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Originally Posted by jlw62987
What in the hell is the point of keeping Pioli around? I'm so confused why he can survive all this.
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There's a few things I wonder about.
Is that contractually allowed for Hunt to neuter Pioli like this? If so... it could be a move to get Pioli to resign on his own terms.
A second point might be that Hunt wants Pioli to aid in the transition, particularly the draft. The Chiefs don't have a scouting director. Pioli is the scouting director. So if you lose Pioli, you lose a lot of intelligence on the current draft class. Heckert has some of that having worked with the Browns, but we saw what happens when the new GM arrogantly freezes out the last regime's scouting network. I am being clearly overly optimistic, but maybe they keep him around for the draft, then make some kind of a move.
In either case... I don't see Pioli taking well to this role. And I can't see how he'd want to stick around and be somebody else's bitch.