You know, I think a lot of people on this board are taking a non-football story and making it about football. Pioli the man is not Pioli the General Manager of the Chiefs, and everyone needs to slow their ****ing roll.

Quit tying the need to fire Pioli with this incident. They should have nothing to do with each other, and you just sound like complete shitheads when you do it.

Wrong. This goes against Pioli. Not only can he not draft well or pick a QB, but he also signed a murderer to go along with it.

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"Kasi left those ****ing candy wrappers everywhere, too. EVERYWHERE. I was always picking up that shit around the house. Finally, I said ENOUGH."

Riiiiiiight.

Belcher: can you please get Romeo and Gary?

Pioli: **** you. You have your own phone. You call them yourself.
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I don't think they're "heroic", but they could have locked the doors and waited for the police to get there. Would you at least admit they did a lot more than they could have?

If it weren't for football, nobody would give a !@#$ about a random hot-head offing himself.

It is absolutely a football story because only through football is it a story at all.

People are trying to avoid discussing this in terms of what it means to our football team and I just don't understand why. The only reason we care at all is because of our football team. I have no problem at all with folks that ask if this will save Pioli's job or if it means we'll pursue Te'o now to replace Belcher. If not, how do we replace Belcher next season?

It's relevant to what we're all here to discuss.

And yeah, given Pioli's history as a callous shitheel and soulless self-promoter, I don't mind the 'how do we know he isn't making this up' line of thought either.

You don't get to spend 4 years being a cockholster to everyone and then be surprised when people aren't dying to throw sympathy your way.

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good post

If my assumption is correct in that he tried to talk him "off the ledge" then I think any rational person would do the same thing....no more, no less.

No, a lot of rational people wouldn't go outside to talk to an unstable man with a gun. most, probably.

Was Pioli already outside when Belcher arrived?

I don't know. Does it matter?

And anyone doing so is a hero in my book. They are putting aside their personal safety to try to intervene in something that they are likely ill equipped to handle.

Obviously Pioli didn't feel Belcher was dangerous if he called out Crennel and the other coach. But he also did what he could to try to help Belcher. He easily could have called his voice mail to pretended to talk to Crennel and waited for the police to arrive.

In order to answer your question absolutely. He didn't GO outside, he was already there. HE called the other people out there.


Again, I'm not trying to vilify Pioli in this, but I don't believe he did anything above and beyond what any normal person would do.

That story sounds made up. Sorry