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Originally Posted by Direckshun
Zilla, there's almost no excuse for Haley's 2011 season.
He took the OC reigns again. He played his starters the entire game in the 4th preseason game. He seemingly intentionally put garbage talent packages on the field to screw with Pioli's lack of acquisitions. There was some still that GoChiefs posted a year ago that showed Haley's formation with that Urban and Pope as the receivers out wide.
He just absolutely did not fit with this organization, at the very least. At the very most, he is simply not able to handle the pressures of coaching at the highest level.
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I still don't have a problem with how he managed the preseason last year. He thought he was doing the right thing, trying to ease the players into the reg. season. To me, it makes more sense to let the starters get more and more playing time as the preseason goes on, so that when the first game comes they can be ready to go. The whole 2 series, 1 quarter, 3 quarters, 1 quarter set seems stupid, but everyone does it so that's what we expect.
One of Haley's problem was that he tried to be a little too unconventional. The fake punt ,in the Indy game two years ago, is one that sticks out to me. Also, I have a hard time believing that someone would purposely try to **** the team just to get back to the GM.
Speaking of that, the whole Palko thing is what other coaches would've done also. They weren't playing Stanzi and you don't bench a QB after two starts no matter how bad he is when all you have behind him is a rookie, unless your boss makes you. The same people who are saying "draft a QB in the first round" are the same ones saying "why did he play Palko so long, I mean four whole games." This magical first round savior that you guys are pinning for could go a lot longer than four games before he "gets it."
I wanted Haley to stay as long as he eased up on the players and let someone else handle to OC duties, but since that didn't happen. LET'S GO RAC!!!