Uncle Buck

Fudge, I think you hit it on the head, it is really hard to trust this management team to evaluate anyone. As for this offensive line, I think the Bears need to upgrade at guard for next year. Omayile should move back to tackle and compete with Shaeffer and Marten. If none of the three excel, then we can add tackle to the 2011 wish list. I believe an adequate starter can be found from the three. Olin still has something in the tank especially if he has competent guards around him.

Can someone enlighten me as to why this move would be made? Is there some financial benefit for the players or the team? Do the two added players get some service time added for potential player pensions. The cornerback might make some sense, but I am guessing he will be one of the inactives, DJ Moore should finally be active on gameday. As for Banaez, what is the sense in this? Placed on IR with one game to go confuses me, I might be missing the obvious.

I can dream can't I? At this point it, as the media believes, the whole staff will be back. Guys like Pompeii are prepping us all for another serving at the all you can eat Bears crap buffet. I just don't know what else that fans can do to push for a change. I certainly would not advocate asking season ticket holders to drop their tickets, the wait list is too long and some of these tickets have been with families for a long time. What other ways can you punish the Bears for their indifference? I guess not patronizing their sponsors? Not buying Bears merchandise for my kids? I just fear that after the season, someone like Pep Hamilton will be the only sacrifice. That is completely unacceptable. These half witted reporters need to make the McCaskey's realize that a lot more money is at risk than the $11 million to dump Lovie. What is the team's take on merchandising and concessions? How much does all of the sponsors pony up to get their name associated with the team? This all is at risk, or should be and we need the media to get off of the jag that eating Lovie's salary is the worst financial decision the team can make. The risk of losing all of the other revenue streams is a hell of a lot greater than coaching salaries. People say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.........

I was considering the impact the ads and billboard might have on the McCaskey's potential decision to make changes to the team's management. Specifically, I wondered what else could be done to influence a change. As a born and bred Chicagoan and a fan of all of the city's teams I thought of changes our other teams have made and tried to make comparisons to the scenario facing the Bears. I think a good comparison could be made to the Blackhawks. Outside of the mild successes enjoyed during the tenures of Orval Tessier and Mike Keenan, this team has been mired in poor performances over the last twenty years. While Dollar Bill Wirtz was alive ,the team, to its own detriment, focused solely on its season ticket base. Revenue and profits were left on the table because the team refused to broadcast the team's games on free television. Much like the recent Bull's teams, this organization struggled for media coverage and specifically radio coverage of its games. For many years, the Hawks only media coverage came from game coverage from beat reporters. Feature reporters rarely bothered to write about the team. Dollar Bill passes away, Rocky Wirtz steps up to move the team into the world of modern hockey. Bob Pulford (aka Jerry Angelo) is shown the door, the team hires a real coach and rides the coattails of its young talent. The media coverage blossoms, their games are on free television and the organization becomes the toast of the town. While, I don't wish any ill will on Virginia McCaskey, it would be nice if a younger member of the family steps up and applies his/her influence to force organizational change. In the interim, it would be great if the media could start to reduce the team to irrelevancy. Success breeds success and attention. Three straight poor seasons certainly calls for less attention paid to the team by the media. Do we really need all these reporters assigned to this team? If the Bears want to insist on serving up a platter of manure and expecting the public to pay premium prices, stop giving them the free press. Make them pay for it until the product on the field proves it is worthy of coverage and relevancy. I know Chicago is a football town, but these Hawks are converting many people. Perhaps their success will reduce the Bears to second class citizens and our press can help push them there by starting to deemphasize the team. Just my two cents.

Flea, Thanks for the holiday wishes!! If might add my best wishes for a safe and happy holiday season for everyone. Additionally I offer my strongest wishes for a better 2010. A year where friends and family find what they seek, whether it is a job, security, or personal comfort. To all a Merry Christmas!

Boers and Bernstein are two of the biggest a**holes on radio today. Call in some time and disagree with them; either they shout over you or insult you. Boers is a bitter old fart who gave up writing for the Sun-Times because he realized he was talentless and Bernstein thinks he knows everything just because he has a degree from Duke; big deal. As for the billboards at least someone gives a sh*t. These two mopes gripe about stuff all the time but never put themselves or their convictions on the line. They are simply radio fodder, nothing more than minor footnotes in sports history.

From the high of the Hub Arkush report from a few weeks ago to this, the absolute depths of hope as a Bears' fan. Mullin could not have depressed me anymore than this. What has the management of this team done to deserve one more day in charge? How can the McCaskey family really believe that Angelo, Smith, and Phillips can lead the team out of the morass they drove the team to. Liken this to a company that goes into bankruptcy, the norm is that the management team that drove the company into bankruptcy does not get to lead it after the restructuring. With all due respect to Virginia McCaskey, the family clearly has no clue as to the long-term strategy of the team. They have no reliable football people to help guide them, Ted the beancounter cannot help, Angelo has proven himself incompetent. The next few years are going to be dire unless Mullin is wrong. we need a clean house, even new management will be saddled by Jerry and Lovie's crappy handiwork. Yikes, I need a drink.

I really don't see how Angelo can be entrusted to make the necessary changes. What is worse the only other person who could be charged with the responsibility is Phillips, who is as about as qualified as Michael McCaskey. Trusting him and placing hope in his judgment is almost as bad as being asked to trust Lovie after he jettisoned Rivera.

Rosenbloom and Morrissey tend to be on the other end of the spectrum, which I admit to enjoy, but as far as Haugh, it just seems like he spends far too much print space making excuses for the Bears management team. Three years of no playoffs and he believes another chance is in order for Lovie. How would he spin away the 100+ years of Cub suck a tude?

That is the one, Thanks Flea!!

I wanted to solicit some opinions about the David Haugh article that appears in the Chicago Tribune today; I'd post a link but I am too technically deficient to do so. He writes as if he is Ted Phillips offering an open letter to the fans. His premise is that Ted and the McCaskey family is as angry as the fans, but blames the team's problems on the talent rather than coaching. As Ted Phillips he believes Jerry Angelo and Lovie Smith deserve one more chance to right the ship. He cites fiscal responsibility as a reason for this decision. Personally, as far as the Bears and the McCaskey's are concerned, the cost of blowing up this management team is less than the future lost revenue as this team teeters on the brink of irrelevancy. The Hawks are Stanley Cup contenders, the Bears run the risk of fallng behind. The McCaskey family must have someone within the family ranks that have some business sense, they all can't be members of the lucky sperm family. But back to Haugh, I can't believe he would write this article, is he so concerned about his access to the team that he continues to write rear-end kissing drivel? I don't need a sports writer who is over the top but they should call a spade a spade. 10 seasons out of the last 14 have been losing seasons, while all of this does not hang on Angelo or Smith, three straight years of disapppointment screams for accountability. So does anyone agree with Haugh's premse in this Larry Mayer like article?

Noots, As always spot on with your commentary. The sad thing is that I am afraid the McCaskey family will not acknowledge that which everyone else can see, this is rotten from top to bottom. Today's game was an embarassment.

Almost as bad as chalk talk is the articles David Haugh has been producing over at the Tribune. He is a Lovie apologist almost to the level of Larry Mayer.

Hub Arkush was on the Boers and Bernstein show this evening and stated that he had confirmation that someone above Jerry Angelo's position in the organization has started to inquiry into the posibilities of bringing in a new coach. This due diligence has been performed on John Gruden, Shanahan, and Cowher. This executive was looking into the parameters of the size and requirements of a compensation package should the Bears head down the path of replacing Lovie and perhaps Angelo (depending upon the amount of power needed by the new coach). Hub made it seem that if the season continues of its current trajectory, a new regime could be a possibility. He also felt that the Bears had identified Cutler as their greatest asset and are considering building a staff around him, someone who could bring more to the table than this staff. Arkush did not identify the executive, not that he would, but did state he is trying to find out exactly who this person might be. He felt that perhaps the Bear's management/McCaskey family has finally started to listen to the media and fans. Start praying!

Good God Grouchy, you've upgraded from photos!! Where is this clip from and who is that Godess??

Wow, Might not meant to be cruel, but honestly why do you care if it is a separate thread? If you did not like it, just move on. No harm no foul, let the man post as he wishes.

I am pretty sure I saw in the Sun-Times blog tonight that Brad Biggs is reporting the Bears have signed Marty Booker to a two year contract. No details as yet. I would link the blurb but I am technologically challenged Disclaimer- Sorry about this day late dollar short post- I did not see the thread that had been started...my bad

Under a similar vein, I thought I heard on the radio today that Lovie went so far as to call Kennedy a bust when he was still coaching in STL. I can't imagine much has changed other than desperate times call for desperate measures.. I'm thinking we just need warm bodies to run out there.

We signed Baba O'Riley ?????????

Hello Guys, My username is Uncle Buck though on the old site for a number of years I went by Kingston Bob. I don't post too often as I usually don't have much to say but love to read the threads. I sure as heck hope everyone makes it over here. As a side note for the admins; how is Pixote doing?