Saturday Mini-Camp Update P.M.
From the Truman Sports Complex
The afternoon session of the Chiefs mini-camp played out much like the morning workout, or at least what the media was allowed to see. The team worked inside to escape the wet conditions. There were 66 players on the field, with three from the roster missing: Tony Gonzalez, Brian Waters and Mike Vrabel.
Two notes from the day:
HELMETS: Right now the Chiefs are practicing in helmets that do not include the Chiefs arrowhead logo on either side. They are just plain red helmets, with the players name written in tape across the front of the helmet. This is an old Bill Parcells motivational tool where the players must earn the right to wear the logo. Parcells did this in Dallas, where in the off-season the Cowboys helmets did not have the star on the side. Eventually, at some point whether through the off-season program, training camp or pre-season, they reach a point where they will earn the honor of wearing the arrowhead.
CONCENTRATION DRILL: At the end of the afternoon session, Haley allowed the media a few extra minutes of viewing time. What we saw was a concentration drill and the head coach was right in the middle of it. All the players were in a three-point stance. Yes all the players, including the quarterbacks. When Haley called out “set, hut” the players came out of their stances and jogged 10 yards and turned around. They got back in their stance and got rady to do it again. They could only move on Haley’s call of “set, hut.”
Not so tough physically, but at the end of a day with two practices, many of the players were sore, tired and not focused. Haley would throw in different words and blow his whistle and try to get one of the players moving. It happened quite a few times, much to the consternation of the whole team as they would have to start over. Haley was loud enough to heard from over 50 yards away.
“You can’t start acting dumb when you are tired.”
“”Concentrate.”
“This is simple. You’ve got to think.”
“We will not be a dumb football team.”
There’s one more practice for this camp set for Sunday morning.
Why isn’t Vrabel there???
Because he is at my house laying out by the pool.
I have to say I really like that they have to earn their Arrowhead, just because you’re in the NFL doesn’t mean you’ve made it, you have to earn your stipes!
Every day the new management group looks better and better and the old one looks worse and worse.
i think its really cool to earn the arrowhead 2
Awesome! In Haley and Pioli I trust.
Build it and they will win!
Sounds to me Haley is treating them like high school players! It will be interesting to see if that backfires on him.
He isnt treating them like high school players. He is trying to bring back the winning attitude to KC, he wants his players to earn their spots not just give it to them. I love what Haley is doing and he already sounds like a better coach than Herm ever could have been. KC is going to be a winning team, Pioli and Haley will MAKE that happen they dont accept losing like Herm. This will be a great team in the future.
Pics of minicamp can be found on gettyimages.com
or you can find them on this thread (starting from the 8th post): https://fatchatter.com/forum/index.php?topic=1441.0
1976 Marine Corps Boot Camp… we were not allowed to wear the EGA, Marine Corps emblem until the last week of training. I like the earn your symbol motivation, I like it allot. Maybe they could do the telephone pole drills too. Anyone remember those? Good TEAM building.
It is ALL about the TEAM……….and……….
THE RIGHT (22) 53 2009
In Pioli I trust
I like the earn the arrowhead think if it helps us win….but dag nabbit….now there will be a bunch of Chiefs football cards with pictures of players without that beautiful arrowhead on their helmet….you watch.
I think this is a great tactic. Difinetly agree you have to earn your stripes before you can put them on!!
Only tactic I fould acceptable by Dallas. Great psych out, got the money now make to team.
hey harold c
watch the language ok this is a public message board
Hey punk…
Hey…that was so funny. At least everyone can clearly see where my sentences begin and end and the words I use can be found in a standard dictionary. None of my sentences require 10 minutes of study with a Captain Nemo decoder to figure out what they say. Can you say the same? No!
The question I’d have for the nice folks watching from the sidelines - are these guys practicing like they want to do something more than a 4-12 or 2-14? How much fire are they showing?