Further Review
“I anticipate that we’ll be 22nd, 23rd or 24th again next year.”
— Carl Peterson, Metro Sports
GH: Peterson was talking about where the Chiefs would rank among NFL teams in ticket pricing, but he could just as easily have been forecasting his team’s dismal performance.
“Do you realize this [Chiefs] team hasn’t won a game in January in eight years? What’s Carl Peterson done lately for this franchise? He’s ripping off Lamar Hunt for about $2 million a year!”
— Jack Harry, 810 WHB
“I hope I’m wrong in this, but I don’t think Priest Holmes is going to be a great back in this league. I also think that the Chiefs don’t believe [Holmes] is the real deal. I think he’s a bit of an overachiever as a running back. He’s just a nice statistical story on the back end of a bad football season.”
—Danny Clinkscale, 810
“I’ve had my second thoughts [about leaving retirement to coach the Chiefs]. What happens when you come back to a situation after leaving one so positively [in St. Louis] is, you forget about the first two years [of losing seasons]. You miss all that success, the exhilaration of a Super Bowl, the playoff games and the come-from-behind wins and the blowouts. You forget about the time you went through to get at this stature. There have been times I’ve second-guessed myself, believe me.”
— Dick Vermeil, 810
“[Trent Green] will be a topic of conversation between Carl Peterson and I during the off-season. God, I hope I’m right. I believe he’s is the right guy.”
— Dick Vermeil, 980 KMBZ
GH: Maybe the Chiefs should use this as their 2002 slogan: “God, we hope we’re right. Please buy some tickets and find out.”
“[Greg Robinson’s] scheme has won two world championships. And regardless of what they’ve done here [in Kansas City] — and I think Marty’s defenses did a great job — they never won a world championship.”
— Dick Vermeil, answering whether Greg Robinson’s Denver defensive scheme is too complicated for Kansas City, 810
GH: John Elway and Terrell Davis may be surprised to discover that it was Robinson’s defense that put two Super Bowl rings on their fingers.
