Chiefs are Super Secret
NBC Sports had a nice take on the Chief’s weekend moves.
“4. Secrecy suits Chiefs
New Chiefs GM Scott Pioli has learned from guys like close friend and former colleague Bill Belichick and father-in-law Bill Parcells that secrecy is the best policy when it relates to the business of an NFL team.
So although the Chiefs under Pioli have at times appeared a bit too obsessed with concealing information, their efforts to keep other teams from catching wind of plans to make a run at quarterback Matt Cassel probably prevented someone else from getting him.
If anyone had known the Chiefs were serious about making a play for the player whom Pioli had drafted in round seven of the 2005 draft, someone would have promptly plopped a trade package onto the Patriots’ laps far more valuable than the Chiefs’ best offer.
And so although the Bucs were ready to give up a first-round pick and a third-round pick as part of a three-way deal that would have brought Jay Cutler to Tampa and sent Cassel to Denver and while the Broncos separately offered the No. 12 overall pick directly to the Pats, it all came too late to derail the head-scratching arrangement that sent both Cassel and linebacker Mike Vrabel to K.C. for a second-round pick.”
It sounds like Pioli passed Cassel a note that said “Do you like me? Yes? No? Maybe?” And the deal was done.
