Todd Haley: Kansas City Chiefs Have No Choice but to Fire Haley After Week 3

This is Todd Haley's last week as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. He's lost his locker room, his best player on each side of the ball has gone down for the season and the Chiefs have no hope for the future.

Last season, everyone was praising Haley for not having an ego. He hired the two best coordinators he could find in Romeo Crennel and Charlie Weis. It was a brilliant move that covered up his inadequacies as a head coach, but when Weis left, he took the offense with him.

According to Pro Football Talk, Adam Schefter reports that people around the league see Kansas City as a volatile situation and that tempers flared behind closed doors this offseason. That doesn't exactly paint an optimistic future for Haley when things go south this season.

Butting heads between those in charge in the organization nearly always produce a poor product on the field. With the organization in complete disarray, immediate and significant change is a necessity.

No team has looked more pathetic than the Chiefs this season an there are plenty of teams with less talent. While season-ending injuries are out of Haley's control, there is no reason the Chiefs should have regressed into an 0-2 team with a combined losing margin of 79 points.

The Chiefs have one of the best fan bases in the NFL. Arrowhead is the single most difficult place for the opposition to play in, but the Chiefs aren't using their home crowd to their advantage thus far. A horrific 41-7 loss to the Bills at home made it clear in Week 1 that this team did not come to play.

It's embarrassing and the organization isn't going to stand for it. Haley is driving the team into the ground and suffering two blowout losses at the hands of teams who didn't make the playoffs last season is unforgivable.

These are the same Chiefs that acquired double-digit wins just a season ago. This season, they don't want to win. Teams are more willing than ever to give up on a failing coach. The days of battling through a hopeless season are over. The Chiefs have the squad to obtain better results than they are getting.

An overhaul is in order and everyone knows it. The team is headed into an obvious losing situation on the road in San Diego next week. Ryan Fitzpatrick and Matthew Stafford have looked like Hall of Famers against the Chiefs. Philip Rivers might put up 50 points against them.

The question isn't if Haley will be fired, it's when. The Chiefs aren't going to throw this season away, go 0-16 and draft Andrew Luck. That's not how their organization operates.

You had better believe that they are simply looking at perspective coaches to replace Haley with in the interim role. We saw the Vikings, Cowboys and 49ers all ditched their head coaches when things went terribly wrong during the season.

There is no way the Chiefs wait as long as those teams did to drive Haley out of town. Losing by ridiculous margins is going to drive their fan base insane. This is a team who had Super Bowl hopes this season and now it's looking like they won't win a game.

Crennel seems like the most obvious candidate to fill the vacancy, as he has head coaching experience. He's not a permanent solution, but he could save the franchise from making a mockery of itself for the time being.

Implementing an interim head coach who is familiar with the organization is what made the Vikings and Cowboys so successful in giving Leslie Frazier and Jason Garrett the reigns. Whether or not Crennel would be as popular of a hiring is crucial in this decision.

Regardless of who the Chiefs promote to the interim role, this season isn't about winning anymore, it's about saving face. With Eric Berry and Jamaal Charles done for the year, the Chiefs aren't looking for a guy who can come in and muster up 10 wins and win the division.

Even so, they rebuilt the team and got back into the playoffs. Slumping back into a rebuilding period isn't ideal for a team who made all the right moves leading up to this point.

Haley's shortcomings are being brought to the forefront. He's a former receivers coach who has only one year of experience being a coordinator. He lacks the experience necessary to command a team from a head coaching role and he no longer has two elite coordinators to bail him out.

Haley recently said, "The season will not be canceled, as far as I know."

Perhaps the 2011 NFL season is no longer in jeopardy and even the Kansas City Chiefs' season will carry on, but Haley's season is most certainly going to be canceled.