I just think that would be too damaging to Caserio's stock to fly. Caps his growth into the all around GM title. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if the Kraft's and aren't curious to see how Pioli handles the debaucle he created for himself somewhere else before revisiting the good old days. All they too know of Pioli the stand alone GM minus BB is what they saw unfold in KC and it wasn't pretty. One voice aside, part of his job when he was here was to descend from the ivory tower periodically and smooth ruffled feathers with some expansive translation of what the system was about or trying to accomplish to keep the media hounds and fans at bay. In KC he allowed a rookie HC with an ego and reputation as an impatient hothead take the lead as that one voice. And he almost went out of his way to personally alienate the local media. Remember Kraft's comments to BB before he hired him, about learning to deal with all aspects of being the man in charge of football ops. Bill did that through Scott. Scott failed to do that in what was his Cleveland
Bill was very deferential where Scott was concerned when he was here. Scott handled the lions share of the job Bill is least enthralled with and while he retained final say he treated Scott like an equal partner. That said, part of that deference may have also cost us some better draft picks because anyone they couldn't agree on they opted to pass on. I think Scott was a bit more rigid when it came to selection and philosophy than his mentor. Almost like the guy who learns the formula but struggles to adapt situationally when circumstances dictated you might be better served to. Dimetroff was the adapter and critical thinker who learned a lot in his time here but didn't just try to replicate the NEP system, rather he adapted it to his unique situation. He did some things neither Bill nor Scott would have done, and in fact BB recommended against some of his decisions, but look where his team is today - same place as BB's, a game away from a SB.