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Originally Posted by Brock
 Yeah, either that or Haley is a slightly unbalanced person who thinks the world is out to get him. |
In this season, the Chiefs, which have an incredibly tight-lipped organization, leaked out two bits of information about Haley being at a Lil Wayne concert. And secondly, "going out" the night before a game. The second incident, if you believe Danny Parkins, was strange in the way the source tried to pretend like he accidentally made a mistake in calling the wrong person. It seems very likely that the Chiefs' front office was purposely trying to sabotage Haley's reputation to set him up to be fired. So in that case, he was paranoid about the right stuff. And it also makes you question... how did the team know what he was doing outside of work?
And again, it's very possible he was paranoid because the Chiefs were in fact monitoring more than they should have. Not illegally, just unethically. What we know right now for sure is that Pioli, the guy being accused, has a very bad history of taping things he's not supposed to be even when he knows it's outside the rules (Spygate). We're hearing that Pioli was requesting month old e-mails and call logs to use as damning evidence against Denny Thum. And what we're hearing is a ton of smoke that employees, not just Haley, were all under constant paranoia that everything they did and said was being monitored.
Here's what I'm guessing happened. And again, this is only an educated guess. My guess is that Haley had, over 3 years, become very, very careful about what he talked about where. I bet that despite being careful, he still found that the team somehow knew what he was up to. And I imagine that became more concerning when that included his private life too. While I doubt his cell phone was tampered with, I wouldn't be surprised if his conversations on company grounds were all heavily monitoried and a lot moreso than anyone else on the team. There is plenty of fact and tons of smoke in this story that leads you to believe that some of that paranoia may have been justified and that he wasn't the only one.