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Originally Posted by Saccopoo
And that should be a surprise to anyone?
These ****ing guys didn't know what to do, when to do it, how to do it. Someone around here that was at the summer camp mentioned that Haley was the first coach they had seen since Shottenheimer that was actually trying to coach these guys up and get them to learn appropriate pro level fundamentals, concepts, etc.
You can see that on the field right now. There's two guys who have an understanding of what to do, and that's Vrabel and Cassel. The rest are trying to get there in various stages. Some are learning quicker than others, such as Hali versus Albert. But you've got to realize that most of these guys are basically having to learn football all over again after three years of Herm ineptitude.
The good teams are good for the singular reason that they have good coaching behind them and are fundamentally sound and execute when they are supposed to.
Eddie Kennison was asked by SI a while back what would be the one thing that most fans didn't know about the NFL, and he replied "That 80/85% of the guys playing in the NFL could be stars in the right place under the right coaching."
The Chiefs to start the '09 season were the NFL equivalent of a super fund site. You just don't clean up that much toxic waste in a single season period. That they have been, for the most part, competitive and have never given up (see the Titans), is a sign that Haley has made progress and has gotten some of these guys to understand what they need to do to get where they want to go.
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This also may shed some light on the personel moves we make. Particularly in season, we might be taking players we know have been coached properly and aren't mid-season rebuilding projects on the scale of Brandon Albert.