Carl Peterson
Carl Peterson
Carl D. Peterson grew up in Long Beach, California, and is an alumnus of University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor's, master's and doctorate of education. He is best known as the former president, general manager, and chief executive officer of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. Peterson served in those roles from 1989 to 2009 and hired four head coaches for the Chiefs during his tenure: Marty Schottenheimer, Gunther Cunningham, Dick Vermeil, and...
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It's a head trauma and a neck trauma that has affected the cervical area of his spine. But he's not incapacitated. There's no reason for surgery.
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The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.
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We have received permission to interview and possibly sign Herman Edwards as the next head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. If an agreement is reached with the coach, then we will give the New York Jets our fourth-round draft choice in 2006. The NFL has approved the compensation if or when we come to an agreement with Herm.
There are some similarities to what the Packers are going through and what we did,
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We'd like to think that's a position that has some depth and quality. There are going to be some in the first or second round which you would hope could come in and help immediately.
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A lot of people put a lot of time into identifying players that we think we can get and like to get and see where they fit,
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There was one guy out there with a football after a Saturday walk-through and it was Priest, ... He's practicing scoring a touchdown, catching the football, turning and running to the pylon in slow motion. The next game he catches a pass, runs to the pylon and I say to myself, 'I've seen this play before.'
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There were other times when people tried to count him out and then he shocked and surprised everybody, so it's too early to say. I would just say right now, if he had to start the football season, he couldn't because the doctors have not cleared him for contact. But we don't have to start right now. We'll see where we are in June or July.
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After Priest sustained a hip injury in 2002 and a knee injury last season, there were numerous individuals who speculated that those injuries were career threatening,
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I thought there were a lot of visions of an old defense that we have all seen here in Kansas City before.
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I wouldn't be opposed to that. I think it's a terrific 1-2 punch. This business is a business of attrition.
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I think it's only smart to retain your own best players first, and then if you have the money and the cap dollars (remaining) to go after free agents. You don't want those guys to ever get to the last year of their contract for fear that you might lose them to free agency.
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Patience is some times a good virtue, knowing what you want, and what you think is fair in terms of compensation,
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He was the highest rated guy on our board without any question. We were looking for defensive backs and players who can set the tone.