Teicher: Chiefs’ Haley puts together coaching staff

[Tribal Warfare]

Chiefs’ Haley puts together coaching staff
By ADAM TEICHER
The Kansas City Star

The Chiefs now have a staff of assistants to work with new head coach Todd Haley. In keeping with their new policy of hiding as much information as possible, the Chiefs wouldn’t disclose the duties of their assistant coaches.

But they retained Chan Gailey, who presumably will continue as offensive coordinator, and three other assistants from the staff of former coach Herm Edwards: Bob Bicknell, Joe D’Alessandris and Tim Krumrie.

Haley also hired seven new assistant coaches, including Gary Gibbs, the likely defensive coordinator. Gibbs, 56, spent the last three seasons as the defensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints.

The head coach at Oklahoma during 1989-94, Gibbs has also served as linebacker coach for the Dallas Cowboys.

The other new assistants:

•Joel Collier, who has 17 seasons of NFL coaching experience. Collier most recently was the secondary coach for New England during 2005-07.

•Steve Hoffman, a 19-year NFL coaching veteran. Hoffman spent 16 seasons as the kicking coach for the Cowboys before moving on to special teams duties with Miami and Atlanta.

•Bill Muir, a 31-year NFL coaching veteran. Muir most recently spent seven seasons as Tampa Bay’s offensive coordinator and line coach, though he didn’t call the plays.

•Clancy Pendergast, who was the defensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals for the last five years.

•Pat Perles, who has spent most of his coaching career in college other than two seasons with the Rams in the early 1990s. Perles spent the last four seasons as the offensive coordinator at North Dakota State and recently was hired as offensive line coach at Ball State.

•Dedric Ward, who played wide receiver for eight NFL seasons. He started his coaching career at Missouri State in 2006 and was an offensive assistant for the Cardinals for the last two years.

Judging from the backgrounds of the new coaches, one likely offensive scenario has Gailey joined on offense by Ward (wide receivers) and Bicknell (tight ends). Muir, Perles and D’Alessandris have backgrounds coaching the offensive line, so it’s unclear what their duties will be.

On defense, both Gibbs and Pendergast have been coordinators and coached linebackers. Krumrie will likely remain as the line coach while Collier could coach the secondary.

Hoffman would be the special teams coach.

Brent Salazar and Cedric Smith were also retained from Edwards’ former staff as strength and conditioning coaches.

Through the Chiefs, Haley refused an interview request to explain his decisions.

Haley’s staff
The returnees: Bob Bicknell, Joe D’Alessandris, Chan Gailey, Tim Krumrie.

The newcomers: Joel Collier, Gary Gibbs, Steve Hoffman, Bill Muir, Clancy Pendergast, Pat Perles, Dedric Ward.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by chagrin

yay Krumrie's still here; more hand slap bullshit

Why do peope always refer back to this? It's just a ****in drill people, christ.

[keg in kc]

I think the one thing I've learned this offseason is that we're all bored as shit and will argue over absolutely anything.

will not

Yes you will

you're full of shit

**** you, moron.

die

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

The majority of all criticism has centered on Mr. Slappy.

He was just being held back by Herm.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I think the one thing I've learned this offseason is that we're all bored as shit and will argue over absolutely anything.

Will not.

[Coogs]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I don't care if people question decisions. I just think it's hilarious that people are so negative about coaches they know nothing about. Do these guys motivate players? Do players respond well to them? Do they teach good fundamentals? These are questions we know NOTHING about, and we choose to have a strong opinion anyway. That's especially true for positions coaches--how the **** do we know that a guy like Gary Gibbs isn't outstanding at teaching fundamentals. Have we seen him on the practice field actually teaching players? No. All we can judge these guys on is what we see on paper. That is exactly the problem. And worse, we're assuming because a guy like Pendergast couldn't call good plays that that means he can't coach players. We are blasting the GM for decisions because of some stats and numbers we looked up on Google. Are you serious? Haley and Pioli have worked closely with most of these guys. Don't we think they know just a little bit more about these guys than we do?

We don't know anything about these guys and yet we're willing to rip on the GM that brought him in. It's ridiculous. I'm not blindly supporting these guys. I'm just willing to give them at least an offseason before I start making judgments about them. Innocent before proven guilty.

So you have no questions as to why Krumrine was retained?

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by arc

He was just being held back by Herm.

Or he really would have slapped the shit out of people.

[DeezNutz]

There's tons of stupid shit going around, though.

Kevin Harlan was on the radio earlier, stating that he didn't think it was a sure bet that Gunther was NOT going to be retained.

Now, Harlan was clearly talking out his ass because of a lack of something substantive to discuss, but imagine the meltdown around here if that had transpired...

[Pioli Zombie]

Careful chiefzilla. These are football geniuses who know more than Pioli. They know more about what these coaches bring to the table. So back off before you are labeled a "dumbass" for giving the new GM and coach a month to turn things around

Why. I think Pioli should just let chiefs planet posters do the drafting
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[Frosty]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Or he really would have slapped the shit out of people.

Actually saw the "held back by Herm" excuse floated on the kc_chiefs Yahoo mailing list this morning.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by arc

Actually saw the "held back by Herm" excuse floated on the kc_chiefs Yahoo mailing list this morning.

Of course. It's always something.

Apparently Pioli must think the same thing. Guess we'll see.

I'd put the over/under at about 8 games to see dramatic improvement in the line play, or Slap Dick is going to call down the full fury of the Planet.

There's just simply not going to be much patience following an historically inept season.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by milkman

You know what's intelligent?

Recognizing the difference between "cutting down Pioli" and simply having questions.

this

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Why do peope always refer back to this? It's just a ****in drill people, christ.

drill would be fine if the dline under him didn't suck and make him look like a chump with his stupid drill

[Pioli Zombie]

Patience? Really. So what are you going to do? What do you expect next year, a ****ing super bowl. Hate to bring up history but the patriots went 5-11 belichicks first year. I guess he should have been fired right?

You want quick fix. Too bad

Its going to be done the right way not how the fans say to do it thank God.
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[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

Careful chiefzilla. These are football geniuses who know more than Pioli. They know more about what these coaches bring to the table. So back off before you are labeled a "dumbass" for giving the new GM and coach a month to turn things around

Why. I think Pioli should just let chiefs planet posters do the drafting
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You came into this thread this morning and started complaining about garbage that WAS NOT PRESENT IN THIS THREAD. What do you not understand about this?

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

Patience? Really.

Patience regarding the overall quality of the D-line play, coming off a 10 sack season.

That's all.

This comment makes clear that you've read very few posts by the regulars in this forum, so it would be best to get a little better feel for the tenor of the conversation before needlessly spewing nonsense.