You don't find it weird the team's current head coach has nothing to say about the team's new GM?

Two things:


1) After his previous foot-in mouth comments, clamming up is the right move.
"It's the smart move. Tessio was always the smarter one". "But I'm gonna' wait".

We all know what happened to Abe Begota, yes?

2) Welcome to the New Arrowhead Reality; silence is the order of the day until it's time to speak. I love it. We are on our way to being a legitimate NFL Franchise.

Yes. I've always felt that people who put so much stock in combine stats lacked faith in their own evaluation skills. They wanted to let the numbers tell them what a good football player is. Pioli exudes confidence in his ability to identify a quality player based on what he does on the field, regardless of what the "measureables" might say.

thanx..
 

im a chiefs fan from the nyc area im sure they had it on tv somewhere but i only saw bits and pieces thanx for posting this

Basically Pioli is a GM who will let players like Devard Darling flourish. :D

What do you think he was going to say when he said, "There are no other Tom Brady's and no other Matt Cassell's. Now there's one guy who -" and then he stopped.

I bet he was talking about one of the QBs in the draft, and then remembered not to tip his hand.

Yeah, I was thrilled about that too. Maybe we won't always waste a second-round pick on a combine freak any more.

That made me want to hump his leg.

Yeah -- a little confusing, but I thought he was still talking about Cassel.

We heard all that before when Tamba Hali and Brandon Flowers were drafted. That does not represent a philosophical shift for the Chiefs. Other things (e.g. drafting for scheme rather than taking best available talent and designing to them) are much more different with Pioli vs. Herm/Kuharich.

To me, the Combine is like the Playbill for the theater; it's your introduction to the cast as well as some minimal-yet pertinent information regarding what you're about to see.

It seems to me, and I hope it's true, that Pioli is a "moxie/mojo guy" when it all comes down to making the final call. DCS loves the mojo, and this club needs more of it!

"We're going to build a big, strong, fast, smart, tough, disciplined football team."

:D

The people quoted on the Chiefs' site either spent years working with Pioli (Kraft, Belichick, Newsome, Weiss) or are members of his family (Parcells).

Herm, to my knowledge, fits into none of those categories. So I'm not sure why it would be "interesting" that he wasn't included.

Where are Tom Brady's comments, that's a valid question. Or Romeo Crennel's. Or his Aunt Pat Pioli for some more family perspective.

Because other than Clark Hunt, there is no more high profile person within the Chiefs organization to comment on Pioli's hiring than Herm.

wow 810 is replaying the presser and I think their tape is warped and those idiots haven't figured it out yet LOL what a reeruned station.

OMFG!

we need to sign a midget and name him 'mini me.'

"mini me LOVES chocolate. SCOTTIE DON'T!"

that was my read from this as well..... dumb F media

so what else is new. Change is good. and he doesn't have time for these clowns without a real question.

I think my favorite line, and one very near the start, is where he says "And I can't wait to get to work".

This guy LOVES football, and you can tell that the challenge and chance to build his own and first empire means more to him than money ever could.

This was a GREAT hire and move on Clark's part; we are FINALLY on our merry ****ing way.
:toast:

It is what it is.

My Mom has that King Crimson record in her collection! I've been enthralled by Robert Fripp ever since he uttered "Are you alive inside your left hand"?

And you're positively thrilled to have him out of your division. Happy we could oblige.

Michael Smith of ESPN is reporting there is a good possibility that Pioli keeps Herm and the final decision on the coaching staff should come by the end of the week.

He has been reporting that all day... Michael Smith can eat dick...

Self admittedly I've been uninvolved with this all day until the last hour and a half or so. Sorry for the repost, I just caught it.

Its cool, I wasnt flaming on you... just letting you know that he has been saying that all day....

I think our new GM has established a method I'm beginning to love:

"I'm gonna' talk straight with the fans". "I'm gonna' talk straight with my people at Arrowhead".

"As for the media; Let Them Eat Dick".

LMAO

By the way, here's a link to the trascript of the PC. http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2009/01...r_scott_pioli/

Maybe he is going to shock all of us and trade for Kevin O'Connell. :D

Thanks for embedding the press conference, I finally had a chance to watch it.

Thought it would be interesting to compare *****'s introductory presser to Dorsey's -- ironically, held on the same dates, exactly four years apart.


Oops, sorry OTWP:



He had a lot of people fooled, from the owner on down.

This all sounds so familiar.

Pioli truly was a wolf in sheep's clothing. We were all fooled.

Exactly, it's hilarious how excited people get over press conferences and interviews. They're literally all the same cliched answer that fans want to hear. All of them.

{Sees bump....and that I posted in thread}

"Oh shit...."

{Read's innocuous post about how Herm is clearly fired....exhales}

I remember turning on him sooner than everyone except for maybe Hamas and Dane, but I didn't remember exactly when that was. Thank God I didn't say anything stupid in this particular thread.

I'll eat crow. I didn't start to really turn on him until Peyton signed with the Broncos and I knew Pioli was the reason he didn't come here.

This thread should be burned.

No worries.

Psychopathy is one of the most difficult psychological disorders to spot.

Nice recovery! :D

I agree. Administer some ole' fashioned anal leakage to this thread please.

Yeah, but a truthful one.

That mother****er charmed the shit out of us before slitting our ****ing throats.

I was right there too, there were a few of us taking a ton of flack for ripping into that first offseason/draft.

Pioli said this. ROFL

Wait OTWP liked the Pioli hire once upon a time?

Look, these were dark times. We all said stuff we wish we could take back.

Let's just move past this together.

you have been black bob all along, might as well admit it already

Can one of the functional IT nerdz replace all instances of "*****" with a witch emoticon like the former Faider owners name does?

That'd be nice...

Of just go with this one... :fire:

No one is at fault for thinking that Fat Scott was a good hire at the time.

The guy is Bernie Madoff... one of the biggest frauds in recent NFL history.