We're buds, right? You seem willing to accept it because it fits within your anti-pioli agenda. When you begin embracing an Athan "scoop" you've lost your objectivity.

Going into that period, Charles had been inactive a couple times and fumbled that kickoff...it was pretty obvious the Chiefs brass didn't think much of him, they refused to play him over LJ.

Need more proof if it did happen, but if so, holy mother ****ing shit pioli. Charles is dat dude that makes dudes on other teams fear dat dude. He is a dirty little mother****er.

Look at the time frame, it makes a lot of sense Jamaal Charles was in the total doghouse then, he wasn't even dressing for games.

They got the word out that everyone was offered in trades as motivation to get their asses in gear. They actually traded away the scrubs (Thigpen, Tyler) and kept the talented guys. No one in this organization was just going to trade away playmakers like Bowe, Charles, and DJ for nothing.

If this really did happen, you probably would have heard about it a lot sooner than today, and from a more credible source...

A year ago, there's no way we would have traded Charles, as we had just drafted him.

When people like Glazer, among others report that the entire roster sans Cassel is on the trade block leading up to the deadline, it makes it more than believable.

50 posts in 18 minutes... wow.

So I guess the question is...who do you hate more, Pioli or Athan?

Decisions, decisions.

He's been jawing on the Chiefs since they yanked his credentials.

Yeah, they thought so highly of Charles and DJ, that they rode the bench or were healthy scratches in games.

He didn't dress for 1 game.

I don't know if it's true or not. But even if it is true, that means the ENTIRE NFL thought Pioli was nuts for asking a 5th. That's how the NFL rolls. Stuff like this happens.

No he hasn't. He was very positive during the offseason. It's a bad conspiracy theory that we hate the Chiefs now because they kicked us out of the pressbox.

The Chiefs brass thought so highly of Charles as a playmaker that he sat behind LJ's worthless ass till he basically made them cut him...Charles was in street clothes for at least 1 game it may have been more..

Ponder that.

You must have missed the whole Athan rant against Pioli and the tightening of all the news from inside Arrowhead and how he was going to go on the offensive because the Chiefs weren't treating him with respect...