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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12/16/gab...g-hasnt-worked/ Fantastic article with a lot of insight he has collected from his contacts in the organization. I highlighted a couple key quotes below but this really is a must read and Gabriel hits everything right on the head. I keep saying, a lot of stories are going to come out when the Trestman era ends and they aren't going to be flattering.

Yeah; Forte looked done as well. He even sounded done when you heard his postgame quotes. I really can't blame the guy either. We have one of the best all-around backs in the league and are not taking advantage of it.

Doesn't name names but clearly Marty B was one of the few guys on the offensive side of the ball who was playing hard and playing with price. That much was evidence. He went on to mention he wasn't going to name names but that the guys in the lockeroom know who he is talking about. Obviously you can presume he's talking about Jay but I think it likely goes beyond that and goes to other guys on the offensive side of the ball, including coaches, etc. We really are a dysfunctional mess and to be frank it is probably better off that way as it really is the only way we will see some form of significant change this season (vs. having to go through all of this mess again next year).

Oh I think we agree...I think the "Are you kidding me" was in reference to talking about Cutler's stats (not your post but overall). I thought Gruden was hillarious...he ripped us to shreds and than Tirico's sounded like he was choking when Gruden called for the Bears to make a QB switch? Tirico was like, John, are you serious, the Bears should bench Cutler? It was classic. I love Chucky.

All I want for Christmas is new Bears management...new Bears management!!! (e.g., president, gm, and coaches).

It is a disaster. I'm telling you guys, the stories that are going to come out when this Trestman era ends are going to be insane. There are already reports of players fighting coaches, etc. Supposedly Marshall got into with a coach. Literally this team is so undiscplined and I understand players make the plays and they make the penalties but it is up to the coaches to really instill the general importance and be able to deliver that disciplined message that people get and follow through with. This is a ship with no captain and everyone kind of does what they want. Half assed routes are ran, wrong routes are ran, false starts, missed block assignments, etc. I think coaches point this out but its the way they point it out and the lack of repercussions and the way it is handled that is thoroughly missed. I also think we are really seeing why Trestman has rarely made it past 2 years anywhere in the league.

Kept Briggs around....thought DJ Williams could play....Shea (how is he still in the lineup..that has to be on our GM forcing the issue)....Jennings deal looks really bad (he isn't near the player he was...pretty much non-existent on the field) and of course the Cutler deal (which is a mega albatross). He also vastly ignored the safety position, relying on Conte for another year and really misdiagnosed our LB corps.

Are you kidding me? Gruden basically blasted our offensive coaching staff all night long. It was great. Yeah he blamed Cutler for the pre-snap penalties but that also is an indictment on the coaches and he kept going on and on about how people need to be pulled, made example of, etc. Bottom line we have a stinker of an organization right now and Harbaugh is the man to come clean it up.

If it weren't for the off the field issues, I honestly think Jameis Winston would be as close to a sure thing as possible. Runs a pro offense, has dealt with significant pressure, handles comebacks, etc. Big arm, big frame, supposedly very hard working and football smart (clearly off the field smart). Pains me to say it but if we can get Jameis, I would do it (presuming he passes a battery of background checks thoroughly handles interviews and you can really see that football smarts). Either way, lets get Harbaugh in here to help with that decision (or Gruden). I am not very high on Mariotta cause spread QB's scare the dickens out of me in the NFL.

I think our coaches are a disaster and Jay is what he is, an average to slightly above average QB. If you stick with him going forward with new people, fine, but do so knowing that you need to surround him with a very good team and really manage him. If you do that, you can win and be succesful with him but he certainly isn't going to make you great and you aren't going to be able to plan / scheme on out-dueling peeps, etc.

Haha...I noticed where he said contractually I don't control the coaching staff. I found that hillarious given that it seems pretty well documented that he forced our worse coaches on Trestman (and picked our biggest turd..Trestman himself). I will say I do like some of our young players out there but wow and I guess I'll give Emery credit for that (as this past years draft looks a bit better...although jury is still out) but man what a collasal mess we are. Thankfully the more this happens the better shape we are in.

Think about what Emery has done. Hired a spineless coach, forced assistants on him, had an awful first draft...but even than, he has continued to misscout our internal talent.

The head coach can be less of an X's and O' guy and get away with it. The head coach needs to be a big picture guy, who commands respect, leads (in good times as well as through adversity) and really is able to bring in the right people to help him. I think Trestman fails at all of those things and in reality, is the opposite, a coordinator / specialist, who has to be exceptional at the X's & O's and can outsource the other components to his head coach. I have a hard time even blaming our assistants for the same reasons I mention above, I think they have no leader, no one to control anything, no one with authority. There is no discipline and it shows up each and every week. Just think about training camp when I blasted Trestman for what was going on in camp and more and more of it is coming to fruition. I also think Emery is just as much to blame because I think he hired a spineless coach by design. He very much wants to control all things, which is fine when it works, but when it doesn't, you don't get a 2nd chance. His biggest failures have been his inability to hire a head coach, the Cutler contract (vs. franchise tag) and what might be more damning than anything, his poor evaluation of our internal players. I'm not even going to talk about his early drafts, rather, who we have kept / not kept has been a gigantic failure. We have consistently misscouted our internal people and more often than not, been wrong on our own internal evaluations.

Someone else could have said stuff too. Who knows. Bottom line, if you feel that way and think it is the QB's fault, how about you tell the QB, how about you are vocal and actually make changes. Going behind and leaking stuff to the press is just pathetic.

That better mean Emery too. He can't get a free pass for how big of a disaster this is. I've never seen anything worse in my liftime of watching the Bears than this (lets say I started when I was 5...so that is 26 years). A lot of you have me beat but I'm going to guess you all feel the same. Wanny would be a freaking upgrade, LOL.

How has Kromer not been fired yet. I also find this whole thing laughable and feel so sorry for the Bears players to deal with this incompetence. The more and more I see, the more I wonder how much any of our offensive struggles are due to the players vs. just a historically disasterous coaching staff. Coaches blame our QB when he audibles...now when he doesn't. I've been hard on Jay but at this point, I just want Emery and all the stooges he brought in out, bring in some real football people and let them decide what they want to do with Jay. If they want to keep him, great, if they want to sit him for a year and than cut him, fine, if they want to trade him, fine, but I don't want any clown currently in the organization involved (other than of course Stein).

This does nothing for me. We need changes from the top down. Keeping the same people above and changing our DC isn't going to do much, especially since no quality DC candidate will touch the job so the replacement will be someone internal anyway.

You guys know what I think of Trestman. I think if posed with the alternative of hiring Mike as our HC, I would tell you forget it, please give Trestman a 10 year extension. Singletary would be just an awful hire as anything but a LB coach (with some sort of like Assistant HC title).

I would make the trade because it gives us financial flexibility one year sooner. I am not making the trade because I think RG III is a franchise QB though. I don't have a problem with a change of scenery for him and I have no problem if whomever we hire as HC likes him and thinks he is a good fit either but I'm all for cleaning house right now.

I have never wanted to have new coaches so bad in my history of fandom (that is any team). It is a joke how bad our staff is. A total joke and if the Bears try and pull this over, wow is all I can say. I have no idea how anyone could justify keeping this coaching staff around. I also don't see how you can really argue keeping Emery around either. I don't think anyone knows what the Bears are going to do but the McCaskey's.

Great article http://grantland.com/the-triangle/searchin...l-head-coaches/ A name we haven't talked about which would be extremely intriguing is Art Briles at Baylor.

All of our coaches say they want to run the ball. Actions speak louder then words though.

That would be a dream come true.

No. However, I bought Reid and McCoy over Arians and Trestman. I clearly was wrong on Arians. Trestman, I hated at first, then started to like and got duped like everyone else.