“A lot of times, people think you have to be a quarterback to be an offensive coordinator, and that’s not the case,” said Embree, who now coaches the 49ers’ tight ends. “Ken Whisenhunt (the Chargers’ offensive coordinator this season) was a tight ends guy, and there’s a lot of guys that were successful coordinators that weren’t quarterbacks or shoot, didn’t even play football.”
In the wake of the Chiefs’ latest misadventure, we heard from plenty of fans invoking theories of hexes at play: jinxed carryover from the agonizing way they lost their last game at Municipal Stadium in 1971; peculiarities about Arrowhead Stadium itself and the history of the grounds; how Hank Stram was fired …
And a spell that was, in fact, cast on the Chiefs and Washington amid their 1992 game at Arrowhead.