Chiefs Hire Brian Daboll To Be Offensive Coordinator

@zippy74 Just another example of you not knowing zippy-do-dah! So does RAC qualify as one of your no name, no talent, homophobic named buddies of Pioli's? This will end when you leave and don't come back until you have something intelligent or at least less vulgar to say. While your gone why don't you watch Pioli in the Haley firing, RAC interim coaching and final hire pressers. Unless you are dumber than you write even you will be able to see Pioli's accountability.

@chiefsfan0422 First - he wasn't available from the start. We had to wait for Miami to give us permission or to let him go. Not a cost move either as the difference between Daboll's salary and any other candidate out there was negligible. And 2nd - Here is what man.foxsports .com had to say about him:The Kansas City Chiefs hired Brian Daboll as their new offensive coordinator on Monday. Daboll joins Kansas City after serving as the Miami offensive coordinator in 2011. His team had a 1,000-yard rusher in Reggie Bush and a 1,000-yard receiver in Brandon Marshall. The Dolphins offense also had just 39 penalties on the season, tied for third- best in the NFL, but ranked just 20th in points with an average of 20.6 per game. If our offense puts up 3 TD's a week and less than 2.5 penalties and reduces our turn overs by 50% as his fins did last year there isn't a team in the NFL that we can't beat. Slightly better than mediocre. So far we have drafted good players, signed good players (although I want to see more here this year) and we have kept every single good player. Looks like we are following a good blueprint. Where someone worked before doesn't matter - what matters is what they do for us.

Well, you started off OK. , Daboll was available around the 27th. After that you are ate up. His offenses were never ranked higher than 22 period, end of story. I will concede he had bad teams, but the tams offenses were ranked higher before he arrived. You can pick apart anybody's past and take only the good. All I'm saying is this guy was not the best hire we could have chosen. Then you really started typing before you thought. We have drafted good players??? The whole 2009 draft produced zero starters and I think only one played last year. Last years draft was also below average. We keep good players??? Waters, Pallard, Gaither just off the top of my head. How about the 20 sum million under the cap we could have used?? Been a chiefs fan long? Bad teams are a direct result of ownership and GM...period. Look at bad teams who are always bad.

@chiefsfan0422 with the Browns they were 30th slipped to 32nd in his 1st year but he improved them to 29th which is better than the trash heap he inherited. In Miami he improved from 30th in scoring to 20th with an offense that had been on a slide for three years from 12th to 17th to 21st. He lost both the starting RB's from 2010 and had a QB change midseason and still ended up 22nd over all. Take your own advice and don't pick apart Daboll's past and only take the bad So who would have been better than Daboll? Saunders? who could even get an OC job? Anyone you could even try to argue was a better OC candidate was either going for HC or wasn't going anywhere. Talk about typing w/o thinking. "The whole 2009 draft produced zero starters and I THINK (there's your problem) only one played last year" Wrong! Try Succoup and Jackson both not only played but started every game. For some one being critical of only taking part of the story I guess you must have a good excuse for completely ignoring the fact that every single one of the 2010 draft picks is starting/rotating with a starter or playing on ST. Not sure how you missed that? Last years draft produced Starters - Baldwin and Houston, rotational players who will probably start in 2012 like Bailey and Hudson, a ST and 2 development projects and 2 on IR. Hardly below average. YES, we keep good players that again you chose to ignore for some strange reason like DJ, Hali, Flowers, Charles. Been a fan since 1969 when I jumped on the Super Bowl bandwagon and been there ever since - no matter what. How about you Mr. Negative??

@KC MikeG @chiefsfan0422 We can argue about this guy all day, (Saunder was my pick) .he is ours and we will have to wait and see. What do Pollard, Waters, and Gaither have in common? They are ex chiefs that start for another team. I stand corrected, ref 2010 draft. Still a bad draft. Jackson has been a flop. Got to like Succoup. Last year you know and I know we needed OL help. We did not address the problem thru the draft or FA.. Don't confuse negative with blown daft picks, coaching hires, and personnel decisions. From a good blog (chiefsfootballreport.com) I've made my skepticism of Brian Daboll's hiring quite clear. Now there's some solid reinforcement for that skepticism. Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald writes today in his "Weekly Buzz" column many Miami offensive players were glad to see Daboll go. Jackson reports he was told Daboll would say one thing to his players & do something entirely different, often on the same day. This had to do with strategy as well as playing time.

@chiefsfan0422 @kc Saunders was my 1st pick too until I read about who Daboll is and how his system can help us. His system is very difficult to implement and would require retooling our talent. Waters I agree had more gas in the tank than we thought but we also needed to see what we had in the young guys too as OL, as you agree, is one of our biggest area of need. I would love DeCastro and Osemele. Sorry but Pollard is on his 3rd team and was only a rotational player last year and was terrible in coverage for us. Gaither is a maybe. For some reason Haley/Muir didn't think he had anything to offer playing Richardson over him and trading him away but just because he "starts" for a decimated OL in SD doesn't mean he is going to be back next year - time will tell on him. Don't believe everything you read. Maybe the writer can't see the forest for the trees. I'm sure there were fins players that thought that but that's because they can't see the big picture or understand adjustments made by the coaches to react to what is being called by their opponents. If what you planned isn't working then you damn well better change it up whether the players like it or not. Maybe they will step it up if they want to play.

Yes I am impressed with Saunders. Not to mention the great O numbers he put up with us, the Raiders were 9th in total O this year, with Campbell and Mcfad out. Not to mention the rash of injuries to their WR corps.

I'm with you on not being a fan of the nepotism. I see it negatively because it seems to be a close minded approach to the hiring process. What about giving young guys who know what they're doing a chance to coach? Of course the other side of the nepotism is that by hiring people who know each other, their expectations, and their opinions they already have a coaching chemistry. One would think that kind of chemistry would lead to a more efficient and happier staff. I guess that's why I feel fairly neutral about the issue since I can see both sides.

@Ehud I'm totally right there with you. There is something to say about knowing who you're going to work with. And while nepotism brought Herm, it also brought Vermeil (and those were fun years). We shall have to see.

@sidibeke The rampant nepotism in the NFL is indeed sickening. The fact that our front office appears to be among the worst at it is tough for me to deal with, mentally. Like a lot of how Pioli operates.

@Big Matt @sidibeke By the way it's not nepotism because they're not related. If you're going to complain about hiring from one of the best teams for the last 10 years at least call it by the right name - cronyism.

@sidibeke Railing against the machine. It is a reality in the world of corporate America and the NFL and the teams are all corporations so why should they be any different? Hiring the familiar and bringing in new blood are both risks and even the NE way coaches come from somewhere else 1st like Daboll learning under Saban and being referred by him to Belichick. I think this part of his history is being ignored completely and that it speaks volumes about who Daboll really is.

@mikhel Once we get past our new OC, what has changed from last year? Cassel will be back at full strength, Charles also and Moeaki until his next injury. Our Wr are possession guys not a lot of downfield speed, even if Bowe stays. No RT, right now, no Center, who has actually played one game, Palko is gone, I think. So the offense should be atleast decent but unless the draft or free agency brings in some star power, it is what it is and that is not upper level.

@tm1946@mikhel Yo, TM. One word: Charles.

@sidibeke @mikhel YO, Charles is the 21st word.

@mikhel If he wins, why not but propose Pioli is about to the end of his run with NEway. Three years of medocrity and Clark can come on tv and tell us we need to go a new direction with the next GM and non NE staff but do not forget to keep buying those season tickets.

@zippy74 49 year ticketholder and THIS is why you throw in the towel? I call bullshit. No way you have had tickets from the inagural season until now.. How old are you?

@zippy74 @K Thank goodness! Hopefully that means you won't be coming here to run down and insult our team with vulgar name calling. After 49 years you would think you would know enough that GM/HC almost always bring in people they know as they have seen 1st hand how they do their jobs and how the treat people. So were RAC and Weiss "whatever that word you made up"? Pioli hired them and they made huge positive impacts on our team. You also have to be blind to not see the improvements that have been made in our organization like the 2010 and 2011 drafts for example. Our organization was in such a dark place after going 4-12, 2-14 and 4-12. Why can't you see that 10-6 followed by 7-9 with all the chaos and injuries are not improvements from where we were just 2 years ago?? My sympathies in advance to which ever shithole organization full of idiot you decide to start supporting. Don't - on 2nd thought DO - let the door hit you in the rear on the way out!

@zippy74 I am a bit frustrated as well, but there have been FAAAAR worse decisions made by the chiefs in the last 10 years that would have maybe made me throw in the towel way before this. It's a bit disappointing that I've never heard of this guy, but it's also pretty exciting. So if this hire pushed you over the edge, I have a hard time believing that you've been a fan for 49 years.

@zippy74 Dude get real, 49 yr season ticket holder my A$$. But if you are telling the truth why would you let this situation stop you from supporting the team. Like KC Mike said DO let the door hit you on your way out. Don't jump back on the bandwagon when we win either.

@zippy74 @K *sniff* *sniff* i smell a fare weather fan

@jimbobjo Because we like him as our QB coach and because we already gave them Emery.

Chicago was looking to hire Zorn for QB coach. That would be a lateral move for Zorn. KC likes him as QB coach. Although, to be honest, with Daboll as the new OC, any offensive position coaches may be let go. We'll see what happens. @jimbobjo

If they wanted to possibly hire Zorn as OC then it was smart to keep him isolated. Now that we have DayBull then I say Zorn will probably get his chance to talk with them now.

@jimbobjo Well he left Miami because Tony Sprano got canned. Coaches generally hire their own staffs so his leaving after one year isn't really an indictment on his performance.

@Arowhead_Addict @jimbobjo Hey Paddy any word on Emery's replacement? possible candidates? I read somewhere that we may leave the position open and promote from within. Maybe who ever has the best draft results based on their scouting information presented this year will be promoted?

@jimbobjo It might not be fair but some folks may be considered about Al's age. He's getting up there and if a team wants a long time coordinator in place they might overlook Al.

@Arowhead_Addict @jimbobjo And the degree of difficulty of his system.

@Arowhead_Addict @jimbobjo Not only is it not fair, but it's illegal. But it happens all the time in all fields.

@rockygentleman Al probably would have been great but that doesn't mean Daboll won't be as well. As we saw with Gunther, bringing a coordinator back for a second round doesn't always work out the same way.

@Arowhead_Addict I agree 100%

@rockygentleman Right on! Let's give the man a chance!

@rockygentleman But what about that great short, grudge promiscuity that rocks? Al could have been that.

@mizzouboy81 I agree. I'm also not opposed to his NE past. This hire was likely more a Crennel move than a Pioli move. Besides, the last NE guy we had coordinate the offense (Weis) worked out pretty well...well, except for him leaving.