.@Chiefs safety Justin Reid nailed a 65-yard FG in practice.
Honestly, looks like it could've been good from 70 yards. 👀 (via @_Suavage_, h/t @JustinqReid)
In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.
That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.
FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.
US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.
So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.
Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.
Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.
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I remember how fucking god awful it was being a Chiefs fan for most of my life before Andy. You will not see me calling for him to be fired, ever. This is absurd bullshit. A lot of you deserve Herm Edwards or Romeo Crennel back you ungrateful fucks.
Go to Costco on a weekday at 2pm.
You’ll see a bunch of young people in workout clothes casually shopping.
You might think, “What are these people doing? Do they not have jobs?”
They do have jobs.
They work from home.
Pack it up. Put Pat and whoever you want on IR. Let em take a nice vacation, and get ready for next year. 0 shot at the playoffs. Great final season of Kelce's career 🤦♂️
@cdurland53 Valid across the board. But honestly, it starts up top. Their ownership is so horrendous. This cycle will continue until that changes, regardless of who's in the front office, coaching, or playing on the field
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It’s time for Jets decision makers to pay for their wildly awful decisions to cut HoF Aaron Rodgers and making Justin Fields the QB1. HC and GM should lose their jobs.
Darren Mougey, gone
Aaron Glenn, gone
What we learned last night
•Referees never gather after confusion on a scoring play and make a decision
•You’re allowed to punch a player in the face at the end of the game because he’s a Chief
•A team is not allowed to play a clean game and commit no penalties
•You’re allowed to drill a QB after a play is blown dead because it’s Mahomes
•The Chiefs are back
Steve Sarkisian is 2-8 vs top 10 teams at Texas. He’s 5-18 vs top 10 teams all-time.
Last season, he played 1 SEC team who finished the season ranked & lost to that team (twice).
Now, the L to Florida.
When do we start talking about Sark the way we talk about James Franklin?