Lucky Luciano

guard in the draft is still a possibility. thuney is 32

agree. cutting a good TE sound familiar? martz was an idiot.

the big money all pro type free agents... before throwing large amounts of cap space at single players they need to do the following: 1. evaluate how the quality of the player they plan on acquiring works with the players next to him. if it was the guard from KC for top dollar, how is he going to work with the center and tackle playing next to him in chicago? is he suited to still play at an all pro level with them? how do they compare to the players on the team he is leaving as far as skill sets that will utilize all of this FA's talent? this is also true on defensive FA's. i realize the players on our team might not be of the same quality but how do they work together with the big payday player is critical. 2. scheme: how will this FA relate to the the scheme we are going to run here? if it's not the same and he has to adjust will that also equate to his playing at an all pro level? 3. if we are looking at an OL free agent how does the skills of our QB compare to what his requirements were to protect the QB on the team he is leaving? scramble ability, quick release etc. 4. assume this FA will be playing at the same position he did before leaving. if not do we end up like we did with the all pro right tackle we acquired a number of years ago for big money and switched him to become a mediocre left tackle (can't remember the name at the moment()?

in my estimation this is the dream team in coaching. we have a HC who is the best choice of what was out there. That has happened only once in my memory and that was wanny. wanny didn't work out but at the time he was the best choice. add johnson the best offensive option with the best DC available who has HC experience and is considered the best or close to it DC available and we should be set on both sides of the ball. also allen is in all probability not jumping into a HC job after a year like some coordinators would have. we FINALLY have two coaches that can move this franchise into the 21st century. if it works out we should be superbowl contenders within 2 years.

turnovers absolutely killed the lions. it flipped the points. one pick 6 and some int's in the redzone or endzone if i remember correctly. it was a qb's nightmare of a game.

goff lost that game. the lions should have won by a lot. the offense had multiple opportunities to come back but goff kept throwing int's at critical junctures. he is responsible for at least 21 point against the lions. nothing wrong with the lions offense i could see.

favre was not developed by mccarthy. it was holmgren. rogers first year was under sherman and he was backing up favre for 3 years

i have stated numerous times that belly is way over rated. yea, look at the record before and after bledsoe and brady. it's easy to be a winning coach when you have excellent and HOF qb's not to mention it always helps when you CHEAT. and is there any way POSSIBLE that you rate wilson or any other seattle qb he coached even CLOSE to favre and rogers? really?

show me his success without HOF qb's. any championships? how many post season wins against the best? west coast offense? probably works ok with veteran HOF qb's running it but how many superbowls with all that talent? even with HOF qb's his post season is dismal. HC with GB 13 years only TWO seasons with more than one and done or no wins at all and included in that the one SB win. that is not what you want, or at least that is not what i want.

they would both have to agree (this includes rivera as DC). if johnson is the man you CAN'T force any coaches on him or it's just the same ole same ole in chicago. you can give him the options if he takes the job and he makes the decisions.

shannahan or ravens harbaugh

if olson says that then that should scare the bejesus out of everyone. that system has been beaten 30 years ago. we would be doing the same thing as we did with lovie. rely on a system that is outdated and obsolete. not me, i don't want it or the freaking cover 2 like lovie ran.

you never know about carroll. he is basically out because of age but would be a GREAT short term choice here as assistant HC or if no johnson i take him as HC for the 3 year window. rivera would be a very good choice as DC especially if no carroll. has HC experience and certainly won't take any crap.

or maybe johnson with carroll as assistant HC? that would be nice. a temp assistant to get johnson up to speed and show him the ropes.

i'm all in on that. johnson and if that doesn't work for whatever reason pete carroll. screw mccarthy.

that's the dream team for me. johnson/rivera. if we are going for the experienced coach i have to take carroll. he is my second choice. 3 years to develop caleb and an OC to groom as the next HC. he should have his choice on who comes in to that position if they know he is in line for a team that is up and running. consistency across the board. people like and trust him. or... do we get another retread/experiment in mccarthy? if anyone here has scratched their heads with bizarre calls on 4th down get ready for some more with mccarthy.

don't think i want rivera for HC but certainly a possible DC.

wouldn't you to get rid of him too? seriously, loyalty was one of carroll's faults. if that is the only one i have no problem at all with it. that is what a GM is for.

every professional sport franchise in chicago is the same. incompetent. the bulls, sox, cubs. reihnsdork is as bad if not worse than mccaskey's. it dates back to the halas's/mccaskey's, wriggley, comiske to bidwell (the owner of the chicago cards). it's hard to comprehend. if you want the worst ownership, chicago is the place.

typical bear shite. how can the gm (poles) choose a HC candidate that wants to throw him out? just more bear franchise nonsense.

if we got an offensive coach like johnson rivera would be a very nice fit as DC.

NO mccarthy. this guy is average at BEST. who couldn't win with HOF qb's? what is his record without favre and rogers? he's a blockhead. if they pick this guy from all the available coaches this franchise is toast for another decade. add to bad choices... arthur smith? as the falcons HC, he got fired from there after 3 years for a dismal record, and we are interviewing him with expectations of the same? do we really need flores a defensive coach overseeing our qb? really? thomas brown as our HC? you freaking kidding me? this is the crap that is typical of the bears. drag your feet with some demented interview agenda because you are too stupid to already know who you want, after how many weeks of an interim head coach, while the best get hired immediately by another team because that way they think they can save face by saying the best were already taken. not our fault. just more BS.

i agree with this statement that i have not read the rule books, but ignorance of what i have been watching for over 60 years is somewhat a stretch. it doesn't take a rule book decision to see during the SAME game that the flag thrown penalty was perpetrated NUMEROUS times and even WORSE and NOT flagged on both teams. that is a true statement as i have watched it happen. this is not a question of interpreting the rules/ruling and whether it is correct or not. it is a question of why and when the refs decide to throw the flag for the SAME offense or not. as i have stated, the rules are, or certainly appear to be, so ambiguous that nearly any call is supported by the rules and NOT wrong. the fact is they could call a holding penalty nearly on every single play if they chose to and not be wrong according to the rules. this is why the rules for the NFL need to be overhauled to make them more precise as to what actually is or is NOT a foul. many fans understand what they are watching right before their eyes (i know i do). if i see an offensive lineman with his arm around a defenders neck holding him back and not being flagged then at another junction in the game seeing the same type of instance being called a penalty what am i supposed to think? is it a holding call that is correct or is it not? as it turns out i believe they are BOTH correct. if he calls it the rules support it. if he doesn't the rules or norms for a holding penalty support that ALSO. that is what makes it a game that is truly controlled by the refs and NOT the players and the play on the field. the more obvious ones are roughing the passer. if you watched ANY games when cutler was qb (in fact most bear qb's) they allowed him/them to be beaten to a pulp while the darling qb's who got even breathed upon got the flag protecting them. that is bias when the same crew or official lets one qb take a beating and the other gets the protection as projected by the rules. i will give you a perfect example of this.... favre with the vikings (as much as i hated this guy) was literally mauled by the saints in a playoff game. it was so obvious that this was happening i couldn't believe it. even in the 60's or 70's when qb's could take a legal beating what they did to him in this game would have been flagged multiple times for roughing. yet nothing. they wanted the saints in the superbowl that year and that is what they got. explain that. well that i don't agree with. of COURSE fans understand the points of emphasis. you would have to be an idiot robot not to. the NFL relaxed the rule books to emphasize offensive scoring to keep the mindless drones from getting bored by a low scoring defensive game. all to boost ratings by collecting the stupid into their fan base for the purposes of making more MONEY. to do this they loosened the rules on holding calls, how OL's can lineup at the LOS, pass interference calls, the brady tuck rule, changed the out of bounds stopping the clock rule so they could get more commercials in and shorten the game on broadcast tv., blind side blocks, and many other instances. they also loosened the gambling parameters so now they freaking advertise gambling during the freaking games. why do you suppose this is? you mention bad calls getting overturned. even with booth review i have seen them getting it obviously wrong. add to this factor the PENALTIES are not reviewable. this is the key factor if you want to manipulate the scores and outcome of a game. at the very least the teams should have 2 red flags just to question bad or non existent penalties called/not called. this also leads to where in many games the flags fly against certain teams at critical junctions in the game. later the refs seem to make it seem unbiased by flagging the opponent who usual has the game in hand by this time. tell me how another official can overturn a fellow ref if the rules are not violated? this again goes hand in hand with rules without any real meaning or black and white rules. this leads inquiring minds to wondering are they shaving points or manipulating the actual outcome of games? they are not going outside of the rules per se' but the results are the same. it doesn't even take an entire crew to do this just the others not being able to call the ref on it because the rule is soft and not a hard one.

i have been asking that nearly all season. if we see that max pressure was going through braxton and now borom why isn't there a TE helping him block to give our qb more time? or even better yet change kramers status to TE rather than O lineman and have him swing to whatever side is getting williams killed to double team or pick up blitz's. our TE's are basically worthless in this system. they don't target them anyway. also in my opinion it was a mistake letting our FB go in blasingwhatever go.

i used to be a baseball fan. many, many games were on 44 WBBM (i believe) in the 70's. rhino bought the sox and took away all the over the air broadcasts of sox games and made them pay per view. the final straw was rhino keeping mcdowell and fisk out of a playoff locker room back in the 90's, telling them if they wanted in the stadium to buy a ticket. i haven't watched a baseball game since or bought any merchandise related to baseball either. college football: again greed shines through. locally televised games were pulled unless you subscribed to the big 10 network channel. now the local broadcast's are SEC, other out of the area big 10 teams and so on. i really enjoyed college football. i haven't watched a single game by choice in over 10 years. saves me hundreds of dollars a year on merchandise too. when it comes time to subscribe to a service to specifically watch the nfl i am finished with sports altogether.