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Have you ever seen one in person?

If this happens, Clark is doing it for one reason:

To give the fan base some hope and promote some goodwill since the franchise has literally been a bunch of shit since Week 17, 2010.

This would also give him a nice head start on interviewing candidates to be the next GM. Conduct interviews with assistant GMs and scouting directors from other teams. Get a jump on the offseason so what happened LAST TIME doesn't happen again.

You mean a hot prospect like Pioli was when he was with the Patriots?

This would be the week to it, since the bye week is coming up.

While I would love this to be true, I find it pretty hard to believe that the tight lipped, psycho, phone tapping, media dodging, Pioli crew would let word of this slip.

Man this tears me. I really want to see Quinn lite it up, but getting rid of Pioli would be even better.

Let me get this straight.....

Cassel has been replaced for good
You are going to get Geno
Pioli will be fired this week..


What did I miss?

Yes, only without the paranoid, micro-manager, control freak douchebag tendencies.

Sure, I used to stomp on my grandpa's all the time. He never thought that was funny.

Lazlo is a dumbass. This story is fake.

Let's go Soul Glow!

This is how I see it. Losing this game would be more of an excuse than a reason. Hunt already has plenty of reason's to fire Pioli. Losing to Tampa just gives him an easy out to pull the trigger now and get started on next year. The problem is... do you go with an interim GM or does Clark already have someone lined up? Will it be a GM/coach like Cowher/Gruden or will Crennel stay on as a lame duck coach?

Best case scenario: We get our asses handed to us and this comes true.
Worst Case scenario: We barely win, Quinn sucks and it's business as usual.
Middle of the Road: Quinn lights it up and we win big OR Quinn lights it up but we lose by a hair.

so now Dr. Evil is starting rumors about his own firing just to emotionally screw with his consumers emotions.

i worry that some of your crazy ****ers are going to start killing people you have so completely lost your minds.

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Somebody needs to ask Lazlo why they play so much 90s right before the 90s At Noon. "Hey everybody, 90s At Noon coming up in 10 minutes, enjoy some Nirvana in the meantime."

Why does it matter if they lose to Tampa? The fan base won't care if he's fired after a win just as long as he's gone

I don't see Clark giving Pioli an ultimatum such as this...

Who the hell is lazlo?

He's a DJ on the alternative rock station in KC. He sounds like a pirate with stage 3 throat cancer getting raped.

LMAO Wait, this thread is all about something a ****ing disc jockey said on the radio? Mother****ing nuthooks.

My own salute to each & every one of you

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It'd look better if you had a shotgun up your ass

babe magnet

Nice gloves.

The one time we actually NEED Cassel to come through and he pussies out.

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First, anyone who believes that is a moron.

Second, it comes from a FM DJ in KC? LMAO

I actually listen to 96.5 now and then. Any time they (Lazlo, or his wife Afentra who does the morning show) talk about sports, it's painful to hear. Same Thing with Johnny Dare on 98.9. These people have about 10% of the sports knowledge the average fan does. (Not the average CP poster... the average fan)

Because, well, they aren't sports fans. At all. When Dare has Lief Lisec (or that Chris Goff dude) on for his little 5 minute sports segment, 90% of the time he has to ask what the hell he was talking about if something happens to catch his attention.

Parkins is supposed to be a sports guy. If he really got this shit from Lazlo and acted as if there was weight to it... **** him.

Hm...Raiders fan.

You're not in prison, but I guess Mom's house kind of feels like one sometimes, huh?

GoChiefs, clear. GoChiefs, clear.

Right on, nice crib btw

He would have to pull the prison dick out of his ass. His mouth is unoccupied. Shotgun could go there.

He said it on his show today. Said he was doing a podcast and the guy asked him if he was chasing the Pioli getting an extension story. He then told him that he had heard that if we don't win at TB he was out.

Not that I think it's true........

Yeeeaaaaaaaaaah, no.

Although CP did wish Cassel to the bench, so whatevs.

I suspect this is false, but whatever. I'm clinging on to every bit of hope we scrounge up.

Well we've had a rumour about Pioli being extended and Pioli being fired after one more loss. They're both probably just not true. not saying I dont want it to be.

Both are ridiculous.

Yeah, I don't see it. Even IF this is true - or even partly true - I don't expect Pioli to actually lose the job until the end of the season. Would Clark really fire him immediately?

Seems odd.

BS

Lazlo and nick wright are buddies. They still talk even though nick is in Houston now. My guess is this came from nick wright.

true
and they will blame the whole season on cassel's injury
free pass

can't think well your avatar keeps staring at my eyes

How'd randy moss work out for ya there buddy?

This isn't a situation like coaches where you can fire one and see what his replacement does or how it affects the team. Firing the GM doesn't do the team much good considering how long it will be until we replace said GM. Who does the scouting until then? A guy that knows he isn't getting the GM job? That seems silly. I just highly doubt this could be real.

Of course it's not real. It's jackass unprofessional sports radio hosts inventing talking points. Same with the extension rumor.

Actually, it's a special exception in KC because Pioli doesn't have a College Scouting Director.

If you fire Pioli after the season ends, you pretty much **** yourself over for the draft. If you hire a replacement today, you can still get a new GM that can collect enough information leading into the 2013 draft.

I don't know. Just trying to see a bright side, but I'm skeptical.

Rashard Mendenhall's talking to his own team's fans. Irrelevant.

This is not true either way.

First off, any new GM won't be hired until the season is over.

Even in such an event, whoever we hire will have done his homework on the upcoming draft.

Yeah, because no one can figure out who to draft without a CSD.

:facepalm:

In an era were 40 million guys on the internet can accurately guess who's going in each round, a guy like this is highly overrated.

Aren't all the people you want to replace him working until January?

And everyone gave pioli as pass for 2009 draft because he didn't have his guys, well he was with New England what was he doing? Playing with himself?? Pioli sucks at drafting so ill take my chances on firing him and hiring a Baltimore or Pittsburgh guy

Kinda figured Mendenhall was an idiot.

This just solidifies it even further...

Oh, and you're a reeruned Chimp.

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Steeler fans have no right to bitch about their team. lol When i see steeler fans butthurt on other forums, i gotta call them out for being ****tards.

This

Dane, please tell me you're not going to go the route of undermining professional scouts and comparing them to a bunch of douche bags with a computer.

CSD's are critical. Saying they're not important is saying that a bunch of talented entry level employees can function well without a manager. And that the manager is overrated.

Danny Parkins...Bwahahaha LMAO

A bunch of talented entry level employees can function well without a manager. and the manager is overrated. Managers are dickheads who take credit for other people's work.

The Browns are basically bringing in Joe Banner right now. And you can bet he's basically heading up the scouting operation in prep for the draft so they can fire Holmgren when the season ends.

And yes, if you hire a personnel guy, he'll have scouting reports. But they're the wrong reports. Scouts look for exactly what you tell them to look for. If you want fast guys, your scouting report will have only fast guys. If you have a 4-3 scout, he won't know how that player will function in a 3-4.

Then you are either unmanageable or a shitty manager.

This is completely oblivious to the way the real world works. Most of us have been managed by a shitty manager and a very good manager, and those who have know the difference. Those who manage people know it's a very difficult job.

Yeah, I've had plenty of good managers. they stay in their office, get me what I need, and stay the **** out of my way. The worst managers are always the ones who actually try to manage. They're talentless hacks, that's why they're managers.

Yeah... this.

Yeah, I am.

When ****ing idiots like Walter can get 90% of the first rounder nailed, I think it's a bunch of bullshit.

Every year, the draft pretty much plays out like the internet draftniks predict. Then, when a player doesn't pan out, people give GM's a ****ing PASS!

"Well, everyone rated him highly." "He wasn't a reach". "Who else should he have taken?". Etc. and so on.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: IT'S ****ING FOOTBALL!

These kids have been scouted as far back as 7th GRADE! Most people have a good idea of where these guys should go, then the Combine pretty much cements it.

As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure why scouts are sent out because outside of a very few players each year, nothing is solidified until AFTER the Combines where guys are interviewed and tested.

Again, it's ****ing football, not rocket science. Jim Schaaf drafted excellent players for years but couldn't hire a coach for shit. And you want to tell me that he scouted colleges all over the country?

Then you've never had a good manager. Or you're unmanageable.

Managers aren't talentless hacks. Good managers are hard to find, and a lot of them suck.

In the case of a College Scouting Director, you have dozens of scouts trying to jockey for the 5 minutes of time Scott Pioli has to devote to them. These scouts are going to get their asses handed to them if Pioli passes on a good prospect in their territory, or if they make a wrong recommendation. These scouts recruit exactly the player that your CSD asks you to scout -- they work off of a very specific "playbook." The CSD is incredibly organized and makes sure the scouting operation is well run, that all the players have been thoroughly evaluated, and no stone is left unturned. And ultimately, they have to rifle through thousands of reports and make a very accurate read to Pioli in bullet points.

Maybe no team should have a college scouting director, since they're so unimportant and talentless. Or maybe NFL executives know a little bit more about how to run a team than a few of us sitting on our laptops.

When Carl Peterson was GM, they used to always say he controlled the first round and sometimes the second round. Beyond that, Chuck Cook was the only guy making the decisions. Of course draftniks will get the first round right. But that's not where scouts make their living. If you're a GM and can't draft better than Walter Football in the first round, you should be fired.

This couldn't be more wrong. Most good teams walk into the combine with a good idea of what they're looking for. The combine is there to find any positive or negative surprises. And combine interviews almost don't matter anymore. They're so coached up that even dumbass Terrell Pryor sounds halfway intelligent. Field scouts are tremendous at working their networks to really learn about a player's character and leadership. And when a player has a freakish combine performance, the field scouts have the evaluation to say that it's a complete fluke. I don't think it's a secret that the combine is incredibly overrated and that good teams rely a lot less on it.

If Jim Schaaf was a good drafter, then that's a credit to his scouting network.
You don't think the Patriots noticed a huge difference when they lost Thomas Dimitroff, and then magically became better when Caserio took over? You didn't notice how absolutely shitty the Chiefs drafted when Lynn Stiles was their personnel guy, and how much better it became when Kuharich took his place? Hell, Pioli went through the whole combine in 2009 -- you think that was a replacement for having a full year with your scouts?

You don't know what you're talking about. Managers are riders on the wagon I'm pulling, nothing more, and the more of your nonsense I read, the more convinced I become that you're one of these useless hacks. I don't konw what burger joint you're managing, but I work in a technical environment where the worker knows what the job is and the best way to do it, and I don't need some suit giving me pointers when he sounds like a lost child who wandered into a movie theater. Just go have your cigarette and let me get the job done.

Not every work place is set up like that, or has a full set of employees that know what the **** they are doing.

I gotta tell ya. Pepsi and captain morgan go pretty damn good together.

We have a thread for that ya know.

Then your first mistake is to assume that all environments are like the technical environment you work in. I worked in claims operations years and years ago. I didn't need a manager. Just someone who was quick and responsive. But don't make the ridiculous suggestion that all environments are like this. I manage in a Fortune 100 corporation. I've managed in cutthroat environments where if your people weren't delivering business results, you got drilled and they got drilled. I know that bad managers struggle to delegate work, and employees get under-utilized. I know that good managers dictate a clear strategy to their workers in an unclear environment.

I can promise you that right now, scouts have 20 minutes of information and Pioli has time to hear 2 minutes of it. And whereas Phil Emery probably took heat if a good prospect got passed up, now scouts will get grilled and maybe even fired.

Emery's job was to organize the scouts and take hours of information and condense it in to quick reads for Pioli. Not an easy job by any stretch. And definitely an important one.

imagine that

because this thread has a lot of merit

Matt Cassel to interim GM?

Here is a glimmer of hope in case Pioli was extended...

The thing that gets me is why in the hell would Clark even consider an extension with the way this season has started. That is just baffling that it could even be possible.

It's probably just completely false.