Todd Haley has an abrasive personality that has rubbed many in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room the wrong way. That much is not news. His battles with Ben Roethlisberger are public knowledge, and Antonio Brown has argued with him on numerous occasions. Players have called him and his scheme out publicly, and by the end of the season it was clear that he had to go.

What we didn't know was the effect he had on people in the organization besides players. According to Ed Bouchette of The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, other coaches were turned off by Haley as well. In fact, they were so bothered by the way he conducted himself that they left the team because of him.

"Roethlisberger wasn’t the only one who put off by Haley during his six years coaching the offense. After Haley’s first season as coordinator in 2012, three offensive coaches voluntarily left the team for other jobs — Kirby Wilson (backs) took a lateral job with the Vikings and Scottie Montgomery (receivers) and Sean Kugler (line) fled back to the college ranks. There were no coaching changes on defense.

A source pinned their departures on an inability to work any longer with Haley."

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Teams will make sacrifices to keep the right coaches in place. If Haley were the NFL's best offensive mind and had no flaws, the team might have been willing to stomach those problems. If he were the team's head coach, losing assistants over him might have been acceptable. But Mike Tomlin must have been privately fuming at the notion that he had to replace staff members because Haley couldn't get along with them. It undermines his authority as the team's leader.

Haley has flaws as a coach, but ultimately he is a good offensive coordinator. What he isn't is a sustainable member of the Steelers' organization, and the team decided that he was just more trouble than he was worth.