One thing that I think is getting a bit lost in all the Eric Berry injury news and debate is the state of the Kansas City Chiefs’ cornerbacks heading into their Week 1 matchup with the Los Angeles Chargers.Chiefs general manager Brett Veach’s offseason plan was always to have Kendall Fuller and Steve Nelson as the team’s primary defensive backs heading into Week 1 Carlos Hyde Jersey , but the plan for their guy at nickel changed three weeks ago when they signed Orlando Scandrick. The Chiefs eventually officially changed their course of action with the somewhat stunning cutdown release of David Amerson (I call it somewhat stunning because you don’t always see executives willing to admit they were wrong in the NFL).Earlier in the week, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid spoke about the trend of NFL teams having three cornerbacks on the field 73 percent of the time—meaning Scandrick, again, the guy who arrived in Kansas City three weeks ago, will be pretty damn important as to how this season plays out.Smart quarterbacks with weapons—you know, like Philip Rivers with Keenan Allen, Tyrell Williams and Mike Williams—could try to exploit the 31-year-old Scandrick.(Important side note: What is the deal with the AFC West and Williameses?)So on Thursday, I asked Bob Sutton where Scandrick stands in terms of being ready for Sunday in LA.“I think he has done a good job,” Sutton said. “He has only been here a couple weeks, which makes him a veteran now here.”Oh Bob, you sly dog. “He is another guy who has played a lot of football,” Sutton added. “He has played a lot of different systems. He understands defensive football. For me with him, what I told him was really getting up to date on our terminology and then he is one of those guys that has been in about every kind of coverage you could ever play in football and then you have to learn what the different adjustments are and that varies team to team. “He is not going to have a problem figuring out the coverages, it is how fast can he drill down and become technique sound from the way we play and understand all the small adjustments each team does different.”Scandrick is the part of the Chiefs defense that scares me the most. Remember, he signed with the Washington Redskins this offseason only to be let go with a free and easy one million dollars.He wasn’t good enough for Jay Gruden, a man Reid has said he respects so much he knew Alex Smith would be in good hands.Are the Chiefs when it comes to Scandrick? Frank Clark will be making big bucks next season in the NFL.Kareem Hunt gets a shot at redemption.That video of Jeffery Simmons will be forgiven.Ditto for Nick Bosa’s tweets.Chances are, someone will find a way to employ Tyreek Hill.With the NFL — and Tyrann Mathieu Jersey , really, everything in life — it always comes down to the bottom line. The owners are simply working the numbers, deducing that whatever baggage the aforementioned rogues bring to a franchise’s reputation are more than offset by their stellar ability on the playing field.The Venn diagram goes something like this:More wins lead to more fans.More fans mean more dollars.More dollars make owners even richer.Rest assured, nothing’s going to change until those filling the seats and bolstering the TV ratings back up whatever disgust they may be feeling by actually abandoning their support of the NFL. And if you think that’s likely to happen, we’d love to hook you up with a Nigerian prince who’s holding millions of dollars in your name.A quick recap of the league’s infamous offseason (so far):— Looking to bolster a porous defense that cost them a chance to play in the Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs worked out a trade and a new $105.5 million contract for pass rusher Clark. Never mind that he was kicked off his college team at Michigan after a domestic violence arrest in 2014. Or that, while with the Seattle Seahawks, he went on Twitter to taunt a female reporter over her story about domestic violence in sports, offering her a job cleaning his fish tank after she washed out as a journalist.The Chiefs’ decision to trade for Clark drew additional scrutiny because …— Hunt, the NFL’s top rusher in 2017, was released by Kansas City late last season when a hideous video surfaced that showed him shoving a woman and then kicking her while she was defenseless on the floor of a hotel hallway. Of course, Hunt has since received a second chance from the Cleveland Browns, though he’ll be suspended for the first eight games of the 2019 season. Citing his Christian faith but no doubt eager to build on the promise of a seven-win season, general manager John Dorsey said, “I see a lot of men of character who commit egregious acts. But at the end of the day, they learn from those acts, moved forward and became better people.”Meanwhile Damien Williams Jersey , back in Kansas City …— A local TV station aired graphic audio this week in which Hill and his fiance, Crystal Espinal, angrily discuss how their 3-year-old son was injured. Espinal said hill was “punching” the boy in the chest and using a belt on him for discipline, while Hill issued an obscene threat against Espinal. Hill has maintained his innocence, but the Chiefs barred the speedy receiver from all team-related activities while the investigation is ongoing. It’s also worth noting that Hill was kicked off his college team at Oklahoma State for a domestic violence arrest.Moving on to the draft …— Simmons was picked 19th overall by the Tennessee Titans, who shrugged off a video from 2016 that showed him striking a woman during a brawl that also involved his sister and mother. Simmons has apologized for the incident and had no troubles during his three years at Mississippi State. “I’m not perfect,” he said. “I made the mistake. I own up to it. I wasn’t raised like that, to strike a woman.”Also on Day 1 of the draft …— Bosa went to the San Francisco 49ers with the No. 2 pick after conceding that his agents deleted tweets in support of President Trump and critical of Colin Kaepernick, Beyonce and Marvel’s “Black Panther” movie. In a prescient response to his reasons for the social media scrubbing, Bosa said, “I had to. There is a chance I might end up in San Francisco.” There were also reports of Bosa liking multiple Instagram posts that featured racial and homophobic slurs. Eager to improve an anemic pass rush, the 49ers shrugged off any concerns about Bosa’s presence in the locker room or in a left-leaning city with a large gay population. “I was a little insensitive,” Bosa said. “I’m just ready to move forward from that, put it in the past, and bring the faithful some wins.”Ahh, wins.In the end, that generally makes everything OK.Sure Derrick Thomas Jersey , some 49ers fans were critical of Bosa’s selection, and it was impossible to ignore the significance of him joining Kaepernick’s former team. During the 2016 season, the quarterback began kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice in America, a stance that effectively cost him his playing career. Doing the math, the owners decided his undeniable playing skills were outweighed by his extremely vocal critics, a group that included Bosa and stretched all the way to the White House.Let’s also remember the case of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, whose career rightfully ended over a gruesome video of him knocking out his fiance in an elevator. But, let’s face it, the unwillingness of any other team to offer up a second chance probably had more to do with him coming off an injury-plagued season in which he rushed for only 660 yards than a noble stance against domestic violence. As with Kaepernick, the numbers simply didn’t work in Rice’s favor.So, here’s the challenge for anyone out there who may be stewing over the NFL’s personnel decisions.If this really bothers you, find something else to do on Sundays this fall.A picnic. A movie. A bicycle ride. There are plenty of options.If you decide to stick with the NFL, there’s no chance of anything changing.That’s the bottom line.
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