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“The thing I’ve noticed about Romeo, and it’s different than some of these young hotshots, is that Romeo doesn’t have a huge ego,” former Chiefs quarterback Rich Gannon said. “If he thinks the thing he needs to do to win a game is to play his base defense the whole game and not blitz a lot, that’s what he’ll do. A lot of coaches out there, they can’t help themselves. It’s almost an ego thing with some other guys that if you’re going to throw it, they’re going to blitz.

“Romeo is about playing winning football and being sound defensively. If you study his defenses over the years, that’s the thing that jumps out at you. They’re fundamentally sound, and they don’t make a lot of mistakes.”

It’s just that the man spent a few decades being paid to evaluate NFL talent and he can’t look at the Chiefs without seeing what he thinks is obvious.“They need a quarterback,” the man says. “Matt Cassel is fine, but look at the league now, the way things are, you need to do better than Matt Cassel. At least bring in someone to compete.”

Waters, who spent his entire career with the Kansas City Chiefs before 2011, earned the first postseason win of his career.“Big day,” Waters said with a smile.