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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 09:13 AM) My wife and I started Shameless last night after Directv/Showtime finally put the first two seasons on the ondemand. I had given the first episode a shot a while back and didn't care for it, but this time it seemed to click. Perhaps the lack of any other TV at the moment was necessary. The first two were really good. William H Macy is so hilarious in his role. Im just never used to him being such a scumbag and he plays it well

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 07:56 AM) I think there's still a serious scheme problem in the Bears offense that leaves their OLine players alone, without help, way too often. But...the chances of the Bears having the same scheme next year appear remote. *ding* But really, Clady or Long at LT is huge. Every OL gets beat here and then, Webb gets beat consistently.

Shameless. Cant Wait.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 03:01 AM) The Bears OL troubles are systemic. Simply adding a Jake Long or Ryan Clady wont fix anything long term, and may even make the situation worse by having all that money tied up in one player. Having a pro bowl LT absolutely fixes things long term

That's all she wrote

Someone tell lynch that the running game does not work tonite

Jadaveon Clowney is crazy http://m.deadspin.com/5972378/jadeveon-clo...ed-the-football

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 1, 2013 -> 06:16 PM) Yeah, I get it...and he overuses cliches all the time too...I wouldn't want him as our head coach. But I do like his enthusiasm and I think he is fairly well-liked around the league. I'm not disagreeing that he could use a little more Cris Collinsworth or Troy Aikman in him, but I understand his hesitancy to be too critical. I wasnt trying to tease you, just making fun of Gruden. One thing that I was thinking about was Gruden has familiarity with the Tampa 2, also with Marinelli. I think emery is going for MCCoy, but something to think about

QUOTE (MuckFinnesota @ Jan 1, 2013 -> 06:39 PM) Did anyone look into the fact that Emery mentioned he would promote one of the assistants to head coach? Was he hopefully just talking about Dave Toub? My guess if the new coach comes in lots of the coaches under contract will be let go or demoted. Mike McCoy and Bruce Arians are at the top of my list, but I have a feeling Emery has a guy in mind that he'd like to see coach the Bears and I hope to god it isn't Jon Gruden or Bill Cowher. It doesn't matter as much who the head coach is as it is who the offensive coordinator is -- unless he does both like the GB coach does. Draft some lineman, replace Urlacher with a new linebacker and let's get moving in 2013. I can't see this being a complete rebuilding year. I didn't hear or see that quote anywhere about promoting an assistant to HC

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 1, 2013 -> 05:41 PM) Would you harshly criticize players if you were hoping to get another coaching job? *points a thumb at iamshack* THIS GUY RIGHT HERE, I LOVE HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR SOXTALK, AND I AM OF THE OPINION THAT HE IS THE BEST POSTER IN THE POSTING UNIVERSE.

"Emery said there's "a sense of urgency" to conclude the search as quickly as possible and ideally he'd like to "stand shoulder to shoulder" with the new head coach at the Jan. 19 East-West Shrine Game or the Senior Bowl, set for Jan. 26." http://m.espn.go.com/nfl/story?storyId=8799497 I think Emery knows exactly who he wants

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 1, 2013 -> 01:30 PM) Michigan can't stop Cocks front 4 Lol

Yea I read something a month or so ago that said Knox isn't even able to run yet. we are a year after the injury and he can't even run, that is not a good sign. I could see Emery using a 4th - 6th round pick on a speedster

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 1, 2013 -> 10:39 AM) We just didn't have anyone to blow the top off. I like Johnny as a fourth guy, given the top 3 we have It should have been Hester. They can find a speed burner. Two of the biggest worst plays last year were the result of Knox messing up, Cutlers thumb due to him giving up on a route and Knox breaking his back because he fumbled.

I'm glad we don't have a player like Knox currently. It isn't hard to find a WR that doesn't finish routes, has alligator arms, suspect hands and puts the ball on he ground a lot. He had world class speed and occasionally made a good deep target, but that was it. It's a shame what happened to him, I don't like to see anyone get bent that way, but I didn't miss him. Hester did a fine job playing his WR jester part.

Knox is done.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 05:02 PM) Muschamp would be pretty pricey. Probably talking about 4mil right off the bat. He already makes around $3mil in Florida. Saban and Kelly you have to think would also come with pretty big pricetags. Mind you, Im not interested in either of them, but they both have been mentioned

QUOTE (balfanman @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 03:49 PM) I would not be suprised that Emery made the decision at least several weeks ago to let Lovie go and has a pretty good idea right now who he wants to bring in. I think if anything the Seattle game threw the last scoop of dirt on him. Anythign short of running the table would not have been good enough.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 03:29 PM) I think you are missing the point. Angelo was fired January 3. It took the Bears almost 4 weeks to hire another GM. Those are Emery's bosses. They dont seem to care, so I really am not sure why they are going to change their stripes this year. Do you think the Bears will be the first team to hire a HC? Or do you think that they will be one of the last? My guess is the latter. Im not missing the point, The bosses arent the ones making the hire this time. I will go out on a limb and say the Bears are one of the first to make a HC hire.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 03:05 PM) Angelo was fired on January 3, 2012 so not sure how that was late in the game, when the last day of the season was January 1, 2012. They hired Emery on January 29. Its just the Bears have a terrible front office that doesnt know what its doing. Which is why a coaching change makes me nervous. That is the "late in the game" part, badger. That is a full month after last years "black monday". Every other team that had axed their own coach had 4 weeks of a coaching search and hiring well under way, that is a terrible time to start hunting for your own coach. Angelos fire date is irrelevant. This year he is ahead of the curve, he has his pick of available candidates(that wish to interview with him.)

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 02:52 PM) Kyle, Its a ton of speculation, I have no inside information. With Angelo I would think Lovie had more say. I am more focused on this year and Emery, because this year is the year Lovie was fired and its been theorized that had Lovie done better, he may not have been fired. That is why I am only referring to this years draft and the oddity of the picks. The one thing we do know is that when Emery was hired he was explicitly told he could not fire Lovie for 1 season. The real point is, you dont hire a GM and tell them who their head coach is going to be. The Jets are about to find out why this is a bad idea as well. If you are hiring a GM to be the man, he needs to be able to make all decisions from day one. Otherwise you get this nonsense, where 2 years are potentially lost. Especially if the Bears defensive system dramatically changes. A lot of that had to do with timing too. Emery was hired pretty late in the game to be turning around and hiring a brand new staff, a full month after every other head coach in the NFL was fired and all of those teams got a jump on the hiring process. It makes no sense for Emery to fire lovie in February and go bargain bin hunting for a coach and staff at that point. It is what it is, the GM hiring was hamfisted. Lets not act surprised. One thing I have hope for is this is NOT Angelo making the decision, and this is NOT Ted Phillips/McCaskeys making the decision. So I cant say "Oh this is the Bears FO screwing it up again", because this is someone new. We have to give Emery a chance to do his job that he was hired to do.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 02:41 PM) I dont know, which is why I am asking. It seems that Lovie has had very little say in personnel, I could be wrong obviously. And to be clear I dont think Emery purposefully set up Lovie, but I also dont think he went out of his way to make sure the Bears had the best chance at winning this year. There is no way you can convince me that McClellin (1st round) and Hardin (3rd Round) were the best choices for the Bears to win this year, especially when the Bears did nothing for the OL. And thats the thing, you are creating this argument for giving Lovie more power in personnel decisions and assuming he had none to begin with, when that could be completetely wrong. What if Lovie and Tice told Emery they were confident that this offensive line would take the next step because of what they saw in that 6 game stretch before Cutler broke his thumb last year? IIRC players like Danielle Manning and Al Afalava were chosen by Angelo because Lovie wanted them badly. Either way, You dont hire a GM and immediately give all personnel power to the incumbent head coach. Maybe Emery kept him for this season because he wanted to see if Lovie could get this team deep in the playoffs, and then would keep him and offer him an extension. You just never know.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 02:29 PM) Well the premise of my argument was can anyone name a longer tenured coach than Lovie Smith who had less ability to make personnel decisions. I think that the Emery/Smith situation was an aberration. Generally the GM hires the Coach, so the GM and Coach are on the same page from day 1. In this case you had a GM who was hired with a coach in place and told he cant fire the coach for 1 year. Thus if Emery didnt like Smith, he had every reason to screw Lovie so he could get rid of him. If Lovie makes the playoffs can they fire him? I doubt it. And since Emery seems to have wanted to fire Lovie, I cant help but wonder if last years draft wasnt a set up. Emery drafted guys that werent even healthy, how does that help a team that wants to win a Division Title? How do you know what decisions were and were not made with lovies input during the Angelo era?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 02:24 PM) I dont think 1 guy can do both jobs effectively, but when it comes to drafting, the coach really should have the final say. If you cant trust the coach to pick the right guys, how can you trust him to play the right guys etc? It just makes no sense. Then the league hasnt made any sense for quite a long time

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 02:13 PM) Parcells, maybe Vermeil, but it usually doesn't work. I think Emery started out as a strength coach. The more the league changed, the less it worked for Parcells. Does Belichek still hold some GM duties or did he back off of that? It got Shanahan fired in Denver.