"Dwayne Bowe did his speaking on the field Monday, and that's something the Chiefs could stand more of from their top wide receiver.

Instead of discussing a secret custom of "importing" women to the team's hotel during road trips, or describing the contents of his grandmother's medicine cabinet, Bowe dashed across the middle and caught a tough pass in the wind during the week's first offseason practice.

"You've got a lot of young guys who our coaching staff is constantly coaching, on and off the field," Chiefs coach Todd Haley said, "trying to get them to think the way that we know works, and act the way that we know works."

That has been a priority during Haley's time in Kansas City: Get Bowe's attention, help him reach his potential and, in the process, hope he overcomes the distractions that have sometimes hampered his career.

Haley said Monday that he had a "long conversation" with Bowe sometime in the past five days, after Bowe made headlines last week, again for the wrong reasons. This time, he described a team trip to San Diego in 2007 in which veteran Chiefs players had scouted attractive women, flown them in, and had them waiting in the team hotel.

"They call it importing," Bowe was quoted as saying in an issue of ESPN the Magazine. "They know everything about us — first and last names, sisters and brothers, salary. This one girl was talking to me like she'd known me for years."

Bowe had departed the Chiefs locker room Monday before reporters were allowed to enter, leaving his teammates to answer for him. It was a similar scene as one in November, when Bowe was suspended four games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. Bowe later told The Star that he had asked his grandmother to send him medicine to relieve cramps, but that she mistakenly sent a diuretic instead."