KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a meeting with reporters in his Missouri Western dorm room near the end of training camp in St. Joseph, Chiefs coach Andy Reid repeatedly was asked about the popular perception that the AFC West, and the AFC itself by extension, had radically ramped up.
The implication from pundits around the country, after all, was that one of the upstarts was ready to usurp the team’s now-perennial dibs on the division.
“You can take it as a badge of honor (or) crawl under the desk and be afraid,” Reid said then. “My thing is, listen, let’s go. … We’re not chopped liver out there.”
