Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

**phillyesq** · 08-31-2009, 12:18 PM

Re: Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

Wow. Very surprising. Didn't see that one coming.

**ikestops85** · 08-31-2009, 12:38 PM

Re: Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

Hire him!!!

**Oviedo** · 08-31-2009, 01:27 PM

Re: Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

Originally posted by ikestops85

Hire him!!!

Heck yes. We need another OC to have everyone complain about. The offense he designed for KC last year was the juggernaut we need to repeat.

**SanAntonioSteelerFan** · 08-31-2009, 01:38 PM

Re: Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

Originally posted by ikestops85

Hire him!!!

I know it was just a joke, but it got me thinking, Ariens has sort of an insurance policy, that no one wants to disturb Ben's karam. Bringing in someone else will be incredibly disruptive from that point of view. Just think about Corky ... I think he never got a fair shake, in terms of how many OCs did he go through? Maybe a P. Manning has the smarts to deal with that, but there are lots of great QBs who maybe wouldn't have made good rocket scientists.

I don't know if Ben is as cerebral as Manning, or more like ?, but I sure don't want to find out on a whim. So like it or not, the Emperor of Obvious is probably going to be with us for a while.

**Oviedo** · 08-31-2009, 01:44 PM

Re: Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

Originally posted by SanAntonioSteelerFan

Originally posted by ikestops85

Hire him!!!

I know it was just a joke, but it got me thinking, Ariens has sort of an insurance policy, that no one wants to disturb Ben's karam. Bringing in someone else will be incredibly disruptive from that point of view. Just think about Corky ... I think he never got a fair shake, in terms of how many OCs did he go through? Maybe a P. Manning has the smarts to deal with that, but there are lots of great QBs who maybe wouldn't have made good rocket scientists.

I don't know if Ben is as cerebral as Manning, or more like ?, but I sure don't want to find out on a whim. So like it or not, the Emperor of Obvious is probably going to be with us for a while.

But imagine the number of posts we could generate with board experts touting the excellence of Gailey and then criticizing him. It could keep this board going for years.

**HardlinerKC** · 08-31-2009, 04:50 PM

Re: Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

Gailey took a disaster of a season and made something out of it, and in the process, created a folk hero in Tyler Thigpen. Thigpen was made for the spread offense, the "Pistol" formation with Thiggy in the shotgun with LJ right behind him. This was Chan Gailey's brainchild and it worked to a point, the point being the other Chief's weaknesses that couldn't be overcome with a circus offense.

Under Gailey and the Pistol, the Chiefs were in most every game down the stretch. Of course, Tony Gonzalez had a lot to do with that as he constantly went up and snatched passes out of the air while being doubled most of the time so how do the Chiefs reward that flash of inspiration?

They trade Tony G off, relegate Thiggy to 3rd team, and today, fire the OC that made chicken salad out of chicken u-know-what. Now, the Chiefs are completely a group of chicken u-know-what. Well, some team has to be the worst in the league for 2009 and the Chiefs are it, or, at least in the conversation.

Sad, inconsistent, and dis-heartening for such a once proud franchise.

**Flasteel** · 08-31-2009, 05:12 PM

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I wish we could hire Gailey as some type of consultant, but that ain't gonna happen. Look at Tomlin's attitude towards bringing in Mike Vick given Ben's legal situation. He wanted to have his guy's back and cast no allusions in anyone's mind about that. Regardless of how Tomlin himself privately views Arians, you know he is fully aware of just how embattled BA is among the Steeler fan base and would not want to feed that monster. I like the philosophy.

As much as I loved Gailey and dislike Arians, I wouldn't invite that type of potential derision.

IF BA were to falter, continue to fail...whatever this season (read: not wishing him anything but success), hopefully Chan Gailey is around as another option for us at the end of the year.

**NorthCoast** · 08-31-2009, 06:46 PM

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It won't happen but I would take Gailey in a heartbeat over BA. He is an OC that is sought after by teams (not like the one we have that won the SB and didn't get a sniff...).

**stlrz d** · 08-31-2009, 08:21 PM

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**RuthlessBurgher** · 09-03-2009, 11:21 AM

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Not to be outdone, Tampa has also fired their offensive coordinator before the season even started.

is going on in the NFL these days? Good luck, Lefty...you are going to need it, brother.

[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4442178[/url]

Just-hired Jagodzinski fired by Bucs
By Pat Yasinskas
ESPN.com
Updated: September 3, 2009, 11:10 AM ET

TAMPA, Fla. -- In a stunning move 10 days before the start of the regular season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have dismissed offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski.

The Bucs announced the move in a statement Thursday morning and said quarterbacks coach Greg Olson will take over as coordinator. There was no reason given for Jagodzinski's firing, but coach Raheem Morris is scheduled to discuss the situation later in the day.

The change comes on the eve of the Bucs' preseason finale against the Houston Texans. Tampa Bay opens the regular season Sept. 13 against the Dallas Cowboys.

Jagodzinski was hired by Morris in January three weeks after a rocky ending to his time as head coach at Boston College. Jagodzinski was fired by the Eagles after interviewing for the head coaching vacancy with the New York Jets against the wishes of the college's administration.

Jagodzinski led Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game in each of his two seasons.

Olson came to the Bucs as quarterbacks coach last year under former coach Jon Gruden. He previously has been offensive coordinator for Detroit and St. Louis.

The Bucs became the second NFL team in three days to make a preseason change at offensive coordinator; the Kansas City Chiefs relieved Chan Gailey of his duties on Monday and said head coach Todd Haley will take over the role.

Pat Yasinskas covers the NFC South for ESPN.com.

**ikestops85** · 09-03-2009, 12:26 PM

Re: Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

Originally posted by SanAntonioSteelerFan

Originally posted by ikestops85

Hire him!!!

I know it was just a joke, but it got me thinking, Ariens has sort of an insurance policy, that no one wants to disturb Ben's karam. Bringing in someone else will be incredibly disruptive from that point of view. Just think about Corky ... I think he never got a fair shake, in terms of how many OCs did he go through? Maybe a P. Manning has the smarts to deal with that, but there are lots of great QBs who maybe wouldn't have made good rocket scientists.

I don't know if Ben is as cerebral as Manning, or more like ?, but I sure don't want to find out on a whim. So like it or not, the Emperor of Obvious is probably going to be with us for a while.

A joke? Well that's a yes and no answer. If we hadn't just won the SB it wouldn't be a joke. I think Gailey was one of the most imaginative OCs we have ever had. He was the one who developed the 'Slash' role. He brought us the 4 and 5 wideout formations. While Earnhardt get the credit for some of that Gailey seemed to have been the architect. But since we won the SB I don't think we want to mess with any of the chemistry the team has and Arians is a part of that chemistry. I don't dislike Arians like some here do but I don't think he is anything special.

**Shoe** · 09-03-2009, 03:54 PM

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I'll give him some of the credit for the Slash thing I suppose... but I was never a fan of the offense when he was OC. It was productive, yeah. But it seemed rather gimmicky and unSteeler-like (with the aforementioned 4- & 5-WR sets). I think his RB's at the time were Pegram, Bam Morris, maybe Leroy Thompson... so he can be forgiven a bit for de-emphasizing the run.

We weren't a very dynamic offense (other than Kordell).

**RuthlessBurgher** · 09-04-2009, 03:26 PM

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Stupidity apparently happens in threes. First Gailey, then Jagodzinski, now Schonert. I've never heard of a single team firing their offensive coordinator during the pre-season, never mind three teams doing it.

I feel like Vince Lombardi prowling the sidelines and screaming "What the hell is going on around here?"

Bills confirm ouster of Schonert

Posted by Mike Florio on September 4, 2009 2:34 PM ET

In a press conference that streamed via the team's official web site roughly as well as the team's offense executed its mission during the preseason, the Buffalo Bills confirmed that offensive coordinator Turk Schonert has been ousted from his position.

"Today we removed Turk Schonert and relieved him of his responsibilities as our offensive coordinator," coach Dick Jauron said. "[Quarterbacks coach] Alex Van Pelt will assume the play calling duties and [running backs coach] Eric Studesville will continue as our run game coordinator and we'll obviously move forward as quickly and as well as we possibly can from here. Nothing that we had planned on obviously, nothing that was enjoyable in any way shape or form, but that's what occurred."

Jauron said that the decision was his and his alone.

"I wasn't thinking about firing him three days ago," Jauron said. "I wasn't thinking about it two weeks ago. And when you start thinking about it, I think you need to move on it and do something. So when I started thinking about it I gave it a good deal of thought and did it. Clearly I believe it's the right thing to do. It's painful for him and for his family and for the organization to go through it, but it was just a decision I needed to make I felt, and made it."

Jauron also said that Schonert will not be remaining with the team.

In explaining the reasons for the move, Jauron took partial responsibility for it.

"It was just the lack of productivity and the direction we were moving," Jauron said. "I just didn't feel like it was going certainly where I envisioned it going. And there's clearly a lot of fault here, not just Turk and I'm willing to accept certainly my share of that."

Translation? If Jauron hadn't made the move now, it very well might have been his own butt later.

And it still very well might be.

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Kansas City Chiefs remove offensive coordinator Chan Gailey

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