I don't want Rod Marinelli to be defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears. Why? Ask Lovie Smith in the Chicago Tribune. "Rod Marinelli is an excellent football coach. I've known him for a long time...I worked with him."
I want a defensive coordinator who doesn't believe in the infallibility of the cover-two scheme. I want a defensive coordinator who will sit in the Monday and Tuesday coaching meetings and disagree with the philosophy our head coach. I want a defensive coordinator who will preach pressure over gap discipline and cover the middle of the football field.
Jerry Angelo needs to force Lovie Smith to bring in a DC that will not act as puppet of this delusional dictatorship. The DC needs power. He needs authority. He needs a distinctive personality outside of the head coach. This worked in 1985. And Buddy left. This worked in 2006. And Ron was forced out. This works in Chicago. And it needs to work again. Another lackey of the Kiffin-Dungy system won't put this club in the playoffs and Jerry Angelo shouldn't tolerate it.
#2 JP said . . .Seriously....what would everyone think of giving Doug Plank the DC job?
Look him up, Google him thoroughly....
Thoughts?
Oh, am I first? WOW........
December 30, 2008
#3 JP said . . .First
December 30, 2008
#4 Sdwat51 said . . .http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=5494
Lovie says that we don't need an overhaul just a re-tooling.
Well here's to the 2010 season!
December 30, 2008
#5 Crown said . . .Act 1, Scene 2, Doug Plank for DC in Chicago (A Lone Brain Cell Production)
Jeff, and all et al......
I really think this has some merit, and apologize for the redundancy here.
Comments would be interesting to read. Jeff, I know you've looked him up some in your day - have any synapses firing on this?
December 30, 2008
#6 animal said . . .It seems like the good ol' boy pay to play politicking in Chicago has infiltrated our football team. How about a Coordinator that has not worked with Lovie? That would be nice.
December 30, 2008
#7 Rancid said . . .I totally agree. We need a D coordinator that will try to punch Lovie if he fucks up mid-game... (I know you all can't miss that reference)
December 30, 2008
#8 HesterFan23 said . . .I was in shock last season when RT escaped the axe. I know many here have a stronger hatred for Babs but RT is my first cut.
I agree with jeff that the offense doesn't require a ton of work. We definitely need to address WR, but after that it's just a vet QB to replace Rex at #2, Oline depth, and someone to spell Forte. This should be a defense minded offseason (draft and FA).
This team was worse than bad, they were mediocre, inconsistent and flat. There is more talent there than a 9-7 record, yet after watching the last game, 7-9 would have sounded more accurate.
The defense is a tough one. I think Wale needs replacing, but I like A Brown and I don't see us realistically being able to get better players than what we currently have at DT. The LB is probably ok. I don't think 54 is going anywhere. We need some serious additions at DB. Our awesome corner duo of Vasher and Tillman are injury prone and not as good as advertised anyway. Without Mike B., we need a safety or two, and we need a veteran, we have enough young guys at this position. I again promote the idea of resigning Mike B. even if he paralyzed from the waist down. This man belongs on this team.
I'm pissed at the inability to win a game against a mediocre foe when it mattered. I hate RT. I just hate him. I trown enough rants out there in the past. What's the point of another. Get rid of his ass. There is some truth to realizing that only about a third of the league makes the playoffs so to come close means we're decent. However I'm not the sort to take pride in the fact that there are shittier teams than mine, and the great fear is that mediocrity, when viewed as minor success, will breed only continued mediocrity.
December 30, 2008
#9 Phil from SATX said . . .I see what you're saying and I tend to agree simply because I want the Cover 2 out of Chicago. I can really see it happening though.
Also, if you haven't seen, we're picking 18th unless the Chargers make the Super Bowl, in which we would move up a spot. Why does a playoff team pick anywhere above a non-playoff team regardless of the records?
December 30, 2008
#10 enderwiggin said . . .I'm at the Alamo Bowl right now - Jeremy Maclin just returned a punt for a touchdown - must say the dude would look good in the orange and blue.
December 30, 2008
#11 John said . . .I also wouldn't want to overhaul the O. Maybe a WR, one OL, and a Brad Muster type guy. But i would be willing to stick with Ron Turner for another season just so we don't mess up Orton's progress.
As far as the D is concerned~ Babitch Patch needs to be gone. You guys think Urlacher is still fast enough to play safety? Put Briggs in the middleL and find a couple mean bastards to put beside him. I really do like our corners but they did disappoint this season(when the game was on the line).
I do like the Doug Plank idea. I'd even settle for Leslie Frasier, but i'm guessing he will be another Bear Champion passed up by the Mccaskey family.
Jeff, thanks again for the great season. I don't post much, but i do read everyday.December 30, 2008
#12 craig said . . .it doesn't matter what the bears do. they will continue to suck next year and the year after. The Vikings and the pack are much better so i expect the bears and lions to fight for 3rd place next year.
December 30, 2008
#13 zmac said . . .Lovie Says Orton Will Start Next Year
Fuck. In what world does blowing ass for half a season (the important half, mind you) qualify someone to be your starting QB?
December 30, 2008
#14 jeff said . . .I'd rather just see Mike Brown slip into the DC job
December 30, 2008
#15 Nick said . . .kyle orton is only a two-year starter and he's won an awful lot of games. can we not show the patience for another season?
December 30, 2008
#16 DP said . . .Great point Jeff, I agree totally.
John do you have nothing better to do than badger Bears fans? Here's an idea, move out of your mom's basement and meet some chicks. Try to get laid for Christ sake.
December 30, 2008
#17 Nick said . . .I dont know if we want a guy with the 0-16 cloud. That shits gotta mess with your mental.... Leave him where he is.... Plus he is a cover two guy.... Yuck....
December 30, 2008
#18 shonbear said . . .Would our cover 2 be more effective if it were run by someone that really knows and understands it well, like Marinelli?
December 30, 2008
#19 lindemrm said . . .We were 3-4 against this years playoff teams that were on our schedule. Didn't deserve the phly game and definitely wouldn't have won the colts game had it been later in the season. So technically we should have only been 1-6 against them.
Just a little negative vibe, sorry about this, but I just don't think the Bears management, owners, coaches or player leaders have the heart that it takes to make any of the REAL necessary "re-tooling" decisions to be any better next season.
I hate to say it, but the general consensus of the 670 Score pundits has been right all along, I'd been waiting, hoping, praying all season long for the Bears themselves to prove those mouthes wrong, but all they did was confirm it witht their uninspired play.
The only thing very consistent about the Bears this season is their ability to suck when it really mattered. It started with the Carolina and Tampa Bay games, was brought home to roost in the Green Bay game and the exclamation point at the end of the sentence was the loss to Houston.
-We got a weak, broken Manning and offensive line and took advantage.
-We got a slow moving Carolina team with no Steve Smith and gave it away.
-We got Brian Griese and made him a hero.
-We got a lucky call vs phly that could have gone either way and should have been a td.
-Beat the Lions handily the first time and barely the second.
-Atlanta killed us the whole game, we had no business even winning that game, sure I would have taken it, but we rejected their gift and handed them the playoffs.
-Sure we won a shoot out against the Vikings the first time, but as exciting as it was to watch our offense, where was the D? Then the real deal showed up the second time we played. AP fumbles more than any RB in the league, but our team, the best at creating fumbles can't get him to do it when they play us.
I could continue, but it's making me more mad the more I remember each and every game.It all comes down to being satisfied with mediocrity. Our players, coaches, managers and owners seem to always be satisfied with it, they will put a positive spin on every mediocre scenario.
This situation is straight up BULLSHIT and I really don't want to hear their shit anymore, wish I could fast forward to September and just see the games for next season.
Alright, what the hell, here's to hoping for the following:
-A new DC
-A healthy Brian Urlacher or whatever was wrong with him, fixed.
-Someone, anyone that can get to a QB.
-A real #1 team player WR.
-A franchise QB, even if it's Kyle.
-A better Devin, not bad improvement as a WR, but bring back the ST magic and go to the school of "Steve Smith's converted returners" to figure out to get better hands and make some of those tough and amazing catches he does.
-A new DC.
-A real backup running back
-Chris Williams panning out and more Oline help with him.
-A safety? secondary?
-A new DC.
-More broken offensive helmet radios.Sorry all to be such a debbie downer, but I'm just getting it out and every time I hear one of the players, or coach interviews talking about their season and their last game, it just sounds so lame to hear. Players I've come to love and when I hear them making the excuses it makes me want to puke.
Let's hope Chris Harris can get his SB ring.
I think the best story would be brother vs brother though, gotta root NFC though.
December 30, 2008
#20 shonbear said . . .I'm with Rancid,RT's gotta go. Obviously though, BaBitch is in the front of the line.
December 30, 2008
#21 Phil from SATX said . . .Hey if Matt Forte had a hurt toe and was being sat out during it for the virtual duration of the second half, why didn't the freakin sideline reporters have anything to say about it. Instead they spent time talking about the black berry activity.
Or is it just a lame Larry Mayer propaganda attempt from the Bears to make excuses about why Forte wasn't in there. What the hell, I don't know what to believe.
December 30, 2008
#22 Zombie Coaches said . . .Craig, Orton was bad in the second half, not coincidentally starting when he got hurt. He's still hurt.
I honestly don't see how you can go into next season with Urlacher at mike lb. Unless you changed the scheme, what he was asked to do this season, he patently couldn't. I have to imagine there's a role for him - I would think the answer is strong side lb. He can hit, he can tackle (maybe not as good as before, but he can still do it). Maybe just switching him and Briggs will fix things. I like Nick Roach and what he's bringing. I like Kevin Payne a lot. I'm not sure Steltz has anything we really want to see - he may have been a waste, or a special teamer only.
I don't believe our CBs are as bad as they appeared this year. Yes they do get injured, that's a problem, but I think scheme is hurting them. A few times this year when Peanut played press it looked like he could handle it, and I'm thinking we need to play this way a lot more . Vasher played injured this year. I like Corey Graham as an up-and-comer. D. Manning has his place at nickel, I just think we have bigger issues than this. Again, I think scheme, and a diminished Ur, made our corners look worse this year than they are.
I have to take issue with a continuing comment I'm seeing here - "offensive line depth" - to me that really diminishes the burning need we have for NEW STARTERS on the Oline. "Depth" implies backups - WE NEED NEW STARTERS.
We are really getting to a time when some hard, anti-sentimental decisions need to be made - changing Urlacher's role, sitting Kreutz, getting rid of or demoting Wale. Maybe re-signing Brown (I'm all for it) but potentially not starting him, he really lost something physically this year. These are legends, Pro Bowlers, some potential Hall of Famers, but right now allegiance to them is hurting our team.
I'll throw something crazy out there - Dallas has really soured on their brand new Roy Williams deal. Would you give up some substantial picks for him? Before the trade, I would have said absolutely, regardless of how much I have disliked his act in the NFL (loved him with the Longhorns). Since he's gotten to Dallas, he's pretty much sucked. But that is a rotten, dysfunctional franchise with bad coaching and bad teammates, so one could argue what you're seeing right now is irrelevant. He was pretty good with the really bad Lions.
I think he's gettable. Of course I would prefer Boldin, but I'm just guessing that Williams may be more gettable, potentially at less than the Cowboys gave.
A prognostication - Jerry Jones has made a deal with the man I covet, Bill Cowher - but for 2010, not 2009. In the face of all that's reasonable and rational, Jerry has publicly committed to Coach Yuk-Yuk (that's what they call him down here), but he qualified it as "one more year." I've heard that Cowher doesn't want to come back next year but the following. I believe that Jerry Jones, smart as he is, as committed to winning as he is, understands that Bill Cowher IS the right answer (just as he would be for us, and likely for any franchise), and I am predicting right here, right now, that Jerry's already whispered to Bill and said name it, whatever you want, and Bill has nodded. Just remember that you heard it here first. Hope it doesn't happen, mostly because I hope that we get him. But that probably won't happen, will it?
BTW, how can you ask for a new DC that uses a different scheme than Lovie? How does THAT work? I'm thinking that unless you take down the king, you may be successful at getting a new DC but you can't possibly expect Lovie to take someone who thinks differently than him. That would be counter intuitive. Lovie always believes he is right, not wrong.
December 30, 2008
#23 Oh and he said . . .Wade Phillips after his team didn't make the playoffs, "We know things must improve. The only way is to change things," Phillips said. "To get to the standard we want, I don't see any other way."
Even laid back, emotionless Phillips feels a sense of urgency and understands coming close is not getting it done and that it won't be tolerated for long.
At least give us that much Lovie.
And when your coach makes Wade Phillips look like Mike Ditka in the emotions department, there is a problem.
December 30, 2008
#24 Sausage said . . .You can't say, 'Well, OK, everything's going to be all right,' because it's not going to be all right if you do the same thing and I'm talking about myself," Phillips said. "I have to look at myself from how I deal with things, from how we have training camp, how we have practices, whatever."
Accountability when you don't get the job done. It might not solve the problem but at least it isn't running from it.
Even Marinelli was a man about it and told his team to own what happened this year and man up about it.
This is Chicago. And I think that is what pisses me off the most is that I expect us to smash them in the mouth as we go down swinging and point the finger towards yourself when you don't get it done. The first part of the solution is admitting that there is a problem.
Houston we have a problem! Or did someone on Da Bears still not get that message?
December 30, 2008
#25 Anonymous said . . .I mentioned this halfway through the season and would like to see what you all think at the season's end.
Does anybody honestly think that Hester at WR is a good idea? He had what, two or three touchdowns? He would have done the same, or better, as a return man, not to mention consistently better field position throughout the season.
If he focused on returning, and wasn't given a hugely incentive-laden WR contract, we're in the playoffs.
Seriously, he's not going to be Steve Smith, and if anyone thinks he will be you're kidding yourself, like Lovie.
December 30, 2008
#26 Anonymous said . . .Sausage,
I can't disagree more about Devin's production. Manning proved that the only thing wrong with Devin's returns this year was himself and it wasn't because he was a receiver, he just started thinking too much when he just needed to run straight and have fun like he did the previous two years. That's all in his head, he needs to fix it.
Secondly, if you take the missed opportunities when Kyle over threw Devin when he was wide open and the drops on balls that Devin should have caught, he exceeds the amount of touchdowns that he got in a season as a return man.
The hopes that he could become a Steve Smith type isn't a pipe dream, if he really wanted to make an effort and study what it is that makes Steve Smith so good, there is no reason that at the least he would improve as a receiver.
Like Doug and OB always say, "it's right in front of you". Manning did great, Hester didn't. Manning had the same blockers and didn't have Abadendejo (whatever) there. He ran straight with like one cut. Hester took the Rex Grossman approach when the pressure comes. This year he looked like a rookie returner, thinking he could outrun the coverage sideline to sideline rather than going to the endzone. In addition, many times this season he chose not to field the ball when the opportunity was there because even he became wary of his ball handling skills due to some of his miscues. The previous two seasons he showed the same ball handling problems, but we gave him a pass because it was highly possible that he would break one.
Winning with Special Teams is great, but I would rather win with offense (at least mostly), when you win with offense, you keep the other teams offense off the field and get your defense the needed rest they need to hold it together. So yea we like, no love our special teams, but we need to be offensive minded, ball control, time of possession, running game, finish drives with TD's vice FG's, especially on turnovers.
B
December 30, 2008
#27 Anonymous said . . .Sausage,
I can't disagree more about Devin's production. Manning proved that the only thing wrong with Devin's returns this year was himself and it wasn't because he was a receiver, he just started thinking too much when he just needed to run straight and have fun like he did the previous two years. That's all in his head, he needs to fix it.
Secondly, if you take the missed opportunities when Kyle over threw Devin when he was wide open and the drops on balls that Devin should have caught, he exceeds the amount of touchdowns that he got in a season as a return man.
The hopes that he could become a Steve Smith type isn't a pipe dream, if he really wanted to make an effort and study what it is that makes Steve Smith so good, there is no reason that at the least he would improve as a receiver.
Like Doug and OB always say, "it's right in front of you". Manning did great, Hester didn't. Manning had the same blockers and didn't have Abadendejo (whatever) there. He ran straight with like one cut. Hester took the Rex Grossman approach when the pressure comes. This year he looked like a rookie returner, thinking he could outrun the coverage sideline to sideline rather than going to the endzone. In addition, many times this season he chose not to field the ball when the opportunity was there because even he became wary of his ball handling skills due to some of his miscues. The previous two seasons he showed the same ball handling problems, but we gave him a pass because it was highly possible that he would break one.
Winning with Special Teams is great, but I would rather win with offense (at least mostly), when you win with offense, you keep the other teams offense off the field and get your defense the needed rest they need to hold it together. So yea we like, no love our special teams, but we need to be offensive minded, ball control, time of possession, running game, finish drives with TD's vice FG's, especially on turnovers.
B
December 30, 2008
#28 shonbear said . . .Sausage,
I can't disagree more about Devin's production. Manning proved that the only thing wrong with Devin's returns this year was himself and it wasn't because he was a receiver, he just started thinking too much when he just needed to run straight and have fun like he did the previous two years. That's all in his head, he needs to fix it.
Secondly, if you take the missed opportunities when Kyle over threw Devin when he was wide open and the drops on balls that Devin should have caught, he exceeds the amount of touchdowns that he got in a season as a return man.
The hopes that he could become a Steve Smith type isn't a pipe dream, if he really wanted to make an effort and study what it is that makes Steve Smith so good, there is no reason that at the least he would improve as a receiver.
Like Doug and OB always say, "it's right in front of you". Manning did great, Hester didn't. Manning had the same blockers and didn't have Abadendejo (whatever) there. He ran straight with like one cut. Hester took the Rex Grossman approach when the pressure comes. This year he looked like a rookie returner, thinking he could outrun the coverage sideline to sideline rather than going to the endzone. In addition, many times this season he chose not to field the ball when the opportunity was there because even he became wary of his ball handling skills due to some of his miscues. The previous two seasons he showed the same ball handling problems, but we gave him a pass because it was highly possible that he would break one.
Winning with Special Teams is great, but I would rather win with offense (at least mostly), when you win with offense, you keep the other teams offense off the field and get your defense the needed rest they need to hold it together. So yea we like, no love our special teams, but we need to be offensive minded, ball control, time of possession, running game, finish drives with TD's vice FG's, especially on turnovers.
B
December 30, 2008
#29 Rancid said . . .Sorry errored submission there, I didn't finish.
Back to Hester, the point is that he demonstrated a lot of improvement, can he be a number one, don't know yet, but I still have no doubts that if he stays healthy next year and Kyle doesn't blow the opportunities, I would bet he gets like at least 10 TD's and maybe 900-1000 yards. This is all dependent on our running game and offensive line, and maybe getting another threat receiver though. We shall see, maybe Bennett is going to be the man next year.
news: alas Hass was released from the practice squad without a contract. flags at half mast and all (watch him go to freakin New England and become Wes Welker
December 30, 2008
#30 Sdwat51 said . . .Phil - I think the reason I say Oline depth is that for years we ignored the Oline in the draft. We had a good one, so screw it. That's why we're screwed there now. I think we should be drafting an Olineman with one of our top 3 picks almost every year. At this point it would be nice to sign a decent FA lineman, but after last year, I'm not getting my hopes up.
December 30, 2008
#31 Sausage said . . .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Plank
"When I am introduced somewhere, when somebody says, 'Doug went to Ohio State and played for the Chicago Bears,' I know in my heart that person has a different opinion of me, immediately, than if I just went up and said, 'My name is Doug Plank. I grew up in western Pennsylvania.' "
Link to article for above quote:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-01-20-doug-plank-feature_x.htm
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Yeah, yeah, I know - stop banging the same drum, etc...but as I thought about something that would truly upend our Defensive thinking, I just couldn't shake his name outta my head.Maybe I oughta get that looked at, but, still....
December 30, 2008
#32 Rancid said . . .what we do know is he was the best return man ever, before this season. so what changed? manning was able to do well with our ST, so why not hester. my guess is that he doesn't want to get injured on ST and miss out on a bunch of WR money. the best return man ever doesn't just forget how to use his gift over one offseason. how can you pass it off as coincidence that he was given a hugely incentive filled WR contract and now seems to not care/focus on the return game?
he could be a serviceable WR, depending on X, Y, and Z. or he could do what he does better than anyone else in history already and return kicks, letting the offense start on the 40, and return a handful for TDs.
that does more for the team than than if hester had caught 100% of his passes this year. what you have to remember is that hester's absence at WR doesn't create a vaccuum, there will be another WR to fill his void. believe it or not, that's not a hard thing to do. manning could do just as well as hester did this year and might have the same potential as a WR going forward. if you don't agree with that, you're assuming too much about hester's future, and based on his production this season, that's a big leap.
we're stuck with him at WR now though, and it was the wrong move. i hope to god i eat my words later, but that depends on continuation of a good running game, a competent oline going forward, orton playing like he did before his injury, and other receiving threats. not gonna happen.
and while we retool all these positions [which will take a couple seasons considering lovie's not going anywhere and he's already talking about "small changes"], he's only going to get older and further removed from the return game. lovie and ja ruined the best thing the bears had.
December 30, 2008
#33 Phil from SATX said . . .I think that the main issue with Hester is a lack of a #1 receiver across from him. Hester constatly drew double teams and whatever schmuck we had opposite him at the time couldn't get open against one on one coverage. Get a good #1 receiver and the passing game should explode.
December 30, 2008
#34 shonbear said . . .Rancid, we're on the same page. It just seems to me to be exceedingly arrogant and foolish to have ignored our O-line building as much as we've done - like the O-line really doesn't matter. We all know that it does, and truth be told, we haven't had a better than average line since 2005 and the first half of 2006. I put that squarely on Jerry. I agree that last year doesn't make us feel great about our chances of the Bears spending big in free agency on the line, but I'm hoping that the difficulty we showed this year in blocking for Matt Forte may change his mind. He's got to see what an upside Forte would represent to our entire fortunes if he would just dedicate resources to the line.
Anonymous, I have to disagree with you and agree with Sausage. Yes, you're right, D. Manning proved that Hester's problems were internal, not due to losing BA or terrible blocking or anything like that. But where I disagree is that fixing his mental problems with returning is simply a matter of will. Many of us worried about the possibility of seeing a dropoff in his returns as he was turned into an every down receiver. The reality was worse than I ever feared. Hester was truly right there in the mix for the WORST returner in the league. From best to worst.
The trade we got is that he is a promising young receiver. Not a #1, even though he was forced into #1 duties because of the utter lack of other viable WR options on our team. But he needs to NOT be the #1, he needs to be at best a #2, probably optimally a #3. Was it a good trade-off? In retrospect, no. But we're there now, and unfortunately I don't think we'll ever see the old Devin Hester on returns. So let's hope he turns into an incredible receiver, and let's find our next great punt returner.
But PLEASE don't spend a bunch on that role (a la Hester, a la Wolfe) because we have so many other desperate needs. Next year will not be the time to be throwing away the 2nd and 3rd round picks this regime has been so adept at.
Quick crack at it:
In order of importance (FA and draft combined)
Oline
Safety
WR (twice, if Bennett's a bust)
DE
Second RB (hopefully vicious bruiser type)
FULLBACK! (actually fullback is really important to us, I list this last only because it has less relative value in the league and can be gotten cheaply - maybe a good FA pickup would solve this)And now I will excuse myself, to waste some nice vacation time on looking at MY FIRST GLIMPSE AT A 2009 MOCK DRAFT!!!
One last thing, I really appreciated Wade Phillips comments. The Cowboys finished with what, the same record as us? Yet there is like a 5 bell fire emergency going on over there. While Lovie is saying everything's okay, just a tweak here or there. I agree with jdawg that you can't trust what he's saying - the problem is, I do believe this is what Coach Smith believes. And I don't necessarily care about his emotion, or vocal decibels, or angry face or anything like that. What I want from him, what we all want from him, is for him to say - this season was unacceptable. I take responsibility for it, and I will do everything in my power to fix it. You Bear fans deserve better than this, this city deserves better.
He can deliver that message in as quiet a church voice as imaginable - in sober tones that would make Jauron seem flamboyant. I don't care. But he needs to say that, and make me believe him. Instead he says the opposite, and I do believe him - that he means what he says - nothing real bad here, nothing a little tweaking won't fix.
To me that is inexcusable - but that is Lovie. Inexcusable.
December 30, 2008
#35 Murph said . . .Phil,
I really think you speak my exact mind when it comes to Lovie and his arrogance and lack of accountabilityor responsibility to the fans, if he would act that way, the fans would respect it and the players probably would too.
I'm not ready to say that moving Devin was a bad idea yet, the way they executed it may have been bad, but we did need to get him in the offense, next year if we get that oline and receiver help, it will be interesting to see the continued progression, maybe he will play looser now that he's more comfortable and it will release his mind of whatever demons he's facing. Then he can start showing us some of the magic again.
December 30, 2008
#36 Bill From SATX said . . .Jeffff, Grossman was a one year starter and got us to the Super Bowl and won an awful lot of games, why the love for Orton? You guys related? Enderrrr, Urlacher still play safety? He isnt even fast enough to cover in the LB spot. Lot of good ideas on here....Like Les Frazier, agree Wale needs to go, he was invisible all year. Trade Tommie Harris....he did nothing after the big raise, Idonije more of a force. Big Fast Wideout, thats major need, but not too fast if we go with Orton, cause he cant throw long. Have no idea whyD Manning makes so many mistakes playing safety.....hes fast, strong,should be the man, maybe he scored low on the wonderlic.
December 30, 2008
#37 Pankster in Da Carolina's said . . .Well, I agree with the common assessment that Babich needs to go. I was enjoying the game against Houston until mid way through the 2nd qtr. I could not believe what the D was doing, especially in the 4th when they allowed a 6+ minute 89 yard drive for the icing. Kyle did pretty well in that game and I think he should start next year. This team is built on Defense and the Run. The Run is fine with Forte, but the D just sucked this year. I never liked the cover 2 scheme. Why give them a big hole to pass in? In 85, Ditka and Ryan did not get along, but they got results. Babich needs to go and we need to get someone that will attack! I would like to see more of Bennett to see how he is. Maybe we should see Bennett, Lloyd, and Hester line up. Lloyd showed he can make the hard catches and Hester makes the defenses play off.
December 30, 2008
#38 john said . . .Fire BaBich PATCH ASAP!!!
Go Get virgina's fucking money and buy us a #1 receiver A QB with fucking playmaker skills and a whole new secondary with heart and some fucking BALLS!!!
Jeff thanks bro for all you do and to all my bear nation well Bear the fuck Down till September rolls around again and stay true to our beloved bears and hopefully we will pull the trigger and shake some shit up in the off season IM OUT!!!!!!December 30, 2008
Kevin Payne and Daniel Manning have no place on any pro football team as defensive starters. manning is an incredible athlete that when told what to do, ie. run when you catch the ball or blitz the corner, can be effective but has no football instincts as an NFL dback. payne hit our players more than the other team's and lacks the speed or skill to be in position to make plays. manning has been killing me as a fan since he was a rookie and i swore that payne was just mike green with a neckroll from 1997
January 4, 2009
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