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My biggest worry on him would be that he's never been an NFL level coach of any sort, only college.

The reason I like this hire so much is...the Saints know how to make their O-Linemen look good. They never leave them out on islands alone against guys who can get to the QB. They provide the help their linemen need to keep Brees clean. The Bears adamantly refused to provide that same kind of help.

This is immediately my favorite hire.

Not a specific comment on you...but I'm amazed at how much better Trestman seems to be viewed compared to just a week ago.

Why do I feel like he'd make the pro-bowl if he had Manning working with him and throwing to him?

Because outside of the last-2 minutes fails...it kept working. Teams that would average 40 a game would come into Chicago and struggle to put up 20, and would only get to 20 because the Bears' offense would help them out with a turnover. That defense works. It keeps teams from scoring, it's effective, year after year. The problem for the Bears has been that they don't have an offense to win a tough game when the opponent scores 20 and haven't had that consistently the entire time.

That's seriously not a whole lot of money, particularly if teams are looking for a TE. What's Dallas's cap situation like? They were the competition for him last year.

Actually, with Houston's scheme (old Shanahan style zone-blocking), that could be much more scheme and development than hitting the lottery. But...it could also be the weakness that led to their loss yesterday, since the Patriots bigger line simply beat up Houston's smaller line and kept hitting Foster in the backfield.

Just out of curiosity, what happens to the cap hits for those guys if they were to be traded? Davis in particular, I could see a team with cap space being willing to take that on for a conditional late round pick Would that save the Bears any additional money relative to what cutting him would do?

It depends on what they're using their athleticism for. A guy like Rodgers...his athleticism is keeping him alive behind their line and allowing him to make plays with his arm. That's different from guys like Vick, RG3, etc, who are using their athleticism to turn themselves into running threats. The former is keeping a guy alive, the latter really starts putting a guy at risk.

Yeah, which other ones need to request the opportunity to interview? Tice?

And if Urlacher b*tched cutler out on the sidelines after Cutler threw one of his clearly unnecessary picks? Same level of fairness?

Remember, if he makes the league, he's going to go immediately into the league's substance abuse program, which means he gets suspended the first time he tests positive for anything.

Honeslty, no I wouldn't. I just don't think he's the kind of guy I want giving to a brand new coach, when that coach also has to earn the respect of a veteran defense. He seems like the kind of guy that I'd want if I had a stable situation with a long-term coach.

I think it should be the coaches job to decide when a player comes out in a case like this...particularly in a playoff game, the player is always going to want to stay in. It's the same reason why the NFL has come up with such detailed rules about making sure people come out if they're concussed; the player always wants to stay in. Shanahan had to have the call unless Griffin said he couldn't go...and Shanahan had to see that his QB could barely limp to the sidelines. He has to put that together.

The other reason people are getting moved around, of course, is injuries.

Honestly, if you watched the 2nd quarter of the game on...this is false. RG3 started off the game all right and able to move the ball, but by the 2nd quarter he'd clearly reinjured the thing and wasn't effective. I get every decision Shanahan made up through the early 3rd Quarter. I'd probably have let him get treatment at the half, try to loosen it up, and see if he could recover a bit in the 3rd. But early in the 3rd, he looked even worse. Any time he tried to throw the ball down the field, it wasn't sharp, and he'd miss open receivers high, which I'm guessing was because he couldn't push off with his back leg. And worse, he couldn't run. There was a particular play in the early 3rd where he scampered off to the left side, had an opening where he could have turned the ball up the field, but basically he limped out of bounds for an 8 yard gain. It was just a joke of a run, I could run more effectively than that, dude limped to the sideline. No explosiveness, no accuracy. If he were effective and moving the ball and he gets hurt, fine, these things happen. From the end of that 2nd TD drive on, he wasn't effective. He was basically bait, he had a target on his back, and he couldn't move the ball. You can't leave him out there to die when he's that ineffective.

Yeah, I'd want no part of Singletary as HC either, but I wouldn't be mad about him as a coordinator option if for some reason the new HC preferred him over Marinelli.

To be fair, on that defense...they did add Aldon Smith right after Singletary left. That's a pretty big addition. There may have been others I don't recall.

I agree with this, but I'm also not sure it's a mistake. If Carimi was thought to be an above average run blocker who would have to survive as a pass blocker (which conveniently is sorta what we saw from him this year, except for the failure to survive as a pass blocker) then they might well have slated him for RT out of the gates, since you don't want weak pass blocking on your QB's blind side.

Thankfully, every candidate except Chip Kelly has spent time in an NFL locker room and system.

Browns also expected to interview Trestman.

I wonder if these sort of metrics count it against an o-lineman when they receive help. Like I keep saying, guys like Bushrod...get help from a TE or RB on almost every play, whereas the Bears had Webb one on one against the team's best rusher on a huge number of plays.

By Q3, everyone could see he was giving them nothing.

Q1: "Why wasn't RG3 on the bench"? Q2: "If Jay cutler was hurt but able to somewhat walk, would you play him"?