Chiefs Secondary Coach Uses Extremely Weird Strategy to Motivate Kansas City DBs on Super Bowl Sunday

When you consider what's at stake, it really shouldn't take coaching staffs much, if anything, to get their players charged up for a championship game.

However, don't tell that to Kansas City Chiefs secondary coach Dave Merritt, who used an alarmingly offbeat motivational tactic ahead of Super Bowl LIV on Sunday. To avoid ruining the surprise, let's just say that Merrit, a two-time SB champ with the New York Giants, decided to blend the connection between his jewelry and the bedroom "activities" he partook in after capturing a world championship.

Chiefs secondary coach Dave Merritt, who won two Super Bowl rings with the Giants, showed his players his two “babies” and told them he now is pregnant and expecting a third, with rubies and diamonds. Chiefs DBs liked it so much they said they also are expecting their own babies.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 2, 2020

Don't you want to...give birth to a...ring, too?

A Chiefs or 49ers assistant uncorking the intercourse card as a means to stimulate players was probably the last thing we thought that we'd be conveying to readers ahead of Super Bowl LIV.

Putting the lunacy behind the tactic aside, having players picture themselves as champions is the last sort of ploy that Kansas City's coaching staff should be implementing hours before a championship game. What happened to remaining humble and handling this contest just like any other so that nerves and jitters don't take over natural instinct and talent?

Dave Merritt was a seventh-round pick of the @MiamiDolphins in the 1993 draft. https://t.co/fgh0HvCuwI
— Alain Poupart (@apoupartFins) February 2, 2020

Back to Merritt's "wisdom," it goes without saying that Super Bowl babies are very much a thing, so he hasn't entirely lost the plot, human OR jewel. But we'll know in a few hours if his strange harangue managed to move Tyrann Mathieu and Co.