[ESPN.com] Todd Haley will take the job as the new coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen reported Friday morning. An official announcement was expected from the team later in the day.
Haley, the offensive coordinator for the NFC champion Arizona Cardinals, had been seen as a favorite for the job for weeks. FOXSports.com and the Kansas City Star reported Thursday evening that the Chiefs, seeking a replacement for the fired Herm Edwards, had offered Haley the job.
Haley was scheduled to arrive in Honolulu for the Pro Bowl Thursday as a guest of Cardinals wideout Larry Fitzgerald, but canceled at the last moment because of the Kansas City job, according to FOXSports.com.
Haley takes over a team that went 2-14 last season under Herm Edwards and hasn’t won a playoff game since the 1993 season. Edwards lost all but two of his last 25 games.
This one was too obvious for quite some time, just had to wait till the SB was over to officially get it done. Now ………… LETS GO CHIEFS!!!! LETS GO TODD!!!
Comment by Marques W. — February 6, 2009 @ 7:22 am
i hope this Haley guy from the AZ is able to help us rise from the ashes. He had a plethora of weapons where he was at so i hope that it wasn’t just his o players making him look good. KC has a few weapons too but we all need to be on the same page to turn this around. Its not gonna happen over night but to me it does seem to be going in the right direction to once again be proud to call myself a Kansas City Chiefs fan. I would assume all other chiefs fans would agree.
Comment by Devon — February 6, 2009 @ 9:25 am
I like the word PLETHORA from the comment above. This is true with Will Franklin, D. Bowe, Tony G., Jamaal Charles, need I say more?? I’m concerned because this guy was a Golf Coach. However, he is in his prime !! He methodically moved up the ranks to eventually be selected to the Head Coaching level. And he is better than having Herm walking the sidelines, huh? I hope that he does for K.C. what Harbaugh did for Baltimore, my home (we also have The Wire-HBO). For now, it all looks good. His stats, his work ethic, his rise to the top, his Super Bowl appearance – Herm never made it past the first round of the playoffs. So, even though the critics have already made the CHIEFS and the LIONS a 100-1 pick to win the Super Bowl next year, I hope that we have fun trying to prove them wrong !!!!
Go Chiefs !!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Argin — February 6, 2009 @ 9:50 am
THANK GOD FINALLY A OFFENSIVE MINDED COACH.What do you guys think we can get for larry johnson?
Comment by Chris — February 6, 2009 @ 10:36 am
Re: Larry
Not much.
Not a lot of teams on the market for a player like him.
Comment by Johnny 5 — February 6, 2009 @ 11:06 am
who cares what we can get for larry i say dea; his a$$ anyway….he is cancer to our team…a little whinny b**ch who beats women for fun…..PIOLI TRADE LARRY JOHNSON
Comment by mike41 — February 6, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
We had an offensive minded coach in Vermeil and we scored lots of points and it was fun to watch, but didn’t get us to the superbowl. We need D first and foremost and then a solid O-line like the old days. That is the foundation. A great O-line can make an average QB & HB better. A D that gets you an extra possesion or 2, then we are in business. I hope this guy is a Coach and not a friend. I can’t wait to find out. BRING ON THE DRAFT! GO CHIEFS!
Comment by Chief J — February 6, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
Good hire – we will get much better value out of a TG than we will out of Larry Johnson.
As somebody else said in another thread, Johnson’s not 23 years old anymore, He’s had off the field issues and already dealt with a small suspension, if he slips up again he is going to miss 4 games easily. His attitude is questionable, he’s NEVER had a really good attitude, it got better when he was rushing for 1700 yards, but the moment a team struggles or he has to share any carries, he shows immaturity.
Anybody who takes him would also need to do some negotiating to restructure his contract.
MAYBE MAYBE a 3rd round pick, but to be realistic I would think you could get a 4th round out of him this year, and maybe some sort of conditional 6th for next years draft.
Comment by pentekno2 — February 6, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
thank god a good coach!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by hikill27 — February 6, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
Sweet, now im interested who he’s gonna hire for the DC job. Anybody think he takes Crabtree in the 1st?
Comment by ChiefsfaninAZ — February 6, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
Everybody has Crabtree ranked higher than Maclin in the draft, but I would take Maclin over Crabtree. Not only is Maclin a good wide out, but he also has demon speed.
Comment by Chief Tom — February 6, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
I bet we take Curry for the 1st pick.
Comment by Chief Tom — February 6, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
I don’t understand why anybody would think that we need a WR with our first pick. A WR is probably what we need the least out of the positions. We need to boost our defense BIG time. Our defense is the reason why we lost all of our games.
I would like to see the Chiefs go with the 3-4 defensive scheme.
Comment by Chief Tom — February 6, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
I will second that, Chief Tom. Lets take the MLB.
Comment by David in VA — February 6, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
Im getting drunk tonight! GO CHIEFS!
Comment by JoeDirt in Tx — February 6, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
amen chief tom amen…..STEELERS JUST PROVED THAT DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!!!!!
Comment by mike41 — February 6, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
hahaha!
Go to a 3-4 D he says… laughable!
while it would be nice, we have 1 quality linebacker as it stands, good luck finding 3 more
Comment by longshot — February 6, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
Im not saying that we WILL switch to a 3-4 defense, but in all reality I would imagine if that were a legit plan then we would take Curry, line up DJ as the LILB spot, Tamba would move back to one of the OLB, Glen Dorsey would switch to being a DE, we would need somebody huge to play in the middle though, im not thinking that Tank Tyler would cut it as the NT, but at this point he would be option 1. Its not the most ridiculous idea in the world, butit would probably take a couple of years to get the pieces and then have the players be comfortable enough to play in such a system.
Comment by pentekno2 — February 6, 2009 @ 7:20 pm