I thought about what you wrote. I agree with you to a certain extent. There has been a heck of alot of finger pointing going on. But this whole entire team is so young and inexperienced that it is hard to fully judge it all.

Majority of the players are young and lacking experience,
Pioli was hired on as a last minute start to this season, and Haley is really new at his first experience and head coach. If was forced to give a grade at this early stage, I would give Pioli and Haley both a C+ with much needed room for improvement.

They were dropped in a bad situation and have made it worse. Haley has shown himself to be in over his head and Pioli was negligent this offseason when he neglected to upgrade the offensive line. There was plenty of money to spend on upgrading areas of need on this team and he did nothing. Thus they are failures and frauds.

I think you are being generous with that C. The Broncos had more talent, but still, the results are very different at this point. I think a D for Pioli is giving him something.

First, consider this – the Broncos, also with a rookie head coach, have churned their roster about as much as the Chiefs have this year. Compare the results.

Pioli has a few excuses in his favor – late hire, etc but the way he is choosing to interact with us fans, with the press, with his team, on top of his personnel decisions has me scratching my head and asking myself whether he can truly be this stupid? At this point, I would give him no more than a C and add an evaluation comment to the effect that he needs to start living up to his much lauded expertise by providing some solid evidence that he is anything more than Bill Bellichek’s former lackey.