Arrowheadlines: Chiefs News 1/17

since when did we go into a rebuilding mode?

Seems like we here this same old story year after year,at least we was cosistant back in Marty Days.we got to get back to that.

some sort of eavesdropping at Arrowhead for years. It was going on through the Peterson admin. as well. I remember seeing John Madden talking about being in the visitors locker room talking gameplan, and Hank Stramm speaking up, and saying that will never work. This venom that the media is spewing needs to stop. Some people dont like change, that is what this is about. It was obviously fairly dysfunctional out there before Pioli got here. Remember our high quality gm Carl Peterson?

When are we going to hear some coaching news? We need a good oc!

The Chiefs were gifted with veteran Kyle Orton just a week into Palko’s starting tenure when Denver unexpectedly released its opening day starter. Once Orton learned the playbook, the Chiefs quarterback situation appeared to be stabilized for the remainder of the year. It wasn’t.

Instead, former head coach Todd Haley balked at handing the keys to Orton while Palko continued to struggle. When Orton finally saw the field, he suffered a finger injury on his first snap as a Chief.

The play-call: a flea-flicker.

Following Haley’s dismissal in Week 15, new head coach Romeo Crennel immediately inserted Orton – who was still recovering from the dislocated index finger on his throwing hand – as the team’s starting quarterback.

Once Orton took control of the starting role, he led the Chiefs to upset victory over Green Bay to end the Packers 19-game winning streak. Aside from a costly interception in the red zone against Oakland, Orton was impressive on short notice and the Chiefs posted a 2-1 record with him as a starter down the stretch.

Orton’s three starts won over a lot of Chiefs fans. Surely it was a welcomed atmosphere following a difficult departure in Denver.

Definitely feels like they’re throwing Haley under the bus there…and fits a bit with some people’s speculations about Haley’s seemingly stubborn insistence on sticking with Palko.

At the end of the season, Scott Pioli was giving interviews all over the media talking about the Cheifs. He was talking to websites, he was on TV, he was on the radio…it was like the dude had a new book coming out or something. Which leads me to my question…

How on earth was Babb unable to get Pioli for even a comment or quick interview during that period? Pioli seems like he’s talking to anyone who will listen, and Babb can’t track him down at all? The article lets a lot of voices point fingers directly at Pioli, and then comes out right after Pioli’s been giving a ton of interviews. Did Babb actually try to talk to Pioli? He parenthetically says that Pioli “was not made available by the team for this story”…which to me could mean a wide array of things.

I hate beating this dead horse, but this occurred to me last night and has been bugging me since.

with the rest of the secondary that he has bonded with, sounds like he wants to stick with those guys. If I was a top ten corner in the league I would want paid too.

I read all of these stories and coverage. I wanted to voice some of my thoughts on this whole thing. Take them or leave them.

1. Pioli is a micro-manager – It obvoius but it seems like a lot of NFL GM’s run their organization like this. I never liked micro-managers but I have never worked for a GM in the NFL. Could be completely different from corporate america. This attention to detail is probably a good thing.

2. Pioli has an ego – Of course he does. So do alot of other coaches, owners, players, etc. The story about the car space is probably true. But, it might not be as bad as it sounds. Pioli could have easily walked into the building and said whoever has this truck parked in my space better move it or you will not be working here anymore. I could easily see any boss saying something like that. The being called by his last name thing I believe is true but again, it could sound a lot worse than it is. What if this woman was saying it in a disrespectful way? It states Pioli said this after numerous times being called it. Maybe she was saying it in a disrespectful way the entire time? If that was the case, I would be reprimanded by my boss.

3. The candy wrapper – The KC Star article stated this wrapper was laying there the entire week. Pioli kept checking on it through out the week to see if someone threw it away. No one did. He brought it up and said something about it. He was easily using this small candy wrapper as a way to get his point across that things need to change and people need to be held accountable and pay attention to detail. It is a very odd way to get your point across but take it or leave it.

4. The drawing of the blinds – I dont see a problem with this at all. I think this is a good thing. Don’t give anyone or anything an advantage. I will give an example here. With my company our internal information kept being leaked to the newspaper. Someone within the company would keep doing this. Point is, its a large company and you can never really trust anyone completely.

5. Todd Haley’s conspiracy theory – Todd is just a nutball. After reading this I was pleased he is gone. Seriously, our head coach was acting like this? Do I think Pioli was monitoring his coach? Yes I do (what GM wouldn’t). Do I think Pioli did all these things to Haley? No. I will give an example here. My uncle is a very paranoid man. He is very scatter brained. He works for company (under 20 ees) that he was convinced was trying to get rid of him. He was conviced they bugged his phone. He was convinced they broke into his car and bugged it. He was conviced they installed a tracking device on his car. Now, my best friend works for this company too. I asked my friend what he thought. He replied…“that’s your uncle being paranoid. They aren’t doing any of that stuff. He is completely off his rocker.”. My point, Todd Haley is completely paranoid.

6. Monitoring emails – Get over this. Every company watches online traffic. My company has the ability to monitor emails if need be. I even know some people got let go because of emails they were sending (inapproriate and grounds for termination). Again, you never know what people are doing and saying to the competition, etc.

7. Recording conversations – Through the phones? Its illegal. Peter King made a good point about that. I do not think the chiefs are listening in on phone calls. However, they can easily pull a list of who the person called. Any company can do this and I am sure a lot do monitor these calls. What is a worker in a normal company simply talked to friends all day long and didn’t do any work. Do you think the company would let this just go by without addressing it? Of course they wouldn’t. As for the bugged rooms, who knows.

8. Turnover – In any company when a new regime takes over, there is always change that comes with it. Carl Peterson was there a LONG time. 16+ years (I think). A culture was established by Carl Peterson. Pioli wants to change the culture. He will make let people go to change this culture regardless if you are a hard worker. People also get set in their ways. They feel doing the very least to get by in work is the way to go. I think he let people go for all of the above. Culture change, unproductivity, etc. Do I think the comment about anyone over 40 is true? I don’t know. I am surprised at the amount of turnover here but not surprised at all the turnover (make sense?)

9. Overall – Anyway you look at it this story is bad for chiefs football in the public eye. I am concerned of this public opnion. I am also concerned that because of this story it may draw players and coaches away from the chiefs. I am concerned it will cause problems in the locker room. I hope this does not happen and everything works out. As for Pioli, he needs a few more years before my final verdict is made on him as a GM. I do believe he is doing good things player wise and through the draft. But he also made some big mistakes. A few more years will tell. As for Pioli as a boss, I am glad I do not work for him, but if this management style works out in the long run I am all for it.