0 rings

Because Reid and Mahomes are what they are doesn't mean we shouldn't be investing in facilities to stay up with the rest of the league. That trump card won't always be there, then you're behind the rest of the other teams.

I think theres a perception problem.

If you work your hands to the bone for me.
Destroy every ligament, tendon, muscle.

And when you get home, I only offer you a peanut butter sandwich? When I'm capable of so much more?

Doesn't feel very teamy.

I am guessing they'll probably build a completely new practice facility in the next decade that's somewhere outside of the Truman Sports Complex.

Good for them. Reek probably sends them pics of this...Pat flashes 3 rings and he kicks a fat infuencer in disgust

You're missing the entire point but ok.

Of course.

But if Clark doesn't want to keep getting bad grades in these NFLPA surveys, the solution to fix it is pretty straight forward... spend $$$ to upgrade the facilities.

This is just the second year of the survey and the Chiefs have won back to back Super Bowls so obviously the bad grades haven't hurt them so far.

But long term will these surveys eventually have an impact? Possibly.

When the team doesn't have a HOF HC and QB it will matter more.

Ah good point. So yeah Clark could build a state of the art practice facility with all the money Reid\Mahomes is printing for him.

Let's check in on the Miami Dolphin players who love the facilities...

Ron Jaworski: Dolphins Players Who Criticized Vic Fangio ‘Did Not Want To Work’

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/r...tics-nfl-2024/

Clark needs to open up his wallet if he wants to stop getting embarrassed over this every year.

Jaws is still alive?

It's so odd to me that they're still turning to these 70 year old fossils who checked out a decade ago and haven't had meaningful interactions with anyone in the league for 20 years.

Or just tell them to **** off instead of promising them something he isn't delivering on.

I would bet anything Andy tells Clark not to make it too comfortable.

I guarantee you he's not embarrassed.

Meanwhile, in Denver

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Broncos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Broncos</a> marks in the newly released NFLPA survey, including high marks for the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group. <a href="https://t.co/41MsaIBOpU">pic.twitter.com/41MsaIBOpU</a></p>&mdash; Parker Gabriel (@ParkerJGabriel) <a href="https://twitter.com/ParkerJGabriel/status/1762872982517522484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Those look like great facilities for breaking some fat bitch's leg

Wait, you don't have marble floors in your breakroom at work?

Championship floors FTW!

The first year they bought new grass every other weekend and the largest scoreboard in North America at 220 feet.

Plus... like... They just got a new locker room.
https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/...ed-locker-room

Clark is very boring too. I doubt he connects with the players very well.

That isn't exactly a great comparison, most people don't work with millionaires where there are only 32 companies that pursue you for your services.

Congrats LMAO

We have little gray carpet squares

What's odd is the Hunt family is the Hunt family is worth just under $25 billion so they do have money.

I agree that they do need to improve the practice facility

We saw a lot of this last year, but it's sure hard to reconcile some of it. For example, we regularly hear players rave about how great our training staff is - Rick Burkholder in particular - and we regularly have guys come back from injury more quickly than expected. But then they get an F on this report? It doesn't pass the sniff test unless all those players are just outright lying.

Knowmo made a return for this. Lol.

So the most unsatisfied players are also the players that win the most? It's officially silly season. None the less I don't like the results of the survey. :cuss:

They work them and get them back playing quickly. Seems the players think they "push them back to quick".

When he's talking in the team meeting from camp every year they listen.

It's sarcasm.

Those floors don't produce anything for anyone, other than a custodian to maintain.

His pre-training camp speeches are some of my favorite moments of the Franchise series. I like Clark but he's the most stereotypical rich dork there can be LMAO

maybe the survey was worded poorly

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Sure, but that's more like a "B-" or "C" kind of rating. An "F" implies that they're ****ing horrible at their jobs and the entire place should be cleaned out.

I mean lets be honest, if you weren't gonna do the locker room don't say you are, that's a bad look.

You probably should be upgrading your facility to at least be on par with the majority of the league.

Players are also going to look out for themselves in some circumstances, like feeling like they are pushed to return from injury quickly, some guys don't like that. That however isn't anything to be overly worked up about.

He basically called they were going to win SB XIV.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Clark Hunt on the recent NFLPA Report which ranked the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> 31st and ranked Owner Clark Hunt as 32nd in the survey. “The practice facility is certainly a high priority for us.” <a href="https://t.co/UOg6tzWURo">pic.twitter.com/UOg6tzWURo</a></p>&mdash; Harold R. Kuntz (@HaroldRKuntz3) <a href="https://twitter.com/HaroldRKuntz3/status/1762885163363786759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Denver has the worst ownership group in pro sports. When you have guys like Mongo voting this is the result

if only he had better practice facilities

https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uplo...ore-scaled.jpg

Ha. tell em Clayster

He should have kept his mouth shut because a complete renovation of the practice locker rooms and training facilities is going to require much more time than is available in one offseason. There is extensive planning that would go into this like where do you hold mini-camp practices during the offseason and what is your contingency plan if the renovations fall behind and aren't completed by the end of training camp. Completing a construction project of that size in 6 months is a big task.

The team would be much better off building a brand new state of the art practice facility away from the Truman Sports Complex. Make it a show piece to help attract free agents and a place the players want to spend more time in.

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(0:30 if it doesn't start there automatically) Clark demonstrating the new locker room chairs when the players walked in

You think Jawaan Taylor or Sammy Watkins or Tyrann Matheiu made any fuss about the ****ing practice facility when they agreed to come here in FA?

I'd bet my mortgage that not a single thought from any of those guys was about concerns about the practice facility. Nothing has changed in this league. Players care about two things:

A. How much are you paying me?
B. Who is the coach

And most of the time players don't give a shit who the coach is if you pay them enough.

Money talks guys. Brandt Tillis just went to work for David ****ing Tepper. Why? Bc he's paying him a **** ton more money

What if it’s served on a golden plate??

1. Reid will not coach here forever.
2. If 2 teams are offering close to the same amount of money and have similar coaches, players will take into account the facilities.

Hunt family has always been cheap. Not surprising.

That’s not a pitchfork, that’s the fork she eats with.

Chiefs have the best coach and best QB in the game right now. That alone will get players to come to KC.

No one cares. These guys are mercenaries any way for the most part most only on a team a couple seasons

It's Missouri, the pre-rolled or gummies vending machine is coming soon

Pay their asses and they'll stay. They'll walk anyway if you don't. None of this has ANY impact AT ALL.

This could be another factor why the players act like douche bags towards the organization once they leave.

Players should care much more about the income tax levels in the states they play the majority of their games in rather than the facilities as long as things like antibiotic resistant staph infections aren't breaking out in the locker rooms

Wrong locker room.

There are some glimpses of what could lead to this discrepancy from comments OBJ Jr and Hardman made this season.

OBJ Jr. talked about how the training staff treats every game “like a playoff game” and said they were “old school” in their approach in working with players to get them “game ready.” Interestingly, this was meant to be a negative, as he said the Bengals were hands off and believed in letting the players rest until they were ready.

Mecole talked about this in a similar way, but said he appreciated the Chiefs approach after being with the Jets. He talked about how the Jets training staff was way more “relaxed” with the players and as such, practices were often disorganized and players were missing in action during drills.

Sounds like Andy and Rick run an old school ship. I could see how it could lead to really divisive reactions from players used to a different approach on a new team or from college - but looking at how our players health has held up with 6 straight playoff runs, it’s hard to argue with the results.

Players are ****ing soft.

They would have walked off the team during a Marty camp.

-Restructured half a billion dollar contract to move money up to pay star QB more than any player has ever made in a 4 year timeframe
-Gave a big raise/extension to DC
-Gave a big raise/extension to DL coach
-is giving Andy Reid a new contract to be highest paid HC
-is giving the GM a new deal paying among or highest paid GM

This does not sound like cheap to me

Our locker room is a bit more cramped than others because it's full of hundreds of huge Super Bowl rings.

In case you missed it, society isn't the same. If you did that shit now you'd get fired immediately.

Pampered from High School, College to NFL. The fact all of them aren't broke in three years after their careers, is amazing

The only one that matters is "Head Coach" = A+

It's a shame. The product is now worse, and the players get paid more.

I work in a school, it isn't just players that are pampered, society in general is vastly different.

and the Dolphins are as soft as butter...

Players really got pissed when they took down the basketball goal.

OH NO, WE SUCK AGAIN!!!

Worse for whom? The league and the players are making more money than they ever have and the games are watch by more people than ever.

It’s such a low hanging fruit/relatively easy fix.

Meet with your player leaders/captains, get their feedback on what they want in terms of improvements and then determine what can be done incrementally/in the short term and what will need to wait for if/when they build a new practice facility.

But just doing nothing seems to be an unforced error by Clark.

I'll be honest, I'm impressed with the Dolphins facility.

I'd be more comfortable inviting a South Beach model/call girl to that place than the Chiefs outdated facility.

I mean he may not want to spend 100 million dollars on a new practice facility so that's why there's a disconnect.

Watering any product down always gives it more mass appeal.

Bad look Clark!

...Renovated locker rooms?! Really!? That's nothing. Get it done! No wonder Andy was making those comments about he Raiders brand new facilities and we got a report TODAY that Chiefs are looking into renovations just one day after this report card came out. Good! Glad you're listening!

None of that renovation involves the practice facility.

There must not be any room to set all the Lombardi's

Any of the players denied this?

The facilities would be nicer if the employees picked up their ****ing candy wrappers.

Do we actually know what Clark told him? Did he actually say, I'm going to make sure the practice facility is updated by the start of next season? Is it possible there is a grander plan for new facilities once the Royals are gone?

O.city beat me to it but I’d bet that has something to do with it.

Someone posted an interview of Orlando Brown Jr her recently. It seemed like a pretty recent interview after he had signed with the Bengals. He made a comment in the clip about how the organization “expects you to play through injury”. He didn’t say it in an obviously negative way and I can’t remember the full context but.. could have something to do with it.

I’m sure this is untrue. It doesn’t jive with any of my experience in the real world. Leadership, facilities, and amenities are pretty important aspects of keeping you employees happy.

Fixed that for ya

F for Fantastic, maybe.