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Maybe the Chiefs just aren't particularly good at "fixing" people.
Then again, maybe that's not their job. Maybe their job is to put a team on the field that wins football games. Maybe a significant number of players emerge from bad families and bad neighborhoods. And maybe the college experience is insufficient to provide a foundation that allows players to alter their behavioral patterns. Maybe when you give a guy like that an assload of fame and fortune, they simply can't handle it.
It that's true, maybe an NFL team is simply not equipped to provide the necessary psychological services to change a person's life. And if so, why would we expect any other outcome in these cases? Why should we expect anything at all? Other than wins, that is.
Football teams are not intervention services designed to improve society. It would be nice if they were, but is that a reasonable burden to place on organizations that have no such expertise and are actually devoted to and encourage controlled violence?
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