Let’s pretend for a minute that this scenario of “They aren’t paying Haley to make him publically deny the Babb article, even though Haley wasn’t quoted in it” is even possible. Which it’s not, because they didn’t fire Haley over that article, because it didn’t come out until a month and a half after he’d been fired.

And if they’re refusing to pay him, it means they fired him “with cause”. That’s something decided up front. Teams don’t get to come back months later and claim they fired someone “for cause” when they didn’t. The entire idea of the Babb article retroactively giving them “cause” is a deluded fantasy.

But let’s pretend it’s possible.

Let’s pretend it’s also possible that the Chiefs would devise a plan to get Haley to kowtow to them in order to get paid for the last year of his contract, even though there were reports that Haley was considering resigning from the team. Because if he resigned from the team, see, he would have walked away from that money. And if he gave even a slight consideration to walking away, do you really think he’d give in to this master plan and sell himself out for that last paycheck? Knowing Haley, the odds seem far better that he’d say “F YOU” and embarass the Chiefs even worse.

But again, we’ll pretend that’s possible.

Even with all that stuff possible (not really), it’s still an incredibly stupid PR move because, once again, it makes the team look like a total laughing stock. The Babb article was finally fading into the background and then this happens? They put themselves in the same disfunctional breath as Al Davis and Lane Kiffin by trying not to pay Haley? Are they TRYING to make themselves look as bad as possible? Who the hell is going to want to come work here with all this crap going on?

And to what end? To make Haley deny an allegation that nobody believed in the first place? What’s that going to accomplish? Is it going to wipe out all the damage from Babb’s article, which contained NUMEROUS people talking about the miserable experience of working for Scott Pioli’s Chiefs? Of course it’s not.

Trying to get out of paying Haley would be a foolish and downright embarrasing move for this team. The only thing worse are the fans who are burying their heads in the sand and trying to justify it all.