Kansas City Found the Dolphins Cheat Code
Have you ever heard the axiom, There's a sucker born every minute ? How about A fool and his money are soon parted ? I love these idioms. They seem at first blush like pithy, maybe even clever observations and nothing more. The kind of thing you might remark over your coffee and the morning paper in a 1950s comic strip. That's how they were remembered – as catchy truisms. But that isn't their intention. Their intention is mean; but not unkind. Just uncaring, realistic. They're the kind of thing an absentee father says to his son or daughter after they've made a foolish investment – been had, in other words, by someone either smarter or more capable than they. I think, sometimes, that the whole world must think I think I'm smarter than they are. I don't think so – but the evidence is mounting. People are talking like the Chiefs/Dolphins/Tyreek Hill trade is going to change the way that front office executives do business in the NFL forever. It ma...