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The thing with Pioli and the abject awfulness of his "reign" in Kansas City is that you have to make it a referendum on all of his failures of leadership.
If you just make it about one tragic mistake (Cassel) or another (TyJax) you allow him a possible "the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit" moment.
So please allow a transplanted Chiefs fan the indulgence on just one more anti-Pioli diatribe-
If you make it about
(1) his steadfast refusal to accept the fact that you need a franchise quarterback as the foundation of your team to succeed in the modern framework of the NFL. This is evidenced by his subjecting Chiefs fans to four years of the Matt Cassel Experiment and drafting one QB, a 5th rounder at that, to develop as the QBOTF.
(2) his terrible personnel decision in the draft and Free Agency (TyJax, Baldwin, McCluster, Arenas, etc) Where even his "successes" are somewhat tainted; Moeaki has looked terrible this year and was drafted over Jimmy Graham, Berry had a promising rookie season but has been horrendous this year coming back from injury and even when healthy hasn't performed at the level of his draftmate Earl Thomas.
(3) His history of hiring trainwrecks as Head Coaches. The Todd Haley mistake was a black eye on this franchise and made us the laughing stock of the NFL. RAC is currently running the worst team in the NFL out there and dropping Buddy Bellesque lines about how to fix his teams performance.
(4) his unassailable ability to alienate the fanbase and cohorts at every opportunity. This is evidenced by the Kent Babb article, his refusal to be held accountable publicly and not making a public comment, including during his media tour de force, supporting the fanbase post the Eric Winston debacle.
(5) the absymal track record of Patriot castoffs (see; Mangini, Eric, Weiss, Charlie, RAC, McRoberts, Josh)
(6) and pure and simple his Win and Loss record and current trajectory of this franchise. Even facebook stock looks like a winner in comparison to this franchise.
In law enforcement circles they use the term "articulable facts" that lead to the "totality of the circumstances". Well the "totality of the circumstances" suggest that EGOli is a failure of Gigli proportions.
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