That was an absolutely sublime time to be a Chiefs fan.

Chiefs get a new GM in Pioli pretty much immediately, but we went two months without an actual head coach until we hire Haley after the Super Bowl. We get lots of stories about how he's an offensive mastermind.

That momentum lasts less than a month when the Chiefs trade for Matt Cassel, effectively saddling Haley with one of the most inept beta males to ever take a snap in Kansas City for four unbelievable years.

Cassel misses the very first game with injury, which is the very last start we see of Brody Croyle, which of course he loses, and Todd Haley is seen on national television telling Croyle to snap the fucking ball.

Haley spends most of the next three years exhibiting unhealthy levels of insane rage on the sidelines, almost always directed at his own players. Of particular ire is Dwayne Bowe, who occasionally lines up wrong and gets very visibly screamed at with some of the most disgusting anger faces I've ever seen on anyone.

I believe the third year as a head coach, he approaced the preseason in an unorthodox manner. He ramped up the starters' minutes all preseason instead of peaking in the third game. That leaves the KC first stringers playing the Green Bay fourth stringers in the fourth preseason game, and of course Matt Cassel still gets sacked and he has to basically wear a flak jacket all year because he got his ribs cracked.

Clay here on ChiefsPlanet once showed in a screenshot Haley purposefully trotting out the most uninspired lineups of offensive (non-)skill positions as Pioli routinely cheaped out on talent in free agency and couldn't draft to save his life.

He was hailed as a diva whisperer when we drafted Jon Baldwin, only for Baldwin to break his hand punching a teammate.

He played Thomas Jones in front of Jamaal Charles for an entire season. Thomas Jones got almost all the first quarter carries against the Ravens in the only playoff game the Chiefs had with Haley.

Haley once wore a grubby ballcap for a month straight to games because the Chiefs were on a win streak. There was absolutely no reason for the hat to have dirt on it, but he wanted the effect, I guess.

Josh McDaniel was the Broncos head coach, racing Haley to see who could destroy their historic franchise first, and our first game in Denver, Haley was denied an opportunity to challenge because the replay booth was "inoperable," leading Haley to curse out McDaniel instead of shaking his hand at the end of the game.

At least once he got in a shouting match with his own players on the sideline during a game.

He flipped off George Blowfish.

He started Tyler Palko over Kyle Orton.

And of course the oddest thing to have maybe ever happened to this team: he showed up to a KC Star interview, I think with Kent Babb, to talk about his relationship with Pioli, and he was described in the article as completely disheveled, searching the room for microphones as he was sure Pioli had the room bugged.

Just absolutely insane three years with had with that guy. I'm convinced nobody has ever been more satisfied with a win in Arrowhead as Haley must have when he was coaching Big Ben and those Steelers teams that spanked Alex Smith and Bob Sutton.
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