Lucky Luciano

i agree. this hire would set in stone that the bear management is really serious about changing where this franchise is going. i'd offer him the moon

question for you or all... if marinelli is under contract, and i assume that he was, how did he resign his position in chicago and THEN get hired by the cowboys in 2013? how can you hire someone who has a written contract to work for someone else? i agree, it makes no sense at all. maybe that is why it makes sense for this franchise.

something doesn't sound right. 1. rod baby is doing the interviews for emery? just what is going on with emery? why is our DC doing HC interviews? if he wasn't under contract why was he interviewing anyone. if he was under contract why wasn't he our DC in the first place then? 2. according to the media, one reason ariens didn't come to chicago was because of marinelli being forced on him as DC. now we are led to believe that marinelli was in charge of interviewing ariens and it was his first choice? 3. then emery decides on another coach and we let marinelli walk if he was under contract and hire a proven loser? what the hell??? if this is the case teddy boy AND emery should have been beaten with a lead pipe wrapped in barb wire. =========== you know what? this is the EXACT reason we need a president of football operations. we are the insane leading the blind.

really? who gave dick jauron an extension? who allowed lovie smith to stay 3 years past when he should have been fired? who gave john shoop an extension as OC? who hired terry shea as OC? who hired ron turner after a failed system at UI as our OC? who hired mike martz as OC? who hired mike tice as OC? where are all of these offensive minded genius's NOW? who fired ron rivera and replace our DC with freaking BABICH? who demoted babich and allowed LOVIE to fail at doing what he is supposed to be stellar at?? free agents? qb's - kordel stewart, henry burris, quinn, chris chandler, chad hutchinson, griese, tod collins, jay cutler (if you hate him) for 2 first round draft picks (drafted qb's lefevour, crenzel, grossman, enderle, orton (good pick) who left us with 2 (and that's including paea if you consider him a good starter which i don't) drafted quality starting players under the age of 30 when he left on this roster? drafting well is THE most important job a GM can do!! here is jerry angelo's body of work. ============= EDITED=========== this was a list i compiled a few years ago and some of the figures were not updated. it now should be updated and correct. if anyone finds any faults please let me know and i will adjust them. Jerry Angelo Draft Picks 2002 - 2011 1st RD TOTAL PICKS - 8 6 offensive players 2 defensive players - 2006 traded out of 1st round and got d. manning 2 picks in 2003 0 picks in 2006, 2009, 2010 Quality Starters - Tommie Harris 2011 29 29 Gabe Carimi OT Wisconsin 2010 NO PICK Cutler Trade 2009 NO PICK Cutler Trade 2008 14 14 Chris Williams OT Vanderbilt 2007 31 31 Greg Olsen TE Miami (FL) 2006 NO PICK 2005 4 4 Cedric Benson RB Texas 2004 14 14 Tommie Harris DT Oklahoma 2003 14 14 Michael Haynes DE Penn State 2003 22 22 Rex Grossman QB Florida 2002 29 29 Marc Colombo OT Boston College 2nd RD TOTAL PICKS - 8 2 offensive players 6 defensive players 2 picks in 2006 Quality Starters - Charles Tillman 2011 21 53 Stephen Paea DT Oregon St. Pick From Colts via Skins 2010 NO PICK Traded to Bucs for Adam Gaines 2009 NO PICK Traded with Seahawks the #17 position in the 2nd round 2008 13 44 Matt Forte RB Tulane 2007 30 62 Dan Bazuin DE Central Michigan 2006 10 42 Danieal Manning S Abilene Christian 2006 25 57 Devin Hester CB Miami (FL) 2005 7 39 Mark Bradley WR Oklahoma 2004 15 47 Tank Johnson DT Washington 2003 3 35 Charles Tillman CB Louisiana-Lafayette 2002 31 63 NO PICK - Traded to Dallas 3rd RD TOTAL PICKS - 13 5 offensive players 8 defensive players 2 picks in 2008 and 2007 Quality Starters - Lance Briggs (Bernard Barrian) 2011 29 93 Chris Conte S California 2010 11 75 Major Wright S Florida 2009 4 65 Jarron Gilbert DE San Jose St. - From Seahawks for 2nd round trade out 2009 20 84 NO PICK Cutler Trade to Broncos 2009 35 99 Juaquin Iglesias WR Oklahoma - Compensatory Pick 2008 7 70 Earl Bennett WR Vanderbilt 2008 27 90 Marcus Harrison DT Arkansas 2007 30 93 Garrett Wolfe RB Northern Illinois 2007 31 94 Michael Okwo LB Stanford 2006 9 73 Dusty Dvoracek DT Oklahoma 2004 15 78 Bernard Berrian WR Fresno State 2003 4 68 Lance Briggs LB Arizona 2002 7 72 Roosevelt Williams CB Tuskegee - Trade From Dallas 2002 28 93 Terrence Metcalf OG Mississippi 4th RD TOTAL PICKS - 12 2 offensive players 10 defensive players 2 picks in 2004 and 2003 Quality Starters - Nathan Vasher, Alex Brown 2011 30 127 NO PICK TRADED TO WASHINGTON 2010 11 109 Corey Wootton DE Northwestern 2009 5 105 Henry Melton DE Texas - From Seahawks for 2nd round trade out 2009 19 119 D.J. Moore CB Vanderbilt 2008 21 120 Craig Steltz S LSU 2007 31 130 Josh Beekman OG Boston College 2006 23 120 Jamar Williams LB Arizona State 2005 5 106 Kyle Orton QB Purdue 2004 14 110 Nathan Vasher CB Texas 2004 16 112 Leon Joe LB Maryland 2003 3 100 Todd Johnson S Florida 2003 19 116 Ian Scott DT Florida 2002 6 104 Alex Brown DE Florida - From trade with Dallas 5th RD TOTAL PICKS - 17 7 offensive picks 10 defensive picks 2 picks in 2009, 2008, 2007, 2004 3 picks in 2003 Quality Starters - Mark Anderson 2011 29 160 Nathan Enderle QB Idaho 2010 10 141 Josh Moore CB Kansas St. 2009 4 140 Johnny Knox WR Ablilene Christian - From Seahawks for 2nd round trade out 2009 18 154 Marc Freeman LB Ohio State 2008 7 142 Zack Bowman CB Nebraska 2008 23 158 Kellen Davis TE Michigan State 2007 30 167 Kevin Payne S Louisiana-Monroe 2007 31 168 Corey Graham CB New Hampshire 2006 27 159 Mark Anderson DE Alabama 2005 4 140 Airese Currie WR Clemson 2004 15 147 Claude Harriott DE Pittsburgh 2004 16 148 Craig Krenzel QB Ohio State 2003 4 139 Bobby Wade WR Arizona 2003 8 143 Justin Gage WR Missouri 2003 36 171 Tron Lafavor DT Florida 2002 5 140 Bobby Gray S Louisiana Tech - From trade with Dallas 2002 30 165 Bryan Knight LB Pittsburgh 6th RD TOTAL PICKS - 11 7 offensive picks 4 defensive picks 2 picks in 2006 and 2003 3 picks in 2002 0 picks in 2007 and 2008 Quality Starters - none 2011 30 195 J. T. Thomas LB W. Virginia 2010 11 181 Dan LeFevour QB Central Michigan 2009 17 190 Al Afalava S Oregon St. 2008 NO PICK 2007 NO PICK 2006 26 195 J.D. Runnels FB Oklahoma 2006 31 200 Tyler Reed OG Penn State 2005 7 181 Chris Harris S Louisiana-Monroe 2003 18 191 Joe Odom LB Purdue 2003 33 206 Brock Forsey RB Boise State 2002 27 199 Adrian Peterson RB Georgia Southern - From trade with Miami 2002 31 203 Jamin Elliott WR Delaware 2002 38 210 Bryan Fletcher TE UCLA 7th RD TOTAL PICKS - 12 7 offensive picks 5 defensive picks 2 picks in 2007 5 picks in 2008 0 picks in 2011, 2006 and 2002 Quality Starters - none 2011 NO PICK 2010 11 218 J'marcus Webb OT West Texas A&M 2009 20 229 NO PICK - Traded to Bucs 2009 37 246 Lance Louis OG San Diego State - Compensatory Pick 2008 1 208 Ervin Baldwin DE Michigan State 2008 15 222 Chester Adams OG Georgia 2008 36 243 Joey LaRocque LB Oregon State 2008 40 247 Kirk Barton OT Ohio State 2008 41 248 Marcus Monk WR Arkansas 2007 11 221 Trumaine McBride CB Mississippi 2007 31 241 Aaron Brant OT Iowa State 2005 6 220 Rodriques Wilson LB South Carolina 2004 14 215 Alfonso Marshall CB Miami (FL) 2003 47 261 Bryan Anderson OG Pittsburgh 2002 NO PICK - Traded to Miami TOTAL PICKS OFFENSE - 36 TOTAL PICKS DEFENSE - 45 1st DAY PICKS Rds 1 - 3 Offense - 13 Defense - 16 2nd DAY PICKS Rd's 4 - 5 Offense - 9 Defense - 20 2nd DAY PICKS Rd's 6 - 7 Offense - 14 Defense - 9 5 QB's - rds 1, 4, 5 and 6 12 OL - 6 OT's - 3 rd 1, 3 rd 7; 6 OG - 1 rd 3, 1 rd 4, 1 rd 6, 3 rd 7 5 RB's - 1 rd 1, 1 rd 2, 1 rd 3, 2 rd 6 1 FB - rd 6 10 WR's - 1 rd 2, 3 rd 3, 4 rd 5, 1 rd 6, 1 rd 7 3 TE's - 1 rd 1, 1 rd 5, 1 rd 6 9 DE's - 1 rd 1, 1 rd 2, 1 rd 3, 3 rd 4, 2 rd 5, 1 rd 7 7 DT's - 1 rd 1, 2 rd 2, 2 rd 3, 1 rd 4, 1 rd 5 10 LB's - 2 rd 3, 2 rd 4, 2 rd 6, 2 rd 6, 2 rd 7 19 DB's - 9 S's - 1 rd 2, 2 rd 3. 2 rd 4, 2 rd 5, 2 rd 6 10 CB's - 2 rd 2, 1 rd 3, 2 rd 4, 3 rd 5, 2 rd 7

i understand what you are saying.- they have to make a decision on who to hire even if it is a team president and in a sense, i agree. on the surface it seems like a catch 22. but... in these respects time is extremely crucial. your franchise should be ready to make a move before the season ends and certainly no later than after the last game is played. that way you get a shot at the best people to bring into the fold. the bears in this instance should have hired a president of football operations weeks ago. at the very least this accosi should have had the list of candidates for this franchise to look over and make their choices on before the last game was over. we are wasting weeks of critical time by not having done this. this is why we need someone in this position. this franchise/corporation has been poorly run for decades. if the owners were actually successful in any form of football related business or even in the corporate business world i may have 'some' faith in their decisions at least initially. but they have not. in the last 50-60 years they have made catastrophic decisions on the football side of this business and especially over the last 35 in regards to the mccaskey family. by hiring a president of football operations your candidates certainly would be on the surface qualified football people. someone like polian, holmgren or even accosi. even if some of those candidates i mentioned didn't want the long term job make them an offer they can't refuse. give them a hefty salary for 1 year to get this ship on an even keel by forming a cognizant football model for the mccaskey family to run it by and hire a long term president in the future on this persons recommendations. as it is they are bailing a sinking ship with a teaspoon. HIRING A PRESIDENT: he the tip of the spear so to speak. this is the one man responsible for the long term success or failure of your football team on the field. he also is the simplistic person that the mccaskey's fire if it all fails and hire someone else more capable. he is the buffer between managment and operations. it is also his job to evaluate the league and the trends they are moving in to be successful. he macro manages your franchise. he also is the person who hires, evaluates and fires a GM and works with this GM to create an environment focused on winning superbowls. his duties SHOULD include a list of talent to run this team at the highest level from all over the league including the college ranks. this includes a list to replace a GM, scouts, head coach and all of the assistants BEFORE it is needed. in other words the minute he hires a GM (or coaches) he should be scouring the NFL for his/their replacement and have a list of the best candidates to update this position should the need arise through poor performance by his GM or others. the president is someone able to see when someone is failing at their job before it gets to the point that the team is not reaching it's objective or potential and plug in the best replacement immediately from this list if it is needed. this is what we now lack from the current management structure. by the time they see the problem the whole world has already figured it out months or years before and we have wasted time and money going nowhere. it took the current management 10 years to realize angelo was BAD. it took them 5 years to discover lovie smith was BAD after a superbowl appearance. it took a media firestorm to realize emery and trestman were not the men for the job in chicago. it SHOULD have taken them less than a season to discover mel tucker was BAD plus in my opinion they should have seriously questioned the hire in the first place. these are just some of the reasons we need this buffer between the football side and the business side of the franchise.

no it is not totally different. while i agree that accorsi 'sounds' like a very good person to sift through the talent, the bottom line is still the same as it was 3 years ago and 13 years ago. the person deciding to hire WHO accorsi puts on the list is the same one who hired angelo and emery. now you say that it's different because they will stay out of the football side of the equation involving coaches and player personnel and leave it to the GM. ok, that means they don't consider themselves capable of doing so don't you agree? YET... they consider themselves capable of choosing or HIRING the guy that makes these decisions???? that defies logic unless the list provided by accorsi consists of one person!! (if they had ANY input who to hire as a HC with emery, that means they PASSED on ariens to get trestman who must have been on a list of candidates. and why did ariens tell them to take a hike? because phillips, george or emery wanted to force marinelli on him. so it's obvious they couldn't choose the correct person to hire for the right reasons from a LIST of candidates. so, what makes you think choosing a GM from a list would be different?). my HOPE: if connorbear is correct (and i hope he is) that a president of football operations to oversee the entire franchise including GM may be made in the near future. if not then what really is the difference from the past? there are very, very important reasons why we need one for this franchise.

the PROBLEM with all of this is exactly the same as it was when we hired jerry angeol and phil emery. the president of this franchise knows NOTHING about football yet is working with failed owners to choose part 3 of the GM merry-go-round. so WHO is going to decide if the new GM is failing? hire another committee? it's the same B.S. until they prove that they can get this DONE right which is still going to be years down the road. i don't feel like it's much of anything different. hope i am wrong.

george inferring to choosing candidates with "We" meaning ted phillips. talking about hiring consultants to find the GM with no time frame involved. oh well, so it goes

if what we are seeing is truly in the works then we really may see a change in how this franchise operates and is perceived. the rumors are out there that from the top down they have used the phoenix effect. burn this franchise to the ground and let it rise from the ashes. if so, then there is finally real hope for this team and it's fans. it seems it is starting from the very top: virginia mccaskey (a very good read)... http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12/29/ber...d-bears-action/ moving ted phillips out of football operations and really hire a team president in that respect. these things are way more important than just hiring and firing a new coach. it seems there is FINALLY a different mindset in the mess that has been this franchise for decades and someone to finally be accountable.

player salaries have absolutely no bearing on whether a franchise is cheap in today's NFL. take that away and then decide what the mccaskey family AND halas's have done that would disprove that. they got a freebee stadium since their inception. the cost of their facilities has been below average or at VERY best average. they have cut out the best middlemen (GM's) for decades by running the franchise themselves with the one exception of finks. the people/coaches they hire outside of the family are generally at below average salary costs and end up to be generally inept. just what have they done to say they are not cheap?

emery: to me... it's WHO he hired. even with the trestman gamble, there is absolutely NO way he can justify tucker. as it turns out that's TWO franchise changing hires that went south and one that couldn't have been a surprise at all. if he stays what credibility does he have hiring the next ones? as far as phillips? he is 0 for 2 in hiring a GM to make those decisions on who to hire, extend and who to draft. once through a freakin firm who took 2 months to figure out hiring angelo in which time all the viable candidates were LONG gone. the 2nd was entirely his choice in emery. CHOP HIM!!

UNLESS... it is a move for garza to retire a bear this offseason. if NOT... it's just the same old stupidity for another decade. if emery is coming back it adds to the list of just WHY he should have been fired in the first place and why this organization is geared to fail. why in the HELL would you make personnel moves BEFORE you hire a new coach??? it certainly isn't like 31 other teams are going to knock down garza's door to sign him in the day after our last game. welcome to the mccaskey merry-go-round of a poorly run franchise. disgusting!!

the rest i can give a maybe or probably but this? to me it's exactly the opposite. he has poor instincts and is a crazy hitter. this guy has the injuries to prove it.

all at a time that we need high draft picks in the worst way. LOL!! if they do that they are beyond stupid. mikey needs to write another book... HOW TO FAIL AND STILL MAKE MILLIONS

the guy that knows the least about football is involved with the bears future after catastrophic failure. hmmmm, that sounds about right. does that mean we hire ANOTHER consulting firm to look for a GM or head coach or do we keep the SAME consulting firm that found us the last ones seeing how they did such a good job the last time or two? does this mean if we are looking for a GM the "consultants" should have us a list of candidates by next june? no wonder this franchise is the laughing stock of the NFL.

rashan salam?

i don't believe that they had cutler in mind as a bridge. he showed progress last season that led them to believe he could progress this season and maybe not be a manning or brady but he could still function as a top 10 QB to get them to a super bowl. it certainly is no surprise, if that was the case, that they structured his contract like it is. this has been how this franchise has done business for the last 10+ years. they front load everything to take the biggest cap hits in the first 1-2 years of nearly all their big contract players. it then averages out with the lower cap hit over time and the bargain in the future as the player costs/salaries around the league go up supposedly keeps our salary cap friendly for key players. once past that intitial crunch we were set with a high impact player we had at a low league cost or if injured we would not be in salary cap hell. it's a CATCH 22 (where is yosarian when you really need him)... we were/are in serious trouble because we could not balance our offense with a pass/run game plan and it appears very few people understand the nuts and bolts of why (at least from what you hear in the media firestorm). it's really quite simple, basic football. if you are one dimensional in your attack without the ability to change or variate, within a very short time your foe (if he is worth a damn) will take that uno dimension away from you and you will lose... period. whether you implement a one dimensional running attack or passing the results will be the same. one important reason? we have a catastrophically poor defense that has set nearly every record for bad in chicago since the start of professional football. in basic terms, other teams can score at will. that leaves us with a one dimensional attack to compensate for this. we do NOT have the time or luxury in a game to establish a genuine running attack. the game clock would run out and we would still be behind by a LOT of points. it is perfectly clear when we play any team with a top tier QB. they eat up the clock and usually score TD's. whether through huge chunks of yardage for quick scores or through 80+ yard drives, the rusult is the same. so always playing from behind or the real potential to be playing from behind has negated the time it will take to mix that running game up into the game plan. simply... we have to pass more to keep us in the game because we have nearly no choice. one MAJOR fault of this scenario is emmery, phillips and george mccaskey. these people are the ones who found, approved and hired who at the time was one of if not THE worst defensive coordinator in the NFL. what could they possibly have been thinking??? they wanted THIS guy to come in and teach a flurry of young players/draftee's we would be forced to acquire and play over the next 2-3 years how to succeed in the NFL? to top it off, they KEEP this guy on after the season he showed last year??? in reality it was one of the worst defenses in the entire histor of the NFL!!!! that is just plain criminal intent. it sends a message to our players and the rest of the league that no matter HOW bad you are your job is never in jeopardy in chicago. it's flat out stupidity. in my opinion there is no plan with the imbeciles running management in this franchise. at this time they are in the rope-a-dope mode. they are up against the ropes taking body blows until their opponent (the media) wears himself out. then it's bad business as usual. what i would do (i know it's repetitive)... hire a president of football operations who really understands management of football operations to replace phillips. this franchise NEEDS two people running this side of the franchise because the owners are too stupid to do it themselves. let him hire a GM or keep the one they have it's up to him completely. but it needs to be done NOW before any candidates are gone when the season ends and that includes president, GM and especially good head coaches. if it goes wrong you have ONE person to blame and that is the president. simple structure for simpletons. keep culter or trade him it matters not. ask the guy you want to replace trestman what he wants to do. he can start cutler, he can keep cutler on the bench as a backup until you find that franchise qb or you can flat out cut or trade him. let a GOOD coach make that determination in conjunction with the GM and president without cutlers money being factored into the decision.

i chose other... i would fire ted phillips first and foremost. hire someone who is sharp in NFL management, polian or holmgren (i don't have a clue) or whoever is the freaking best football minded man out there to make the decisions, WITHOUT mccaskey stipulations, on whether to hire or fire anyone else in this franchise. if you don't do this then what the hell is the point of any of it?

in my opinion he was a terrible head coach and i would not want him as a DC either. his system was compromised since the late 90's to early 2000's and he was unable or unwilling to adjust his schemes or his total outlook on defense. the lovie 2 or tampa 2 was not a good enough system without major adjustments to beat high octane offenses and win superbowls without a high octane offense of his own and with as much money and draft picks they used on defense this was not possible. there were and are just too many holes in the zones and any qb, even bad ones, ripped us apart for those 8-10 yard passes that ate up 1st downs and yardage. we made garbage qb's look like HOF players for a game. you needed man coverages to mix up the look and quite frankly he never saw it as a solution. it also needs very high quality players to run it and he lucked out having them for a time in chicago. a very good DT in tommy harris, a very good safety in mike brown, a very good #2 CB in peanut and 2 possible HOF linebackers in url and briggs. when these components broke down due to injury or age the system flat out did not work yet he was unable to either work with angelo to draft competent replacements ( a zillion defensive picks over the 10 year period) or coach up new players to take their place or adjust the scheme to fit the players he was forced to play. it was the same ole, same ole expecting different results each week. his coaching staff was nearly a joke with the exception of our special teams coach. he fired a good DC and promoted a cronie in babich as DC. the results were a complete disaster that nearly got him fired yet he stuck by these failures come hell or high water. when the world called for babich's head he demoted him and took the reins himself as HC/DC. this truly showed how the system he ran was flawed. as far as the offensive side of the ball? he did not have a clue what to do with the bad OC's he had to make any better and again relied on cronies he worked with before, martz. to watch what martz was trying to accomplish with cutler and the offensive line he was behind was plain criminal. same goes for tice. to have stuck that long with grossman was plain... gross. i also have to bring up the benson situation. this guy had some problems without doubt but lovie certainly did NOT help the situation by allowing the defensive players to verbally and physically beat down a 1st round draft pick because they liked the previous RB better. it was stupid and it was dividing the team. unless lovie has changed since going to tampa i still do not believe he is a good coach other than a position coach which is possible. he is a very nice person maybe but that is where i draw the line.

AGREED!!! this would be a crucial time to fill this position as you stated. the only conceivable alternative is someone else on their radar that could be had once the season was over. the only problem with with that is their radar seems to consist of rubber bands and tinfoil rotated by donkey's tied to a horse mill.

how the mccaskey family has failed to learn ANYTHING in regards to running an NFL franchise after 35 years, since mugs halas died in 1979, is truly unbelievable. they put the boy genius mikey in charge and he personally drove this franchise into the ground for over 30 years with bad decisions. after 20 years it became so bad and he was taking so much heat from fans and the media that they moved their financier and vice president ted phillips (supposedly) into mikey's spot as president and GM to take the spotlight off their golden boy genius son and demoted him to gardener. off to mowing the grass at halas hall huh mikey? right! meanwhile the 'family' gave us the song and dance routine that the family financier money man was somehow smart enough and experienced enough to run an NFL franchise as the president and CEO and he was calling the shots. total BS. in reality phillips was mikey's lap dog, puppet, media punching bag and couldn't even tie his own shoes without mike mccaskey's permission. the boy genius was pulling all the strings and still running the franchise for the next 10 years behind the scenes until 2011 when he decided to retire from the job he had done so well for 3 decades. at that time the 'family' decided to make george, a guy who was the senior director of ticket operations, as the new chairman of the chicago bears franchise. he immediately stepped in to continue the idiocy that bear management had fine tuned for the last 30 years. he and president phillips fire a completely inept GM but ties the man who replaced him's hands behind his back before the man even set foot in his office at halas hall by insisting that the former inept coach be kept for one more season. a freaking lame duck coach in which there was no possibility of finding or replacing any assistants to work with him and wasting an entire draft and season to conform to a coach that would be fired in one more year. brilliant!! ted/george then decide, the next season after firing lovie, that it worked so well putting restrictions on their gm that they conspire with the NEW GM to force whatever new coach they hire to tie HIS hands behind his back before he even signs on the dotted line with the stipulation that they keep rod marinelli as DC. genius move!! where do these people come up with this crap? it not only doesn't work it's been proven 2-3 times or more by OUR franchise to NOT work. yet none of the owners can ever seem to figure out what 80-90% of the fans could tell you in a new york minute the problem was. so... ole 'rod' decides he has had enough here and leaves. our GM then hires a proven failure to replace him, with the family and phillips approval, to compliment an untested head coach who needed to rely on someone good on that side of the ball to smooth over his transition into the NFL as a HC. the solution?? it's not hiring a new head coach at this point. it's not hiring a new GM this season without the real changes made below. we are stuck with the owners we have so that doesn't appear to be an option at this time unfortunately. that leaves us to HOPE that george or one of his siblings has enough sense to see the problem and hires a FOOTBALL man to replace sweaty teddy with someone who hopefully knows what he is doing. cause lady's and gentlemen, that is where the problem lies. we need first and foremost a president of this franchise who knows football and can make good decisions on how to run this team. let him with NO restrictions hire and fire a GM, scouts, head coach and assistants. in other words all football operations. this is the only way, other than through blind dumb luck, this franchise comes out of it's tailspin into the ground at super sonic speed and becomes something other than a laughing stock of the NFL and a cash cow for the mccaskey family.

i really have to say no. he has that bad combination of arrogant, stubborn and stupid we have dealt with here in the past. plus... do we really want a cheater? this goes with stupid. he got busted for the same exact thing that bilichek got busted for who should have had his superbowl win taken away from him. that is incredibly stupid.

very interesting post. i don't believe i have ever looked at it in that way before. good job. i agree on the short term for a firebrand type of coach. ditka got away with it early as he had some truly strong willed players on the offensive side of the ball already in place (mcmahon, payton and some others) and had ryan on the defensive side, another firebrand type of coach, who offset it and basically divided the team in two parts. once ryan was gone (and mcmahon was constantly injured and payton retired) the tactic stopped working as ditka didn't have the offensive chops he believed he had and became a serious detriment to the team as a whole on both sides of the ball. to me another example could be used in coughlin. he was a nutbag psycho at jacksonville where it worked for a time but he could not sustain it and lost the team. after he went to the giants he brought that with him but after a season or two in NY he mellowed out his act and had more success.

hahahahaha thanks for reaffirming my previous post to you.

he failed miserably in denver as HC. he went to buffalo and lasted only 2 seasons. was interim HC in atlanta and texas and was let go. was cowboys HC and let go (not surprising with a knumbskull owner). so i just stay away from him in that role. one of his negatives is he seems to rarely last with any team longer than 2 years but i still give him the call as DC.