This team will 1000x better without Todd Haley

[CoMoChief]

I truly believe that. I also believe that when players like/respect a coach, they tend to play very hard for them.

I think more so in football than any pro sport, the head coach on a football has to have the ability to lead, to direct, to drive the ship etc. Romeo Crennel, a lot like DV, will let his coaches coach. I seriously doubt Haley was that way. He was a control maniac on offense.

For ****s sake he Fired the OC just weeks before the regular season. I mean you just have to sit back and ask yourself what kind of person does Haley have to be to make a silly, borderline insane decision like that? Everything they've worked on in the summer at TC, they're just going to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch for Week1? Haley's was an insane control freak. What do you think the players thought about that? I mean that would be like working on a huge project for weeks for a huge potential client or something at work and the project due date is only a couple days away and your project mngr comes in and just shoves everything off of the table and says "let's do this instead". If shit like that pisses you off how do you think the players felt? This is the part where the HC has to be competent enough to be able to drive the ship. Have consistency in the locker rooms, film rooms, being on the same page etc.


He couldn't handle having someone else coach the offense. HE had to do it, because he thinks the Arizona Cardinals got to the SB because of him. The passing game under his era didn't do ****ing dick in Kansas City and as much as I can't stand the fact that Cassel is our QB and wish for something better, I also can't sit here and say that it's entirely his fault. Haley didn't think much of Cassel. The proof was there in his face on the sidelines. Haley's father even talked about how he thought Cassel was just average at best and it would be a safe bet to assume that Todd Haley and Dick Haley have had conversations about that. You tend to adopt what your parents believe and Todd's father was his door into the NFL world. If Dick thought Cassel was average wouldn't you think Todd thought that as well?

We all know that Matt Cassel was a Pioli decision and Haley was forced fed Cassel. What else is Haley going to do? Quit? It's his first NFL head coaching gig, he was a ****ing hand puppet. Haley probably had little to no faith in Cassel from the get go and combine that with Haley's temper you get a horrible coaching environment. Combine that with the whole Chan Gailey situation, Larry Johnson, horrible Oline and WR talent or lack thereof and well you have a complete cluster**** mess on offense. The only thing good at all that season was Jamaal Charles.

In 2010 when Charlie Weis came to KC, the offense became much better. Another Pioli move, Weis was a proven name, a OC players could respect We ran the ball like hell and Cassel didn't turn over the ball. He wasn't great by any means, and the true fans love the get off to his TD/INT ratio, but that didn't tell the entire story on Cassel's season that year. He still threw shitty underthrown high school girl passes, had shitty completion%, barley threw for 3,000 yards and his yards per completion was just sub average at best (ranked 18th in NFL). Over half of his TD's were to Bowe. We are all aware of Cassel's inability to read defenses and progress through his WR options. He locks on for too long, holds onto the ball for too long and gets sacked a lot. Cassel loves getting sacked, in fact he's good at doing it. Here's where he's ranked in the NFL:

2008: 1st
2009: 4th
2010: 18th (not bad, but not great either. And then you have to consider how much we ran the ball).
2011: 5th (projected)
- Cassel played in 9 games and was sacked 22 times, averaging 2.4 sacks a game. Over a 16-game period that gives a total of 39.1 (or 39) sacks for a full season, which would have ranked Cassel 5th in the NFL.

But the most important thing about Cassel that season was that he rarely turned the ball over, which was huge and a reason why we won 10 games that year. If you win the turnover battle you win games, it's as simple as that. With a proven OC it at least gave Cassel a better coaching environment to work within. Give him a couple receiving options and a strong running game and you can have success in this league with a good defense on the other side creating turnovers and scores. It's been done before. It's not what I'd prefer. I'd prefer to have an elite QB for 10yrs and consistently be a playoff contender and SB threat like the Colts, Patriots and now Giants and Packers. This is now a QB-driven league. When you want to win the Matt Cassel game manager's way, you need more pieces to fall in place and you need to have a little more luck. Elite QB's make other players around them better. Matt Cassel has to have the players around him, make him better. Elite QB's are the ones that thrive while under pressure and have the ability to lead drives to TD's, put points on the board when needed to win games. Cassel can't do that. You could count the number of times he's single handedly drove the offense down field, coming from behind to set up for a winning score (TD or FG) and still have enough fingers to smoke a j.

We were seeing some success on offense thanks to the help of the shitty division that is the NFCWest. But when it came down to playoff time Haley had to intervene once again with his egotistical and maniac behavior and strip another highly regarded OC from his playcalling duties. This time it was during the Chiefs first home playoff games since 2003. The game wasn't a 24-7 halftime blowout, it was ****ing 10-7 and we were 100% in the game. Weis would then move on to the Univ. of Florida for the same position, stating that it was family reasons were the reason for the departure. Now, being that he's now moved back to the area coaching what has to be one of the worst football factories in the country, do yo honestly believe his statement? I sure as **** don't. He was probably tired of Haley's shit. There were reports during the season and in camp that these guys butted heads and one could see why. Weis and Haley worked together in the same office while w/ the NYJ. Weis went on to the Pats and won Superbowls and became a household name, and then went on to be the HC at one of college football's most prestigious programs, Notre Dame. I don't care what people say there is going to be natural headbutting just because of those 2 ego's and what they've been able to accomplish. It's not weird to assume that Weis probably felt like he was 10000% more qualified for the job than Haley was.

Again you have to ask yourself, why would a NFL coach do something like that? Stripping away playcalling duties from your highly regarded, resume-filled OC during the franchise's biggest playoff game in 7 years at halftime in a close game? The answer is because Todd Haley was (a) way in over his head in being a head coach in the NFL and (b) a Bill Parcels wanna-be egotistical control freak that couldn't handle someone else running the offense. When he was hired he was asked the question who's going to run the offense, and he gave some bullshit cliche' answer with a shit eating grin on his face, the kind of look that a little 9-yr old kid makes when you ask him/her who his school crush is. Then came the Bill Muir era, as Todd Haley needed a puppet of his own. I don't think anyone truly believed Muir was capable of orchestrating an entire offense alone. Haley called the shots, and Muir said **** it and took naps upstairs in the coordinators booth.


Point being this is going to be a much better season offensively for the Chiefs. Daboll isn't exactly great, but I also believe it's the players that make the plays and he has a lot to work with. There's more consistency with the coaching staff, a better environment. The players want to play for their coach which is always good. Haley's temper and attitude is what eventually got the best of him. I don't know what he said to Bowe that ultimately led to him getting canned but what I do know is that it had to be something bad enough to where Bowe would tell his agent about it and for Pioli to tell Haley to knock it off. And when you think about it that's completely acting like an immature goon and it's not acting like a professional NFL head coach or leader... and you don't think other players heard that? I bet that kinda shit went on all the time and there comes a time that it happens too much and players will develop the "tune-out switch". A player will have a hard time respecting a coach if the coach doesn't respect them.

Maybe Haley acts like he does because he lives in a house full of women. Doesn't he have like 4 daughters or something?

I know there are a lot of "IF's" but the Chiefs do have a chance to be a good sleeper's pick this season.

-Better Oline (hopefully) leads to better play/confidence in Cassel.
-Better consistency/chain of command in the lockeroom with coaching staff will probably lead to better game preparation.
-Better weapons on offense (assuming Bowe comes back and can hit the ground running)
-Being healthy is HUGE
-Potentially great defense

On a positive note, this team almost won the ****ing division last season considering everything the Chiefs had gone through. There are a lot more positives than there are negatives regarding this season's Chiefs team and that's something we haven't been able to say for a long time.

Peyton Manning makes things extremely challenging this season. But I don't think he'll be as good with Denver as he was the Indy. Not because of his neck but because of the unfamiliarity. He completely ran the show in Indy and did it repeatedly for a very long time. There will be an adjustment period and even though I don't think he neck will be an issue, that certainly doesn't mean that it won't be, he has yet to be blasted by Hali and Houston. But he is that damn good and I would never count him out.

But I think everyone should look on the bright side and that this team will be better simply due to the fact that we no longer have some egotistical nutcase driving the ship.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by ChiefMojo

Superfly Jimmy Snuka what part of last season gave you the feelings that Haley was a good coach or knew what the fuck he was doing??? I'm dead serious, what part of last season gave you that feeling? I saw a complete abortion of a football coaching job by Haley from the first day of Training Camp to the day he was fired!!! It was freaking amazing how much the team looked different and good once RAC took over.... MIND BLOWING!!!

How anyone could defend the playing of Palko over Orton is beyond my comprehension. Sure Orton was new to KC but his talents were so far advanced to Palko's it is hard to digest! It wasn't like this was Orton's first rodeo... he had been in multiple different offenses with different terminology.

That Training Camp Haley ran was the worst ran in NFL history... IT HAD TO BE!!! If he wanted to coach a cross country team, he could have saved us a lot of grief and quit before the season started. Didn't he realize that he was dealing with professional athletes? It is their job to be in shape or darn close to it come Training Camp. These guys had extra time even. Play football, no just run them to death. The only way they were going to get into football shape was performing football acts. He sure didn't keep us "healthy"! We looked like a JV team out there entering the early part of the regular season.

It's Reighters dude. He doesn't get Chiefs games in his parts.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

There's the vacuous tool I've missed.

Aren't you overdue for another mock draft, Dumbass?

[R8RFAN]

Had Cassell not went down last year.... The Chiefs would have won the AFC West

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by Superfly Jimmy Snuka

Had Charles not went down last year.... The Chiefs would have won the AFC West

FYP

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by PGM

Yep. It was a disaster that I've never seen before in the league. Losing by 80 combined points to start the first 2 weeks is a ****ing joke.

I just don't understand the love.

I mean the team did get fired up under Haley but just about everything else turned to shit.

The talent level kept improving, the team did not
The defense was Crennel
The offense performance dropped almost exactly relative to how much control Haley had.

So Haley got the team motivated and he kicked Bowe in the ass ... got it.

what else?


Poor Todd

[ChiefMojo]

We would have won the AFC West because the Chiefs have more overall talent than the rest of the AFC West! Plain and simple. As long as we had Romeo Crennel running our defense with the personnel we had, we were going to be in any ballgame.

Still doesn't explain what happened to the Chiefs early in the season WITH Matt Cassel!

Todd fucking Haley didn't nearly get us to the playoffs... a weak division and a good coaching staff around him about did the job. A good head coach would never have made the decisions he made and would have won a heck of a lot more games also.

[R8RFAN]

Originally Posted by PGM

FYP

I seriously think Cassell here man, especially after Campbell and DMC wnt down for the Raiders....

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

We need Clay in here with a couple stills he gave us last year of the ridiculously untalented packages he intentionally put on the field.

The dumbest ****ing thing I've ever seen.

TWO MINUTE DRILL. HURRY UP OFFENSE/THROWING CONSTANTLY. Strike FEAR into the defense, Haley says, with the deadly Copper/Urban/Pope/McClain/McCluster package. Is this a preseason game in the third quarter, or Week 14 of the NFL regular season? WTF Haley?

Here's another DEADLY third-down package: Urban, Copper, Becht, Jones and STEVE MANERI. This was a PASS PLAY. Was Haley delivering a giant, final "**** YOU" to Scott Pioli with this idiocy?

You want to know why Haley is looking for a job today? His third-and-8 personnel groupings include a package with: Jerheme Urbam, Terrance Copper, Le'Ron McClain, Dexter McCluster and Leonard Pope. Yep, just take ALL the playmakers off the field on third down.

[Brock]

Taking Bowe off the field was a justifiable firing offense.

[RealSNR]

Copper needs help in those packages. Pairing him up with all those slapdicks is no way to set the team up for success.

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by Superfly Jimmy Snuka

Sorry... I think you guys will regret firing Haley so soon.... I like Romeo but I think Haley would have turned this franchise around with a halfway decent QB....

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[durtyrute]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

The 2011 preseason was an unmitigated disaster. On no planet do you play your starters deep into the fourth quarter on the last preseason game. He was far too rigidly dogmatic.

You saw that with Palko. I don't give a flip about Stanzi being green, Palko is the worst quarterback playing in the NFL at the time. You attempt rescue your season, and move on. He started Palko over Orton, for crying out loud. For two games, I think. Which is just assinine. And he simply did it because Palko was next on the depth chart.

I was rooting for Haley for a longer time than most. Like you said, he developed talent very well. But it was pretty easy to see he completely went off the rails in 2011.

It seems like people only go along with the current way the preseason is set up because that's how it's set up. Gradually building your players seems like a better way than the way it is now. If we would have came out and went 3-0 people would be sucking his dick to this day. You shouldn't have to teach grown men, who get paid millions to play a kids game, how to tackle.

Looking back, going Palko over Orton when Orton had only been in town two weeks was a mistake, but damn who would've known he would come in a kick so much ass after only being here two weeks. Look at Palmer, he came in a sucked teh penile.

Haley ****ed up majorly in his time here, I will give you that, but I don't think he deserves to be roasted the way some do on here. Not all first time head coaches can take a team to the SuperBowl like Tomlin. (and everyone knows he inherited a great team, while Haley got the Bad News Bears of foosball.

[durtyrute]

Originally Posted by Flachief58

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I like that pic, will use in the future, but I agree with the Haley part.

[CoMoChief]

The only thing I liked about Haley was that he went for it on 4th down a lot.

I like that. And I think coaches should do it more often.

[durtyrute]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

The only thing I liked about Haley was that he went for it on 4th down a lot.

I like that. And I think coaches should do it more often.

I liked that too, and I ****ing HATED when Herm wouldn't do that shit. There was on game at the end of the season where we had 4 and goal at the ****ing one yard line. We were losing and were already like 2-12 or some shit like that. This mutha****a kicks a damn field goal. I almost lost my mind.