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Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88
Fat Scott left a 2-14 team with significant salary cap space and the #1 overall pick for Dorsey/Reid.
Using your logic with Herm, do you give the same praise to Fat Scott's legacy?
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No. Pioli inherited a really damn good situation. He had an immaculate cap situation where Herm was given a giant credit card bill. He had a young roster to work with which has developmental upside, but also are easier to cut and move around. And he had four years and two top ten picks to do it. Sure, he had plenty of roster gaps to fill, but he had nothing whatsoever standing in his way from doing it.
Pioli had a significantly cleaner situation and one more year to build the team. At least Herm took a bad situation and left it clean. Pioli took a clean situation and barely advanced the puck while racking up some debt along the way.