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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Rating smartest, boldest, scariest offseason moves
May 13, 2009
By Clark Judge
CBSSports.com Senior Writer
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11743195
Five boldest moves
Kansas City hiring Scott Pioli
Some people automatically put this one in the win column. Not me. Not after Charlie Weis fizzled at Notre Dame and Romeo Crennel bombed out in Cleveland. OK, so they were former New England coaches, and Pioli was a decorated GM. They still fall from the same tree. The question I have is this: How much was Pioli responsible for what happened in New England? "I guess we're about to find out," said one NFC general manager.
The good news is that Thomas Dimitroff had New England ties, too, and he circled the bases in his first turn as a GM in Atlanta. The bad news: Pioli's first draft with Kansas City: There are reaches everywhere. He also reversed the team's Get Young Now policy by adding 30-something discards like Bobby Engram, Zach Thomas, Monty Beisel and Mike Vrabel. You can do that when you're at or near the top, like New England. But this is a team that lost 23 of its last 25, for crying out loud. |
I vehemently disagree with this cheap sensationalist piece of pseudo-journalism.
In order to be a BOLD move, one would have to consider who was replaced, not just who was brought in. We hired (probably) the hottest commodity in FO personnel for a jaded-shell-of-his-former-self-laughing-stock, CP. How is that "bold"? That is the lowest-risk, highest-reward move we could have made. Bold my ass. What we did was OBVIOUS.