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Originally Posted by jd1020
I'm still not sure where you are getting this from, but w/e.
Pioli and Haley couldn't get along. The end. They didn't purposely throw him under the bus. He did that himself.
Palko? Haley. Blowing up on the sideline? Haley. Going to concerts during the season? Haley. Presenting themselves as a homeless person? Haley. But I guess I can see where the FO put him in those positions... 
EDIT: Forgot to add running a soft camp/preseason resulting in getting blown the **** out to start the season. Then running a soft week after winning 4 straight and getting blown the **** out by the Dolphins... Haley. |
The Chiefs were ready to fire Haley after the Baltimore playoff loss. You don't find that a little ridiculous?
What followed was a year-long smear campaign. Who the **** cares if he watches a concert with his players? Why was an insider going to incredibly great lengths to leak the story about Haley getting pizza with his family? I suppose Bill Cowher should have been fired right away, because he was by far the worst I've ever seen from a sideline tirade standpoint. These were really petty excuses, not legit reasons to fire a coach.
The fact that you had to add legit football reasons to the back-end of the post show how petty it became. To address those points, Haley made some big mistakes. Especially in experimenting with the soft offseason. Big mistake, but not fireable. In terms of the losing streak, as I've said many times before, if you truly believe that the Chiefs had elite talent without Charles and Berry to make the playoffs this season, then so be it. I don't think they did. Against Miami, the thing that stands out to me by a mile was that they were sending blitzers at our QB and we consistently had too few blockers, which is 100% on the QB for not making the pre-snap adjustments. What I saw in the games that followed was the same.
While Haley made mistakes, he was crippled by his QB.