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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 6, 2010 -> 08:16 AM) Wow, not sure its a good idea, but Cam "ironhead jr" Heyward is staying another year. And I found this on another board: First downs and total yardage of the 4 unstoppable, amazing offenses faced by the Big Ten's 4 bowl winners: 9-155 14-249 9-243 12-260 Touche Rock!!!! Its a good time to be a fan of the Big 10.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 10:51 PM) Iowa has the better OL, WR and TE. ISU has the better RB and QB, I honestly believe. Stanzi is a better game manager, Arnaud has more talent. Iowa has the better RB corps, but ISU has the better #1 RB when healthy. Unfortunately, our QB broke his hand (and played the worst game of his career against Iowa) and the RB pulled his groin (but still ran for 152 against Kansas, and averaged over 5 ypc and ended with 100 against Iowa). That being said, both offenses are not anything special. Iowa's TE and WR are just appreciably better. That being said, your backfield is still loaded next year. Just need to find a QB. So since you are talking injuries, your RB is better than Jewel. We have a supreme team where it matters most. Don't even compare the two. Iowa is a legitimate top 10 team, Iowa State isn't a top 30 team. Not saying Iowa State didn't have a quality season, they did, but the two teams are on entirely different levels.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 09:31 PM) GT looked godawful. Better team in the 2nd half my ass.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 08:47 PM) Bulls***, it was the same story of a "prolific offense" that hadn't seen a defense like the top few in the Big Ten. You give Kirk Ferentz 30 days to prepare for a team that relies on deception and overpursuit, and you are toast. Especially when you have a few guys that will play on sunday. They held the #2 Rushing offense in the country to half their production, and their lowest point total all season. Nice job Hawks. Thank you. Iowa f***ing destroyed Georgia Tech. The scoreboard doesn't do it justice. A slow big ten defense mauled one of the premier offenses in the country. EAT s*** and GO HAWKEYES and GO BIG TEN!!!!

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 01:59 PM) It's weird, I'd say that ISU and Iowa have very similar offensive talent (certainly not on D). Laughable. Moakei, Davis, McNutt, two above average freshmen running backs. Laughable. Oh and one of the best olines in the league.

I would be exstatic if the Bears hired Fewell, Martz, and Bates. Exstatic. I love Marinelli and Toub as I feel they are the two best at there position and I do believe Lovie is fine as a head coach. He is much better than most in the league and while I have said it is time for Lovie to go and would have been 1000% on getting rid of him, I do believe keeping him while making the necessary changes could work out in the Bears favor. This new attitude will be good for the team and I believe hiring Martz/Bates combo would be phenomenal for the offense. Martz would stay for a year or two and than leave for another job with Bates moving up and keeping the staff fresh. The key, imo, to a good staff is to have a stable HC and to consistently be developing your coaches so that they can move on, while still having young fresh minds to step in and replace them (much like you want to do with your player development).

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 11:05 AM) Not a lot of punts, not a lot of defense, not a lot of fans, and a whole lot of yards on the ground. I think Iowa wins this game 27-13. I'm just praying for a split today for GT, as they have a big basketball game at 6PM against Georgia. If GT loses both....it's going to be a long night for me! Come on Hawkeyes!!

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 12:36 PM) Please correct me if I'm wrong, but 2010-2011 is going to be an uncapped NFL season. Thus, if we had to pay 20 million to fire Lovie/hire Cowher, then how in the world were we going to expect the Bears to sign any free agents this offseason? I'm content with today's decisions....I'm happy Luke Butkus got fired, cause he's a real prick. It is uncapped, but people are actually expecting teams to spend less and not more because there is no floor.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 12:28 PM) Of course, the Bears use the last two games as an excuse for not firing everybody. Good thing Marinelli won't be the coordinator. We've already seen what he does when he's in charge and it ain't pretty. He's a better hands-on coach, I think. Marinelli got the most out of his guys in Detroit. They played hard every game and that is almost impossible to do when your team was as bad as they were. He didn't get a fair shake and could very well have been an exceptional coach in the right circumstances.

Haugh is reporting that the Bears talked about promoting Marinelli to DC, but have decided not to and will be hiring outside of the organization for the DC. Perry come on down!!!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 10:32 AM) Per other reports, the Bears will be keeping their RB and WR coaches and scrapping their O-Line, TE, and QB coach. Which makes sense. TE coach failed to develop Davis/Olsen. WR coach did his job. Oline coach, uggh. And Pep didn't fit well with Jay Bears need to bring in a high profile QB coach and a high profile OC. My first choice would be Weiss. Yes, I would take Weiss over Martz.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) I was really hopping that with a new D-Coordinator moving in that management would force Lovie to get out of his comfort zone and bring in someone who wasnt a "Yes man". And what did they do? Promote a Lovie "Yes man" friend. But unlike Babich, Marinelli is also one of Angelo's boys. That is what people forget.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jan 5, 2010 -> 06:55 AM) This was exactly what I was going to post and I would be content with this. It also makes the most sense fiscally and with the fact that there may not be football in 2011 teams are heding their moves. It won't happen and here is why. Lovie is very smug and knows everything. Martz can take his job if the O excels and the D fails. If there is no football in 2011, Martz will be paid anyway so you fire Lovie and install Martz. The new D coordinator must keep the cover 2. The fact that this failed so badly under Lovie and he was unable to do both jobs speaks volumes about his ability to be a head coach. There are plenty of guys that can do it but thay all have the oversized cards to read (I know these are the offensive guys) and Lovie looks at the scoreboard. If Bill Cowher does not have a job, I think he gets the call after Lovie fails next year. Chicago is the only other job, non southeast that Cowher will take. I think you might see the Bears go hard for him if all goes wrong next year. Since the Bears aren't spending money on coaching I hope the organization plans to spend on an olineman, a back-up RB, a safety, and potentially a dtackle.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 09:03 PM) Perry Fewell (Buffalo's interim coach who just got canned) would be a good target if the Bears went after a new D-Co. And they should target Jeremy Bates as an O-Co, or at least that's who Jay Cutler wants. Fewell is a good candidate, but it sounds like they are thinking about promoting Marinelli. While many will complain, Marinelli is a very very good coach.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Jan 4, 2010 -> 07:50 PM) If they're stating their announcing their changes tomorrow, that means Lovie is back, else it would've been leaked already. Turner is going to be the fall guy as well as Pep Hamilton. Wouldn't surprise me if they bring in Zorn as a QB coach, and Martz, not because he's Lovie's friend, but he would be able to fully utilize the Bears' offense strengths which is speed. Also, I could see Rod Marinelli becoming the new defensive coordinator tomorrow or someone other than Lovie, but who still runs the cover 2. Well done. I think they will try to go high profile and hire Jeremy Bates as the QB coach. Bates is an up and coming young mind and would be a tremendous hire and could be a long-term target as a future head coach.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Dec 31, 2009 -> 07:53 AM) Without doing any research the Cardinals wanted and could not get a number 2 for Bouldin. I think the Bears could get a 3 but it would not be that easy. Boldin was different becuase of all of the money you'd have to dole out as well. Look at what the Lions got for Roy Williams.

I also have two cousins, one which went to Depaul, that I can put you in contact with. He's at Deloitte right now in Chicago.

Steve if you want to chat more thoroughly about accounting let me know. I'd assume I'm one of the experts on the board in the field and I'm still pretty fresh blood so I've been through it all and honestly it depends on what you want to pursue as to whether accounting would be the right choice. Tons of potential if you go that route, but it depends on what you want to do with your career. Ie, if you are willing to put yourself through some hell for a few years.

So I have internet access at my new place finally. I was a total cheapass and got the slow version of internet which is only like 18 bucks a month as opposed to the super fast cable. I personally can't tell the difference, although I don't do a whole lot of streaming stuff. It is still faster than DSL though.

I think Texas Tech was cheap. Leach is a good head coach and shouldn't have been fired.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 30, 2009 -> 10:11 AM) Mike Leach, he gawn Wow

DePaul is supposed to have a pretty solid accounting program.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Dec 30, 2009 -> 07:29 AM) A team is not going to give up a 3rd round pick for a kick returner who is no longer returning kicks. Hester has not learned the Bears offense enough to be considered anything more than a bad number 2 or decent number 3. What is his value when placed in a new system that he has to learn? Hester is also making a decent sum of money although the reciever incentives will never be met. If Manning is on this team he will be returning kicks with Knox next year and Bennett will return punts...they did as well as Hester this year. I think they could possibly get a third but I do not think they could get a third easily. At this point in his career for the money he is making there are more questions about Hester than guarantees and the fact that the Bears did not miss him in the return game is interesting to me and I assume GM's would think so as well. 2006 Hester is worth a number 2 or 3....current Hester....not so sure. 2006 Hester would have gotten a 1st rounder and more. Your severely under-valuing this guys trade value. The guy was taken in the 2nd round, has produced in the NFL, and has talent and many teams would love to have there hands on an athlete like him. He is at least worth a 3rd round pick and It wouldn't shock me if you could get a 2nd round for him. His contract is very cap friendly.

f*** yes big 10 and wow, I'm siding with Leach on this one.

It was a smaller than usual christmas this year. Moved into a new place about a week before Xmas, got engaged in September so between the moving expenses and wedding expenses we went pretty light: - Bears hat (the Cursive B one that Lovie wears) - Matix Sweater (Badass) - 50 Costco Cash Card - Pair of work shoes - Cash (from soon to be in law's)