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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
Let the excuses flow like fine wine.
Discus.
This ought to be fun - let's hit that Millionth post.
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Pioli has been pretty lousy and he has to earn our trust. And he should certainly be taken to task for not knowing Cassel a little better before trading for him. But I think you and a lot of people have a completely skewed understanding of how talent evaluation works. Pioli is only as good as the scouting information fed to him. Pioli didn't have his guy or his scouts feeding him info going into the draft. And his guy didn't have nearly enough time to feed him the right info going into the free agency period.
These aren't excuses. They are reasons. I'm not saying he deserves a free pass. But I think he deserves at least the 2010 offseason before we can really judge what he's capable of. He can compete for the best coaches and assistants. He'll have had a full year of his own scouts and his own Director of College Scouting feeding him draft data. He'll have had a Pro Personnel Director who has had a full year to self-scout and also do an extensive analysis around the league. And he won't have to deal with a ton of administrative house-cleaning/transitional items he had to deal with in January (people forget that the draft was one of a million things he had to deal with in the early stages).
If he ****s up this draft and continues to make horrible decisions, including inbreeding the organization with former Pats players, then I'll agree with you. And I agree with you that his track record so far is really shitty. I just don't agree (yet) that these are signs that Pioli has no idea what he's doing. And by the way, I 100% agree with pestilence's checklist of things he needs to do. If he doesn't accomplish most of that list and then some, I'm more than happy to rip him a new asshole. Not literally, of course.