Even though the Kansas City Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls and have three championships in the past five seasons, the players are quite discontent with the team and owner Clark Hunt.
On Wednesday, the NFL Players Association released its annual report cards for every team in the NFL. And in a pretty shocking turn of events, the Kansas City Chiefs ranked extremely low, coming in second-to-last in the entire league ahead of only the Washington Commanders.
NFLPA president JC Tretter seemed to think that this low score was a result of “promises that haven’t been kept” all while they are dominating on the field.
“Kansas City scored pretty poorly,” Tretter said according to Pro Football Talk. “A lot of that was, I would say, frustration from the guys on promises that haven’t been kept as they’ve put up a bunch of success on the field. Not this past year, but the year before, the team promised them a brand-new locker room. . . . They go on to win the Super Bowl. They come back for the offseason, and it’s the same locker room but with chairs [instead of stools].
“[The players] said, ‘What’s the deal?’ And they said, ‘Well, you guys went so far in the playoffs, we didn’t have time to do.’ Guys are like, ‘We just won three Super Bowls in five years and no money is being poured back into us. All you got us was a chair and the things you promised us, you’re not doing.’ So, I think you see that frustration in the survey responses, where they feel like they were promised change and then not actually seeing that change after Super Bowl after Super Bowl.”
It’s pretty clear that players are not happy. We’ll have to see if that leads to changes.
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