| Amnorix |
11-10-2009 01:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by jwhit
(Post 6245292)
Pioli and Haley thought this team would be competitive. They thought we had a shot at winning eight games.
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They did? Did they say that? Frankly, if they did think that it was only because they thought they were in a very weak division. Turns out that Denver is much, MUCH better than anyone expected.
I doubt, VERY MUCH, that Pioli/Haley would say, under truth serum, that they had "average" talent for an NFL team. This team is seriously undertalented, and that fact is obvious to everyone.
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Everyone wants to talk about how bad the roster is and how we have to cut them slack because they're digging out from Peterson and Herm's mess. This is no different from the last Chiefs team. Peterson and Herm thought that roster was capable of being competitive. They thought we could win six or seven with last year's roster.
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I'm uncertain whether you saw Bill Belichick's quotes from a recent interview with Jason Cole. If not, here's the link:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slu...yhoo&type=lgns
One quote in particular is VERY important for the Chiefs and their fans to understand:
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Originally Posted by Bill Belichick
Here’s the only thing I’ll say: I think to have a really good team in this league, you have to make a lot, a lot of good decisions. You have to have a lot of good people, players, coaches, whatever. You need a lot of those. Conversely, to not be competitive, you would have to have a lot of bad decisions. One bad decision is not going to do it, one bad player is not going to do it, one bad coach is not going to do it. You’re going to have to collectively, over a cumulative period of time, make a long series of bad decisions and accumulate a lot of players who are substandard for their position. There have to be a multitude of things that go wrong.
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Pioli and Haley are trying to rectify YEARS of bad decisions, and it's nearly impossible to do that in just one year.
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Do they know what it takes to win football games? It takes players. Not signs or media policies or Pentagon-like security or secrets or cursing at the players. Players win football games.
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I tend to think, for some very odd reason, that Pioli has some sense of what it takes to win football games. His father in law is Bill Parcells and his mentor is Bill Belichick. Even a dumbass rock would learn a few things hanging around with those guys just by osmosis. Pioli is not a dumbass rock.
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22 guys off the street could win two games. We're halfway home and the Chiefs have one victory.
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This is completely foolish, and you know it.
Full disclosure: I am a die-hard Patriots fan, not a Chiefs fan. FWIW. |
