Chiefs players roasting their team owner this week is the latest sign of NFL players flexing newfound power

INDIANAPOLIS — Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt stood in a semi-circle of reporters on Wednesday, pressed over a somewhat surprising development earlier in the day. A strong contingent of his players, who will soon be slipping on yet another Super Bowl ring — the third in five years for some of them — had some notes to share with their team owner and the outside world about the franchise’s inner workings.

Their head coach, Andy Reid? He landed an A+ rating among a strong contingent of Chiefs players who took part in the second annual NFL Players Association survey, which was released Wednesday. Reid’s grade was the best in the league among head coaches, according to the union.

And that’s where the organizational flowers ran out.

[NFL workplace survey: top 5/bottom 5 Ι Full 32 grades, rankings Ι Oddities include shower bugs] 

In 10 other categories, the back-to-back Super Bowl champion franchise didn’t get a single rating from their players higher than a C+. Most shockingly, they landed two Ds (training room and team travel), one D+ (treatment of families), three Fs (nutritionist/dietician, locker room and training staff) — and one absolute anchor-dragging F- … for their franchise owner, Clark Hunt.

The Chiefs may be Super Bowl champions, but team owner Clark Hunt was graded as the worst owner in the league by his own players. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

As NFLPA President J.C. Tretter framed it Wednesday: “A lot of that was, I would say, frustration from the guys on promises that haven’t been kept as they’ve put a bunch of success on the field. Not this past year, [but] the year before, the team promised them a brand new locker room. [They were told] they were going to renovate it. They go on to win the Super Bowl, they come back for offseason — same locker room, but with chairs [instead of stools].

“They kind of said, ‘What’s the deal?’ And [they were told], ‘Well, you guys went far in the playoffs. We didn’t have…

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