To get Scott Pioli fired.

That could STILL happen.

His agent is there. Maybe that's what they're doing.

To be fair to Clark, I highly doubt that Pioli is sitting in that meeting and thinking to himself, "I really want to hire this guy!"

If the meeting was over at the time of the tweet, they would've removed the word has.

I'm picking another team to watch next year if Peehole is still around. Maybe I will even be a Rams fan just to kick myself in the nuts.

Bet against it.

Here's why people shouldn't worry about the fact that Pioli is in attendance:

If you are serious about possibly moving to contract negotiations, you probably better have your GM there. Clark can lead with Pioli providing whatever support is needed.

Pioli is still the GM. It would be absurd to not even involve him in a coaching search. If Clark is driving the hire, he should have the confidence that he can have Pioli sit in meetings and help answer questions, maybe even ask a few good/relevant ones. It's up to Clark to sniff out any Pioli B.S.

This. It would have said that they met for almost 9 hours.

Yet we are involving him in the most important hire this franchise has had in the past how long?

I don't have to. I already have a contingency plan.

Sorry.

I just can't bring myself to care that much.

You keep using the word "we" like Clark was a part of SOC.

Johnny Kane ‏@johnnykane9

Our guys in Philly did see Clark Hunt at the airport a short while ago. He says the interview has lasted 8 hours and is still going.

Maybe i'm under reacting, but if we get Reid and he is the de-facto GM and Pioli is just a douchebag getting paid 6MM to run the business side of things, then i just dont give a shit. Bring him to the meetings, have him serve Reid BBQ, but dont let him make one goddamn move with the personnel, roster management, coaching staff or draft and its A-OK as me.

Rename Pioli's job title to Executive Operation Dickbag on paper, hire Reid and call it a ****ing day.

And that was retweeted by Fescoe.

That's good to know.

Clark kept Herm until Pioli was hired. Maybe the same will apply with Andy?

OH SHIT HE LEFT PIOLI ALONE IN THERE!!!!!

Still going at the airport? Are they getting on the plane with him?

Pioli doesn't run, or isn't hired to run the business side. Thats Mark Donovan, who's pretty good at his job.

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Pioli worked with Belichick, the epitome of headstrong. Working with Reid shouldn't be an issue.

I wonder if Herm was part of the interview party when Pioli was hired.

Guess who was fired a few weeks later.

Just a thought. People are overreacting.

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Better than taking him on the plane so he can verbally berate a flight attendent over the quality of his peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Why do we want Pioli to hang around and take care of the business side? Is that job open?

The Chiefs don't need to replace every piece that needs replacing in one off-season. Replacing an ILB, finding a space eating 5 tech, and a safety to play next to Berry is a pretty attainable thing when you are picking in the top of the draft in each round and have a lot of cap space.

Good loving Christ.

I wonder how much Reid could coach up Cassel? Ive always thought he would be a decent fit for the West Coast offense.



























Flame Away....

And yet we have SEVERAL reports, some as late as today, that Pioli was running ALL KINDS of things on the business side.

Did you know that Chiefs employees were "encouraged" by Pioli to use black and white copies instead of color?

Pioli is/was running EVERYTHING at Arrowhead. THAT is the reason why he NEEDS to be fired.

How is that better than Pioli pulling out his tec-9 and shooting up the room?

I wish I was a fly on that wall in this meeting listening to Reid list his demands and Pioli's job duties rapidly shrinking.

You know Pioli is sitting there stewing wishing that Clark would hire Ferentz.

Hey, it's okay by me if people want to rationalize keeping Pioli or having him do contracts or fetch drinks during coaching interviews. It's a free world and I respect both freedom and worlds.

As for me, however, I have seen absolutely nothing from Scott Pioli that suggests to me that he brings any value whatsoever to the table. He can't draft, he can't maintain a positive organization, he can't pick coaches, he can't evaluate talent, he can't motivate people, and he probably can't wipe his own ass without blaming someone else for his difficulty in reaching between his enormous, flabby buttocks.

I can understand why Clark would hesitate in taking it on the chin over several tens of millions of dollars (assuming Pioli signed an extension). But I cannot understand why anybody with a properly functioning brain could find any redeeming qualities in that historically incompetent butt-mole of a GM.

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Maybe Hunt left Donovan to work out the contract details.

Ironic isn't it.

A lot of the hand wringing here is being done by the same people that said "Scott Pioli sucks. He didn't do anything in New England, Bill Belichek did it all!"

Jeff Skversky ‏@JeffSkversky

Andy Reid Just wrapped up a near 9 hour interview with Kansas City Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt & GM Scott Pioli today in Philly

Who is Jeff Skversky?

Most of these are retweets I would assume.

How did the interview with Ferentz go? I hear that was today.

I don't see that anywhere on his timeline. His last Chiefs tweet was about us interviewing Koetter.

Why on earth would he bring Pioli to meet Reid? It's like introducing your creepy sex offender uncle to a girl you're trying to date

Jeff Skversky
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Jeff Skversky is a sportscaster at WPVI-TV 6abc in Philadelphia

After getting neutered and publicly humiliated, I'm confident Pioli will have the Chiefs best interest when handling the business side.

Awesome. Get him signed, sealed, delivered and commence the scouting and drafting of Geno.

Jeff Skversky is a sportscaster at WPVI-TV 6abc in Philadelphia.




Seems reliable.

By the same token, what prevents Dr. Evil from spouting off something like, "Yeah, Reid .. and I don't want to see any damn empty pizza boxes in the conference room or it's your ass. It's just the way we do things."?

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Not sure how to interpret this



Are you now saying he did some of the things in NE?

Dude he can't even throw a screen pass.

Varys probably wasn't even allowed to talk. Probably had a ball and gag in his mouth wearing a gimp outfit for the interview.

I was just speculating, I'm just saying, its Clark's money not mine. If he doesnt want to fire him to essentially pay him a ton of money to work for someone else, that's fine by me. Let him find him something else to do as long as it isnt football related, I dont care. He has been stripped of his power as far as we can tell and that's the BIGGEST win for me. Just hire a coach that has full power to make the decisions.

He's still under contract. Doing something to sabotage the Chiefs organization could be viewed as a fireable offense and possibly void his contract.

Bill Maas says Pioli was DEFINITELY in Philly today. D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y-!

That is bs. How long with that last when clark lives in texas. Pioli owns clark. Clark will do whatever scott wants. Coach having the word on players my ass. Pioli has the contract power and fa power. He will fugg us for many years.

As long as he stays on the business side and has no input on the football side. I may be able to live with that. I can't name one business person on the Chiefs ever.

It is 5:50 PM central time now, 4:00 PM eastern time could make sense. If they had already wrapped up the interview that meant Reid left the interview around 5:00 PM central range. So Mort's report could be accurate in saying he left at 4:00 PM eastern.

9 hours? That is probably good, right? I wonder how many finger sandwiches Reid ate...

Or Clark could just fire him before he does any more harm to the organization. Obviously, Clark values his input in these interviews or he wouldn't be bringing him along.

No.

I'm saying that a certain group of people here (not specifically you) are all up in arms about Pioli remaining in the same capacity he had in New England because he's gonna "screw it up" yet they've spent the last 4 years saying Pioli had NOTHING to do with the success in New England, "it was all BB".

The two cannot be simultaneously true.

Why did Mass wait till Howard reported this? Just Piggybacking off Howard.

Exactly. The grass around our tailgating spot needs mowed, get on it!

Oh, and pick up the trash around the site while you're at it. :D

Stanzi was tasked in ordering and delivering the largest cheese steak in the city to the interview.

Which means no buyout.

You think Clark wasn't prepared? He brought 2 jets to Philly. One for him and the other execs. The other filled with Gates, Oklahoma Joes, and Jack Stack bbq.

I'm sorry, no under-reacting is allowed on CP. Only overreacting.

If he just got done with a 9 hour interview within the last 10-15 mins how does 4PM make sense?

Fescoe tweeted asking someone to confirm that Pioli wasn't at Arrowhead today. Maas responded.

Bob Fescoe ‏@bobfescoe

Hearing that Pioli was IN FACT part of the Reid interview today. Along with Clark and Mark Donovan and a few others #chiefs

So we are gonna keep him on a nd pay him millions to do nothing? Thats not very good business, IMO.

Pioli is pretty good at being a GM, his problem was he was doing a lot more than being just the GM. Clark is a lot more involved now, and the HC will have more power. I don't think its going to be that bad. Cassel will no longer be the QB. Reid will tell Pioli who he wants, and he will go get said player. It wont be up to Pioli anymore to set our starting lineup.

If Pioli is here in a personnel role next season, it won't be pulling the strings. He would basically be scouting and doing whatever Reid or whomever is the head coach says. It will be like what he was in New England. He would have no power, just be a top personnel staffer. Maybe that isn't that horrible of a idea, he wouldn't be calling the shots. What would be interesting is what type of scouting system and players would we be going after? Could Pioli handle that aspect?

Did Belichick and Pioli each report to Kraft in NE? Or just Pioli?

somewhere someone else said he was on a plane at ten or eleven this morning.

And yeah I'm not looking it up.
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They report to Kraft

He has such a great record being a scout? I thought all his drafts were awful?

That plane would smell so awesome. I hope they did it sushi style and served the BBQ on naked women lying as tables.

That's not at all what I said.

So the rationalizing of Pioli staying is beginning to start.

GM's don't do nothing. Most don't have as much power as Pioli had here either.

Pioli is done here....D-O-N-E. Power wise for sure. Whether he's "kept on for another year" or not. What Clark did to him was badass.

They weren't his draft, they were Bill's.

Exactly.

Here in KC?

Five stages of grief.