I'm really starting to not like Pioli

**figcrostic** · 12-13-2011, 11:28 AM

I think he's a control freak, he fired Haley for personal reasons not because he was a bad coach, he did not let people pick his own staff or even his own qb. I'm not sure if any HC can thrive without being able to run their own team. Theres a reason bill belichick is so good his GM lets him run his own team. Listen I never thought Haley was the best coach ever but if he was given more freedom he would have done a hell of a lot better and no matter how some of you try to discount the man we lost our star rb in which our team was built around, we our lost our qb (with Cassel alone we would be leading the division), we lost a good young safety, and our best TE. If New England lost Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, Ben Jarvus Green ELis, and their safety I gurantee they would not be 10-3 more like 3-10.

**chief31** · 12-13-2011, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by 70 chiefsfan70

I think Pioli stepped in and did the firing now only to try and save his own job, because if he had waited till the end of the season people would have wanted him gone because he didn't try to change it. Pioli won't get but one more shot at this or he will be gone as well.

I still say Haley ran Weis off. And if Weis was still here we would have a much better record and Haley gets to stay......what comes around goes around.

I think Pioli did not wait until the end of the season, to be sure that Haley didn't happen to end the season on a high note.

It's harder to fire your HC following a winning streak.

This next game, against The Packers, while an extreme long shot, could have set Haley up for as strong an ending to the season, as imaginable.

The loss to The Jets is perceived as our elimination from playoff contention, and perception is all he needed.

Better to open the job you want to fill while you have a chance, than to miss the opportunity, and look as stupid as The Chargers did, for firing Marty.

It seems that Todd Haley's say so in his coaching staff should absolutely be in question.

I don't think he wanted any of them, and, in order to have that little piece of control over his staff, had to make a public scene of the matter.

Not that I wanted Haley in control of the offense in that way. But Todd Haley sure seemed to want it. And I can easily see where he might have been forced to accept Pioli's OC demands.