Far be it from me to quote a turd like Mike Florio, but this would be comedy... JIMMY MAKES PITCH FOR PIOLI Posted by Mike Florio on September 29, 2008, 9:02 a.m. EDT http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/09/29/jimmy-makes-pitch-for-pioli/ During the ?Fired Up? segment that ends each week?s FOX?s pregame show, former Cowboys and Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson gives the Detroit Lions some free advice on how to proceed in the wake of the termination of CEO Matt Millen. Says Jimmy: Hire Scott Pioli away from the Patriots. ?It?d be easy to pile on Matt Millen, everybody?s doing it. But he wasn?t alone in every decision. He did not negotiate some of those awful contracts. . . . There are a bunch of good-old boys, ?yes? men drawing paychecks in that front office,? Johnson said. ?You have time to find the best talent evaluator, one that understands how to put together a championship team. . . . Start with New England?s Scott Pioli. Pay him whatever he wants. He?ll pay for his salary with less first-round busts making millions. And then let him do the necessary house cleaning. He?ll hire the right people to get the job done.? It?s hard to argue with Johnson. Pioli possibly has been overlooked for recent openings because, in the past, he has opted not to leave New England. Still, when the Falcons homed in on former Pats director of college scouting Thomas Dimitroff for the G.M. gig in Atlanta, some questioned whether front-office employees involved in the search process steered clear of Pioli because they feared for their own jobs once the son-in-law of Bill Parcells showed up and started firing and/or reassigning those who needed to be fired and/or reassigned. And that?s the danger in Detroit. By leaving in place Martin Mayhew and Tom Lewand, to whom Johnson surely was referring when he mentioned ?yes? men, the Fords have given them a three-month opportunity to attempt to influence the process of making a permanent hire come January. Though many NFL owners are out of their league when they try to make football decisions, it often amazes us that these highly successful human beings sometimes don?t have a better understanding of human nature. Mayhew and Lewand will do everything they can to keep the positions they inherited once Millen got the ax. But Mayhew and Lewand were part of the prior problem ? and to the extent that they were grousing internally about Millen instead of getting up and leaving, then they?re even less worthy (in our view) of staying. Here?s hoping that, regardless of the person whom the Lions hire to run the thing, the Fords will realize that the input they?ll be getting from Mayhew and Lewand over the coming weeks will be rooted in their own desire to expand their influence at best, or to keep their jobs at worst.
I know that JJ and BB are buds. Makes you wonder whether this was a "sanctioned" solicitation JJ rant-slash-solicitation. For Pioli, it couldn't get much better. An organization with a willingness to flush money down the drain and an UNwilligness to meddle in personnel management.
Pioli is probably adamant about staying in New England because; 1) why leave a winning organization? 2) why go to a losing organization like Detroit? 3) he gets plenty of credit when they win and gets zero blame when they lose. 4) the guy has zero ego and doesnt have to really take complete ownership of a situation like the GM job in Detroit to make himself feel satisfied.
Unless he can take a healthy Brady with him going to Detroit would be a horrible move. I'm very curious to see what happens with the pats this year. They have a ton of talent on that team but I don't see them winning 9 games without Brady.
Perhaps the Pats can make a deal with the NFL to let them play the Jets ten more times this year. As for not winning 9 games, I'm sure that's what all Jet fans want to belive, but as I've said all along, "reality" is very differen't than hopes and dreams. Jet fans are like puppets on a string, two weeks ago after a loss, their season was over and Favre was a just another mistake by the F.O. A week later after a win, "The Jets are going to the Super Bowl and Favre is the Ledgend again", it would be comical to watch you guys if it wasn't so pathetic. The bottom line is the AFC East will be a battle to the end.
You really are kind of dope, in addition to being an obviously pathetic loser. Have you ever been on a date? You know, with a woman? What was the point of saying the same "reality" thing you've been harping on since the first week of the season, yet again. Dreesen didn't say anything terrible about your pwecious wittle patwiots, he just stated the obvious: no matter how talented a team is, its fucked when its number 1 QB goes down. You obviously agree with him, thus your last sentence. Plus you can't spell for shit. Fucking ball sack.
