The selection of Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan in the fifth round of the 2016 draft.
There were also a few flash points to prove it out over the past 18 months: … You look back now, how it worked out, and ownership was more aware that it didn't need to be run that way.” So that existed, but the people here weren't aware that ownership was aware of it. Given the power each then wielded, the stock criticism of Dorsey-that while he's incredibly respected as an evaluator, he's more scout than manager-was validated with a level of disorganization that was noticeable before the hyper-organized Ballard departed, and obvious after he left for Indy.Īs one source explained it, “It wasn't dysfunction so much as it was decisions were being made that seemed to come out of nowhere. In practice, that meant Hunt had a better view of the internal issues than many realized, particularly since Reid and Dorsey set up their football operation in the old Eagle model, with coaching and scouting somewhat sovereign to one another. So Reid, Dorsey and president Mark Donovan would all report to Hunt, as Hunt was determined not to let problems fester as they had with Pioli and ex-coach Todd Haley. Scott Pioli was the only person on the football side reporting to Hunt from 2009-12, and Hunt changed that, in part, because he wanted more oversight. The truth is, some of this traces back to a shift in the organizational model in 2013. HOW ALL 32 NFL TEAMS HANDLE ANALYTICS: Who is embracing the new wave of information, and which teams are still going old-school?.So there are two questions to answer: 1) What changed? 2) How did Hunt see what few on the outside could, and what few on the inside thought would never reach the ownership level?
They began to boil over following the departure of director of football operations Chris Ballard in January, and came to a head at a most unusual juncture in the NFL calendar-the deadest time of the football year.īack in February, with the five-year deals of Dorsey and coach Andy Reid set to expire after the 2017 season, Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt told the Kansas City Star: “I would expect to sit down with them over the course of the next year and talk about an extension.” The Reid talks happened, and a deal was struck to keep him in Kansas City through the 2021 season. Though most people in that organization seem to maintain genuine affection for Dorsey, issues simmered there for almost two years.
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