|
07-22-2012, 12:45 PM | ||
I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
Casino cash: $3260478
|
Todd Haley is the "Mystery of Pittsburgh"
Interesting read.
http://triblive.com/sports/2195481-8...p-nfl-ben-didn Quote:
|
|
Posts: 285,677
|
09-23-2012, 06:27 PM | #466 |
BAMF
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Your Face
Casino cash: $9998710
|
All fumbles. Not a lot Haley can FO about that.
From the times I was tuned in, and looking at the stats, this doesn't look like a loss that falls on offensive coaching.
__________________
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. |
Posts: 27,207
|
09-23-2012, 06:30 PM | #467 |
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Mohawk Town
Casino cash: $10004900
|
|
Posts: 4,408
|
09-23-2012, 06:33 PM | #468 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Mar 2006
Casino cash: $3649900
VARSITY
|
|
Posts: 22,266
|
09-23-2012, 06:34 PM | #469 |
BAMF
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Your Face
Casino cash: $9998710
|
Their running backs are ****ing terrible.
__________________
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. |
Posts: 27,207
|
09-23-2012, 06:35 PM | #470 |
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Mohawk Town
Casino cash: $10004900
|
|
Posts: 4,408
|
09-27-2012, 10:33 PM | #471 |
I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
Casino cash: $3260478
|
I always liked Todd. He’s one of the most regular guys that I’ve covered. And one of the most unfortunate things about the Todd Haley era is that nobody else really saw that. I think he is a lot like you and me — he’s just a regular guy to have a beer with. He’d laugh at the same things. He just happened to be a football coach.
Smart people can do anything they want to do. I don’t think he came out of the womb wanting to be a football coach, but he decided that was an avenue for success. One of the saddest things, and the reason he got fired, is that he had to be a robot. He had to be this bland, boring, completely colorless person during press conferences, and that wasn’t Todd Haley. I do think he went overboard last season trying to be himself. That beard and nasty hat were his way of saying, “I’m not your robot anymore.” - Kent Babb On Todd Haley
__________________
Chiefs game films |
Posts: 285,677
|
09-27-2012, 10:35 PM | #472 |
World's Best Boss
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bronco Country
Casino cash: $5064654
|
|
Posts: 18,459
|
09-27-2012, 10:38 PM | #473 |
I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
Casino cash: $3260478
|
There’s some level of revisionist thinking, but they kept talking about Pioli and Haley as this perfect marriage. These guys are enormously different people. It was funny for a while. There’s this fastidious, careful guy with his initials embroidered on his cuffs. And then the guy who, honest to God, had to borrow a necktie for his opening-day press conference.
I think Haley got some juice and got tired of being their puppet. A lot of luck led to the 2010 playoffs, and he misinterpreted it as some level of destiny. And he decided he wouldn’t follow the Chiefs’ insane rules. Professionally, and for sure personally, I’ve never seen anybody spit in the face of a set of rules like that. I remember I was stunned when he approached me in the public-relations office. It wasn’t in an interview setting. I was thinking like I have to think in my job. Seconds after he talked to me, I went straight back to my computer. I wrote the lead, basically what was in the paper. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen as a reporter. I’ll probably go the rest of my career and not have such a candid moment, a moment like that, especially with an NFL head coach. It exemplified just how far he’d been pushed, that rare moment of being completely naked. http://www.pitch.com/plog/archives/2...-washington-dc
__________________
Chiefs game films |
Posts: 285,677
|
09-27-2012, 10:40 PM | #474 |
Cry havoc...
Join Date: Aug 2000
Casino cash: $10007725
|
Yeah I don't get the whole robot thing. It's not like Romeo has been stiff in interviews, he seems fine with being himself. I think Haley had other issues.
Whatever. Haley was not a leader of men. He's right where he belongs, under an actual head coach in Mike Tomlin... |
Posts: 6,798
|
09-27-2012, 10:44 PM | #475 | |
Supporter
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Hollywood, CA
Casino cash: $10053648
|
Quote:
I know plenty of people that think Tomlin is a reerun. I don't watch enough of Pittsburgh to have an opinion but those that do say he's a moron. As for Haley, if he's truly NOT a psycho, we'll know soon enough. It's hard to hide in this league, especially in a city like Pittsburgh. |
|
Posts: 88,960
|
09-28-2012, 06:32 AM | #476 |
Bring it on Ahab!
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Doo-Dah
Casino cash: $10015152
|
|
Posts: 14,861
|
09-28-2012, 06:38 AM | #477 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: San Antonio Tx.
Casino cash: $2564454
|
Quote:
__________________
Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning: Matt once made a very nice play in Seattle where he spun away from a pass rusher and hit Bowe off his back foot for a first down. One of the best plays Matt has ever made. |
|
Posts: 66,914
|
09-28-2012, 06:40 AM | #478 | |
....
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Somewhere Kansas
Casino cash: $8389352
VARSITY
|
Quote:
|
|
Posts: 27,738
|
09-28-2012, 10:59 AM | #479 | |
21st Century Schizoid Fan
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Gates of Delirium
Casino cash: $1094950
|
Quote:
I really wish I wasn’t getting out of the Chiefs’ hair. I think they would have given me a lot of material this year. Scott Pioli is the gift that keeps on giving. He can’t not listen. He can’t not read. He can’t not care. I’ve never covered anybody who cares more about what is written about him. Frank Martin is number two. The louder and more often you say you don’t care, the more a lie it is. |
|
Posts: 69,679
|
09-28-2012, 10:59 AM | #480 |
21st Century Schizoid Fan
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Gates of Delirium
Casino cash: $1094950
|
Clay, you should post a separate thread on that Babb interview.
|
Posts: 69,679
|
|
|