Whitlock says Motherfuckyou Pioli!

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Boris The Great

What is he babbling about?

Even though they brought the "NE Model" they don't know how to run it properly. The other way to look at is they are trying to mimic rather than creating their own culture of success.

[Boris The Great]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

Even though they brought the NE Model they don\'t know how to run it properly. The other way to look at is they are trying to mimic rather than creating their own culture of success.

Neither of those have anything to do with what Whitlock wrote here. He is describing the CIA-like secrecy as something bad. He is saying Pioli wants good little soldiers who wont tattle when he and Haley berate them and demean them.

He certainly isnt saying they should do a better job of operating like NE does, because the Pats operate in the same secretive way that Whitlock is practically declaring evil. And he never comes close to raising the copycat issue.

He cites Parcells and New England as Pioli influences, yet then acts as if Pioli has invented this style of operation all by himself. He calls Pioli the NFL version of Castro. Not Belichick who he learned it from, not Parcells who is running the franchise where a player allegedly got demeaned by the GM, but Pioli. That is dumb by itself. Then he attempts to create reasons for why Pioli operates this way, none of which apply to the influences he would have gotten it from.

And I havent even mentioned the embarrassing part where he tries to link the criminal problems of NFL players to the way teams treat them so horribly, without providing a single example of this terrible mental abuse other than one disputed story about what a team asked a rookie in a pre-draft meeting.

This column is awful is almost every way.

[penchief]

Originally Posted by Boris The Great

This column is awful is almost every way.

Whitlock should be fired for incompetence. But I suppose the Star has its reasons for employing such a petty hack to begin with.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by penchief

Whitlock should be fired for incompetence. But I suppose the Star has its reasons for employing such a petty hack to begin with.

He has played both sides of the fence lately, so he will stay employed.

Same old shit, different day.

[DaWolf]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

Even though they brought the "NE Model" they don't know how to run it properly. The other way to look at is they are trying to mimic rather than creating their own culture of success.

They believe in certain principles and methodologies and are trying to incorporate it in the culture here. When you hire a CEO who comes from a successful organization, it's only natural they are going to try and implement the things they believe in...

[penchief]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

Even though they brought the "NE Model" they don't know how to run it properly. The other way to look at is they are trying to mimic rather than creating their own culture of success.

I disagree. I see Pioli/Haley creating their own culture here. This is just another angle for Whitlock to beat a dead horse. He appears to be using the Ireland incident to find Pioli guilty by association.