Bernard Pollard

[big_palooka]

Found this article about Pollard I thought was interesting.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/11322/pollard-a-big-piece-of-texans-improving-d

Pollard was one of my favorite Chiefs. I loved his physicalness and attitude in your secondary. I didn't understand the decision by Pioli to cut him. Mike Brown certainly looks overmatched imo and worst of all he's an aging vet.

Pollard was young and came with a lot of potential. Just one of the many questionable moves I don't understand with the genius Pioli.

That said, what was the reasoning behind releasing Pollard? Big picture move or just a cleaning out Herm's garbage some more?
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[RedandGold]

i read that article too its ashame we let Pollard go. He was young with potential
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[DT58_lives_on]

Yeah...plus I'd bet he's hella better than joe schmo off the streets we're going to be forced to start soon.
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[ryknowssd]

He had a fallout with Haley, according to reports. I wouldn't be surprised if it was both a message to the other players that insubordination won't be tolerated and that Herm's players better be on watch.
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[bigschmadt00]

T-Jack94, I hope your not serious right, "talent beats out character?" I think the Redskins and Raiders, and the Yankees of the previous 7 seasons are living, breathing, walking proof of that. You CAN NOT buy a team, especially with the salary cap. The thing with Bowe in the preseason seems to have worked pretty well - http://www.kansascity.com/sports/chiefs/story/1552389.html, even if he is still making mistakes on the field, off of it, he has bought in to what Haley's selling.

I was very disappointed to see Pollard go as he was one of my favortie players. I LOVE a defender that can make that big play and lay people out, but lets be honest, Pollard was the most inconsistent player we had on defense. I think partly what happened was he got Bowe'd, or DJ'd if you prefer, to try and get him to live up to his potential, and then something happened. It was reported that he did fly off the handle in practice and snapped at both a defensive coach and Haley. Later Pollard said Haley and he had talked it out, and he thought it was OK, but he didn't play a down for us again after that. We may never know what really happened, but ultimately, Haley is this teams coach, and if he felt Pollard was not supporting what he was trying to do, then I support him doing what he did. Lets remember that we tried to get a pick for him (reported later), but there were no takers. Pollard then sat on the street for at least 1-2 weeks before getting signed to the Texans. All of that tells me that other teams were not that impressed with his performance. A large part of his success with the Texans is scheme. He is being asked to be in a traditional safety role, in the box, run first mentality. That is his strength, and that is not what he was going to be asked to do here, so he simply might not have fit our scheme either.
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[jimmydee]

TJack, to say that there was NO REASON TO CUT HIM, is the most absurd statement I have heard on this board in some time. To make that statement you have to have been in every meeting, at every practice, and privileged to every personal conversation Haley and Pollard had.

Something tells me that is not the case.

And to your "character to talent" comparison, I seriously hope you didn't mean to imply that we need talent without character, or that there was now way that the two are not consistent with the same person. You may have to look a little harder for the combination, but it's definately worth the effort for the long term stability of your franchise.

Seriously, Dude, I hope I read that wrong, and that you truly don't mean it the way it came across.
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[starbarkc]

Just because a player is enjoying success somewhere else does not mean he would have been so with us.

1. He went back to his former position coach
2. A change of scenery and a chance at a fresh start can be good motivators.
3. They have a better offense which definitely makes his job easier than ours did [the offense that can't stay on the field for more than three downs] and a better pass rushing d line which also helps. It is a team sport after all.

He's gone, no reason to cry about it, best of luck to him until they play the Chiefs.
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[timmay98]

The reasoning I have heard regarding Pollards release was becasue he was too brash i the locker room. We all know Pollard liked to talk and was not the type to hold back. It was a few weeks before the end of camp that Pollard did have a reported verbal disagreement between himself and a coach and by the end of training camp he was gone. To me that's putting the entire team in jeopardy.There a few teams that are all made of choir boys and the fact that a verbal dissagreement cost him his job when all the coach had done up to that point was fire out at all cylinders screaming cursing just sends mixed messages. Haley's relationship issues with players has been well documented and it's worked with some and possibly not others, but because he wasn't the top dog there might have been others there to help cool down the situation. That's not the case here?

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[Marco79]

He has been great for the Texans, he has helped improve our dead last run defense in the 1st 3 weeks to the best in last 5 weeks.
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