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Scott Pioli put on the spot - BostonHerald.com
Scott Pioli put on the spot
Browns to Pioli: Today or never
By Ron Borges and Karen Guregian
Thursday, January 1, 2009 - Updated 10h ago
The clock is ticking on Patriots [team stats] vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli, who today must decide whether he wants to take the Cleveland Browns’ offer to be their chief football executive, according to sources familiar with the negotiation.
The two sides met yesterday in New York, and parted company with no deal in place, but with the deadline established.
Club owner Randy Lerner made his pitch, and Pioli countered. According to one source, some within the Browns organization feel Pioli made demands so high that perhaps he really doesn’t want to leave the Patriots nest.
Or maybe he’s simply overplaying his hand.
Lerner is also expected to interview Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay today for the same post. If that meeting does in fact take place, it would be a telltale sign the romance and flirtation with Pioli has ended.
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The Browns entered yesterday’s meeting prepared to make what was described by a league source as “a huge” financial offer to the Pats executive. The money might have been “huge” but apparently not everything suited Pioli. According to sources, some of his demands were impossible for any team to meet.
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