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Now you've pissed me off!
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What else can you really say? This is a terrible football team.
What does it portend? That's a little harder to say. 1) I was willing to grant Haley some slack after the disastrous season opener, but seeing how this team responded, and how it has responded the last four games, he needs to be a dead man walking. The problem with Haley is the problem that happens with any hothead, whether it's Lou Piniella, Bobby Valentine, or Mangino: no one wants to play for, or listen to a prick when they are losing. If he could command respect it's one thing, but being a failed golfer who got into the NFL through daddy connections will kill him in a situation like this. It's the height of irony, really. That team has a lot of quit in it. 2) Pioli may be one of the luckiest men in the NFL if this team is as bad as it looks right now. His own mismanagement of the team could literally cause the franchise to fall ass over teakettle into Andrew Luck, a pick for which he would take all the credit. 3) Romeo's defense is antiquated. You can't sit back and wait for a QB to pick you apart in a league where corners can't jam and you only have one legitimate pass rusher. This team needs to be shooting gaps and leaning on its corners, not expecting the linebackers and safeties to cover down the field or in the seams. 4) The telephone game is one of many things killing the offense. You can't say that multiple relays/filters is a good idea in a situation like that. It's one more potential area for failure. You don't need four sticks of RAM that have the same total capacity as two would. 5) The injuries have been disastrous, but you can't dodge that bug forever. I read an NFL preview on Grantland where Bill Barnwell pointed out the staggeringly low number of games lost by the Chiefs last year. This is the unlucky flip side of that coin. Given the schedule and the lack of focus, it's not the worst of all possible breaks to have it happen this year. What can you say, really? A lot of this stems from the 2009 offseason. By trading for Cassel in February, Pioli effectively passed on both Stafford and Sanchez. He hired Haley, a guy who looks daily more like the Reno airshow, and he made possibly the worst pick in Chiefs history at #3, and followed it up with maybe the worst draft in Chiefs history. The ideology behind the roster construction is totally bankrupt, so it's hard to have much of any faith at this point. |
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I'll be back.
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Watching that game was like watching the rape scene in Irreversible.
We can't go back.
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Spot on, as usual.
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I put this on the same level as drafting Gholston.... Whoever wanted to draft him should have to wear that Bust like a Scarlett Letter...
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Now you've pissed me off!
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I'll put it in other words. I'll bet you make a fraction of what Pioli does. It doesn't take terribly long to learn what you do, I have a basic understanding of what you do, I've taken a Basic Aviation course, and yet I'd guarantee the gulf in results between me flying and you flying is far beyond that of me picking players and a guy making $5 million. Think about that for a second. If you can't see that disconnect, I don't know what to tell you.
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FINALLY! The wait is over.
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I dont need to hear how great you are and how "spot on, as usual" you are... I would like to see some real life results, not message board I told you so's... You are right, it doesnt take terribly long to do what I do... Most people who want to become airline pilots spend around 3-4 years getting a degree and building enough hours and experience to get to a small regional airline. Then some people can pay a serious amount of cash and fast track it. But normally people go to school get all the ratings, instruct new students, build time and real life flying experience. Then move on to the intense type rating for an airline. After landing at a Regional, they spend another 3-7 years of flying some crappy schedule and training before they can be picked up by the big boys.... Then the intense type rating training starts all over.. So to get to the Pinnacle of your flying career, it normally takes around 10 years or so... For me, I am chose to stick with the corporate life. I fly less, make a fraction of with Pioli makes. But for me, life is pretty dang good.. No complaints here. Hell in my opinion, I am a better GM that Pioli, I would of drafted Sanchez not Jackson nor would of I traded for Cassel... |
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How did Pioli pass on Stafford? Sanchez, yes, but I don't know how he effectively passed on him.
Really, I would rather see Palko out there and go 0-16.
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But if you are going that route. For go Plako and put in Stanzi.. |
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Within striking distance of a trade up, and trading for Cassel eliminated even the possibility of entertaining the idea.
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The Lions wouldn't want to make their fans(whatever remained of them after 2008) pissed by trading down for a guy who started one season at USC.
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Lions had two first round picks in 2009, there was talk about them trading the 20th overall to New England for Cassel and taking Jason Smith #1.
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