Dear Todd Haley:</p><p>I want you to succeed. You strike me as a good person, someone who has earned the opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL.</p><p>You need a friend, a confidant willing to share with you the uncomfortable truths that may help you grow and reach your goals.</p><p>You&rsquo;re screwing up, setting yourself up to be the scapegoat for Clark Hunt&rsquo;s and Scott Pioli&rsquo;s decision to assemble a salary-cap-friendly, low-talent football team.</p><p>Sunday, during the Chiefs&rsquo; 37-7 loss to the Chargers, your performance raised serious questions about your ability to lead a football team. You&rsquo;re on the clock now. It&rsquo;s highly unlikely, but you could be fired at the end of this season. You&rsquo;ll definitely enter the 2010 season on the hot seat.</p><p>Your decision-making on Sunday was that bad.</p><p>You coach with your heart, not your head. That&rsquo;s a major no-no for a football coach at any level. Emotion &mdash; not logic &mdash; made you go for it on fourth and 1 at your 41 in the first quarter. Emotion &mdash; not logic &mdash; caused you to mismanage the clock on Kansas City&rsquo;s final drive of the first half. You used two timeouts on that drive when you shouldn&rsquo;t have used any, leaving the Chargers 67 seconds and two timeouts to mount their own successful last-minute drive.</p><p>You&rsquo;re better than you were at the start of the season, but you still waste an enormous amount of mental energy yelling at your players, assistant coaches and the refs.</p><p>You don&rsquo;t appear to understand your job.</p><p>Head coaches don&rsquo;t coach on Sundays. They coach six days a week and then on Sundays, they make a never-ending series of rational decisions. You&rsquo;ve chosen to call the offensive plays, which means you&rsquo;re required to make far more rational decisions than a head coach who chooses not to be offensive or defensive coordinator.</p><p>You&rsquo;re consistently making irrational decisions because you&rsquo;re trying to coach on Sundays. As a head coach, you have to think on Sundays. Trust your assistants to coach. Let them do their jobs.</p><p>You made a mistake dumping Chan Gailey. You&rsquo;ve attached your reputation and credibility to the performance of this offense. For the second time this season, you promoted a receiving no-name &mdash; Bobby Wade and Lance Long &mdash; from the scrap heap to starring role on Sunday.</p><p>That&rsquo;s an emotional decision. After the game, you said you elevated Long from the practice squad because he could help your special teams. If so, then why was he the intended target on five passes, as many as Dwayne Bowe?</p><p>And why did you deactivate safety Jarrad Page? This whole mentality that everyone drafted by Herm Edwards and Carl Peterson stinks and deserves to be humiliated is getting real old. Mike Brown has in no way been an improvement over Page and Bernard Pollard. And Darren Sproles put a clown suit on Jon McGraw in the open field.</p><p>The play of Kansas City&rsquo;s safeties this year has been significantly worse than a year ago.</p><p>Grow up, Todd. You&rsquo;re blowing this opportunity, and it&rsquo;s shaping up as the only one you&rsquo;re going to get in the NFL. If you fail here, the knock on you is going to be you&rsquo;re too immature and emotional to be a head coach.</p><p>You realize quarterbacks get coaches fired in the NFL?</p><p>Matt Cassel was embarrassing on Sunday. He overthrew open receivers downfield, flashing the major weakness that haunted him in his one season as New England&rsquo;s starter. Cassel tossed two terrible interceptions. He threw one pick that wasn&rsquo;t his fault, and a fourth pick was wiped out by a San Diego penalty.