Stuff Pioli gets credit for:
-Charles contract
-The 2011 trade down that got us Houston
-Hudson, Bailey, and Poe
-Keeping the front office stairwells clean of candy wrappers

Stuff Pioli was handed on a silver platter:
-**** ton of cap room
-All those dudes from the 2008 draft as well as DJ, Bowe, Hali, Colquitt, and Tony Gonzalez's corpse worth a 2nd round pick
-The Eric Berry and Justin Houston picks (I think even Carl could have made those picks)

Stuff Pioli screwed up:
-Everything, including not knowing a QB from his own asshole and being the hated scourge of every possible head coaching candidate in the country

Good news and a good call.

Houston was . 3rd round pick and most of the board hated the Poe pick.

Id kick him in the nuts if I ever saw him but in hindsight wasnt horrible at aquiring talent. A good coach and avg QB would have made him look much different IMO.

Like the Move. I'm warming up to this Dorsey Guy

Dorsey is Awesome.

That's like saying if Andy Reid weren't so ****ing fat he could run a marathon.

Pioli was never going to get that QB and coach. He married himself to Cassel even when he had multiple chances to undo that wrong. It was apparent that he totally believed Cassel was a franchise QB. A bad decision is one thing, but refusing to alter course in 4 years is unforgivable.

And based on who he was, what he represented, and his awful reputation, NOBODY wanted a part of his shit sandwich that he was serving. You can't just say, "Oh, if he had found the right coach, it would have been okay." No self-respecting coach was going to work for this prick, and even if a good coach DID make himself available for an interview, Pioli would never ****ing hire him because his myopic ass wouldn't be able to get past the fact that the coach didn't spawn out of Bill Parcells' butthole.

Pioli was barred from success from Day One because of himself, not because of his talent evaluations or his decisions.

I can't wait until Atlanta fans call for a public execution of him and his butt buddy Dimitroff. And once that happens, the NFL will finally flush him down the toilet as a dishonorable piece of shit.

Houston was a no brainer talent wise in the third.

didn't Fat Scott admit what you guys are talking about in this thread on his 1 year off television tour last year?

He was playing hindsight to shine himself up for a new job on how he regretted not drafting Dalton and Kaepernick and scouted them both. He was trying to take credit for all the players he missed.

For all the mistakes Pioli made, passing on Dalton wasn't one of them. Thank god we aren't saddled to that turd.

It's not only that. Haley wanted Hasselbeck and he wanted Kaepernick. So it wasn't just Pioli ignoring his scouts. He was going it alone because of his stubborn love for his QB.

He is better than Cassel

So? He still sucks.

Not in the playoffs. They're both dumpster fires who shit their pants in January

So.. it was a mistake for Pioli to stick with Cassel instead of taking Dalton. He is right about that.

Maybe but he would havd had Dalton on a 2nd round contract instead of Cassel making over 10 mil. on/year. When you pay QBs you have to figure you give up talent at other places when you get QBs cheap you can provide a better supporting cast. That gets over looked a lot. Its not as simple as player A vs Player B.