Chiefs expected to release Frank Clark
Chiefs and Frank Clark’s agent Erik Burkhardt were unable to find common ground on a reworked deal during several conversations at the combine and the expectation now is that Kansas City will release the 29-year-old DE who is the NFL’s third all-time leading postseason sack… https://t.co/IqjwATIWSt
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 6, 2023
Insert Seinfeld shame gif
Really, the only former Wolverine I root against. You beat a woman you should lose your job.
Worse than that, he beat her in front of her children. If you read the details of the incident, it's the kind of thing that shocks the conscience.
And, he has clearly demonstrated, that despite multiple assaults of women, he is without remorse or rehabilitation.
Why? He paid a stiff price and should be able to function in society like everyone. Preventing people from working who committed a crime is not only immoral, it is terrible policy. Ex-felons who can't get work are more likely to commit future crimes.
I imagine he’s happy that it’s his first time being released with no bail involved.
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Taylor Lewan and Frank Clark in the same off-season?
Do other fan bases disown their athletes for off-field behavior?
Edit: I'm in favor of disowning people who are monsters. I'm just wondering if SEC schools disown their people. Is Pitino still a hero at KU and Louisville or is he considered a scumbag? Is Urban Meyer frowned upon at OSU? I think he is at Florida...
I mean I can excuse dumb youthful mistakes. Threatening a rape victim and hitting your girlfriend so hard that you leave a welt in her head? Nah.
The Michigan Difference.
Message boards are not the place for nuance. Frank and Taylor did unconscionable and awful things. Mistakes? Maybe. Who they are? Maybe. It's important that we do not hold them up and gleefully discuss them as if they are the same as our beloved football alums who haven't done these things (as far as we know - I'm sure there might be a few who 'got away with it' over the years, here and there). It's also important that we forgive them for their actions and don't forever hold them to account as if they can't grow, learn, and change, without forgetting about what they did. I'm sure Frank and Taylor have both gone on to do many good things in their lives. That matters. They also can't undo the things they've done. That matters too. It's complicated. The internet doesn't do complicated well.
Amen to that. Glass houses do eventually, break.
A wise young (and pretty!) Finance student once told me the three laws of finance:
1. Get the cash
2. Get the cash
3. Get the cash
If there is an unwritten rule, it might be “Get the cash, but don’t be greedy”. Maybe Frank’s agent priced him out of a job.
Defensive ends get paid. Someone will pick him up and he will be well compensated.
He will find another team. Maybe even the Chiefs....
Can you walk back into the facility in July and say, "Look, I do apologize if I seemed somewhat brusque during the initial negotiations, but I would like you to know that I have mulled it over some more and would like to sign, please" ?
"What... quit? Who... quit?
Frank & Andy Reid are very close, both from Southcentral LA. Frank has said Andy's kind of a father-figure to him. I wouldn't be surprised if he signs a reduced contract with incentives to come back with the team. He made a ton of cash with little production in the regular season, really a different player in the playoffs.
Frank & Andy Reid are very close, both from Southcentral LA.
Ah, yes. Their days of drinking juice go way back.
Uh, no. He already took a team friendly haircut in 2021. This next contract will likely be his last, so he's not doing anyone any favors.
After how things went with his own son, Andy Reid should probably stick to Xs & O's and not try to be a father figure to anyone.
Good.
he's only 29?
Good
A few holier than though comments on here. I’ve been following mgoblog since about 2006 and Brian’s best post in that time was on Frank Clark on the heels of that incident.
https://mgoblog.com/content/sympathy-devil
Frank hasn’t had any issues since then. He’s won two two Super Bowls and handled his business
A quick Google search showed 2 gun arrests in 2021 alone. So not sure about the voracity of your 'hasn't had any issues since (2014)' claim.
It’s quite a voracious claim.
Fair. I didn’t know about the gun charges.
I have a general rule of not holding athletes or any person up as role models. I raise my kids the same way - principles, not people. Every person on this planet is flawed in some way, some more than others, myself included. I even tell my kids not to call me a role model. That said, I understand this is a sports blog and we’re going to talk about individual athletes. But Please go read the police report of what Frank Clark - an athlete in the prime of this physical strength - did to his girlfriend. He didn’t get into some dumb fight outside of a bar when he was young. He literally beat the snot out of a woman and left s dent in her face. What is wrong with you?
Are we supposed to pretend to have goldfish memories about what he did because he won two super bowls? Is that what "holier than thou" means?
My bad. I should have specifically said “pointless moralizing” rather than holier than thou.
I get it. I understand that what he did almost 10 years ago was unconscionable. My issue with comments on posts like these is that commenters use this as an opportunity to virtue signal. Someone above used two paragraphs to tell the mgoworld how she raises his kids.
I’m not excusing what he did. I am saying that the virtue signaling is unnecessary
The comment you cited is a reply to your own initial post. It sounds like you're annoyed people would bring up his issues off the field. Call it 'apathy signaling."
He's a productive DE who still has a few years left. He's had no serious issues off the field since he left Michigan so in the NFL's eyes, he's fine.
He'll get a two, maybe three year contract from somebody (Browns perhaps?). This type of stuff happens every day in the NFL, no big deal.
He's currently on probation for gun charges...
Who isn't?
me. I lost all my guns in a boating accident
Like I said, in the eyes of the NFL, nothing too serious. Here's why they cut him:
"Clark was set to enter the final year of a two-year, $30 million deal. The move is expected to clear about $21 million in salary cap space."
And he'll get signed by some other team. Probably for as much or more than the Chiefs were going to pay him which is why he didnt agree to restructure his contract.
Gun laws in this country are a joke. What he was charged with in California as a felony is legal in Texas. Hard to say what he did in carrying a rifle is so immoral and outrageous when it is legal in Texas and many other states. Sadly, carrying a loaded automatic weapon is just not outside of community norms in much of the US. I am not defending breaking the law but it is hard for me to get morally outraged at carrying a weapon in your car when in much of the country that is legal behavior.
There’s a ton of local and state laws that differ from place to place. It’s on you to check that out and understand. When I moved from Indiana to California for grad school eons ago I made sure I followed California firearm laws.
shit like this isn’t a “whoops, I was confused” type thing. You have to know the laws where you live.