Todd Haley Fired

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Chiefs fire Todd Haley

Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on December 12, 2011, 11:27 AM EST
APWe have our second head coach removal of the 2011 regular season.
The Chiefs announced that Todd Haley has been fired by the team.
Haley’s removal isn’t a huge shock, although the timing of the move is a surprise. The Chiefs are 5-8, but they had been playing hard in recent weeks until Sunday’s blowout loss against the Jets.
(Apparently a bean bag game and a beard can only do so much.)


There was talk that Haley almost lost his job after last season, and that was when the Chiefs nabbed a surprising playoff spot. Kansas City went 19-27 in Haley’s three seasons, including the playoff loss to the Ravens.


“Todd helped this team in many valuable ways over the past three seasons, and I am thankful for his contributions,” Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli said in a statement. “Unfortunately, we have not been able to establish the kind of consistency we need to continue to build a strong foundation for the future and we believe a change is important at this time.”


Haley was Pioli’s choice as head coach, but the friction between them was the NFL’s worst kept secret. The two men seemed to diverge on how a team should be run. It makes you wonder if something happened Sunday night to speed up this decision.


Let the Josh McDaniels speculation begin.

Was he an O or D coordinator in NE? I think we should really look into bringing him into whichever role he fulfilled as an assistant (if it's possible).

[TheBestPlayersPlay]

Holmgren hates the Parcells/Belichick way. Not gonna happen. sadly.

[Jax Dawg]

RAC is the new HC!

[King of Kings]

RAC&Rolls is back!

There's also speculation Pioli MAY bring E.M. to coach the Chiefs. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Yes i'd love to bring Haley in as the OC, sadly he doesn't run ineffective offenses like the WCO and would instead run an offense that actually WORKS and which would benefit McCoy tremendously. We can't have that sort of thing in Cleveland now can we? Gotta run things the Holmgren way and never go anywhere.

[TheBestPlayersPlay]

Originally Posted by King of Kings

There's also speculation Pioli MAY bring E.M. to coach the Chiefs. Wouldn't that be interesting?

If he's smart he would ...although I thought I remember there being some sort of rift between them, but that was probably media bullshit.

I'll be sad to see another coach go onto great success after a bunch of irresponsible "journalists" and media parrot fans ran him off.

Oh how I wish we could hire Parcells to run the show and re-hire Mangini. That would be unprecedented I'm sure.

[King of Kings]

Originally Posted by TheBestPlayersPlay

If he's smart he would ...although I thought I remember there being some sort of rift between them, but that was probably media bullshit.

I'll be sad to see another coach go onto great success after a bunch of irresponsible "journalists" and media parrot fans ran him off.

Oh how I wish we could hire Parcells to run the show and re-hire Mangini. That would be unprecedented I'm sure.

From what I recall the supposed "riff" between the two started being discussed after Lerner botched his interview with Pioli then decided he didn't want to hear the truth that the entire roster had to be blown up from scratch. I recall there was plenty of speculation that if Pioli took our GM job that E.M. was on his short list.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Eric show up in K.C. and turn that team into a perennial contender as our house apologists continue demanding Shurmer is 1000 times better with his 4-12 seasons every year.

[JewDago]

it's also being speculated that josh mcdaniels will show up as HC in KC, so the media's just going through the belichick tree.

[Riffer X]

RAC 'n ROLLS running the show!!!

The media is happy as shit over their new post game fried chicken spreads.

[golfer704u]

Just thought I'd toss this in here since I am not sure where it fits.

So of our 4 wins, 2 have come against teams that couldn't even wait until the end of the season to fire their HC. One has come against a team that is "sucking for luck". and one has come against a team with it's starting QB and starting RB were both on the bench.

Signature wins eh?

[King of Kings]

MAJOR improvement over beating Pitt, N.E, NOLA and Cinci. If you can't see that you're a "fucking hater and Mangini cultist."

[Greythan]

Yeah, actual strength of schedule really doesn't matter.

[Alo]

Originally Posted by golfer704u

Just thought I'd toss this in here since I am not sure where it fits.

So of our 4 wins, 2 have come against teams that couldn't even wait until the end of the season to fire their HC. One has come against a team that is "sucking for luck". and one has come against a team with it's starting QB and starting RB were both on the bench.

Signature wins eh?

Yep. We beat bad teams when they were at their worst.