HALEY’S IMMEDIATE PLANS: GOING TO PRO BOWL

The reported frontrunner to become the Kansas City Chiefs’ successor to fired coach Herm Edwards has no immediate plans to sit down with Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli, according to the Kansas City Star. Unless Todd Haley is taking a detour to Kansas City on his way to Hawaii, site of the Pro Bowl, or Pioli is going to fly out to the land of luaus to meet with the Arizona Cardinals’ offensive coordinator, then the Chiefs’ head coaching search appears to still be in a holding pattern. Following the Cardinals’ Super Bowl loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Haley said he plans to attend the Pro Bowl this week as a guest of quarterback Kurt Warner and wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin. “I have no plans,” Haley told the Star when asked if he was going to interview in Kansas City this week. “The quarterback and receivers have invited a bunch of us to go to the Pro Bowl. That’s what I’m thinking about. It might take my mind off of this right now.” Haley added that he hasn’t spoken to Pioli, a former colleague with the New York Jets back in the 1990s. “As I’ve said for the last two weeks, my focus has been on this game, which is the biggest game I’ve ever been involved in,” Haley said. “That is what I have told my agent, to not talk to anybody, and that’s what I’ve done.” Of course, since Pioli has already demonstrated that he’s more than willing to tell friends and former teachers to not discuss personal anecdotes about himself with nosy reporters, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the Chiefs’ personnel boss might have already instructed Haley to keep his mouth shut about Chiefs business. Or, should we say, none of your business.