ESPN's Jeff Chadiha on 810

It’s en vogue to insult Chiefs management, and he’s following suit. I have no reason to respect or listen to him.

unless he tells the whole world who they are (which is never going to happen. remember the two reporters in san francisco who wouldn’t give up their sources and faced jail time because of it? they took the jail time) then the news isn’t credible. chadiha is a respected member of the media who doesn’t have a history of making things up. he only cites what OTHERS are telling him. you can put your fingers in your ears and and scream la la la all you want but i’ll take him at his word since, you know, he has access to people who know these things.

Namely because there aren’t that many media people saying the same things. A few local guys and this guy isn’t some widespread prevailing opinion.

While I have to think that having Jim Harbaugh (a plucky QB I always admired, even as arch-nemesis) in his ear definitely gives Smith an edge, I also think that Smith has a better natural toolkit than Cassel. It’s easy to downgrade Smith in your mind, after the ‘9ers were taken out by a very good Giants team, in a very close game. If I’m Jim Harbaugh, I’m a lot happier than RAC is, knowing I just have to go after WR, with an eye peeled to any slipping linemen in the draft.

When I look at the Chiefs, even COPPER looks like a damn good receiver, and I can’t help but have a soft spot for those pesky and annoying suck-for-Luck-ers. It would be nice to have a QB that, when 4 whole seconds ticks off the clock, I KNOW the defense is going to regret it, and I rejoice. It would be nice to have a QB that neatly sidestepped any fat man out-of-control enough to be charging at him, and just use the fat man’s momentum against him, to BUY that 4-second play, instead of watching my guy blindly stumble into the ONE place he should NOT go, while his cave-sitter eyes are picking up a mere 30 degrees of arc, directly in front of wherever his head’s pointed.

Everything I’ve read about Pioli leads me to believe that he’s about the most loyal & genuine friend you could have. In ‘War Room" the author spoke extensively about how Pioli would go and visit Dimitrof’s father in the hospital routinely (when the elder was dying of cancer), because Thomas had taken a job out of the region & couldn’t be there. I’ve read other stories of his personal loyalty as well.

As for Haley, I liked a lot of his qualities as a coach, but one thing is that he never seemed genuine to me. I don’t know about his personality beyond the public face, but the persona toward the media always seemed aloof and rehearsed to me.

Plus there is plenty to do as a HC that will take away from his gameplanning/video/meeting time. He even said that in an interview at the end of the year. It was ok then because it was 2 teams we faced before and nothing really changed personel wise. Add the normal turnover in the NFL on the team and the D will plenty of new faces. Not saying he cant handle it but bringing in or promoting someone would be the smart way to go…

The OC would be 2nd in real and apparent authority, after RAC. The personnel acquisition sequence might not have been ideal, but there are quite a few pretty good players, and Pioli’s approach will round out the team, and maintain it, long-term, from what I’ve seen, so far. He just didn’t do enough early in the trenches, and he BLEW the 3rd-rounder on Magee. Better scouting would’ve produced an excellent OG with that Magee pick, and Goff maybe never set foot on the field..

2009-2011

there is no way Pioli does not have a minion reading the thoughts of the best Chiefs Fans in America and reporting back every AM

Does he in fact have a long time anti-New England bias???