nature, and it’s not a stretch to believe he wanted one of the NFL’s least conservative players off his team. Because the other explanations don’t make as much sense. The Chiefs want you to believe they are serious about winning and just traded one of their best players. The Chiefs are trying to get younger and just traded a 25-year-old star. The Chiefs’ secondary was awful last year and they just dumped (by far) their best cornerback. The Chiefs retained a defensive coordinator who was exposed in 2017, deciding it was more about a lack of talent, and just shipped off one of the league’s most productive and dangerous defenders. The Chiefs’ defense emphasizes creating turnovers, and they just traded the man who has created more turnovers than anyone else since he entered the league. The Chiefs, in other words, have a disconnected vision of their future, or no serious expectations of success this season, or both. Peters is not without his faults. Obviously. He is hyper competitive, which is his greatest strength right until the moment it becomes his greatest flaw. You don’t know when he’ll draw a personal foul, but you can expect at least a few every season. Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters has lost his cool or done something that has resulted in a fine several times during the 2017 season. Neil Nakahodo, Pete Grathoff, David EulittThe Kansas City Star Reid is by reputation one of the league’s great players’ coaches, and along with Terrell Owens, Peters is one of just two players Reid has suspended in 19 years. Peters’ protests during the national anthem angered a loud portion of the Chiefs’ fan base, and despite handing out turkeys and coats in Kansas City last year, the drama was never going fully away. There is little doubt he was unhappy in Kansas City. Some of this was inevitable, because the player and his adopted home were so different. Peters could have asked to be traded, but his only leverage was a threat to sit out (which would mean not being paid, and not accruing service time toward free agency) or to not sign an extension (but the Chiefs could’ve controlled him for up to four more seasons). The Chiefs were not against the clock here. They had time on their side. The Chiefs could have supported the player, could have worked with the player. They could have found common ground. They could have defended the player against unfair public criticism, if that’s what it took. Good organizations do that. The Chiefs traded the player. Organizations whose last Super Bowl appearance is old enough to be a grandfather do that. One more time for the people in the back: Hunt, Reid, and Veach deserve the opportunity to explain. Chiefs fans deserve that, too. Maybe there is something that brings it all together. But at the moment, only two explanations come to mind that make more sense than Hunt wanting the player out. The first is that Peters had somehow become such a problem that he was breaking the locker room, and the organization made the advance decision to deal him now before he made more money and his trade value slipped. That would have to account for the Chiefs players upset by the trade, require something much worse than what’s known so far, and be a tacit admission of failure by a coach hired in part because of his ability to get the best out of strong personalities. The second apparent explanation would be that the Chiefs are fully embracing a rebuild, and selling off all valuable parts while they reset around quarterback Patrick Mahomes. If that’s the case, then more big trades should be expected. There are varied holes in this logic, too, from the Chiefs having a good roster already to the NFL’s established history of teams winning with quarterbacks on rookie contracts. But, at least it would be something. At least it would be something that didn’t leave the sinking suspicion that the Chiefs just caved to the ugliest parts of their fan base and the weakest part of human nature by avoiding discomfort even as it sets them back competitively. |
The media loves to bitch.
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Mellinger has been hitting the nail with several of his recent articles.
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HE WANTED TO BE TRADED!!!!!!!!
YOU DONT KEEP A PLAYER WHO DOESNT WANT TO BE ON THE TEAM!!!!! |
The Chiefs are dumb. I’ll be a fan until the day I die but they are stupid.
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What about the fact that Peters wanted out of here and would not stay. You can't devote 8 mil using a 5th year option on a head case that won't stay.
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Mellinger with a fine article that a ton of people will hate I'm sure.
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Sam is 100% dead on
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Clark Hunt is the #1 problem.
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The real question is why would he not want to stay. If it is Sutton, the scheme or location. |
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It's like they were in a spot to go for it, and just pussed out. |
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If anyone was Marcus Peters you wouldn't wanna be here either, he's been razzed by this teams fans all year for petty shit.
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Great. Now I'm pissed off again.
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I am glad he is gone personally, he gave Carr nightmares
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Clark Hunt didn’t want to deal with the headache. That is the most truthful part of the article. He’s a spineless bastard.
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You know how you deal with guys like Marcus Peters. You tell them to shut the **** up quit crying and play football. Or you could trade them off because you are spineless.
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That was a good deal. |
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Peters has made a total of 7 million dollars he's in no position to hold out.
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I’ll say this, if there have been a lot of behind the scenes stuff, and the whole team is sick of him and glad he’s gone, then fine. But, if it comes out that it was just strictly CHunt being a spineless, whiney, selfish turd that was just disappointed in him, it’s going to really infuriate me.
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Unless we get Aaron Donaldson and a first or Peters is suspended for two seasons for some off the field issue then this makes absolutely no sense. |
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He plays when he wanted to play. He's been like that since college and probably before. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Mike Tomlin: Steelers won't trade Martavis Bryant despite 'distraction' Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY Sports Published 10:36 a.m. ET Oct. 24, 2017 | Updated 1:26 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2017 https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ers/793887001/ |
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I dont personally give a shit for 3 reasons:
1) he played like shit this season...our defense was a joke...we actually did better without him for the one game 2) he walked off the field...****ing loser... 3) the whole avoiding hits and tackles schtick was idiotic **** him Furthermore how can mellinger evaluate this without knowing the details? If we get a 1st rounder, im ok with this. Our defense will probably be better next year....this will be forgotten soon. I eas way more pissed losing flowers....and thats long forgotten |
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Kneeling started a lot of the hostility, Hunt is a Trumpster, Fans pissed about players taking a knee are bitching which hurts Hunt's bottom line. We don't know how big of an impact it has had but it had to have some. |
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Marcus could have either played with max effort or hurt his market value by playing half assed. |
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Chiefs had the leverage.
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A move like this without a huge haul in return deserves an explanation to the fans. |
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And it's not like Reid is a 0 tolerance guy. For this to happen, he must have been at his wits end about Peters behavior in front and behind the scenes. Posted via Mobile Device |
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Meh. We have our franchise quarterback. If everything goes right with him, none of this will matter. None of this is even close to as damning then the Chiefs failing to draft a franchise quarterback for the last half century. They've made the one, most important decision that gives you a shot at a ring. They have my attention for the first time in quite a while and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on this.
But drama is required, it seems. |
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Chiefs knew that Marcus Peters would likely demand to be the game’s highest-paid corner, which would cost upwards of $18 million per season. So on Friday they decided to go in a different direction: <a href="https://t.co/doTi6qrVq6">https://t.co/doTi6qrVq6</a></p>— Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/status/967183969140854784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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What in the **** is taking so long with the compensation?
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Mellinger killed it.
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Marcus is a turnover machine. Fact.
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Normally I think Mellinger is good but this is a knee jerk rant that conspicuously ignores all the stories about Peters that he has certainly heard.
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Sam ****ed up his own big story within the first 4 paragraphs
'Except with Peters, they failed to do it, apparently allowing the situation to become so untenable they traded him without a strong market of interest. Huh, say wha?... is Sam telling me the 'market of interest' for a young, 2 time All-Pro on his first contract was just kinda meh, in spite of the myriad of teams desperately needing a defensive playmaker of Peters caliber? So what does that tell everyone? That the Kansas City Chiefs, and their head coach who was willing to make Michael Vick his starting QB, with great success I might add, are nothing more than a bunch of peabrained Hee-Haw corneaters unwilling to accomodate an outsized black personality? Give me a ****ing break, lulz You can bet your ass NO ONE in the Chiefs top echelon wanted to get rid of this kid, but he had made it so impossible to bear that it soon became the only move worth making... you go ahead and gnash your teeth, as for me and this new era of unparalleled excitement? **** Marcus, bring on some Money |
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Go back and read the game thread. I was raving about Peters, then, well ****, that again. The team had twin 'Ole corners in Peters and Revis. |
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KC didn't (And yes, Deion was a better tackler than Peters) |
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If there wasn’t a strong market of interest for a pro bowl shutdown corner, that tells you something in itself.
It sucks that Reid and Veach had to negotiate from a position of weakness, but they were put there by the player being a malcontent. Not really their fault. |
A malcontent with still 2 years of control. Oh the horror.
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I make Marcus play out his rookie contract and than let him test free agency.
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He already has enough money to tell everyone to get bent should he choose to do so... 'doesnt matter, we have him under contract!' Are you ****ing serious man, just how naive ARE you?... that doesnt mean DICK with a guy like him, we'd only be hanging onto a hot girlfriend looking to **** us over every chance she got because the sex was hot |
The Hunts are so pathetic.
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They just can't be reached. |
If we gave Peters away, the players will be as pissed as fans. If we got fair value, we move on. This is about winning. There's no reason for a fire sale. It would be better to keep him a few more years and get nothing than getting a third round pick for him. And if Reid thinks the guy is a cancer, well, Reid helped bring Peters here.
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Buy low/draft and sell high...I think KC, if they get the first rounder this year, has made a great trade. I think KC got as much as they could get out of a DB that cannot lock down a WR on the other team.
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supposedly he was a cancer in the locker room....didn't want to be here as well
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I doubt they’ll throw him under the bus so we’ll orobably never know
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