this is a real thing

holy ****

As always, everything is about making himself look good. What an arrogant, small-minded little ****stain this guy is.

Even by football GM standards, Pioli stands out as a self-obsessed ****.

I was but a neophyte during that time, but its hard to imagine anyone worse than pioli.

Nothing wrong with that.

11. You can't buffalo KC because they'll run your incompetent ass right out of town.

:thumb:

All I read is a guy that didn't know how to do his job. Much of what he says can be managed around, starting with his first point. Delegate. Empower. Worry about what you get paid for...delegate everything else that's non-essential to you keeping your job.

Don't have your daughter by your side in situations you don't control (fans - rude ones included - are not controllable in what they might say). That was his own fault. I wouldn't put my daughter in multiple situations for my work. Why should Pioli be special and be allowed to take his daughter anywhere?!?

I could go on...but yeah...nothing but a bag of reasons he's a terrible GM and leader.

Translation: I was in completely over my head and ran the franchise into the ground but - thanks for the huge check, Clark! :thumb:

I have to imagine that the competent GM's around the league are reading this going, "What the he!! is he talking about?!?"

insert Pioli-Greg Schiano .gif

Great post. The #1 job of a general manager is putting your people in a position to succeed. He wanted to control everything.

Number ONE

I ****ing hate planes.

Most people were just so happy to get rid of Carl Peterson that we would have been happy to hire a circus monkey. Would have had same or better results.

Yep, and i'm guilty as hell about it.

Its like going from Bush to Obama and thinking you're finally free...

yessir

Most of what he said is probably agreed upon by most GM's. But those competent GM's that you mentioned are sitting there thinking to themselves Pioli needed more than a list of 10 things that he learned.

Peter King must give great head since he continues to give Scotty a voice.
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I wonder how this success rate compares to the really good organizations? In fairness, he got some decent players. What he completely failed at was the two most important positions. QB and head coach.
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Pioli was awful obviously, but bad drafting happens across the league. The 9ers have like 2 players from the 2012 draft still in the team.

How can a tweet cost an organization four years and $63,000,000.00 on a shitty quarterback?


So he wants to blame Larry Johnson for making him have a shitty football team?

#11. Hitch your wagon to one super Bowl winning coach while marrying the daughter of another. Nepotism conquers stupidity and failure.

translation: **** you, Larry the Janitor for not picking up that snickers wrapper.

Nutshell.

The guy was in over his head and obviously never had the management skills to warrant the GM position. However, he got the job and created a situation of negativism that permeated the entire organization that trickled down to the playing field and subsequently seeped into the stands and fans.

Honestly, I'm pretty embarrassed for the guy and this article. It does nothing more than substantiates his overall incompetency with regards to the General Manager position and how he still remains oblivious to the fact that he simply didn't have the skills to gain the respect of the people within the organization and lead by example. (Something that we are initially seeing with John Dorsey.)

Actually, I'm having to deal with a very similar situation at my own place of employment. A guy got hired to a management position in our company based on his outside resume alone by the owner of the company and it turns out he's basically a fraud. Zero management skills, some of the worst people skills I've ever seen, etc., and has created a overall negative environment where prior it was superb. And because the owner hired him, he'll get every chance in the world and it will take something monumental to get him shit canned. We've had two decent guys quit over it and I'm beginning to price banners...

Does he garner attention because he's a talking penis? They're really not rare at all, if you just look about a bit.

#27-suck dick and get away with it/Pioli

The best business model for a football team is winning, especially championships. Sounds simple, but it is amazing how many short-sighted owners will be penny wise and pound foolish.

Nothing puts butts in the seats, sells merchandise, and puts teams on at prime time like winning.

Owners that haven't figured this out are as bad as problematic stars like Terrell Owens was, stars who demanding top pay, then leave tens of millions of advertising money on the table because businesses don't want to deal with a high-profile douchebag.

Interesting article. Pretty much admits that due to the different mgmt structure at the Patriots he really wasnt prepared to be a GM. He had years of experience but in a vastly different scenario. Doesnt mean it couldn't work but he wasnt up for the task.

Clark made a bad call. At least he spent the money to clean it up.

97. I learned that 99% of the people in and around the NFL will continue to kiss my butt because of who my daddy-in-law is.

11. Clean hallways are more important than winning.

I disagree on the reason.

Its the winning in NE and the executive of the decade award...
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He was executive of the decade? Well then no doubt he's good at business administration, but he is not a great nfl mind.

How does a man who was terrible at identifying nfl talent (baldwin cassel what's his name) and who avoided the media get a job on tv analyzing the nfl for the masses? I just think he gets more credit than he deserves and being related to parcels doesn't hurt.

embrace the suck that is scooter Pioli

just like his time in KC, nothing said or accomplished, except wasting my time

fracking?
the process to allow gas out?

yeah maybe

New England needs to hire him for GM right after Brady retires.



Pleeeeeeease?

LMAO

Dude, I'm tellin' ya...every day, there is always at least 5 things that happen that you don't expect, including, but not limited to watching your linebacker shoot himself in the head after he had murdered his bitch. Ya see, the owners...they aren't involved with that type of shit.....

We should have hired the plane to fly into Pioli's ****ing face.

13. Don't alienate the players from the past because they will look for you they will find you and they will kick the **** out of you.

For old times sake...

PHM dude.

Don't know about the ten things he learned but the ONE thing we learned is that he sucked.

Would love to know what player was about to get into huge legal trouble

Probably Tamba.

fyp

8. The impact of Fantasy Football has shifted fan reaction and behavior in a way that makes it much more difficult for fans to understand the real jobs of a GM and coach.


No scotty it just means your ineptitude can be expressed in so many exotic stats these days. Not just loses but why you sucked as a gm.

Me too. It can't get any worse right? That's how I felt about Carl.
It can always get worse is my life lesson learned.

Here's the rub: that's a much harder roster to make than KC's.

And they added the core of their SB team through the draft. Iupati, Staley, Aldon Smith, Crabtree, Kaepernick, Gore, Davis, Goldson, Bowman, Willis.

They nailed a shitload of players. Yeah, people miss, but the teams who suck and continue to suck whiff in the top 10, like Pioli did, and miss on their 2nd and 3rd rounders, like Pioli did.

Hold on.

Did you turn the spell checker on?

LJ.

Nope! why?

It is really amazing. How many GM's make nothing but bad decisions. He never even got lucky. Other than couple of good draft picks he made all wrong decisions. Proof that Brady is the real Patriot way. Pioli and Bill are not special.

@bobfescoe: Oh no, Scott Pioli makes a list...we tell you about it next on @610SportsKC #chiefs

@autumnsjs90: @bobfescoe @610SportsKC a list of ppl he screwed over


Lol Shaun Smith even hates him.

The list reads like a list of things a school teacher would complain about, not an NFL GM. Who cares about what someone is writing on twitter. Focus on building a football team.

ROFL

I won't argue that, you're right.

But cp seems to think we should hit 6 picks in each draft, and that's jus not feasible

Seems to me you just kinda proved his point, Rip.

Dinny

It would be nice to get 1st round talent out of 1st round picks...

no, CP can look at his drafts and understand objectively how terrible they are

Shaun Smith's just the ****ing man.

I don't care how much he sucks. Andy Reid once brought an old and half-dead Hugh Douglas aboard to act as locker room cheerleader. Why couldn't we do the same with Shaun?

"Dontari, look, you're doing a good job with your leverage and all that, but there's a tiny little secret to playing defensive line that you're completely missing out on..."

The drafts should be judged negatively because while other teams were going after quarterbacks and playmakers, we took an incredibly safe approach to drafting guys a half round or a round too early. It's really bad when even your safe picks turn out to be mediocre.

"Fans hated me because of Fantasy Football."

LMAO...

So glad this butthurt arrogant assclown is out of town.....

Number 11: "I'm actually not a very good GM."

#21 - You can go bald from rubbing your head on the bottom of Clark's desk.

:)

11. All Tom Brady does is shit unicorns, rainbows, and Skittles.

I bet this has something to do with people wanting Jamaal Charles to get more carries

Pioli's bullshit line about fantasy football proves that he still believes in finding "the right 53," so he truly learned absolutely nothing.

He's still an unbelievably stupid mother****er.

"Jamaal needs MOAR carries!" - Fans

"I hate fantasy football" - Scooter