Tony Gonzalez is Pissed Off

But you have to admit, as a fan, it pulls on your heart strings a bit to see the Greatest Chief pining for something he can’t get right now with the current team.

For me as a fan, what pulls on my heart strings are players that are so committed to their original team that they stay with them even when they would have a chance to go somewhere else to win a championship – Derrick Thomas pulls my heart strings more than Neil Smith

As for Tony -

But I don’t care about being good. I want to be great. I want to win a Super Bowl.

One doesn’t need to win a Super Bowl to be great, and winning a Super Bowl doesn’t make one great.

Trent Dilfer was not a great QB
Dan Marino was a great QB

Tony Gonzalez is already great – he is undoubtedly the greatest TE to play the game, and is as close to being a first ballot Hall of Famer as one can get, without the Super Bowl ring.

If we trade him, I’ll be disappointed, but I’ll get over it. But I think that part of his argument is bogus…

What is a contender in the NFL? The parity is so absolute in this league that teams CAN go from worst to first! And Tony knows from first-hand experience, and we see it every year, 13-3 teams drop out of the playoffs in the first round.
If he goes to a new team, has to learn all the new plays and reads, he’s rebuilding, even if the rest of the team isn’t. Trading to a so-called contender is no promise of the promised-land.
The only chance Tony will have to be happy in his few remaining years is to know who he is – he’s a Chief.

Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports says TG expects the next head coach to be named by Thursday.

But I don’t care about being good. I want to be great. I want to win a Super Bowl

Every player in the NFL should wake up each morning and say that to himself five times.

how many HOFers never played in the SB?

..has a problem with the attitude of what “I” (Tony) wants?

Let’s recap: He signs a very lucrative contract, decides to stay in KC, makes a big stink mid season last year, smooths things over at the end of the year, makes demands about who the HC and QB should be….and some on here voted him the best Chief in the history of the franchise. And no one has a problem with any of this attitude?

Hey, Tony, show me a player that DOESN’T want to be on a SB team.

I say package him up with LJ to Detroit and good riddence. BTW, Tony will never be the best Chief of all time, whining like he has been these last 6 months. This franchise is about the fans and he’s shown nothing but disrespect.

"Yeah, I hear they’re talking to Todd Haley, but then there’s this coach [Ferentz] from Iowa State, some [expletive] like that and I don’t want to deal with that.

Coach Tony has spoken. In my eyes, he’s become a disappointment.

if you can get good value for him. Get Philly to cough up one of their first rounders. The dude can still play. If we can’t get good value for him I don’t care if he’s grouchy. Tony’s shown that he can check the attitude come gameday and play.

I don’t care if he’s grouchy

You mean disrespectful, don’t you? Because that’s what he’s being towards the fans that supported the kid (ever since he was rookie, in my case).

I’m tired of the mouth on him. He’s direspecting the fans, the past players and the franchise.

Give me a break

He’s frustrated. He’s the best TE in NFL history, and he’s never even won a playoff game! That’s probably pretty frustrating. He didn’t get traded, so he just went about his job and posted ANOTHER 1000yd season. Ho-hum. What, did his “mouthing off” cause some sort of dissension in the ranks that caused us to go 2-14? We would’ve been so much better without Tony there to haul in Thigpen’s sailing passes?

We’re not going to get fair value for one of the premiere players in our organization’s history. We’re just not (and, no, a 3rd rounder ~= TG). He’s under contract through 2011. He’s already shown he’ll play his ass off regardless of how he feels about things. The G-Men showed us that going to another team is no guarantee of a SB. So why on earth would we trade him?

Gonzo has given the Chiefs so much, yet some are ready just to toss him to the scrap pile now that the hot new GM is in town. Idiocy. Shit, I don’t want Ferentz to be the coach either. Maybe I should trade myself to the Steelers?

Honestly, F*CK TOny. How can all these people coddle him, and loathe LJ? They’re the same type of person! Oh wait, no they’re not. LJ waited until the end of the season to say he wanted out, TOny wanted to do it mid-season. LJ hasn’t said anything about where he wants to go, TOny wants to go to a team who’s going to win a subparbowl.

Congratulations on your new nickname T.O-ny.

Seriously though, why should he get treated any different than LJ? Work his ass into the ground to earn his money until he retires or his contract expires.

Oh, and how many of you think we were better off this year without Allen and his 14.5 sacks? Winning is the panacea to cure all ails, people. The problem is not with the players, it’s with the organization that let things devolve to the point where only starry-eyed rookies want to play in KC.

The squeeky wheel gets the greese.

Maybe NE would take him for rights to Cassel? It’s a good deal for NE because they get an immediate impact player who will probably be around for another 2-3 years (While Brady is still playing at a high level). Would make more sense for them than taking a 2nd or 3rd rounder who may not pan out. For KC the benefits are obvious, with limited downside.

would have shipped his ass to Buffalo before the deadline last season for their 2nd rounder and Tony would have been stuck with that sinking ship. So let’s get this straight, he’s demanding a trade but only to the team of his choosing?

If we DO move TG, I think that makes a strong case for Crabtree @ #3. If we decide to throw TG on the block I say we do it with LJ as well and try to stockpile picks for this next draft. Just pull the trigger and start over.

Brian Waters makes Tony look like a chump

I respect the desire to win a Superbowl, but Tony has become a whining bitch. The organization just hired the most sought after executive to run the show — clearly Clark Hunt is committed to winning.

Tony can hit the road. I’m sick of this “trade me” crap. He wants out, we shouldn’t keep him around. He’s only gonna do damage to the next head coach and chemestry in the locker room. Guys like him and LJ are talented, shoot, TG is the best tight end of all time, but you all heard Scott Pioli, “I’m not interested in collecting pro bowl players, I’m interested in building a team that wins championships”. TG plays for himself, not for the team. Want proof? Rewatch that HBO series from last year, TG’s a complete premadonna. He’s a big cry baby when he doesn’t get his way! I’ll give anybody who disagrees this, TG deserves his way, he’s the best. He just deserves his way somewhere else! Trade him for Cassel.

This stuff is poison to a team, and needs to be gotten rid of asap. Neither him or LJ should be kept. Trade TG while he has some value and LJ for anything we can get. Either that or let them retire. They still don’t get there Super Bowl ring. Tony can go back to California and get bit parts in B movies giving the heimlich to someone and LJ can hang out at bars trying to pick up chicks.

Pioli won’t stand for this crap and if Haley is hired he sure as hell won’t either.

a multi-million dollar contract says he has an obligation to be here. screw him and screw LJ. highest paid assholes on the team and they’re the only ones bitching. so much for veteran leadership. they should sit and talk with Pioli and the new coach as soon as it’s possible to find out what’s in store before they complain.

I hope we hire a coach who carries a big stick and knows how to demand buy-in from everyone.