For Allen Bailey, it feels like only yesterday that he was laughing in the Chiefs’ locker room with Dontari Poe and Jaye Howard.
Their lockers were side-by-side and the three defensive linemen were so close off the field that they coined themselves the “3 Amigos” and printed up shirts with the moniker. When healthy, they comprised one of the NFL’s better interior groups. Their bond off the field, they thought, only made them stronger on it.
They knew, however, that nothing lasts forever. But while Poe’s offseason departure for Atlanta in free agency was only a mild surprise, the team’s sudden release of Howard — who still had a year left on his contract — was harder to predict, despite the fact he, like Bailey, finished last season on injured reserve.