Kansas City Chiefs Approval Poll: New OC Bill Muir

Then I did a little research on Bill Muir. He has a lot of experience which is good. Who knows how it will work out, but as with anything else, you have to try it to see if it works. He’s done a good job with the O-line so far, and we still have a QB coach, so let’s see how this plays out.
One thing’s for certain – it will definitely show if Haley’s ideas for game plans and plays are good or not, since he’ll have Muir to do a lot of the basic OC work. This time, no one will be able to say it’s because the workload is too great. :-)

Continuity. No new lango, no new plays, same play book, same scheme. Everyone stays on pace with development and we have a proven winner at OC. you dont stay OC from 2002-2008 with a superbowl team without having some knowledge of wtf is going on. This guy is underrated, even by most of us. I think its a GREAT hire.

Does this mean we are going to draft O-line? lol

“About the same way you felt when Herman Edwards was hired.”

That’s about how I would vote. Not really ecstatic. No angrily disappointed. Just kind of… “Hmm…that guy? Huh. Okay…”

I’m ok with the hire, as long as we get an excellent QB coach to help Cassel progress. I do not want to see Cassel regress to when Haley was the HC, OC, and QB coach. We need someone in here to keep pushing Matt and to train our QB of the future we hopefully draft this year.

Clearly.

He OCed in Tampa Bay. Wasn’t too successful, but a lot of that (imo) was because they needed to re-load on O-Line. It was kind of a Chan Gailey situation.

As I’ve said, before, to mostly negative reviews, getting the most out of the big men is an art. Except for 4-3 DEs, the trenches are mostly thankless. The big man has to have a sense of pride and there needs to be buy-in at a level that a sharp-tongued WR coach might not have the knack for getting.

Haley’s showing a lot of respect for the line positions, and I really, really like that.

I have little gripe with playcalling from last year or even the year before. Too many 1-on-1s up front and on the perimeter that were NOT being won for the offensive playcalling to avoid trickeration. Misdirection (and a world-class sprinter) were about all the offense has had going for it for the last couple years. The signing and instant start of Kevin Curtis in the playoffs speaks VOLUMES about the org’s assessment of their talent on the perimeter.

I’m not sure how much better the WR position group can become with the current rogues’ gallery, or whom they will acquire, and how good he/they will be. But I bet that talent acquisition will have more to do with our take on Muir next season than anything special Muir does. It looked to me like Muir did a FINE job. For all the shite spoken about Barry Richardson, the ?5?-year veteran made more progress since Haley came along than it did in all the years before that.

Muir’s solid, and the big men buy in. For ONCE in I don’t know how many years, the talking heads were using KC blocking schemes and execution as examples of the BEST in the league. I talk all the time about how Jamaal Charles MADE that O-Line, but, within their physical limitations, they did some very, very good things last year, in particular.

Keeping it in house allows the further development of the offense, especially Cassel, and gives Haley the ability to keep his influence deep in the offense. The thought that they will hire a QB coach will allow that coach to fully dedicate himself to Cassel and not have to worry about doing coordinator work, especially if he was a newly promoted OC. Smart move all- around, in my opinion

he has 2 yrs of haley experience under his belt.

I’m sure Haley will be doing majority of the work, but having another OL coach as OC just scares me.