"Glenn Dorsey didn't want to watch himself anymore. He was reviewing the film from his first game, sure, but did he really have to relive this in front of everyone?
Dorsey, the Chiefs' top draft pick, had no sacks, no tackles and no hurries. No nothing.
And that was nothing he wanted to watch.
"It was OK," he said this week, shaking his head. "It wasn't - I'm not happy with it. I look back on film and see plays I should've made, and I just didn't get there."
Dorsey said his first regular-season NFL game might have come at him a little faster than he'd been expecting. He'd been going hard in practice and the preseason games, but this was for real - and it didn't slow down for anyone, even the No. 5 overall pick in this year's draft.
Dorsey's coaches and teammates want him to get used to this. Really. Games like the one Sunday, they won't be uncommon for a defensive tackle in the Chiefs' system. Dorsey's top priority is to plug his gap and follow his techniques. Tackles and sacks are bonuses.
It's a bitter but real assignment for Dorsey, a two-time All-American at LSU, a tackle who strolled into every major defensive-awards ceremony after last season and left with an extra 20 pounds in his satchel.
That came after he had seven sacks and 69 tackles during his senior season with the Tigers. Now? He might go weeks before his first sack, and coach Herm Edwards can say with a straight face that he won't care if Dorsey doesn't make the tackle - as long as someone else does.
"It's hard for a guy like that because he makes all the plays in college," linebacker Derrick Johnson said. "You don't see a lot of defensive tackles making plays like he did. He'll have his chance. You'll see him make some plays.""