Haley Says Chiefs Never Seriously Considered Moving Branden Albert

I never thought Haley acted like he wanted nothing to do with the roster he inherited.

Why don’t you guys just form a little focus group and get together every Thursday to decide on what else you want to disagree with me about?

I agree in that he didn’t look at all impressed with the roster when he got here. With the way Haley and Pioli are addicted to watching tape, I’m sure they wore out a few copies of the 08 game tapes so they had a pretty good idea of the ‘inventory’.

We have to be honest, we were junk. We had only won 2 games in 2008 and looked gawdawful when the first 2009 OTA’s came around. Only Waters, Tony G., and maybe a couple others even knew what it took to prepare to win. Herm would tell them they had better get ready, but noone was showing a lockerroom full of rooks HOW…not enough vets left on the roster.

Also remember, even Waters and Tony G. our best prepared players, had only played in one or two playoff games, not to mention a Title game or higher, and Tony G. wanted out (I think when its all said and done, Tony will publicly say he f’d up on that one, but I digress). The regime here is firm believers in if you don’t WANT to be here, bye, you’re gone. pfffft. Haley firmly believes that its a privilege and an honor to play in the NFL, and if you don’t do every possible thing you can do to help yourself and your teammates, he has no time, nor patience for you. Hit the road. (See ya Page!) I think the visit and talk from Warner today had a lot to say on the drive and hunger topics “Do you want to be great, or just play for as long as you can?”…building a dynasty, another checkmark got checked off today…

Think back about all those video press conferences last season when the Haley monotone kept talking about “making progress”. He never, ever said the words good or great that I can remember. He knew we were overmatched, and had a brutal schedule ahead. But as he said, ’They’re not gonna cancel games until we catch up (or get better or something to that effect—late preseason 09).

We also have to admit last year was simply an ‘inventory’ year. By that I mean its’ OK, we have no idea how these guys are gonna be able to handle the switch to a different O and the 3-4. Only one way to find out. Switch the O. Whoops, I’m sure Chan had some pretty good ideas on how to maximize our talent, but the philosophy’s differed, Bang, you’re gone. Gotta find out who he had that was compatible with the O he wanted to run. I would bet money we would have won more games with Chan as OC last year, BUT, it was the wrong system, and Haley’s butt is on the line, so he has to build a team he can believe in. Can’t do that when you don’t believe in the O scheme. Same thing on D. Bite the bullet, switch the scheme, and see who’s belly up to the bar.

I agree with you the change in Haley this year is that those players, like you said, had won him over. Won him over through hard work and, as Haley is fond of saying “Doing everything he can to put himself into a position to compete.” On tape, and in initial OTA’s, they didn’t look like a bunch of guys who really cared. We cut 35-38 players last year, and 80% are no longer employed in the NFL…speaks volumes towards Haley not wanting (what he had seen from) those guys.

I also think Haley looks much more relaxed (so far) this year. I guess it makes a difference when you’ve went into battle with a bunch of guys, and even though you didn’t win, you saw what they were made of, and they were hungry. I think the reason we had 85 out of 86 in here every day so far is they all want to be great players. When you have 85 guys who have that amount of drive, desire, and hunger, only good things can happen…

Anyway, sorry, wasn’t trying to hijack the thread, just thought there may be a bit of misunderstanding on that…

They’ll just be unsubstantiated rumors; that’s all.

what’s wrong? do you really not understand what it means?

If the future grabs the inside of the pads, he can probably get away with it most of the time. If he grabs shoulders or, you know, swings an arm around the guy then that’s just too obvious and he’ll get called for it and it’ll be a negative play, which we’re working to eliminate. It’s part of the process.