I've finally changed my mind about Todd Haley

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

The Detroit and Buffalo game, we have no idea how well they would have played if they were actually prepared. That was easily a preparation issue. Everyone looked gassed. The New England game, the defense played well enough in the first half to keep the team in the game. You're not going to keep Tom Brady silent for two halves. We don't have an elite defense, but as I said, in most games, they do enough to give the offense a fighting chance to win. It was definitely our offense that lost the game against New England. And in Baltimore, you're using the score to justify your point. Our defense played solid that game. You forget that we were winning in the first half. We lost that game because our passing game (despite Baltimore throwing 8 guys in the box) couldn't move the ball whatsoever, and because McCluster and Cassel committed two key turnovers early in the 2nd half that gave Baltimore prime field position.

And again, you're assuming the defense is on Haley. I blame Pioli for hiring Crennel and jamming a 3-4 onto him.

This whole thing has passed the absurdity threshold. Some people are merely looking for any reason to bolster their point of view. Everybody knows that, when a defense spends as much time on the field as ours does, you're going to have problems. When you add in the field position issue, the enemy has every reason to put 40 on your ass.

Grampa Dick used to complain that the offense scored too fast, which put pressure on the defense. Nowadays, it's because the offense is a 3-and-out machine.

On account of our record and the blowout losses, people are going to hate Haley regardless of the facts or the truth or the actualityness of the situation. I, on the other hand, prefer to reserve my unreasonable and irrational hate for Cassel and his family.

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