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Originally Posted by DaWolf

I wonder if some of these measures aren't tied to the whole tampering charges thing with Detroit. I am purely speculating here, but the timing fits if you look at when Thum suddenly resigned in 2010, and how shortly after that, the report came out that the Chiefs had filed tampering charges against the Lions. You remember Gunther came out and said that the Chiefs keep "wanting to dump their players. I would like to be there to catch a lot of them because I know a couple of those guys."

So, let's just speculate here, let's just say that Thum and Gunther were buddies, and Thum had been talking to Gunther about guys on our team. Let's then say that Pioli going over Thum's call log was in order to uncover this, and also to prove the tampering, that the league office ended up siding with the Chiefs on. Thum is forced to resign, and a few months later the story comes out that we did in fact file charges based on the evidence, some of which were the call logs. That ruling nets us some draft compensation.

If that were indeed the case, would we be looking in disgust at Pioli going over the call records?

I made that same suggestion earlier in the thread. Well not the part about looking at Pioli in disgust... but about whether these alleged techniques had anything to do with the tampering case.