Woke Kansas City radio host admits OutKick is right, but asks his listeners to not read us

A Kansas City sports radio host is unhappy with OutKick's coverage of the Chiefs. He says he doesn't disagree with anything we've written or reported, however. Instead, he claims he doesn't like that we're allowed to talk about his team while holding different views than he does.

On Tuesday, Carrington Harrison criticized members of the Kansas City sports media for "spending any part of [their] day arguing with Bobby Burack about any subject." In doing so, he spent part of his day posting about me on social media – and discussing OutKick and me on his radio show.

"I wouldn't get my [Chiefs] stories from OutKick," he said. "They are an underling of Clay Travis."

He then said he doesn't "respect OutKick."

Harrison later asked to appear on the conservative radio show Mundo in the Morning on KCMO in Kansas City. He claimed his issue with OutKick stemmed from a story last week about Chiefs left tackle Josh Simmons, who has yet to play this season.

In our story, we mentioned that ESPN had reported several "red flags" about Simmons' character and maturity before the 2024 draft. We also cited a Sports Illustrated report that Simmons left the team unannounced the night before a game last season, was unresponsive, and left the team unaware of his whereabouts for a period of time. Simmons then missed a month of games for what the team described as "personal" reasons.

This season, Simmons has missed all four of the Chiefs' games. The team says he has a back injury, one that team sources told multiple reporters was a non-issue in August. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler has since described the injury as "mysterious." Most other national insiders won't discuss the injury, even during injury roundup segments in which they cover minor ailments involving players of far less consequence.

We pointed out how the situation is unusual, that the team's lack of transparency is generating online theories, and that the secrecy suggests something more complicated than a simple back injury.

So, what exactly does a radio host on the Kansas City Chiefs' official station dispute about our analysis?

Well, nothing.

"I don't fundamentally disagree with Bobby Burack," Harrison told a perplexed Pete Mundo on Wednesday. "I would define someone who is a hater, who is someone who is incapable of giving credit when credit should be due."

Uh, okay.

"The truth doesn't matter who says the truth. It's still the truth regardless of who says it," he added.

So why the tweets, radio segments, and name-calling?

According to Harrison, he doesn't like that OutKick told the truth. What does that mean? Didn't he just say the opposite? We'll let him explain.

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"I don't respect Bobby Burack's reporting," he said. "I don't respect the platform that he has created for himself. I believe that he is somebody who has cultivated an audience and a brand around insects, bots, trolls and racists. That's not someone that I'm super interested in getting on the internet and having to tussle with and going back and forth with."

To recap, Carrington Harrison says he agrees with my reporting but doesn't respect it. He says he doesn't want to get into a back-and-forth with me, despite initiating a back-and-forth with me on X, his radio show, and another radio show.

At this point, you have to wonder if there is something seriously wrong with this guy. H