Petro ripping the Chiefs...

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Originally Posted by HemiEd

To be objective, there is no question that a lot of the player changes have not proven yet to be upgrades. In fact, at this early time, many seem to be downgrades.
However, we do not know all the behind the scenes issues, that some of the former players may have had.
For the team to truly become a team, they need to all buy in, or it just won't work.

This.

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

So you're saying it is perfectly acceptable for someone as "decorated" as Pioli, to come in, bring in 30+ new players via FA, and none of them be significant upgrades over the player they replaced?

That's almost impossible to do.

People aren't panicking, and people didn't expect more than a few wins.

But they do expect that the so-called Executive of the Decade would hit on a player here or there, especially considering he's already turned over 65% of the roster.

No what I'm saying is it doesn't matter how many FAs and players were let go/ replaced on the roster this year with the scrubs they were bringing in. Their plan at least for this year it seems, was to keep the guys on the roster who were buying in and at the same time they thought had potential to become good players. While at the same time picking up some fillers and FAs off of the street, and not really any high profile players mind you. Now that they have a better idea of which of these guys they kept can be good players for this team in the future which right now doesen't seem like a ton, they can make bigger moves this offseason to get this roster straightened out a bit. But they had to know for sure what they were working with. It is very possible however, and even likely I'd say that they may have underestimated the state of the franchise and how far away the Chiefs truly are from contending when they first arrived. They wouldn't be the first GM and Coach to do so though. I'm willing to reserve further judgement to see what kind of moves are made in the offseason though. Any good fan would. Hell if we can tolerate all of the years mediocrity that King Carl put us as fans through I think we can be a bit more patient with Pioli and Haley. Good things take time. Hopefully Pioli and crew will bring the Chiefs good things but we're not going to find out this year. Judging them on the job they've done this year is kind like judging a book by it's cover. I don't have the answers though. This is all just my opinion. Take from it what you want.