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Originally Posted by DaWolf
Dane, c'mon. Look it up. Haley has been coaching in the NFL at least as long if not longer than Payton. They were both offensive coordinators of losing super bowl teams, they were both "passing game coordinators" under Parcells in Dallas. When Payton got hired by the Saints he had less years of NFL coaching experience (1997-2005) than Haley had when hired here (1997-2008). Payton also was demoted from his OC role in NY due to ineffectiveness.
Haley has been in the NFL for 14 years. That's more than Harbaugh (98-08) or Payton or Tomlin (01-09). So how did they spend more time coaching in the NFL than Haley when they didn't?
I 100% agree that he should not have taken on and should not in the future be doing all three jobs, I think that is just asking for disaster and it certainly has been a part of 2-7. But I don't think it has anything to do with lack of experience...
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The difference being that outside of Fitzgerald (which is questionable), who had Haley "coached up"? Furthermore, Payton spent a great deal of his career as an OC and QB coach.
Haley was an OC for one year. The rest of the time he spent coaching was as a WR coach.
The bottom line in my opinion is that Payton was far more prepared than Haley to become a head coach and shouldn't be compared to him when talking about coaches with similar experience before landing a head coaching gig.