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QB Series Chapter 16: West Coast Wonder

This is another in a season-long series on the Kansas City Chiefs search for a franchise quarterback. It appears weekly on Thursdays throughout the 2015 season.

To spend endless column inches extolling the qualities and statistics that Joe Montana brought to the Chiefs history of quarterbacking would largely be a waste of time for the readers of this site. Suffice to say, he was one of the franchise’s best, perhaps the second best behind Len Dawson, in bringing Kansas City closer to its goal of a return to the Super Bowl.

Montana’s arrival in Kansas City after a career that was already established as hall of fame-ready really had more to do with the offense the Chiefs were determined to run and the man whose responsibility it was to run it: Paul Hackett.