Pioli Has Two Strikes

…. can be traced to Muir’s influence. That is one more reason to question Muir as OC in the first place. The lack of offensive success and who plays are (in the end) on Haley. But his faith in Muir was a big part of Haley’s downfall. Pioli just has not helped much except a few long term signings of our own players.

Pioli is a multiple winner of the Executive of the Year award for making seemingly good moves as an NFL suit.

It was his job to find talent in a draft devoid of talent… That is and was his job, that is why he got paid and no excuses should be made.

Scott Pioli has done some great things (I bolded it because I think you believe I think he is terrible, not true.)

However, he has also made some bad decisions. Such as hire a Head Coach lacking in experience and firing him before his third season was over. Trade Miami for dreadful lineman. Made questionable moves in free agency (Goff, Piscetelli.)

With Scott Pioli you take the good with the bad, and there has been some of both. It is time for him to do more bad than good, and it starts with this coaching change.

Eric Berry is one for sure. I liked the fact that he working in the scouting dept, before and could also bounce ideas off his father, Dick Haley, good, old player personnel director.. Now that Todd won’t be in the draft room I’ll be interested to see if Pioli keeps up with the 2010 and 2011 drafts. If you look at Pioli’s last 3 drafts with NE (2006-2008) I think there are only 3 players out of 19 selected still on the Pats roster (Mayo, Gostkowski, , Le Kevin Smith). one of them is on the Chiefs roster (O’Callahan). Go back to 2004 and 2005 and there are 2 more players out of 15 still on the Pats roster (Mankins, Wilfork). Another on the Chiefs roster (Cassel). Easy answer why the Pats defense is terrible and without Brady, Welker, Gronk they wouldn’t be a playoff team. In summary, there are 5 players out of 34 still on the NE roster from the 2004-2008 Pioli-Belichek drafts. Even CP and Herm hit at a higher rate during this time period.

2009: Give a pass.

2010:
Eric Berry – Who could miss on 5th overall?
Javier Arenas & Dex have been role players at best, Arenas mainly on STs.
Kendrick Lewis – He is good enough to make our roster and he plays.
Jon Asamoah – See above.
Tony Moeaki – Potential to be very good if he stays healthy. Better rec’r than blocker.

2011:
Jon Baldwin – So far he has dropped more than caught. Has potential.
Rodney Hudson – the one game he started was against PIT and it is the least amount of sacks the Chiefs gave up in the last 5 games. O-Line sucks.
Justin Houston – I like his potential.

Consider that the average NFL team loses 7 to 10 players a year through attrition. Pioli has barely kept pace and so far the main contribution of his aquisitions have been role players and adequate position players. Three or four may become great, but by then we will have lost three or four similar players. Like Chief-blinders-on said, Pioli needs to do better.

What Pioli has not addressed:
ROT- Richardson is like a subway turnstile.
OG/C- Whichever Hudson does not play needs to be addressed.
RB- Compliment to JC needs to be in place now.
TE- Moeaki is not enough.
NT- Gregg was handled one on one by New York Center.
DE/DT- No ability to cave in a pocket is glaring.
LB- Belcher is improving this year but we need quality dept at LB anyway.
CB- No NFL team can get by with only two cover corners. Arenas is not a cover corner.
FS- Need quality or depth. Lewis is just ok.
SS- Need Quality depth.

There are 10 positions that need to be upgraded for the Chiefs to have a realistic chance to move to upper end of elite teams. This number may be even larger when you consider attrition. Either upgrade from below average to average or from average to good or from good to All-Star. Pioli is falling behind on aquiring quality, upgraded talent.