The Pioli Watch Thread

[cardken]

I'm hijacking the thread starter to use for an "updates" area. Sorry cardken. Here are a few recent updates:

Last updated 1/13/09 2:30pm CDT (final update)

Originally Posted by Basileus777

New England Patriots vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli has agreed to become head of football operations for the Kansas City Chiefs, two NFL sources confirmed to ESPN's Michael Smith.
The vice president for player personnel at New England, Pioli, 43, is close to Patriots coach Bill Belichick and has been with the Patriots for nine years. Pioli would find a warm welcome in Kansas City. At the last Chiefs' home game, shortly after the embattled Carl Peterson resigned after 20 years as president, general manager and CEO, several signs were spotted in the crowd proclaiming, "We want Pioli." Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3830515

[milkman]

Originally Posted by KC_CHIEFS_06

just seen on the nfl network that pioli and the browns reached a deal

Can't say I'm disappointed.

I wouldn't have been unhappy with Pioli, but he wasn't the guy that I considered my first choice.

[triple]

like I have said, Polian is the prime candidate out there if you ask me.

I'll be a little disappointed if we don't pursue either of them, but it's Clark's team and I'll give whomever he hires a fair shot to show he can do the job.

Every successful GM was a nobody at some point.

[chiefbowe82]

ok I'll admit I made that up...

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Hey Nancy, settle down, someone just reported that Pioli has reached a deal with the Browns per NFLN...

Dipshit made it up. He just fessed up.

My point stands, however.

[Zouk]

Originally Posted by NCarlsCorner2

So the years he spent drafting guys like Brian Westbrook, Lito Shepard and the likes for the Eagles doesnt count.

Please - Modrak, Heckert, and Reid drafted those guys. If he was responsible for all those guys, why did the Eagles let him go and become a lowly area scout for the Bills?

In New York he sits below not only Jerry Reese, but Chris Mara too. This guy has never been anything more than a #3 on a personnel org chart and he's not suddenly jumping to #1.

[FloridaMan88]

Polian would be my second choice (and if hires a veteran head coach like Mike Shanahan, I would prefer Polian almost as much as I do Pioli)

[Coach]

DeCosta, plz.

[NCarlsCorner2]

Originally Posted by Zouk

Please - Modrak, Heckert, and Reid drafted those guys. If he was responsible for all those guys, why did the Eagles let him go and become a lowly area scout for the Bills?

In New York he sits below not only Jerry Reese, but Chris Mara too. This guy has never been anything more than a #3 on a personnel org chart and he's not suddenly jumping to #1.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Giants general manager Jerry Reese today named Marc Ross as the team’s Director of College Scouting. Ross has been in the NFL for 11 years, including the last three as a national college scout for the Buffalo Bills.
Reese, the Giants’ player personnel director for five years, had continued to do that job since being named general manager on Jan. 16. Reese’s former title of Director of Player Personnel has been eliminated. As college scouting director, Ross will be in charge of the Giants’ college scouting department and the team’s draft.

Director of College Scouting Marc Ross

“We liked Marc’s skill set,” Reese said. “He has been a college scouting director. He was the youngest college director in the league when he was with the Philadelphia Eagles. So he understands the management and the dynamics of the department. Marc is an outstanding scout himself. We like that about him. All of the references that we called were very high on him. We think he is going to be a perfect fit for us.”
“I’m extremely excited about the opportunity to work with this organization and also work with Jerry,” Ross said. “I hope I can be a part of getting this organization back to the Super Bowl.”
In addition to Ross’ appointment, Reese announced that Jerry Shay, a member of the Giants’ scouting staff since 1977, is the Assistant Director of College Scouting. Veteran scouts Joe Collins, Jeremiah Davis and Steve Verderosa are now executive scouts who will be given increased responsibility.
Ross’ first NFL job was as a public relations training camp intern with the Giants in 1995. After leaving camp, Ross worked in Columbia University’s athletics department.
Ross returned to the NFL with the Eagles’ personnel department during the club’s 1996 training camp. He was the team’s eastern regional scout from 1997 until 2000, when, at age 27, he became the NFL’s youngest college scouting director. During his tenure in Philadelphia, Ross was responsible for drafting outstanding NFL Players such as Brian Westbrook, Lito Sheppard and Derrick Burgess.
After seven years with the Eagles’ organization, Ross joined the Bills in the spring of 2004 as a national college scout.
With the Giants, Ross will head a department in which many scouts have been in place for years. But he has no trouble about being at the forefront of such a veteran staff.
“That’s no problem,” Ross said. “I have been scouting in the league since I was 23. I have always had to work with older guys. I was a director at 27 and I had to work with older guys underneath me. If you treat people fairly and with respect and do you your job efficiently and do it well, then age shouldn’t be a big factor.”
Because he is coming from the outside, Ross will deliver a fresh perspective to the scouting department and offer some new thoughts on how to proceed.
“You never want to get stagnant in any department, including the personnel department,” Reese said. “So we look forward to Marc’s new ideas. He has some new ideas and energy. He impressed us with some things that he talked about in the interview process. So we are all looking forward to some new ideas. I don’t want Marc to come in and try to reinvent the wheel. I think we can implement some of our old things that we do well along with some of the new things that he brings to the table for us so we can move forward. We don’t want to get stagnant and sitting still.”
“I think that is why Jerry hired me, to get a different point of view and a different perspective,” Ross said. “I have been in a couple of places that do things entirely different. This is a traditional organization, but I think it is still progressive. I hope to add a different point of view and enhance everything that’s going on.”
Ross was an All-Ivy League wide receiver at Princeton in 1993 and 94. He held five school records, including one as a receiver (a 20.2-yard average per catch in 1993) and four as a punt returner (most career returns, 74; most career return yards, 696; most returns in a season, 32 in 1994 and most yards in a game, 161 on six returns vs. Cornell in 1994).
Ross earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Princeton and a master’s degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts in 1997.
A native of Sahron Hill, Penn., Ross and his wife, Pualani, have a daughter, Skylar, who was born in 2006.

[Zouk]

Right - he's "in charge" of the draft. Ignore the GM, the VP of player personnel, and the head coach.

He "was responsible" for drafting every good Eagle player. Again, not the GM, the VP, or the HC.

Some PR person just wrote a ridiculous press release.

[chiefbowe82]

so when is kc suppose to speak with him

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by KC_CHIEFS_06

ok I'll admit I made that up...

I take it you didn't learn your lesson about posting false news stories?

Dumb****.

[chiefbowe82]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

I take it you didn't learn your lesson about posting false news stories?

Dumb****.

i will continue to do so, till i get my thread posting abilities back

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by KC_CHIEFS_06

i will continue to do so, till i get my thread posting abilities back

Good luck with that.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by KC_CHIEFS_06

i will continue to do so, till i get my thread posting abilities back

The hell you will.

[milkman]

Originally Posted by KC_CHIEFS_06

i will continue to do so, till i get my thread posting abilities back

I've never endorsed the idea of banning anyone, but this kind of bullshit warrants it, or at least universal ignore.

"Waaaaaah, I suck as and can't post threads, so now I'm going to suck ass even more...Waaaaaaah."