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During a recent podcast episode of NFL Spotlight with Ari Meirov, NFL Draft analyst Dane Brugler revealed his past desire to work for an NFL team and his decision to pass on an opportunity with the Kansas City Chiefs.
"In 2015, John Dorsey, he gave me my first interview back with the Packers; he's now with the Chiefs, and he brought me in for an interview. Still obviously had that relationship," said Brugler. "I felt really good about this one. I really wanted to work for the Chiefs, and where they were at that point, Chris Ballard was part of the organization; they just had a really healthy organization. And so, I was like, 'This is the fit. This is what I want."
Brugler is the author of The Beast, via The Athletic, a highly praised annual draft preview, but his life could've been very different if he had made a different decision.
"I'm making this decision about this time, like mid-to-late June in 2015, I have to make this decision about, 'Okay, my wife is about to have a baby in a month-and-a-half, and I can't leave her by herself obviously in North Texas.' She didn't really want to go back to Ohio by herself, where she didn't have her doctors and all that," said Brugler. "Our house and everything, we couldn't move in that quick period. She would have went to Kansas City, but that would have been hard to do that in such a short time period while she's pregnant."
The Chiefs were making strides in 2015 under head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Alex Smith. The dynasty was being assembled years before the arrival of Patrick Mahomes.
"I made the tough decision and told Dorsey and Ballard," said Brugler. "I was heartbroken about it. This is what I had sacrificed for was to get this opportunity, but I had to tell them no. Family comes first, and the timing just wasn't right."
Brugler's content and analysis are top-tier in the industry, but he could have been part of the Chiefs' eventual Super Bowl-winning dynasty.
This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: NFL Analyst explains his decision to pass on a Chiefs front office job
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"In 2015, John Dorsey, he gave me my first interview back with the Packers; he's now with the Chiefs, and he brought me in for an interview. Still obviously had that relationship," said Brugler. "I felt really good about this one. I really wanted to work for the Chiefs, and where they were at that point, Chris Ballard was part of the organization; they just had a really healthy organization. And so, I was like, 'This is the fit. This is what I want."
Brugler is the author of The Beast, via The Athletic, a highly praised annual draft preview, but his life could've been very different if he had made a different decision.
"I'm making this decision about this time, like mid-to-late June in 2015, I have to make this decision about, 'Okay, my wife is about to have a baby in a month-and-a-half, and I can't leave her by herself obviously in North Texas.' She didn't really want to go back to Ohio by herself, where she didn't have her doctors and all that," said Brugler. "Our house and everything, we couldn't move in that quick period. She would have went to Kansas City, but that would have been hard to do that in such a short time period while she's pregnant."
The Chiefs were making strides in 2015 under head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Alex Smith. The dynasty was being assembled years before the arrival of Patrick Mahomes.
"I made the tough decision and told Dorsey and Ballard," said Brugler. "I was heartbroken about it. This is what I had sacrificed for was to get this opportunity, but I had to tell them no. Family comes first, and the timing just wasn't right."
Brugler's content and analysis are top-tier in the industry, but he could have been part of the Chiefs' eventual Super Bowl-winning dynasty.
This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: NFL Analyst explains his decision to pass on a Chiefs front office job
Continue reading...
