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QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 30, 2014 -> 11:27 AM) Del Rio would probably keep Mel Tucker, his most recent defensive coordinator. i kind of doubt that he is gonna keep the D coordinator that presided over the terrible defense that in part got Del Rio fired

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 30, 2014 -> 11:10 AM) I would like a run at him, yes he turned down before, but he is Ozzie Newsome's successor and I do not believe he will leave. He may be off of our list because he has already told Acorsi. a few call in guests over the past week have said that he is waiting for Newsome to retire, the agreement is already in place that he will take the job when Ozzie leaves.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Dec 30, 2014 -> 10:25 AM) I think Emery did that way too much when he was GM. Asking other people's opinion. Having Marinelli rank the coaching candidates. Asking Cutler his opinion on who they should hire, hell they even had Jay interview with some of them. He was the GM, he should of told them what's up. He did, he hired Trestman

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 30, 2014 -> 10:22 AM) and no reason at all to go with the completely atypical "have our current DC interview you!" route if you're just going to ignore him anyway. Emery was going to hire Trestman no matter what, i dont know why he made such a sham out of the interview process but good lord did he ever.

http://deadspin.com/the-bears-probably-wan...tman-1676354356 Oh. this is nice

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 30, 2014 -> 06:57 AM) sometime the owners will have to eat the whole contract if they want to clean house. they are eating the contract of those head coach and others, it is the same thing. cleaning house is the right way or in this situation, the only thing to do. the problem is Jay Cutler, but they just paid a crap load of money to him in this past contract. The house will be clean one way or another, the Bears are just looking to see if another team will pick up part of the contract of the remaining assistants

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 08:46 PM) CRAP ..... i did it again. my bad, unbroken. i just tried to find on wilki and imdb about him and the japanese guard. very good side reading. that guard in real life was 1 sick fwck. thanks for the catch. No need to apologize, I was just wondering which movie you were referring to

Hawks and Predators are getting chippy

Witesoxfan is no white collared folk

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 07:00 PM) Are they better without Kirk? There is a lot less confused dribbling in a circle

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 04:57 PM) saw unconquered today. what a good feeling great underdog movie. i got to read more on this story. Unconquered? Or Unbroken?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 03:52 PM) If you are a non Bears Chicago sprts team and want to bury some news, today is the day to announce what you want buried. LOL, isnt that the truth. The Starlin Castro story will be released at 4:01

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 03:14 PM) I mean, it's all based on %. If the cap only goes up 5 mill this year, because they are "smoothing", then Jimmy will get $15 million. If the cap rises to 125 million and all hell breaks loose, yeah, he'll be getting 25 million, but a lot of people are gonna be paid crazy sums. His may be the best "new" contract of the lot. Its just crazy to me that for the last two years we have been reading J4L going "HAHAHA JIMMY BUTLER IS LAME HAHAAHA NO SUPERSTARS FOR YOU" and now Jimmy Butler is becoming a bonafide superstar right before our eyes. And I do math bad. 20M

Thats just crazy. We all were thinking 12M per year was steep and now 20M per year looks likely

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 02:48 PM) Okay, and...they just walked into the superbowl? Both teams were superbowl ready due to their then-present construction. I would have liked to see Gruden in that Superbowl against a team that he didnt know the playbook. His team won a superbowl. I still wouldnt back up the money truck for him

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 02:43 PM) Winning a super bowl is hard, nobody is gifted it. Gruden was as close to gifted a superbowl as anyone has ever been. Callahan didnt change anything in the offense, both sides of that game admitted as such after the game was over. The Tampa defense said Gruden played the part of Gannon in the scout team and told them all EXACTLY how his line calls worked and what he was going to do, to a T

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 02:28 PM) Disagree. They did have a great defense, but Dungy couldn't get it done. Gruden could. As far as the playbook, you could argue the Raiders had Gruden's playbook and couldn't get it done. It's a two way street. Either which way, he ain't coming. Best hope is for Polian and Holmgren package deal. LOL no. You cant argue that a guy using another guys script is just as smart as the guy that wrote the script.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 01:58 PM) Gruden has led a team to the Super Bowl while another team should've been in it if it wasn't for the tuck. He's proven he's a head coach (not just a coordinator in over his head) and players like playing for him except Keyshawn who really didn't like anyone but Bill Parcells. Gruden won a superbowl because he basically knew the entire playbook of the Raiders and was handed a ferocious Tony Dungy defense.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 01:37 PM) It's a good position to be in if they plan on giving the next coach more power than usual or if there is a package deal out there. Honestly, I don't think the Bears are getting Harbaugh, so I wouldn't bother. I'd be throwing everything at Gruden or Rex Ryan. Ryan was a casualty of a bad GM. Pretty sure Gruden is locked down until 2021 with ESPN. When he announced it during the Bears MNF game a few weeks ago, Tirico made it a point to say he will not be coaching until the contract is up

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 12:18 PM) If Emery just franchises Cutler for this year instead of the big contract, does he keep his job? If the year played out the exact same, i would lean towards no. But, he would have a small case where he could say "Getting rid of QB and coach, and starting from scratch".

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 12:17 PM) I want weird names to come out. Zombie bill Walsh, slobberjaw, coach Taylor. Terry Tate, office linebacker, Linebackers coach

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 11:59 AM) I want them to go big and expensive. why stop now? They just dropped 16M, might as well do it right if you are spending big

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 11:58 AM) To be fair, I don't think the appeal of Shanahan to McCaskey is the Cutler connection. You may not think that, but its in the water. And all Shanahan talked about last week was how he thought Cutler was a good quarterback

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 11:49 AM) WTF is Cutler at this point? I have no clue where this guy will excel. Jay is 31 years old. His shelf life in the NFL is what, 4-6 more years at best? I seriously doubt he is about to flip a switch and become a game manager/reduce his turnovers. What George McCaskey does with the franchise from this point forward should have nothing taken in account for Cutler.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Dec 29, 2014 -> 11:23 AM) But he's also a good football coach. One who will have the offense run the ball more, which is what everyone wants right? The fact that Jay had some good year under him is just an added bonus to me, and one that I really see no problem with. you should have a problem with it. They need to stop trying to make patches to force Cutler to become something that he is not.