Herm Edwards Finds KC Just Like NYC

I have no idea what the hold up is on getting Trent Green out of Kansas City. CBSSportsLine.com's Clark Judge thinks Green might be a little long in the tooth and teams -- like, say, the Dolphins -- are hesitant to give up too much for him (really? at 36 years old?), but in the meantime, Chiefs head coach Herm Edwards is left to deal with this mess.

After the first day of organized team activities (which is just a fancy word for practice), the media swarm descended on the second-year coach and asked if the whole Green situation was becoming a distraction:

"We've had one practice and all of a sudden we think it's a distraction... We're making a big deal out of nothing. This is not a distraction in any stretch of the imagination."

And that's the right answer. It's freaking May, for cripes sake. Green complained earlier in the week that the quarterback competition was stacked against him and that landed him in Edwards' office. According to the Kansas City Star's Jason King, "Edwards seemed especially peeved that Green indicated he didn't believe him when he said the quarterback battle would be 'fair.'"

Yeah, I really can't understand why Green wouldn't believe Edwards. It's not like the Chiefs, when not asking Green to take a pay cut, have been trying to trade him all off-season. Well, sports talk radio host Damon Amendolara took up Green's cause and it drew Edwards' ire following Wednesday's practice:

So keyed up was Edwards that ... he had a heated exchange with ... Amendolara ... about a comment Amendolara supposedly made on the air.

Amendolara said someone told Edwards that he called Edwards a "liar" during his show Wednesday morning. Amendolara denied making the comment and offered to let Edwards hear a tape of the segment in question.

"He was obviously uptight and in my face and confrontational," Amendolara said. "It just speaks to the tension that's surrounding this franchise, that something that small would totally set him off in mid-May."

Hey, it's just like New York City but without all the tall buildings and homeless people! I'm guessing Edwards thought he was leaving all this behind when he took the Chiefs job. Yeah, that didn't happen ... and it's only May.