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Carllson put up good production despite being less talented than a guy like Greg Olsen and he worked with a bevy of QB's due to the injuries to Hasselbach. Carlson also showed a lot of development and is supposed to be a pretty solid blocker. I like the fact that our TE coach (if we hired him) also has experience on the oline since he'd be able to provide Olsen and our other TE's with improved blocking techniques.

http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=6497 He has head coaching experience (College), worked with Holmgren and has had success as a coach in the NFL and had a pretty good resume at the college level. All in all, seems like a solid hire.

Gailey is such a bad hire for the Bills. He's proven he can't suceed as a head coach (in the pros and college).

Thats exactly it. I see no way shape or form that A the Vikes would give him permission or that B he'd leave a team that is on the verge of a superbowl to join the Bears coaching staff. As a head coach, absolutely, but not as a DC.

Come on Bears...jump onto this.

I wouldn't trade Jay for 2 1st rounders either just in case anyone asks. I wanted a franchise QB and we got one that I think can win superbowls. Notice the plural usage of "superbowl".

Jay Glazer is reporting that one of the Bears OC candidates, Chan Gailey (former Cowboys and Georgia Tech head coach) will be taking the Buffalo Bills head coaching job. Personally I'm surprised. I thought Frazier was lined up for the job but I guess the Bills didn't want to wait until the Vikings were out of the playoffs to hire there guy. Sucks for Frazier. Frazier is technically a candidate for the Bears DC job but there is no reason that will ever happen.

Broncos fans are pissed at the move too.

McDaniels is an ass-clown for letting him leave but oh well. Bears will not go after him since it involves a change in scheme but he'd be a phenomenal hire and he is a tremendous defensive coordinator.

Absolutely not. Cutler is 10000 times better than Campbell.

The rumblings around Chicago are that the Bears will look to sign a big-time back-up running back to team up with Matt Forte and LT (Cap Casualty)/Chester Taylor (UFA) are expected to be guys the Bears consider. Evidently McGahee might be joining that group and I think he could be a real nice fit if he does get cut. LT and Chester Taylor are also real nice fits. And no matter what, it seems like we have a few real good options to help improve our rushing attack (from the RB perspective).

The former Browns OC seems pretty good. He was also an OC at the U when Hester/Olsen were there I believe.

I got a feeling Chud is who we will ultimately hire.

The loss of Adams will significantly impact the way the Bears go into this off-season, imo. I fully expect the team to keep Mark Anderson now as well as try to keep Adewale (or look into another alternative via FA).

Wow. What happened? Terrible news, my thoughts and prayers go out to his family/friends. I was stunned when I saw it scroll across ESPN just this second.

Probably, but that is easier said than done. He was the guy who was able to take that role and get the McCaskey boys a bit farther from the day to day in the organization. I would love for the Bears to hire a person in charge of football operations if they needed to, but right now I look at it as Angelo is the football operations leader (and GM) with Lovie the coach and Phillips in charge of all the other organizational crapola. So if the Bears fail another season, Angelo will go and the team will bring in a new guy to run the football side of things (potentially they will hire a VP of Football, a GM, and a coach).

Plus if we make a run at Chester Taylor we'll have another back that can really help things.

What makes you think that? Everything every talked about the stadium gave full credit to Phillips and said he was the key player that got things done. So what you are saying just isn't true.

The above is a real good piece and it is the way I feel. I was really bummed about losing Fewell but am excited about what the team is looking at on the offensive side of the ball. Plus the Patriots Dcoord is now available and you never know, maybe the Bears could go that way (although the %'s are probably like 1% that they would consider him).

One thing I always remember about Minny was that when they were really good, they had top notch olines and Tice was a big part of that.

And that is a real impressive resume he has.

Really, really good hire. I like the fact that he preaches a power run game and he does a real nice job with the oline. This is a serious upgrade to Harry Heistad. I like this move alot. I guess this throws out the idea that the Bears were going to go with both Tice/Zampese as co-coordinators. Zampese I assume is still in the running as the OC. Damn, this is a real nice hire (Tice as Oline coach).

Found this interesting blurb on Barry: If they wouldn't let him interview with the Skins it makes you wonder if they would the Bears. Of course there is a much better relationship between Tampa and Chicago and obviously Barry is the son in law of Marinelli.

All of them, with the exception of Edwards and Barry seem to be younger coaches that would probably work okay in Chicago given Marinelli/Smith/Babich's experience calling plays. Note, I am not saying the three guys above are tremendous play-callers (and Marinelli has the most limited experience of the three) but they all have experience and two of the three are well respected around the NFL. I wonder if the Vikings would let either of there guys leave for Chicago though, which means Carrier would be the best bet.