This. It's Black Monday + 1...realizing we are all Chiefs fans here and are desperate for big changes, I'm not willing to hit the panic button 2 days after the end of the regular season.

most accounts don't have him just "hanging around" most have him pegged as groomed for this.

If I was grooming my son I would teach him about it.
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Then we saw what Harbaugh saw...

The guy that loves every QB including Cassel, Tebow, and Alex Smith?

You think he's doing this alone?

Who exactly has Gruden developed?

Dude collected QB's like stamps, but I don't recall any of them being any good.

Hell, he's spent more time coaching WR's than QB's.

You're not listening. Cowher spent his entire career building around a power running game and a game manager qb. His offensive philosophy is to run first, throw conservative, then take a few big chances when the defense falls asleep.

Big Ben was a great value pick. Yeah, kudos to the steelers for making that pick. But you are making a wild leap in assuming cowher drafted Ben to lead the team versus being a perfect game manager. It is over simplistic to suggest that one pick at the end of his career suddenly makes him praise the gospel of franchise quarterback. Again, do you not see a scenario where his top guy would be Alex smith? Because Alex smith is a lot more like his prototypical qb than Geno smith is.

If he was shocked that Pioli and Haley had problems, he's clueless. Even casual football fans knew that.

No, in fact, that was my point is that it is not.

Clark Hunt said in an interview with KCTV 5 that there was a search committee to find the next coach. He put a timetable out there of a couple weeks. . . . I would be surprised if it was really a couple weeks and Clark was just giving them some padding. He made it sound like the search committee would have Pioli on it. He did not say this specifically, but it was in regards to a question about Pioli's role in the search

there's a difference.
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nobody in the NFL gives a single shit about SOC, if they even know what it is

Hunt wants his fan base to buy tickets, that's it


SOC?!?!

****ing please ... ROFL

That is a very odd analysis. Clark Hunt grew up in the center of the NFL universe his family part of the very fabric of the league. Clark Hunt is more connected than Ron Wolf will ever be and is engaged in discussions with other owners at a level few GM's are invited to witness. All he has to do is ask and there are a legion of consultants with the best NFL pedigree at his finger tips. Clark Hunt does not need Scott Pioli it is the other way around.

Clark Hunt trusts Marty Schottenhiemer and I hope he is making use of that relationship as Marty will give good advice.

The thought process for many with respect to Cowher is that this is someone who has seen and should understand the development of the league. Yes, he emphasized a power running game for the majority of his career. He also never won a SB until he acquired a franchise QB, and this should have been instructive.

I think Alex Smith is a possibility no matter what coach we bring in, but I also firmly believe that the Chiefs will draft a QB, too. It might not be 1/1, though, and this will cause an immediate meltdown. But I could see Smith plus a QB in round 2, with an open competition in camp.

I could see this as being more a possibility, actually, if Gruden is hired because he had a reputation of being an insufferable SOB with rookie QBs. Has this changed? No clue. But he hosts QB Camp, an ESPN construction, so people believe he has.

SOC is a joke