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JWhit: Chiefs Shouldn't Stop With Crennel (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=268326)

JWhit: Chiefs Shouldn't Stop With Crennel

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/s...crennel-010113

Pretty long, so I just posted the link here. Someone else can copy and paste if they want.

Pretty good piece too! Nice job JWhit! :toast:

And this picture was at the bottom of the page:

http://img0.yardbarker.com/media/2/0...amp=1357067170

:clap:

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Here’s what Clark Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, does not understand about his general manager, Scott Pioli: His massive ego is born of insecurity and most effectively used as a shield for his deceit.

Pioli is a swindler. Pride and vanity will not push Pioli into forfeiting the millions of dollars he apparently suckered Hunt into promising him in the form of a contract extension. Pioli can’t be shamed. Con men think little of themselves and care even less what others think of them.

The unprecedented events that transpired inside Arrowhead Stadium on Monday likely had little impact on Hunt’s intended target — Scott Pioli.

Hunt fired Pioli’s overmatched, handpicked coach Romeo Crennel and then — with a devastating written statement, an online video posted on the Chiefs website and several print and radio interviews — Hunt publicly announced he was stripping Pioli of virtually all his power.

“I will hire the next coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and he will report directly to me,” Hunt told members of the Kansas City media. “It gives us the best chance of hiring the most outstanding coach.”

There it is. In terms of power, Pioli has been reduced to his former size. He’s back in the role he played for Bill Belichick in New England: behind-the-scenes puppet. Pioli will not leave. No other organization will elevate him to the perch he enjoyed for four years in Kansas City. And certainly no other organization will make him one of the highest-paid executives in the NFL.

The jig is up. Pioli bamboozled Hunt and the NFL media, including yours truly, into believing he was the Belichick of executives. He milked his hustle into a magnificent payday.

Hunt would love nothing more than to shame Pioli into begging his father-in-law, Dollar Bill Parcells, to find him another job. That’s the only reasonable explanation for pulling Pioli’s pants down in such a public fashion. Pioli’s status for next season is yet to be determined. Hunt said in an interview with KC Star beat writer Adam Teicher that Pioli’s fate might not be decided until early February.

Pioli is a laughingstock — except on payday. The problem for Hunt is Parcells taught Pioli that “you are what your pay stub says you are.”

Pioli ain’t going over any fiscal cliff. He’s not leaving KC without his money.

Hunt should give it to him and be done. The best chance of hiring the most outstanding coach comes with Pioli in a different zip code. Why would any highly qualified coach want to participate in the Chiefs' dysfunction? Why would any highly qualified coach want Pioli leading and/or participating in draft and free-agent preparations?

Admitting a mistake is clearly the most difficult task in American culture. Too many Americans view admitting a mistake as a sign of weakness. It is not. It’s a sign of strength, a sign of maturity and confidence.

Clark Hunt and Pioli’s groupies in the media need to acknowledge they were wrong about Pioli. I jumped ship four or five months into his Kansas City reign. The contract he gave Matt Cassel was ridiculous given his highly suspicious resume. The way he treated Pro Bowl guard Brian Waters upon introduction was grade-school bully-ish. And Pioli’s insecurity-fueled ego reared its head in a major way during a get-to-know-you dinner with selected members of the print media.

I don’t mind being wrong. I was wrong about Pioli. In the six months before landing the KC job, he charmed me much the same way I suspect he charmed other members of the media he thought could fan the flames of the Scott Pioli myth.

It’s clear he’s a fraud. His draft picks have been mostly disastrous. His four first-round picks — Tyson Jackson, Eric Berry, Jonathan Baldwin and Dontari Poe — are either busts or underachievers. Yep, I know Berry made the Pro Bowl. But if you’ve ever watched Berry play pass defense, you know he has no business in the Pro Bowl. Pioli whiffed on both coaches he chose. Todd Haley was an immature hothead. Romeo Crennel was Romeo Crennel, another Belichick myth. If Pioli has a successful free-agent or trade acquisition, I can’t name him. The Chiefs just completed the worst season in franchise history. They went eight weeks without leading a game. Pioli built the Titanic.

What value does Pioli bring a new coach?

Bill Cowher and Jon Gruden can hire their own flunkies.

It’s my belief that Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly is the best NFL coaching candidate on the market. It’s remarkable what he’s done at Notre Dame. I don’t mean this as an insult, but I don’t see Kelly as a “molder of men.” The Declan Sullivan/scissor lift tragedy told me all I need to know about Kelly as a college coach. He’s a mercenary focused on one thing — winning games. Kelly is a guy who loves football. He’s meant to coach in the NFL. He reminds me of Jim Harbaugh. Kelly will tone down his sideline rants in the NFL.

But Scott Pioli can’t help Brian Kelly transition to the NFL. Pioli can’t help any college coach transition to the NFL. Retaining Pioli limits Hunt’s options at head coach.

Let Pioli walk with his money. Smart people get swindled from time to time. A bought lesson rarely goes unlearned. It’s the mistakes that go unpunished that we most often repeat.

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Originally Posted by notorious (Post 9264514)

And this picture was at the bottom of the page:

http://img0.yardbarker.com/media/2/0...amp=1357067170

Which leads to even more great eye candy.

Fraud! Awesome. I hope he trashes him again after he's officially fired.

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Originally Posted by DRU (Post 9264542)

Which leads to even more great eye candy.

Ya she could leave her wrappers on my floor anytime.

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Originally Posted by DRU (Post 9264542)

Which leads to even more great eye candy.

No kidding.

I went on a 30 minute tangent after clicking the pic. :D

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Originally Posted by notorious (Post 9264514)

And this picture was at the bottom of the page:

http://img0.yardbarker.com/media/2/0...amp=1357067170

Good picture.

I disagree with Whitlock - I'd keep shaming Fat Scott until he left on his own. It'd be a battle of wits. Who blinks first? At worst, I think Pioli gets his agent to request a buyout. That's something Clark could probably live with. But paying him $5M this year (and extra years if Whitlock's allusion is correct that he got quietly extended) is a non-starter.

I'd make him sit in his office masturbating all day and make him go on all sorts of wild goose chases as my employee before I just cut a big check to someone. Nope. Never would do that.

**** that then you have that ****ing piece of shit around your franchise. Fast and clean is the only way to get rid of this shit magnet.

Totally agree with Whit on Brian Kelly.

And totally agree with kicking Pioli out as soon as possible. Dragging it out over money issues, which it seems to be at this point, is going to make the situation worse before it gets better.

Clark is probably just gonna wait until he hires a HC.

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Originally Posted by Coogs (Post 9264507)

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/s...crennel-010113

Pretty long, so I just posted the link here. Someone else can copy and paste if they want.

Pretty good piece too! Nice job JWhit! :toast:

lol, Whitlock is basically saying what I've already said. Hunt needs to let Pioli go. Pioli has his $, lesson learned. But this crap Hunt is doing now (stripping Pioli of his power yet keeping him around for some reason) does not serve the franchise one bit.

but whatever, it's fun watching Clarky look all badass.

Clark: "So (insert name here), what would it take for you to come to KC as the new HC?"
Mr X.: "Complete power over the roster and $4M a year. Oh yeah, Pioli has got to go."
Clark (dropping a candy wrapper and speaking into his cell phone): "Scott, you're fired."

Would have preferred to see this written last week, to help create a "whole world is watching.." notice for Clark to deal with this week.

One thing none of us know is what is in Pioli's contract. That could severely limit the available hands that Clark Hunt has to play.

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Originally Posted by Saccopoo (Post 9264643)

All of this.

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Originally Posted by RINGLEADER (Post 9264755)

One thing none of us know is what is in Pioli's contract. That could severely limit the available hands that Clark Hunt has to play.

Just play the winning one: Fire Pioli.

The (multi)million dollar line:

"Let Pioli walk with his money. Smart people get swindled from time to time. A bought lesson rarely goes unlearned. It’s the mistakes that go unpunished that we most often repeat."

Clark just needs to get the Vaseline out and take it.

DT

Wow. Very, very good column. Whitlock does it again.

Great column. 100 percent correct.

Firing Crennel while keeping Pioli would be like mopping the floor with a dry mop.

Awesome column.

If money is not a limitation towards the Chiefs building a winner... as Clark stated clearly during his interviews yesterday... he should do the best thing for the organization and pay Fat Scott his $$$ to get as far away from KC as possible.

Hmmm ... I like this piece, but I disagree with the basic premise. Odd, that.

I mean, it's true that Pioli is some sort of white-collar grifter. I get that. However, I have confidence that Clark will be able to convince a head coaching candidate that he (Clark) can handle that situation and should not be considered a deterrent to coming on board.

FAX

Good article. Couldn't agree more.

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Originally Posted by FAX (Post 9265815)

Especially since he publicly said Pioli has lost all his powers.

I'm hoping that he is putting out the vibe that Pioli is gone we are just working out the exit strategy, so fear not HC candidates.

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 9264618)

Maybe you wouldn't but I sure hope Clark does. Having the 1st pick in the draft for the 1st time in our history means everything. Clean house now and start over like an expansion team. Change the jerseys while you're at it too.

How in the sam ****ing hell was Scott ****ing Pioli the Executive of the ****ing Year... FIVE ****ING TIMES?

http://media.kcchiefs.com/front-offi...l-manager.aspx

So I've read several articles explaining Clark was in love with Peeholy for saving him so much money.

To me it's pretty simple, use some of that $$ that Peehole saved you to pay him off & send him back east.

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Originally Posted by teedubya (Post 9266263)

How in the sam ****ing hell was Scott ****ing Pioli the Executive of the ****ing Year... FIVE ****ING TIMES?

http://media.kcchiefs.com/front-offi...l-manager.aspx

All the media outlets who gave Fat Scott these awards should strip them from him immediately.

It was all part of a massive fraud where he hid behind Belichick and Tom Brady.