Rumor - Pioli offered two year extension
 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/ja...on-yet-to-sign

Offered 2-year extension. Rumored to have been offered earlier in the season.
Yet to sign

ROFL

Wow , wish I could get paid that kinda jack for doing a job I totally suck balls at ;)

LMAO

How awesome would it be if he told CHunt to take a flying ****?

Le sigh.

just saw this.

Clark PLEASE PULL THIS OFFER PLEASE

this stubborn bastard rejected it at the start of the season because he thought what? He was actually going to have a good year and get what he wanted?!? HAHAHAH

Damn I want to post pics. ****ing newbie status damnit!

Sign of hope...?

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but this would lead me to believe that Clark is looking for a way to lessen the financial responsibility before firing Pioli.

clark hunt is a ****ing loser

Great, this means I can burn down a customer's house, lie about it, and tell them to go **** themselves.

After all of that, they will hire me to install a floor in their new addition to the rubble.


INSANE!!!!!

Man... I am really, really trying hard to find a positive out of this shitty situation. The best positive I can find out of this shitty situation is that if Hunt was ever considering firing Pioli, he'd have to do it right away.

Why would an extension even be open for negotiation if he wants to fire him?

Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Clark, with the money you save by firing Pioli, you can buy a brand new hair helmet.

**** you Clark! Your dick is drawn to Scotts wet spot like a dowsing rod.

The Next Banner better be CLARK PULL THE EXTENSION OFF THE TABLE!!

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This has been my thinking all along: Clark has extension wrote up because Pioli is in 4th of 5 year contract. Will wait to officially offer til the season is over to see how the team is

Bring in Green as VP of Operations like Elway is in Denver?

Clark would give him a 50 year extension if it meant saving money. If Pioli is bent about the buyout language, it leads me to believe that Clark is looking for a way to lower the payout should he fire Pioli before the end of next season.

Think about it - Pioli has chosen to decline the offer - if this was a legitimate extension, Scott would be all over it.

It's a financial loophole, nothing more.

This could really be a good sign. If there is tension between Hunt and Pioli about a buyout clause, that seems to indicate that Clark is going to hold him accountable for the team's results. The extension may only serve to make him more fireable, which is why Pioli wouldn't find it in his interest to sign.

when is our pussy GM going to come out of hiding and comment on the shitty team and shitty QB he is personally responsible for?

Exactly.

Because he's a sissy. He's a secretive little rat

maybe pioli is such a patriots pussy that he'll run back to papa belichick and claim he was undermined by KC?

can we dream?

I agree with this.

Didn't defend the fans on the Cassel situation
Hasn't spoken to the media about the horrible team
Refused to speak to Kent Babb on the Arrowhead Anxiety story (let me remind you that Mark Donovan and Clark Hunt DID respond)

This guy is a ****ing idiot. This is the Kansas City media. This is a loyal fan base. Only an idiot would turn his back on the two parties that could make an underachieving GM like Carl Peterson stay in power for 20 years.

I think it is a legitimate offer. Pioli just wants more years.


The simplest answer is usually the correct one.

I don't give a shit as long as he is gone.

That's how I see it, too.

If we think about this, and if Pioli is in the last year of a deal (do we know that for sure?) - when did you ever hear of a GM in a contract year? Good ones get extended. The fact that he wasn't extended, say, last year means Clark wasn't convinced.

So you seem to end up in this scenario where Pioli is in a put up or shut up year, and its not going so well. Now, Hunt is angling for an exit that makes sense on the business side if things continue to burrow into the silt.

My guess is that Hunt hasn't quite decided to fire Pioli yet, but without some signs of improvement this year he will. Pioli has no leverage right now to dictate terms of an extension, Hunt is negotiating from a position of strength.

He could be trying to save money while knowing that he will likely fire Pioli either way.

I wonder if part of the language has the word "quarterback" in it.

Interesting. The plot thickens I guess.

I thought 2013 was the last year of his original contract?

I don't see how some of you take this info and use it to slam Clark.

This is a clear sign that Clark is growing a set.

Yes Plot thickens. The "Language" is control over the franchise. Clark wants more of a say and will or Pioli will be fired.

the only thing it is a clear sign of is that Clark has offered pioli an extension he doesn't deserve...

Two-year extensions aren't much of a vote of confidence dude.

If Clark really wanted Pioli extended, he would be already.

If Clark had a set, he would've fired him already.

As stated already a 2 year extension with a disagreement on the buy out language doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement.

Where the guy who wrote the article translated that to staunch endorsement is beyond me.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...year-extension

NFL.com picking up on it now also.

Think about it.

The language of a buyout is the sticking point, meaning that Clark has put it on the table that if things dont turn around, he can fire SP on the cheap.

This means Pioli would have 3 more years (after 2012) and that he would need to draft a quarterback or find some way to get real results.

Would be awesome if Clark fired Pioli on the field after the game and didn't let him ride the team plane home.

Q

Why would you offer to extend him as a way to make it easier to fire him if he's already under contract for 2013? That would indicate that Pioli will be back but on a very short leash. But if you have that little confidence in him, why extend him at all? Why not wait on an extension until sometime next season, to see how things are going?

Is it only because it's standard practice to not let a GM (or coach, IIRC) enter the final year of a contract? That protocol forces Clark to give him an extension, even though he's this close to not letting Pioli continue past 2013 anyway?

I'm not seeing this as a positive because there is more than enough evidence to fire Pioli now. Pay his $5M for '13 and move on. Negotiating a buyout of what? $2M, hypothetically? Please.

Logic suggests that if the extension is signed, Pioli will get at least two more years, and I don't want this loser to have two more days.

Would be even funnier if he was forced to ride home in a plane donning a banner

I've thought about and it's still a stupid idea.

This guy doesn't deserve anymore chances.

He'll NEVER find a way to get REAL results. He doesn't have it in him. He's too preoccupied with stuff that shouldn't matter.

Id LOVE to read this buyout language.

I bet it has to do with playoff wins.

Because you want to fire him. And save money.

Why is this hard to understand. LMAO

Screw you guys, this is a possible glimmer of hope when viewed from one specific angle, I'm grabbing it and holding on tight.

Exactly.

Get over it.

And if the buyout is favorable to Clark, Pioli can sign on the dotted line and be fired in December.

A 2-year extension means shit.

If it was a 5-year deal I'd be worried.

It's a Q

His current buyout is more expensive than an extension's buyout?

Clark is saying, Here, sign this contract extension ... but if I fire you in 2013, what I owe you for 2014-15 is less than what I owe you now?

Pioli isn't that stupid. He wouldn't sign and collect his money. Furthermore, a professional isn't going to offer a transparently bullshit document to his hand-picked GM.

I understand that people are desperate to see Pioli gone, but we're making up wild guesses to try to support our cause.

If an extension is on the table, Pioli sees, at least, the end of the '13 season. I don't even view this statement as arguable.

He's back. Perhaps on a short leash, but he's back.

Remember when Lamar wouldn't fire Carl for not doing his job? Yeah same thing.

Too bad that one specific angle is the perspective you get when one's head is planted firmly in one's ass. :p

Lets be real here...if Pioli hits on a quarterback, people will be photoshopping Pioli is superman suits.

At least thats my opinion...I could be wrong.

This is how I see it. Would be extremely unprofessional to offer an extension for the sole reason of making it cheaper to fire someone in the short term. Not going to happen.

Exactly.

Silly.

If he has yet to sign then Pioli really is a dumbass. Pull that offer fast Clark.

Yeah, that makes no sense.

If you're on the fence about him, you're not offering an extension.

If he signs it this year, he's not getting canned for at least another year, year and a half if at all.

This. He drafts Geno and we start winning...he will be golden on this board.

We're getting a QB no matter who the GM is.

It makes complete sense if you want to avoid paying Pioli a bunch of money.

It's basically saying "Turn this season around or else."

Pioli's not dumb, though. He won't sign it.

Nothing to worry about.

He also wants to keep his options open if Pioli does make a good decision regarding QB and turns things around.

This is good news for us.

LMAO

Who gives a ****? It's a business.

This is one case where the Hunts being cheap is very awesome.

:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:

It's what the Hunts do, remember? They cheap.

I hope the "language" is a LOT of language. To start with, I hope it says we have to win the AFC championship in those two years. Then, I hope it guarantees that the coach gets to make the calls as to who plays. Further, it should indicate that non-players won't ever fill more than one job - so he has to hire people to do jobs, then let them do them unafraid of him.

I'll think of more "language" that would help this team. But suffice it to say the language will be performance based... You get it done, or you're gone...now sign on the line!

The problem is that your opinion is based on 2 faulty assumptions.

1) You're assuming Pioli even knows what a real QB is. Obviously he doesn't.
2) You are assuming Pioli will draft a QB. He could have drafted one in any of the last 3 years and taken ALL of the credit. There's NO WAY he's going to do it now because he can't win. If he takes one, it was the pressure from fans and ownership that forced his hand rather than his own skill as a GM.

Your hypothetical is impossible.

Of course it's a business. That's why the entire premise of your argument is ridiculous.

You will literally do anything to pull some hope out of this mountain of shit.

Remember when Clark did?

Not too sure about this. It looks like a lowball offer in terms of years, if Clark really was sold on him, it would have been longer. Just by observation, a contrat extension isn't always what it seems.