This from the Kansas City Star: Former Pats GM/New Chiefs GM describing his philosophy for building a football team... The record will show that at his public unveiling as Chiefs general manager, Scott Pioli made no five-year guarantee about getting his new team to the Super Bowl. Pioli made no pledges at all other than promising to put in the necessary work to get the deed done. But he spoke with the assured confidence of someone who knows the way. ?The thing we?re trying to build here is not just a team for 2009, not just for 2010,? said Pioli, who helped New England to three Super Bowl championships in his nine seasons with the Patriots. ?The goal is to build a team that consistently competes for championships, that has a long shelf life of being a good football team. ?The vision for this football team and the direction that we plan to head in is to build a football team. We built a football team in New England, and we?ll build a football team here. My job is not to collect talent. It?s to build a team. Individuals go to Pro Bowls. Teams win championships. That?s our goal here.?
This is GM/executive speak that every GM spouts. If you hadn't said it came from Pioli, I'd have thought it was Mr. T himself. I don't know where the blame for the flameout in 2008 ultimately resides (too many conflicting stories), but there is not a dearth of talent on the Jets and that's the GM's first job.
Where have I heard the 5-year-plan tripe before? Right, Al Davis said that about 7 years and 3 HCs ago. We'll see about Pioli.... I'm pretty sure everyone in NE is just a product of Bellychicken's smarts.
