And I can’t say as I disagree with either them or you. He’s getting crushed out there and he hasn’t got a QB coach or offensive coordinator to help him through his problems.

Completing 59% of his passes, for 260+ yards and 2 TDs with no INTs seems pretty good to me…especially around the terrible offensive line referenced above.

How many passes hit the recievers in the hands? How many times did the receiver run a different route than Cassel was expecting?

I was screaming at Sean Ryan!

That’s either bad receiver play, or awful coaching! And I like Haley overall!

And that is NEVER a good sign for a head coach

So you would take the chance of firing a good coach…like Oakland did with Shanahan

Yup. Because absolutely nothing about Haley’s performance this season, either on gamedays or the weeks between says that he’s a good coach. And most of his actions indicate he’s a pretty bad one.

Shanahan went 7-9 and 1-3 with the Raiders before he got canned. Haley’s no Shanahan.

Remember that patience is a virtue.

Tell it to our coach in regards to his stupid benchings and grade-school head games.

He was a very good player and he’s a class act. But I think your assessment of Pollard is probably correct. Dude didn’t like being belittled and said so, so the coach cut him. I’ve felt the same when I’ve had bosses who treat their employees like Haley treats his players.

I’ve known coaches to make comments like that in order to put pressure on a guy to perform better. I don’t think an endorsement is always just an endorsement. There’s a long and clear history of that in the NFL.

And I can agree to disagree. You’re certainly closer to the team than me. Thanks for the post.

He was doing draft research for the Patriots before then. He knew the draft pool.

Cornerback is one of the places that takes the most time to develop. Very rarely does a first year defensive back play well. He may get better, but I doubt he ever achieves superstar status

Donald Washington certainly wasn’t a need. I don’t think Magee was much of one either. Not like o-line certainly. I think he went for players he’d probably try to draft for the Patriots as well. Jackson essentially equals Richard Seymour.

a lot of “supplementary players” like he forgot who he was drafting for

Jason Brown might not have WANTED to come to KC. put yourself in a players shoes.

What, you mean he turned down the Chiefs because he desperately wanted to go to St. Louis? A town in the same state and same sized media market as KC, which has a team that’s been every bit as wretched as the Chiefs the last few years that’s also run by a rookie head coach? And that there was no chance we could have swayed Brown to come here with a better contract offer (which we could have afforded with all that cap space)?

Please. We didn’t lose Brown to the Vikings, or Giants, or Cowboys, or Steelers. We lost him to the fucking Rams. You don’t lose a player to the Rams unless you don’t care about signing him.

It’s the GM’s job to try and convince a player that KC is the place he wants to be. If Pioli can’t sway the guy to come here with a starting job and the best contract for his position, then he’s nothing special as a GM (because selling players on his program in KC is a major part of his job). And if Pioli loses out on the guy to a team that’s only a couple hundred miles away from him, in the same freaking state, and that’s been as badly run as any in the NFL for the last four years then he did a flat-out crappy job.

So he is good in my book. But IMO, Haley is probably next to some of the worst coaches we have had (If the season never turns around).

Look at Larry Foote, the ONLY team he was interested in playing for was Detroit. Pioli could have offered double the money and a guaranteed SuperBowl ring, and it would not have changed his mind.

There are other motivating factors to players. Let’s give Pioli 3 years (less than Carl’s 20 year long 5 year plan) and then we can start to evaluate him.

Jimmy Johnson’s 1-15 Dallas Cowboys that eventually won Superbowls looked far worse than our Chiefs do this year.