KANSAS CITY, Mo. — New left sort out Orlando Brown mentioned he is prepared for the strain of defending Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs‘ quarterback and half-billion-dollar funding.
“I put quite a lot of strain on myself and have very excessive expectations for myself, and that is preserving Pat as clear as doable, creating many large gaps and holes within the working recreation and taking good care of that man throughout from me on a constant foundation,” Brown mentioned Monday, days after being acquired by the Chiefs in a commerce from the Baltimore Ravens. “I need to be the perfect. I need to be the perfect to play this place within the league. I am not there but and I’ve nonetheless bought quite a lot of work to do, however I will get there.”
Brown will fill an enormous gap within the Chiefs’ lineup, one left vacant after their launch of longtime left sort out Eric Fisher.
“To have the chance to play right here for this group, given the historical past of every part that is gone on right here, every part they’ve executed recently, coach [Andy] Reid and his historical past, Pat and every part he is executed and goes to do … I used to be very shocked to be right here. I am simply glad they made the transfer. I undoubtedly assume I am the man they need and the man they want.”
The Ravens granted Brown’s request for a commerce. Brown mentioned he needed out of Baltimore as a result of he needed to play left sort out. His path with the Ravens was blocked by the presence of Ronnie Stanley.
His father, who died in 2011, had performed proper sort out within the NFL for 10 seasons and did not need the identical destiny for his son. So the senior Brown insisted that if Orlando Brown Jr. was going to be an offensive lineman, he could be a left sort out.
“That is nothing to do with funds,” Brown mentioned. “That is to do with the chance to play left sort out. I grew up with my father enjoying on this league … with no consideration sort out. In my family, if you happen to weren’t enjoying left sort out, I will not say he disowned you, however he form of talked again to you.”
Brown mentioned that as a freshman in highschool in Maryland, he had a coach who did not assume he was able to play left sort out and initially put him at guard.
“My dad went to the coach and informed him straight up, ‘Hey, if you happen to’re not going to play him at left sort out, play him on protection.’ So I performed defensive sort out my first yr,” Brown mentioned. “One thing [his father] made me promise him was that I used to be going to be a left sort out and that I used to be going to play on this league for 10-plus years and be a Corridor of Famer.
“My dad understood the magnitude of [being a left tackle], typically being the captain of the offensive line, typically being one of many higher gamers on offense.”