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  It’s a bargain, to be clear, the Chiefs will make every time. They know the score, and they know why, now, Kansas City is an NFL destination. “It’s Pat, and it’s Andy, if you want to put names on it,” Tilis says. “Both those guys would then deflect it—Pat to his teammates, Andy to his assistants. But yeah, the cap’s not that hard, and the hard thing is just having players who want to be there. I’ve been here since 2010, and we’ve had experiences with players where they just did not want to be in Kansas City. They either didn’t want to be in the city, they didn’t want to be in the building, they didn’t want to be around coaches that we had or front office members or whatever. “It’s taken years to turn that around. And it’s remarkable how easy that makes my job.” So as well laid out as that plan was back in 2017 and ’18, the most important part, for all complexities of it, was the simplest part. They were right. The quarterback wound up being great. And the rest? Well, it’s gotten ...

  SMU Mustangs: 2021-2022 Sep 17, 2022; College Park, Maryland, USA; Southern Methodist Mustangs quarterback Tanner Mordecai (8) rolls out to pass during the first quarter against the Maryland Terrapins at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports Leaving Oklahoma following the 2020 campaign, Mordecai found his home at SMU. The quarterback paired up with head coach Sonny Dykes in 2021 and finally found his rhythm at the collegiate level. Mordecai would become the Mustangs’ starting quarterback heading into his junior season and go  on to have a very impressive two-year career with SMU. Although Dykes went on to appearing in a National Championship with TCU at the end of 2022 campaign, Mordecai remained very impressive in his senior season under new coach Rhett Lashlee and in the end he was able to put together some eye-popping stats over 24 contests with SMU over two seasons .