Brad Childress
Brad Childress
Brad Childressis an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He has worked for over thirty years as a coach for various college programs and NFL franchises...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 June 1956
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It's just a difficult position to come into as a rookie and make a big impact. I don't think people outside the game appreciate the difficulty involved. I mean, you can talk about the speed of the game, and how different it is, but there are a lot of other things that contribute to the problems players have at the position. It's a very steep learning curve, and it takes some guys a year or two to overcome it. It's a very short list of guys who come in and make an immediate difference at the position.
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I said in my opening comments... he's a franchise quarterback, and I don't believe a guy loses his position based on injury. So the first thing is, he doesn't need to be injured anymore. He's got to rehab. He's got control over that. I don't have control over that.
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I've said this all the way along: competition makes good football teams.
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As I mentioned, I never had a conversation with him about this football team. It was always about what he needed financially and money. I never heard team, I always heard me and I and 'I need 10 million dollars. I'm a 10 million-dollar-a-year quarterback.
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Schematically, because all he has really done was getting handed the football, he's still learning the pass game. When we displace him, that is not natural to him. (But) he's one of those guys where if you show him something, he's got it.
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Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.
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Brad Johnson was asking me for one as well. He got one yesterday. Plenty of time.
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Even though he has been part of this West Coast Offense, all of them go different ways. It kind of splinters off, and you head your own direction. So, some of the things that Detroit was doing, we are not doing the same way here. He has to learn the way you are doing it and how you are reading it and how you are looking at it and our verbiage.
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Billy has gotten incrementally better. He's done a good job in practice. He's gotten a couple of good opportunities around the ball. He was in the right place and the quarterback decided to get it to him. So, when you produce for your quarterback, a lot of times, you get that extra look.
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Terrell is a very talented player, but if there's one thing I know about football is that it's about the team, the team, the team, the team, the team, the team.
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Everything became about being a $10 million-a-year quarterback.
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We're dealing with the other situation. It will play itself out.
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You always worry about kids going home to their hometowns. You don't know how they'll react. But we try to make it easy for them, and create the atmosphere that it's a business trip.
That's the mindset. I don't know anything to the contrary.