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J'Mon Moore Color Rush Jersey , Mo. (AP) — Orlando Scandrick was on a plane headed home for a last-minute visit with his family when the Kansas City
Chiefs played the Atlanta Falcons in their second preseason game last week.
He didn’t get to see another shaky performance by their secondary until reporting to his new team.
Now the veteran cornerback who spent nearly a decade with the Dallas Cowboys and was recently cut loose by the Washington Redskins will try to help patch it
up. The Chiefs signed the 31-year-old Scandrick over the weekend in the hopes he
can stabilize one of their biggest areas of need.
“I’m just trying to find my way around right now. I’ve only been here a few days,” he said with a smile Monday. “I’m doing a whole lot of listening and not
a lot of talking.”
Scandrick won’t have a whole lot of time to get up to speed. The Chiefs visit the Chicago Bears this weekend for their third preseason game, then have a quick
turnaround before their preseason finale.
Their regular-season opener is a mere three weeks away.
“After being in the league for 10 years, there’s only so many coverages a team can run, only so many philosophies,” He said. “I’m just trying to learn the
terminology right now.”
Chiefs general manager Brett Veach has been a bit uncertain of his defensive backfield since the start of training camp, when they had Bashaud Breeland in
for an extended visit. But Veach didn’t pull the trigger on a veteran addition
until signing Scandrick last week.
“You can’t have enough corners, so Brett’s kept his eyes open, brought a couple in,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “This one
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Finances were a big part of it — the cash-strapped Chiefs would only owe him $1.5 million for the upcoming season — but so was were injuries and
underwhelming performances early in camp.
The Chiefs lost Daniel Sorensen for at least the start of the season after the safety broke a bone in his shin. They are also without cornerback Steven
Nelson — expected to start opposite new arrival Kendall Fuller — after he
sustained a concussion in their preseason opener.
A lingering heel injury has forced Eric Berry to the sideline the past couple of weeks, and the trade of Marcus Peters to the Los Angeles Rams this year has
made a secondary that struggled last season potentially worse.
“The big thing for us is just communicating and being on the same page and at the end of the day, making plays on the ball,” said Fuller, who arrived in the
trade for Alex Smith. “As a DB, the more plays on the ball that you make, the
better the opportunity you give your team to win.”
The Chiefs hope Scandrick can help make some of those plays. They hope Berry can, too.
The perennial Pro Bowl safety missed almost all of last season with a torn Achilles tendon, but he appeared ahead of schedule in his recovery when he
participated in the offseason program. Berry also was on the practice fields of
Missouri Western State University for the start of training camp, which Chiefs
fans took as a good omen for the upcoming season.
Then he began sitting out practices with a heel injury. And so far
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“I just don’t want to go backward. That’s what I don’t want to do,” Reid said between Monday’s morning walk-through and an afternoon practice. “I’m OK with
it. He’s far enough long. … I just have to monitor it and see where he’s at. I’m
comfortable where he’s going with this thing.”
Notes: DL Allen Bailey (knee strain) and OG Laurent Duvernay-Tardiff (concussion) joined Nelson and Berry in sitting out Monday’s practice. … RB
Charcandrick West participated in some of the workout for the first time in
several weeks after dealing with a concussion. “He feels good. The docs say he’s
OK,” Reid said. “We’re in pads today, be helpful to see him move around.”
Every NHL team is consistently pushing for success and that is something that should always be thought about. In the process, it is important to note that
sometimes team rush players through their serious injuries to help with their
success. This is such a risky gamble because injuries need to be taken very
seriously and can ruin their superstar?? careers if not treated with the proper
care. The NHL is such a competitive and dangerous league that players need to be
in their best state to be?able to compete in it. Rushing a player is such a
monumental mistake but teams often do this for the short term benefit of their
squad.
With all of this said, let?? take a look at fifteen players who were rushed by their teams to come back. In doing this, these players have suffered through
even worse injuries and some never played another NHL game again. There comes a
point in these examples where it seems that these teams care more about the
success of the team than the actual well being of their players. This is
something that the NHL needs to be more aware of and that will be presented
through these specific examples.
Nonetheless, here are the unfortunate fifteen times the NHL clearly didn't care for the health of their players.
