These Aren't the Chiefs Keyaron Fox Remembers

by Joel Thorman on Nov 21, 2009 1:49 PM CST in 2009 Kansas City Chiefs Campaign Comment 5 comments

Pittsburgh Steelers LB Keyaron Fox is a familiar name around here. A third round draft pick by the Kansas City Chiefs at the tail end of the Dick Vermeil era, Fox appeared in 40 games over four years for the Chiefs. He contributed on special teams and even got four starts while fellow LB Derrick Johnson was downed by injury.

This isn't the rivalry game you might expect it to be for Fox. That's because when he left he went to the eventual Super Bowl champs and, well, he doesn't really know many players on the Chiefs roster. He played with only eight players that are currently on the team:

Dustin Colquitt, Brodie Croyle, Ron Edwards, Tamba Hali, Derrick Johnson, Jon McGraw, Rudy Niswanger, Kolby Smith and Brian Waters.

"When I got to looking and saw the personnel that's around," Fox said via Chuck Finder of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "there aren't too many people from the organization as a whole that I know. They went through a house-cleaning, and there are only a few players left."

The coaching staff is different from linebackers coach to defensive coordinator to head coach. Really, this team isn't really any different from others for Fox.

I think for the most part a lot of folks appreciate what Fox did here and with our current situation at linebacker probably wishes he hadn't left. There's no animosity there so I expect there to be no boos, if anything a few cheers.

"They're pretty good fans," Fox said. "They supported me while I was there. I don't think there are going to be any boos or anything, hopefully."

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Keyaron Fox

is a prime example of Peterson’s draft history. By no means not an untalented player or a bad pick, just he and other draft selections were never properly developed and had to go to other teams to find success. Fox, Beisel, Fujita, Mitchell….even Grigsby wasn’t a horrible a pick. Overall he didn’t do terribly on drafting LB’s. What he did terible was finding coaches to develop his draft choices. These were all players that at the time of being resigned we thought were replaceable and not worth second contracts but the fact of the matter is we never found better replacements for most these guys : ^ (

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by KansasCityShuffle on Nov 21, 2009 5:03 PM CST reply actions

This might not be the Chiefs team Keyaron Fox remembers,

but Keyaron Fox isn’t exactly the player Chiefs fans remember, if that makes any sense. He was a middle of the road type of guy here, but I agree with KC shuffle—perhaps would know what we had if we had good developmental guys to help these players along…

by jk86 on Nov 21, 2009 5:14 PM CST reply actions

Maybe the Peter Principle

We couldn’t get Coaches that were better than the HC.
Vermeil was a fine HC but Older and had a cadre of guys that were Older tooo.

I fully expect Pioli to be scouting coaches that fit his schemes as well as players.
It is THE job IMO

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by Steve_Chiefs on Nov 21, 2009 8:40 PM CST up reply actions

I always kind of liked Fox

Why did we let him go?

(Raiders game 1 should be listed here, 409 yds off, we let them off the hook)
(Cowboy's should be listed here - They are who we thought they were)
Skins
Raiders game 2

Next victim?

by cpa913 on Nov 21, 2009 10:13 PM CST reply actions

Same story with all of them I think

They played decent, but it just seemed that they didn’t get to the next level beyond mediocrity. Sound familiar? We have a few on the team now that the fans discuss getting rid of almost daily. I agree with Joel that it isn’t just about the “right 53”, but is also about the “right 15” (coaches). We have had issues for years with coaches not just players. The Pats and Steelers are good with the continuity and teaching a system. That is exactly what we have lacked since Marty.

Hopefully, Haley and Pioli will not only evaluate the players each day, but the staff as well, and make adjustments.

by TXChiefan on Nov 22, 2009 9:04 AM CST up reply actions