Jason Whitlock Talks Chiefs One More Time On 'The Explanation'

What a cornerback!

There wasn’t really a way to predict that he’d be such a bust in KC. He was a top DT in Oakland and he was in the prime of his career when he signed with the Chiefs and had no injury issues. It was a signing that just didn’t work out.

16-0, however, is always a huge miscalculation to predict.

Well, I could really care less.

One last prediction on Fatlock : I predict that this idiot will eat his way to 450lbs by Dec 2012 and begin sweating like Jamie Dukes in a Doughnt shop full of dentists.

Then I’d be lured back by one good article, catch up on some of the stuff I missed, and like some of it. Then I’d read another and I’d swear off.

I didn’t and I don’t dig the uncited sources for soap opera dramatics, even if there was truth in some of it. The fact that he had such crap to write, though, lies in the ammunition that Peterson and company gave them. Up and down the line there was way too much self-serving bullshit, loose talk, and spin-doctoring going on within the Chiefs organization. I see that, now, and it makes me a little less inclined toward Shitlock-hate. In hindsight, maybe I was hating on the messenger a tad.

I wish him well. He’s pretty unafraid and throughout it all, he hasn’t ducked his critics. He took on some hot topics. But I still think of him as Shitlock, and probably always will.

I ran around with Joe McGuffs sons and read his column growing up and let me tell you they have a tough road between the travelling and watching games that they could give a rats ass about and make us care about our teams in KC where losing has became a national joke. He did give a different perspective and took unpopular stances which about 60% of those were with me. I looked on Fox Sports today and his writing is still the most commented on, even after you remove the simpletons comments who have nothing better to do that call him names. I did enjoy watching Peterson get pissed off at him at the press conferences or when he said that if Diamond Joes ever blew up the Chiefs would lose 80% of their team. Later Big Sexy

He was with the star when I lived in Kansas. I read his stuff for a couple years. At some point I came to the realization that Whitlock was a glorified tabloid hack; a shock-jock of the newspaper, if you will.

I never found much substance in his writing, and I don’t think he was a talented writer in any sense of the word. He took controversial positions on inflamed subject matter and threw as much gasoline on the fire as he could carry. I stopped reading him all together years ago, and I never missed him one bit.

The more I learned about him outside of the paper, and how he treated people around him, the more my dislike of Whitlock grew. To me, he was never more than the ‘Howard Stern’ of the newspaper long before Howard Stern; only replacing sexually driven commentary with race driven.

I’m happy to see him go. My only regret is that he will now be employed full time by Fox Sports, giving him a much bigger platform from which to piss down on everyone he deems beneath him.

“I’ve been a local newspaper columnist for a long time and that’s all I ever wanted to be.”

Bullshit Jason – if that was truly all you ever wanted to be, you’d still be doing it for $100,000 a year…don’t you dare act like it’s not about the money.

Hell, I wish I could work the job I really want to do (teach college) and make half of what Whitlock made at the Star.