Chiefs defensive coordinator Bob Sutton exudes a cultivated and thoughtful demeanor, one that resonates more the scholar than a football coach.
That’s why former Chiefs safety Quintin Demps once called him a “brainiac.”
Sutton acquired much of that wisdom in 17 years at West Point, which he likes to call a “leadership laboratory.” During the the last nine of those years he was the head coach at the U.S. Military Academy.
As such, he has some illuminating thoughts on the ramifications of the protests of racial injustice during the national anthem.
Those protests here have been most notably carried out by cornerback Marcus Peters, whose mercurial behavior on the field Sutton also addressed and which we’ll get to below.