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10 Things I Learned About Being a General Manager (written by Scott Pioli) (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=275854)

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Originally Posted by dallaschiefsfan (Post 9938199)

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.

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Originally Posted by scott free (Post 9937952)

Yep, and Jwhit took a lot of abuse for it.

He knew all along.

What an awful era, so glad its over, this guy was the biggest piece of crap GM i've ever seen... sticking with cassel for so long alone, should prevent him from ever regaining that title.

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.

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Originally Posted by KC Tattoo (Post 9938244)

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...

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Originally Posted by DeezNutz (Post 9938178)

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

yessir

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Originally Posted by dallaschiefsfan (Post 9938210)

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

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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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 9937264)

4 years of draft choices, only guys still on the roster:

2009:
Tyson Jackson, Ryan Succop (his first and last pick in 2009)

2010: Eric Berry, Dexter McCluster, Jon Asamoah, Kendrick Lewis.

2011: Rodney Hudson, Justin Houston, Allen Bailey.

2012: Dontari Poe, Jeff Allen, Donald Stephenson, Cyrus Gray, Junior Hemmingway.

So in four year, Pioli drafted 31 players. In four years only 14 stuck. Not too good, eh?

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.

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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. A large number of fans want NFL teams to be built “fantasy style” with top name players and top stats players. Over the last 10 years, I can’t tell you how many times I have heard comments from fans about the lack of opportunities that “their” players were getting. I’m sure Fantasy Football is good for the business of football, but it’s not good for players to hear they should be getting the ball more—or for teams just trying to do whatever it takes to win a game, not just compile stats.

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

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Originally Posted by dallaschiefsfan (Post 9938199)

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.

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