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Ron Cook: Steelers' Todd Haley tunes out critics

It’s always a good day when you can quote a line from one of the Godfather movies.

“This is the business we’ve chosen,” Hyman Roth told Michael Corleone in “The Godfather Part II.”

I thought about that Thursday afternoon when I talked to Todd Haley after Steelers practice on the South Side. His business of choice is coaching football, offensive football to be specific. There are drawbacks. He has his critics, a lot of critics.

A year ago, it took until the third game for fans to start calling for Haley to be fired. The Steelers failed to score a touchdown in a 34-3 loss at Philadelphia as the Eagles held them to 29 rushing yards and sacked quarterback Ben Roethlisberger four times.