There is an Argument For the Chiefs Coach To Continue Calling Plays

So calling him one of the better playcallers in the league with an awesome veteran QB like Kurt Warner throwing to superstars in Fitzgerald and Boldin isn’t all that impressive to me.

Having said that, I like the design of some of Haley’s plays. As an offensive minded head coach, I have no problem whatsoever with him having his own playbook and being heavily involved in drawing up the gameplans.

My problem is that he should be heavily involved in drawing up gameplans for BOTH sides of the ball. From what we have seen on the field, he appears to have completely abdicated his authority in running the defense to Pendergast because he is having to dink around with the offense while the defense is on the field.

Some coaches have the ability to balance play calling duties with managing the team. I don’t think Haley has enough experience in doing EITHER ONE to be trying to do both right now.

Basically ALL NFL HCs get the job because they are good/great at calling plays and building one side of the ball. And yet they almost universally hire coordinators and turn this responsibility over. Holding on to your old job responsibilites while taking over a new job is one of the worst decisions you can make.

Just another example of why Teicher reports on the NFL rather than working in it.

Word on the street is that Kubiak could be in the hot seat in Houston. I tell you what, if he got shit canned I think I may prefer him to Weis. Not only does he have a fantastic resume as an Offensive Coordinator, but with his zone blocking schemes he definitely has the potential to improve our shitty line, hell he did wonders in Houston. On top obviously he has head coaching experience which could be good in giving advice to Haley.

              pts yds
1995 9 3
1996 4 1
1997 1 1
1998 2 3
1999 18 14
2000 2 2
2001 10 22
2002 7 3
2003 10 7
2004 9 5
2005 7 5

that if you Google Todd haley… this post is the one that comes up first… NICE….

The Chiefs have suffered enough upheaval this year. Just because Charlie Weise is available, doesn’t mean we should hire him and have Haley give up his play calling duties. There’s a ton of speculation out there and they"re dealing with it. I think it’s safe to say that Haley is admitting that having an OC handle the play calling will ultimately be best for the team, but that doing it this year isn’t in the cards. He’s acknowledging the need and at the same time deflecting the Weise speculation. He has to. He can’t afford any other distractions for a young, rebuilding and fragile team. Let the season run it’s course and we’ll see this coach make the right move and hire an OC.

The last time we had a “He can’t handle OC and HC duties,” someone listed all(or most of?) the HC’s who call(ed) their own plays. I took that list and did an informal tally of playoff and Super Bowl successes. I concluded that the HC’s who controlled offense had a MUCH higher Super Bowl appearance and success rate. Nobody contradicted me, then, but nobody has brought it up in this conversation.

In his first year, there are a lot of things for Haley to learn, mostly about time management, delegation of authority matters. As HC, he needs to learn how to delegate AND maintain his stamp on things. He’s still learning how to judge new-hires, for what HE needs. Could be that the best thing for him would be to have a right-hand man or two to carry out a few specific directives as QB coach and gameplanner. What Haley ends up doing might not be what anyone else does. Nor does it need to be, as long as it works.

Everything I’VE seen from the guy bespeaks better organizational and management skills than I have. I have a very small number of keys I look for, and he possesses them all, in spades. Doesn’t mean I’ve been particularly happy with a lot of the things I’ve seen on the field. And I’m a bigger fan of the Tony Dungee school than the Bill Parcells school.

Anyhoo, let Haley keep doing his team-building and organizational thing, and we’ll know by next year if Pioli and he are on the right track in terms of getting people in that they can train and training them properly.

As for Pendergast, I liked the way he had ‘em swarmin’ to the ball like fiends down the stretch. I would’ve liked to have seen more Damn the torpedos! Full Speed AHEAD!" from him against the Chargers. This is not yet a D that can get it done up front with 3 or 4 pass rushers, and the secondary can’t hold up without pressure. He was kind of damned if he did and damned if he didn’t, so I’d’ve pinned my ears back and blitzed from every direction out of a game-long nickel personnel package.

That in AZ..Haley had borderline HOF at QB, that can read defenses as well as anybody in the league and does a lot of audibling at the line…..Matt Cassel is nowhere near that type of QB yet. So, like someone else said before, Haley looked a lot better in that situation and had somebody making him look good. Warner is also one of the most accurate QB to ever play the game.

I don’t care what their resume is, this team needs some consistancy in a MAJOR way. Haley’s system seems to be coming around. If Cassel could continue to master Haley’s playbook, continue to get some chemistry going with Bowe and hopefully Chambers, if we can improve the o-line a little and Charles continues to shine this offense could take off next year. I am all for Haley having an OC that can run his system “with” him, but most big names that people would get excited about are probably going to have their own way of doing things and that puts our offense back at square one next year. No more starting over! No more “first steps” in a “process”. It’s time to start building upward and onward.

Seems like everyone went crazy that he was going to be calling plays…