Todd Haley's Paycheck From The Chiefs Comes Into Question

The Chiefs don’t get their side of things out there. Like the Arrowhead Anxiety story, Pioli wasn’t even quoted so we have no clue how he feels about it. Maybe the Chiefs have a reason to fire Haley with cause…we just don’t know (but most fans are going to draw their own conclusions from their silence).

The Raiders have really had trouble signing guys.

The Chiefs have been more successful under this regime at locking up their own young talent so they don’t hit free agency.

and a few other not so cool incidents like the “charging firefighters to see a game” thing, and the “office staff salary cuts” during the spring

add those plus the Babb article (coffee, really?) and now this … yeah, not looking good for the home team

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Isn’t a GM right? If Pioli was this horrible guy do you really think Robert Kraft would have suggested him to Clark?

But it’s usually the Raiders who are portrayed like this.

Just freaking win some football games.

Is that when he was fired, the players literally got a jolt of energy and played well (Beating Packers). Even though we sucked it up against Oakland the next week the team seemed to play hard for Romeo and were even saying “RAC CITY!!” on their Twitter accounts.

I don’t recall hearing a single squeak of a cry or negative comment from the players when Haley left. Makes you think he lost the team long ago…

The players probably felt it was a slap in the face with the “I’m putting out the players that give us the best absolute chance to win” and then he runs Palko out there. Glad this dudes long gone.

I wanted him fired in year one after he basically threw the Philadelphia game at halftime. I backed off when he started getting a few wins, but the best I ever thought of the guy was “At least he isn’t the worst coach in the NFL.” (until Palko).

That said, just because Todd Haley was a cancer and a problem doesn’t mean that Scott Pioli isn’t also a cancer and a problem. You notice that nobody seems to be in a rush to come to KC to fill those coordinator slots, even though people seem to like Crennel. KC seems to have developed a rep as a place that people don’t want to come work…and that kind of rep usually means there are systemic problems, which is indicative of bad leadership up top.

Would go to NFL arbitration.

That was my first thought as well.

And we have no idea whether they were crazy rumors or not.

Is every free agent on AP all day long like us? Is this stuff even real prevalent in the national news?

We’ll never really know what happens behind the scenes.

Todd Haley was THE guy that Pioli wanted when he took the job. Didn’t really look at anyone else…he hired a petulant, paranoid, combative ass who couldn’t get along with any offensive coordinator who was competent at doing their job. And those are ingrained personal qualities. Haley didn’t suddenly become that way once he got to KC. He had a reputation for not being able to get along with people BEFORE Pioli hired him, Pioli KNEW the guy personally. The guy had a lawsuit pending against a fast food place…the kind of people who do that sort of thing are not people you put in charge. And Pioli didn’t reign the guy in at the start when Haley started going off the rails with how he dealt with Brian Waters (insulting one of the locker room leaders in a ridiculous confrontation) and Chan Gailey (who he fired TWO WEEKS before the season started, wasting the entire preseason’s work on offense). It’s completely fair to blame Pioli for Haley’s behavior because this was his top candidate for the head coaching job and he was apparently a head case…and Pioli, despite knowing him wasn’t able to figure that out. It calls into question just how competent of a manager of people Scott Pioli is. If he KNOWS people and can’t figure out they’re a terrible fit, he’s a terrible person to have as a GM.

I’m going to question just how you can claim a guy who just spent a boatload of cash resigning key free agents the last two years (Flowers, Charles, Johnson) can be labeled as “cheap”? David Glass is cheap. Every time KC has developed a good player since Glass bought the team (except for Mike Sweeney) Glass has let him walk in free agency or traded him before he had to re-sign him. And that’s with one of the lowest payrolls and without a salary cap to worry about. Hunt isn’t cheap…he has apparently spent every time his GM has requested money for a player. He continued to keep Chan Gailey on the payroll even after Pioli and Haley fired him. He didn’t balk at paying Herm Edwards for his last contract year (despite Herm putting in pretty much zero effort his last season as HC).

No, this smells like it’s ALL Pioli. The Patriots front office had a rep for nickel and diming players back when he was the GM there (anyone else remember when they convinced Brady to take a paycut so they could get him a receiving corps and then pocketed the cash?), he’s the one who hasn’t appeared to make any effort to sign free agents, he’s the one who had the personality dispute with Haley. Clark Hunt can be blamed, perhaps, for being a little TOO hands-off with the people he hires and for letting other people set the tone for his franchise, but considering the wide latitude he seems to have given both Carl Peterson and Scott Pioli in doing their jobs, as well as the money he’s spent the last three years, I don’t see much reason to believe he’s driving this crap going on at Arrowhead.

there have been negative stories about making firefighters that participated in 9/11 pre-game ceremonies to pay to stay for the game, making parking attendants leave when they are done rather than watching the remainder of the game, creating an environment of fear and intimidation in the workplace, and attempting to blacklist local reporters that publish stories the organization doesn’t like.

That’s off the top of my head. Pretty sure there have been more.

Seriously broke my scowl and made me laugh. Thanks.