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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
There is a ton of smoke that they wanted to fire Haley after the playoff loss to Baltimore. A game that was lost, by the way, because Pioli's golden boy had one of the worst 3rd quarter playoff performances of all time. If that's true, then it is absolutely outrageous that they wanted him to be fired.
No, I don't think Haley should have been fired. I think Pioli should have at least given him a chance by surrounding him with quality free agents. I think Pioli is easily the guy you blame that Palko/Stanzi were the only two plan B QBs on the roster. I think Haley's track record proved that he deserved a 4th year, but that the 4th year should have been his make it/break it year. If there was no playoff win in 2012 and his players were relatively healthy, then yes, you can him.
I'm realistic about Haley's shortcomings. I know what they were and there are several flaws. But it's more than a little disturbing that there is so much smoke that the front office was going out of their way to do everything they could to get Haley to fail so they'd have an excuse to fire him. I would have liked to have seen Haley operate under a real QB and without the front office meddling in every last thing Haley did. I think he at least deserved that much.
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Haleys track record of 19-26, frequent blow out losses, and meltdowns on the sidelines made him deserving of another chance? WTF?