Four years later and Dee Ford still has an immediate reaction to the time Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt compared him to Derrick Thomas.
“I hated that,” Ford said. “I hated that. I’m like, ‘Man, look here ...’”
Sitting in the locker room this week toward the end of an expansive conversation, the linebacker went into a story about Justin Houston and Tamba Hali and the weight of expectations. This has been Ford’s football existence, and while the NFL teaches guys to pretend it doesn’t exist, Ford is comfortable enough in who he is to talk about it.