BearFan2000

his name isn't Ruskell which is +1, he's been involved in drafts before, and has been involved in drafting some pretty good talent. I would have rather seen Ross but I kinda had a feeling it would end up being Emery. What I don't care for as much is that he happens to have connections here. The Bears seem to prefer hiring someone who is or was connected to someone who's in the organization now. Whether it's a friend, former colleague, friend of a friend, drinking buddy, or whatever. That said Emery might be a good fit at GM he has experience with the draft which was one of the main areas that got Angelo fired. He has some good names associated with him as far as drafting goes. So I will give him a chance it will probably take a couple years or so to really see if he's a good fit or not. What we shouldn't do is say if he doesn't have an outstanding first year and we don't win a SB that he sucks and needs to go. A new GM rarely turns the team around in a year. We gave Angelo 11 years. Let's just hope that if it's 5-6 years down the road and there is little to no improvement in the GM area and he's still here then I'd start raising cane.

As an Irish fan I would absolutely love to have this guy in a Bears uni. I don't see any character issues with him. Yes he had an issue that caused him to miss time with the team but he has learned from that and has been an upstanding guy since. Watching him become the focal point of the Irish passing game when defenses know he's going to get the ball thrown his way a lot and still makes the catches. The guy is a beast and will fight for the ball. Has great body control, good hands, etc. I would be thrilled if the Bears got him. We need more big receivers who know how to fight for the ball and will make plays for us.

something to think about is that these candidates are not exactly going to be completely ignorant of our roster, the situation, etc. When you are going out on interviews for a job do you not research the companies you are considering working for? I would say most people don't just blindly interview for a job. I would bet they have all done homework on the Bears and researched things as well as come up with some ideas/plans to improve the team they are interviewing for. As an employer looking to hire a GM you need to know if 1. they have a plan to improve the team, what that plan might look like, etc. As an interviewee you would want to have something you could present to your prospective employer as your vision for the the team going forward. I wouldn't be so quick to say these guys know nothing about the Bears till they get here for the interview.

I look at it this way as others have pointed out Martz doesn't see the TE as a real part of the offense other than a blocker and occasionally a receiver. With Tice in as OC and lets say for the sake of argument that Davis turns out to develop into a weapon in the passing game especially in the Red Zone that is just further indictment of why Martz system is obsolete in todays NFL. Look at the teams in the NFL that are successful... how many of them utilize one or more Pass catching TE's or better yet do any of them not use the TE as a receiver. If Tice will look to utilize the TE as a passing option I'd like to see what we really do have in Davis and if we can bring in Finley without making too big of a dent, then do it. When you can add more talent to your team you should do it. I for one am tired of the "we're good enough at this spot" thinking. Good enough only gets you so far. The teams that constantly look at upgrading or adding talent too every position are the ones regularly pushing for a strong post season bid. If we can develop Davis and pair him with Finley who is established. It gives Cutler more weapons to throw to and may take some of the pressure off the WR's who definitely need upgrading. The flip side of this is that part of the reason we didn't use the TE as a receiver as much is because we kept them in to help bolster a weak OL. We sacrificed targets in order to max protect. So while it's tempting to turn our TE's loose on routes to give cutler more targets. A weak OL makes it tough for Jay to have time to find those targets and stay upright while running for his life. That said, Tice from what I've heard, will make protecting Jay a priority and looking to put him in a position to excel. That means not dropping back 5-7 steps and turning your franchise QB that you paid dearly for into a pinata where defenses could just tee off on him. Giving him multiple launch points, using his running ability to boot, and roll out, and PA. Jay is a heck of an athlete and his ability to make plays on the run salvaged more plays than we probably realize. The ability to Audible will also help by allowing Jay to use his knowlege of defenses, his experience, give him the power to check out of a bad play rather than run it knowing it's going to get blown up. I remember when I first heard that Martz didn't allow audibles by the QB, and thinking that is asinine! Is this the kiddie table? Is Jay not a grown man who has played QB long enough that he is capable of recognizing "this play is a bad idea." Martz system worked best when he had prow bowl talent at the OL along with PB QB, and WR. With Martz here we were our own worst enemy, and an offensive scheme that by and large highlighted the weakness of our OL. I believe that when you have a weak to average at best Line your offensive scheme itself can make that worse by stubbornly trying to do things you simply don't have the talent to do... But with the right schemes you can at least help minimize the issues. Even when we kept TE's in to block most of the pressure that got to Jay was up front the interior of our line was bad. But rather than use rollouts, boots, PA, etc to give Jay different launch points Martz used Jay as a drop back passer which just set us up for failure. I may be sipping some kool-aid but who's to say Tice can't develop a system that better tailors itself to what we have to work with. And we see a Bears offense that gets more out of what talent it does have at OL, WR, and TE.

I think the majority of Bears nation celebrated that loss. There were points where I was worried that the help the refs were giving GB would put them over the edge when it was all said and done. Interesting that those blown callse happened at key points. The first fumble that was initially called correctly was switched to down by contact by the ref that remembered they were on the GB payroll. Then when the Giants challenged they weren't going to over turn it. That extended a drive that lead to a TD. THen the bogus roughing that extended yet another key drive that resulted in a TD. 14 of their points were basically given to them. Reguardless, I was thrilled to see that cocky, overrated pice of trash team eliminiated from the playoffs.

Make that a perfect storm system.... you want to see how to groom QB's in the NFL... as much as I hate to say it... look at GB. Farve was there forever look at the guys they had under him who went on to be starters elsewhere. Favre was their guy but they continued to draft and develop the next guy. When Favre was gone Rodgers was there to step in having sat behind Brett for a few years. Right now that guy being developed is Flyn They will probably continue to draft a QB every few years. This is how teams who are well managed rotate talent and seem to always have talent at various positions. My guess is Flynn will be traded somewhere else and become that teams starter for a while and the Packers will have the next guy to develop. The Bears on the other hand are clueless on the art of drafting and developing talent. We didn't draft Cutler, we gave up a crap load of picks in a trade to get him. Who do we have under him to develop? Haine who's regressed since he's gotten here to the point where a guy who's not started an NFL game in 4 years and was recently coaching kids came in and looked far better than Caleb who'd been in the system for a few years. McCown looked decent, enderlee who the heck knows what we have in him. This staff seems to know nothing about developing talent. The bears are a franchise that doesn't plan for the future but rather plans for the present, if nothing else to keep the team just competitive enough to keep people in the stands. The Packers on the other hand are an example of a team that plans for the present but not at the expense of the future as well. You build todays team with tomorrows team in mind.

The D held most of the game but the way we closed the game out on both sides of the ball was atrocious. UP 10 in the 4th on offense we just go completely conservative and just run up the middle 3 times and punt on multiple possessions, no real attempt to pick up first downs. Then on Defense we go into complete prevent where we basically gave them a wide open receiver for 10-20 yard chunks. at a time. I am soooo beyond sick of watching the Bears go into this prevent gimmie defense and let a team who needs to score march effortlessly down the field. They can praise Tebow all they want but we made it super easy on them in the last 5-7 min and let them tie the game up that is inexcusable!!! Yes we should have still won this in overtime Barber's fumble was unforced and was a total killer. We were well in FG range. But it should have never come to overtime. We gave this game away at the end. Just once I'd like to see the Bears put the clamps down, and play the kind of defense that had kept Denver off the score board all game long. Make them fight, scratch, and claw for every friggin inch don't just give them easy pitch and catch. The Bears beat themselves today. Three straight weeks of playing not to lose and we are sitting on an 0-3 stretch where we have played ourselves out of the playoff picture. No need for Cutler and Forte to hurry back there won't be anything to play for.

That was huge when Cutler and Forte combined to get him out of bounds. Up 11 points with around 8 min to play and I think they still had all their time outs. A TD on that is huge. And as it turned out was even bigger when Rivers characteristically forced a ball into the end zone where best case scenario would be an incompletion (I know all to well, I drafted this guy on my fantasy team). But what follow was just as impressive. We converted 7 straight 3rd downs to chew up around 7 min of clock. I didn't agree with the fake punt call, I would have rather tried to pin them deep, with just under 2 min to go and no time outs. Then Rivers does what he's done best this year and threw the ball to Graham sealing the game. I guess given the situation the fake punt wasn't a bad risk, given it was a two score game and they were out of timeouts and the clock inside 2 min. if we make it game over. If we fail they are still behind the eight ball. Would have worked if Podleash wouldn't have over threw Steltz. On the post game show they were talking about that play by cutler and compared it to the Super Bowl when Rex basically does nothing to stop the guy from returning that interception for a TD. What Cutler and Forte did was prove that you fight for every inch in this game you never know what will happen if you knock them out of bounds and they have to try to score conventionally.

That ball punch and recovery by Tillman was a thing of beauty. The timing alone was amazing the guy is running by him and at just the right moment he punches the ball. That is how you know this is a skill not luck. If I had a guy running by me at or near full speed how many times out of 10 would I time that punch just right to hit all ball to knock it out and then make the recovery myself. The man's been doing it his whole career and should be in the pro bowl this year. People say our D is lucky because of turnovers but a vast majority of them are forced. The Bears create their own opportunities. In the Bears case it's a good thing to have strippers on the team

Seems like we've seen this movie before.

they mentioned the actual injury on the score and that it was a serious injury. And I don't think there was a fine on the hit but there should have been, he intentionally lowered his helmet to drive into his chest. It was really dirty play and wasn't necessary Bennet wasn't going to make the catch if I recall correctly.

This line sums it all up nicely.

I"ve actually joked before about why not try some of our D-Line depth at offensive line. How could they play any worse? Our O-Line would have a hard time blocking a stationary object.

Can't say Cutler isn't one tough SOB

what a waste of talents like Cutler, Forte, Urlacher, Briggs, Peppers etc. This whole team and staff needs an overhaul. They are giving way too much credit to Detroit for the pass rush, and the false starts. Anyone watching the Bears knows our offense is a false start waiting to happen. Detroit does rush the passer well but we are making it super easy.

Sad But True

Bears take suck to a whole new level

that run just killed my hopes to win my fantasy matchup too.... DAMMMIT...... this sucks on so many levels.

You miss understand yes there was sarcasm but I was not taking a shot at you, I was joining in taking a shot at our brain trust in Chicago.

we have to be the joke of the NFL. We play guys out of position, we run a defense that has well known design flaws and we just say "we know there are flaws" rather than "we are looking at how to close those holes" even if it's not possible to fix the flaw without a system overhaul to sit there and say "oh well, what can you do, we just need to play better" Our offensive line couldn't block a stationary object. Max protect..... LOL more like Max Whiff. Our Line blocks like contact is illegal.

Who can argue with genius like this?

this just keeps getting better and better

Fire Lovie Smith and staff, our time management is a freaking joke. blow two timeouts in the first quarter, then challenge a spot that's not going to get overturned. now we have no timeouts, and so no ability to challenge the rest of the first half. We've got more yards on penalty than total offense in the first Qtr. We were only in FG range because of detroit mistakes. And what is with the deal of detroit challenging the penalty??? Thought you couldn't challenge penalties. Tipped or not tipped.... Sanz still got mugged it should have at least been defensive holding.

that's a tough one... the game is in detroit suh may be allowed to be dirty as the NFL want's the Lions they are this years "feel good story" Roy Williams has been hated on by media and fans alike (even fans of his own team). I'm going to guess Suh gets about 25 yards in penalties I'm going to guess Williams will get maybe 30 yards

A skill Romo has work hard to perfect.