Todd Haley thinks Josh McDaniels cheated him out of win

by Ryan Van Bibber on Jul 13, 2011 8:45 PM CDT in 2010 St. Louis Rams season

DENVER - NOVEMBER 14: Head coach Todd Haley of the Kansas City Chiefs has some unwelcome words with head coach Josh McDaniels of the Denver Broncos as he refuses to shake his hand after the Broncos 49-29 win at INVESCO Field at Mile High on November 14 2010 in Denver Colorado. The Denver Broncos defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 49-29. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)

Kansas City Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt told a Denver sports talk radio station today that Chiefs head coach Todd Haley thought then Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels was cheating. According to Colquitt, that motivated Haley's famous finger pointing incident after the Chiefs' loss to the Broncos in week 10 last year. Two weeks later, the St. Louis Rams beat the Broncos, a week later, after a loss to the Chiefs, McDaniels was fired.

Haley believed that the 49-29 loss at the hands of McDaniels' Donkeys was impossible. The Kansas City head coach felt like McDaniels knew his game plan ahead of time, based on how things unfolded on the field that week.

Given McDaniels' history with SpyGate, Haley could have easily jumped to that conclusion. Plus, you never know how the rumor mill works around the league. The Denver Post hadn't yet broken the Broncos' videotaping scandal yet, which involved taping a walkthrough of the 49ers before their London game.

Looking back at the box score, Denver, playing at home, did jump out to a 21 point lead over the Chiefs by the end of the first quarter. They also used Tim Tebow for a rushing and receiving touchdown to go with Kyle Orton's 4 TD passes. They also scored a TD on a fumble return in the second quarter. McDaniels also had plenty of familiarity with KC's quarterback, Matt Cassel.

Who knows what happened. I'm not a huge fan of Todd Haley, but McDaniels' history with the video camera would have been hard to dismiss. And, things change on a weekly basis in the NFL.

McDaniels landed in the perfect spot to rehabilitate his image, answering to straight arrow Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo. Oh, and he also has a pretty talented QB to work with in Sam Bradford.

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probably right

but the fact is. The chiefs still lost and McD is with us so he’s exempt from criticism for this possible fiasco.

Blame Denver, not our OC.

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by Infemous on Jul 13, 2011 9:01 PM CDT reply actions

Haley is a dousche

He got his ass kicked and its never an easy game against a division rival no matter how bad they maybe that year, just plenty of his excuses.

by richter122 on Jul 14, 2011 1:34 AM CDT up reply actions

Douche*

Another thing not mentioned.. Haley tried challenging a TD by the Broncos in the early stage of the game.. We could not challenge because the replay system was “broken”. A lot of fishy stuff happened that game and I am guessing you didn’t watch..

Bleed Chiefs

by tomahawk44 on Jul 15, 2011 11:00 AM CDT up reply actions

He thinks McDaniels "cheated"

You lost by 20 and then yet somehow you beat them at Arrowhead by 4 and think you are that much better than the Broncos. Excuses, excuses. You got outplayed and sometimes you have to just accept that just like we had to accept losing to the Seahawks in week 17.

by richter122 on Jul 18, 2011 5:46 PM CDT up reply actions

He did...well not to the chiefs, but he got fined 50k for taping the 49ers pregame warmups

- And here's the Rams' 2010 season in a series. Incomplete pass, 18-yard run, incomplete pass, 7-yard run, 5-yard pass, 3-yard run, sack, incomplete pass, punt. Shoot me. - 3K

by leadhead on Jul 13, 2011 9:08 PM CDT reply actions

Oh nvm you mentioned that...my turn to be captain obvious!

- And here's the Rams' 2010 season in a series. Incomplete pass, 18-yard run, incomplete pass, 7-yard run, 5-yard pass, 3-yard run, sack, incomplete pass, punt. Shoot me. - 3K

by leadhead on Jul 13, 2011 9:10 PM CDT up reply actions

Us Ram fans are going to have to...

get used to the Josh McDaniels jokes and stories. It’s inevitable that non Ram fans are going to throw our way.

by DaFranchiZe on Jul 14, 2011 12:48 AM CDT reply actions

There is no doubt in my mind

that the Patriots, (Belichick / McDaniels and Co. ), cheated. And the fact that McDaniels was caught and fined again, while coaching the Broncos, allows all allegations from that point forward to hold merit. It is our duty as Rams fans to hope that McD has seen the light and changed his evil ways. And from this point on he uses his God given talent, ( without the aid of video taping the opponents practice sessions), and brings respectability to our offensive squad.
@ DaFranchiZe…. You are absolutely correct.

by ZamRam on Jul 14, 2011 6:44 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Yeah its also a good point about matching up with Spags.

His moral charisma will probably cover any serious accusations of cheating and McDaniels can put some distance on that.

- And here's the Rams' 2010 season in a series. Incomplete pass, 18-yard run, incomplete pass, 7-yard run, 5-yard pass, 3-yard run, sack, incomplete pass, punt. Shoot me. - 3K

by leadhead on Jul 14, 2011 9:55 AM CDT reply actions

Haley's just f*cing jealous

He got outmatched and that’s the end of it. So every team that jumps out ahead of you by a large margin are cheating? Get over it because if that were true than alot of people of cheated the Rams over the last seasons. Until there’s proof I’m not believing it (mainly because he’s our OC now and if none of that happens here then I really don’t care).

Sam Bradford to Austin Pettis
Kinda has a ring to it

by RG31 on Jul 14, 2011 3:21 PM CDT reply actions