In a late-July session with reporters at Kansas City Chiefs training camp in St. Joseph, Missouri, our Pete Sweeney asked Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones if he had a number of sacks in mind for a season goal.
We ask these kinds of questions all the time. We expect to get answers like, “I’d just like to keep improving my game,” or “I’m not interested in statistics. I’m only interested in helping my team win.”
Those are good answers, of course. But Jones wasn’t fooling around with that.
“Lead the NFL,” he told Pete and the other reporters present — many of whom then filed stories about Jones’ goal.