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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Keeping Pioli is the right move. Crennel looks like he's ready to head into retirement and Cassel looks like... well... bad. They'll both be gone and I would expect KC to try to make a move for Alex Smith.
Hunt says that he hasn't decided on Pioli yet. But, if Pioli stays, he needs to get his quarterback. I don't think Smith's a job saving level Qb.
Hunt says that he hasn't decided on Pioli yet. But, if Pioli stays, he needs to get his quarterback. I don't think Smith's a job saving level Qb.
Hunt says that he hasn't decided on Pioli yet. But, if Pioli stays, he needs to get his quarterback. I don't think Smith's a job saving level Qb.
Pioli started off poorly by trading Tony Gonzalez to Dimitroff in Atlanta. How stupid was that?
Cassell loses what could've been his security blanket as he adjusts to being The Man at QB.
Then Pioli hires Todd Haley as his HC, and over-drafts Tyson Jackson with his very first draft pick.
His 1st-round pick in 2011? Idiot WR Jon Baldwin. That all spells F-A-I-L.
Backing up Deus: Romeo Crennel out, Scott Pioli in limbo - NFL Nation Blog - ESPN
...and... His QB is already our QB. Not a rhetorical question...and I am not being a smartass, but who is he going to get? Draft some kid, and stake his career to some 20 year old? There's not a lot out there as far as free agents go. Although, if it was easy to find the next great QB, we'd all be GM's.
Actually his biggest mistake was Haley. And I called that. That was what started the veteran dominos turning against him, including Gonsalez and eventually Waters who couldn't stand him. Haley had an abrasive personality and credit grabbers ego. Then Scott made the mistake of trying to out Belichick the master. The candy wrapper story was the problem in a nutshell. You can take culture change too far to fast, and coupled with alienating the local media and LOSING...recipe for disaster. If he stays now he's a shell of the executive of the year he was when BB was his HC (and had the final say on everything even though he always downplayed that and heaped credit on his VP of Player Personnel...). He never really had Cassel's back, either. Traded for him under the tag and signed him to a long term deal even as his idiot HC sewed the seeds of undercutting Cassel in the eyes of the team and fans and media.
Actually his biggest mistake was Haley. And I called that. That was what started the veteran dominos turning against him, including Gonsalez and eventually Waters who couldn't stand him. Haley had an abrasive personality and credit grabbers ego. Then Scott made the mistake of trying to out Belichick the master. The candy wrapper story was the problem in a nutshell. You can take culture change too far to fast, and coupled with alienating the local media and LOSING...recipe for disaster. If he stays now he's a shell of the executive of the year he was when BB was his HC (and had the final say on everything even though he always downplayed that and heaped credit on his VP of Player Personnel...). He never really had Cassel's back, either. Traded for him under the tag and signed him to a long term deal even as his idiot HC sewed the seeds of undercutting Cassel in the eyes of the team and fans and media.
The best way to develop a QB is to put a good coaching staff in place. Chiefs should hire Andy Reid, find a stud young defensive coach to hand the D over too, and they will challenge in the AFCW next year. They can find a QB for Reid to work with while he grooms the guy they draft in the 2nd-4th.
Nah....
His biggest mistake was that he didn't focus on the o-line immediately, and this led to Cassel getting gun shy behind a terrible line in 2009. They were able to build Cassel back up in 2010, when Charles took pressure off and the O-line improved a little bit but, in 2011, with Charles and Moeaki down right off the bat, Cassel came under full on pressure again, and he cracked. Toss in his midseason injury, and you can see from his play that he's broken, possibly irreparably.
Reid needs to take a break. And remind me which QB's he's developed... You're right about the stud DC though, he never won without one.
Haley the HC and OC had a lot to do with that. Pioli believes in getting his HC what he wants or says he needs. Charlie was able to take the pressure off Cassel in 2010 but in 2011 it was back to Haley running the offense via OC in name only. Then they went back to the NE system but with a guy who washed out here running it. Don't kid yourself about why Charlie left town, either. Haley started to eff with the offense and butt heads with him down the stretch in 2010.