Step back from the ledge, Chiefs Kingdom.
I know it hurts to see one of your own suddenly taken from you. I realize it pains to see a future you had in mind suddenly vanish.
Today is a day for being sad. You’re allowed to be sad. It doesn’t have to make sense today, sadness makes sense.
So read this tomorrow. Always tomorrow.
The prospect of tomorrow brings optimism – and sadness is bad, whereas optimism is good.
Today: sadness. Tomorrow: optimism.
Somewhere in between realism sets in that it was inevitable that the Holy Passing Trinity of Patrick Mahomes + Tyreek Hill + Travis Kelce would break up. But we all thought they had a couple more years together, at least! We all thought we had a couple more years together, at least.
We thought they’d break up tomorrow, not today. We thought we’d break up tomorrow, not today.
But, unfortunately, sadness doesn’t come tomorrow. The sickle of sadness comes today.
Tomorrow is for optimism.
Optimism that maybe defenses really had figured out how to stop the Holy Passing Trinity + Band of Others and that – maybe, just maybe – the passing attack needed to be blown up. (Whaaaaaaaat! *gasp*)
Not today though, we hoped. Blown up tomorrow. Maybe.
Maybe we could get a player or two in free agency + the draft and keep the Holy Passing Trinity together and actually improve! I mean, yeah, that would require all three of the aerial triumvirate to be happy with their contracts + require hitting on that other free agent (JuJu) + draft pick (?). And the former would hinge on Hill agreeing to an extension.
But… Hill didn’t want to agree to KC’s extension. Uh oh.
He wasn’t supposed to tell us that! Not today, at least. Tell us that tomorrow.
The reality is that Tyreek saw others getting more money and wanted to be compensated similarly. Which is… fair? KC could always pay him more money, of course, and push off salary cap pain to future years. They wouldn’t ever really have to face the financial music, because the cap isn’t real.
The cap isn’t real…right? RIGHT?!?
We wouldn’t have to find out if the cap was real or not today at least. Tomorrow, maybe.
So what was Brett Veach & Co. supposed to do? Well, we saw today what leaders do in tough situations: they don’t push off making hard decisions until tomorrow, they know the best time – hell, the only time – to deal with tough situations is now. Right now. Today.
Make the hard decision today, pay the price today, be sad/mad/angry today. You’ll be happier tomorrow.
Tomorrow is for optimism, today is for sadness.
Tomorrow is for moving on, today is for breaking up.
Tomorrow is for looking at WR draft highlights, today is for looking at Hill’s Chiefs highlights.
Tomorrow we’ll talk about how this draft is loaded with legit starting potential in rounds 2, 3, and 4 (picks 33-143, or 111 in total) and how now the Chiefs have 8 (EIGHT!) of those 111, including numbers 29 and 30 with 5th year options.
With 32 NFL teams, you would expect 3.47 picks per team in that 111 pick range, giving the Chiefs over double the amount of picks that you’d expect. In one of the deepest drafts for WR/CB/DE/LB/OT in recent memory (all areas the Chiefs need help).
We’ll talk about all those things tomorrow. Today, we mourn.
Today, sadness. Tomorrow, optimism.