Lucky Luciano

don't know much at all about him but here is some info:

i think dumping sitton would be a mistake. he can literally play another 3-4 years at a high level. he is a much needed QUALITY pro-bowl veteran on the interior of our line who has missed only 3 games per season in his tenure in chicago. i don't believe any injuries were joint injuries which is very important. in 2016 he had a rib injury and 2017 an ankle injury. long has had a lot more serious injuries than sitton and yet i don't want to see him cut either. long and sitton are cornerstone players on the inside of our OL. to start over seems silly to me. we can keep/draft lower round guards for future replacement. if whitehair is not the player they are looking for at tackle he projects to fill in as a replacement quality starter at guard/center. we have an abundance of guards to choose from in our future either on this squad or drafted over the next 3 years. we can't throw a top ten pick (or first round pick for that matter) at another guard. our salary cap in the future just will not support it and we would lose either long or the newly drafted high pick guard within the next 2-4 years. we need to focus on the tackle positions in the first or possibly 2nd round. these are our weakness's in the future.

somewhere in the late rounds we need a kicker

i too like the quick decisiveness our GM and coach have shown. agree we get the pick of the litter moving this fast. gotta agree with the others on sitton though. we need a solid, better than good veteran. we have the money so i say stay with quality until another takes his place by earning it.

as you posted after this one, it's his son. sounds like a very good hire especially considering his work with young TE's for the giants. i think this will be a great hire for the bears. i am really stoked so far about how our coaching staff is coming together. all the new hires, including nagy, are people who are young and talented and can teach/coach players to be better including rookies and veteran players. this may be one of the best coaching staffs with potential (on paper at least) i have witnessed in over 50 years of watching bears football. the diversity of these people hired is phenomenal. we will be really good in 2 years once everyone meshes together to form a cohesive coaching unit or we will crash and burn. my money is on the upside potential. for the first time since jim finks and venissi (sp) were in chicago, i think we have FINALLY done this right .

this says volumes about andy reid as a 'coach' and a human being with integrity and ethics in his profession. compare that to belly and the pats and their win-at-all-costs even if you have to lie, cheat and steal to do it. whether nagy turns out or not at least we don't have that stigma nailed to the front door of our franchise like mcdaniels would have brought with him.

in all seriousness... NEVER sit at a high stakes poker game in some back room. it could be hazardous to your health.

cheeeezus h. keeerist is pompei mcdaniels novelist/autobiographer? i've never seen an article written that long about ANYONE as a coaching candidate. is he related to mcdaniels or his agent? is he being PAID by kraft? what a load of touchy feely BS. here are the qualifications never touched on by pompei.... 1. involved in CHEATING the rams out of a win in superbowl 36 due to illegally filming rams practices. 2. was he involved in CHEATING in superbowl 38, 39, 41,45, along with belly and the pats? more than these? how much filming/cheating just to get to the superbowl OR win their division were they involved with? 3. 2010 as head coach of the broncos does the SAME thing with the SAME guy as the pats got charged with in 2007. is he completely STUPID or just a pathological CHEATER? 4. 2013 pats illegal use of IR designation for players? "Two former Patriots say the team put false information about them on official injury reports." he wouldn't know a thing about that being the offensive coordinator? 5. 2015 deflate-a-gate. again the pats were caught cheating. does ANYONE believe a ball boy whom they blamed for this took it upon himself to do this??? how could mcdaniels NOT know what was happening in their own locker room with his starting qb? but other than those MINOR items he would be a great candidate. a pathelogical liar, learned how to CHEAT from the best and is a THIEF. yea, i'm sure in his corner. the bears need more people in charge who have no moral or ethical standards.

this could be a real problem if we decide to go with a defensive minded head coach... if we find a real good OC that brings our qb and offense into the spotlight, he won't be around long in the NFL's coaching merry-go-round before he is gone. the only way one stays is if age is a factor or he doesn't want a/another HC job.

i hope this franchise does NOT go with a cheating thief in mcdaniel's. i don't care how good or bad he is it would be hard to get behind someone who has no scruples and is STUPID to lead this franchise.

agreed. i have been saying this for years.

i'm not in the 'fire fox' corner this season unless someone REALLY good shows up. OC? maybe so. it's just so hard to judge the coaching talent with the adversity we have gone through since he showed up. quite frankly when fox & co. showed up, our roster was filled out with semi-pro talent. maybe one of if not THE worst i have ever witnessed in the nfl. all of that takes time to turn around. it was not and still isn't a quick fix. plus our previous coaching staff was semi-pro to go along with the talent on the team. tucker was an insane hire and it took us time to recover from that mess. add to all of this the injuries we have suffered are above and beyond the norm. there is no way to realistically finalize a coaching staff judgement with those restrictions when you are starting 3rd and beyond depth chart players in key positions. so as of now, i am going to rely on pace to make the hard choices (at least for a bit more time). again, just to reiterate, i am not a jeff fisher hater. i would be comfortable with him as our HC if pace believes he can get the job done.

i don't know who out there that is AVAILABLE is better or not IF we decide to can our current staff. i can say this... i have no major problem with fisher. he brings a defense to play wherever he has been. he was tutored under buddy ryan and it shows. in the past with good personnel he brought the titans to nearly winning a superbowl which is far closer than we have been since '85. he also seems to find good coordinators to work with. most of his tenure was in houston/tennessee and included an idiot for an owner that stunted the teams growth in tenn. so that is a consideration on where that team fared in the overall. he put together the solid foundation for the rams which dumped him when they moved to LA. so for me, i am on the fence with fisher. i wouldn't hate it if he eventually replaced fox if that is where pace wants to go. i also wouldn't mind a better coach if one is out there but put me down emphatically.... i do NOT want another project young and upcoming let's give him a try first time in the NFL head coach yet again. i'm sick of that crap.

i guess i don't really know what they offered the bears to move up. anybody on here know? the way i would look at it if i were the browns... they get the best player in the draft at #1 who is an immediate impact player. if they move up to the #2 slot they get the qb that they coveted all along. this gives them a franchise pass rusher and a future franchise qb who needs time to work his way into the nfl. that is hard to beat no matter what you give up. they didn't appear to have any real hard interest in any other qb besides trubisky. the niners didn't appear interested in a qb so the trade to that slot is doable. the bears just signed a big contract free agent and was not looking like pace was going to pull the trigger on trubisky even if he fell. a great smoke screen and draft strategy by our franchise. if the browns gave up a top 15 pick this year and their first round pick next year it certainly was going to be a high top 5 pick. that's a lot of bait to throw at the 9ers not to mention if they had to give up a 2nd this year and a 3rd next year (i have no idea of the value chart of what picks are worth) but if i were the niners that would be a reallly interesting offer. the browns would come out of it in really good shape. they have picked high the past number of years and this would give them the key positions to make great strides in the next 2-3 years. they need quality players, not more draft picks.

i really don't see it as being that far out of the realm of possibility that cleveland would move up and pick a considered franchise qb along with the touted best player in the draft (a defensive pass rusher). why wouldn't they? there are so many configurations for them to move up and make that trade. if you get a franchise defensive player AND a franchise QB in one draft how is that a bad thing? they had plenty of ammo to make drastic trades up without doing a ditka. no one would predict cleveland was going to turn it around in one year so their trade bait was high picks from the 2018 draft also. i would do it.

i agree. sims is their blocking TE. a big body on the end and a good plus blocker downfield. that is why he was brought here, not as a high reception/yardage TE. once our offense comes together he would be a good target in the red zone or a lead blocker for running plays around the edge.

first of all fox isn't a lame duck coach yet. if he turns it around he stays no question. if an OC has aspirations for a HC job he has an ear for that position IF chicago dumps fox. IF an OC comes in and turns this offense around he looks like a genius and can call his own shots anywhere.

i say we stay with what we have for another year. have pace and fox think about an OC upgrade in the offseason.

THAT mcdaniels from the pats?? it didn't register at the time. here is my HELL NO vote!! this guy is arrogant, a freaking liar and to top it all off.... a cheating THIEF!! why in the hell would we want him? he should have been banned from the NFL just for being criminally stupid.

1. gruden: HIGHLY doubtful he would come to chicago even if he comes out at all and he is happy announcing. plus his overall coaching skills (i will concede 'probably' good with a qb and offense) are over rated in my opinion. would want near complete control and cause problems for our GM. i'm not sure what his locker room contribution would be either. i think IF he coaches again it will be on one of the coasts. that said, who does he bring into chicago as coaching staff? we in all probability lose fangio on defense. that limits us to finding a coach who will work in the type of scheme we have drafted for over the last 3 years. offensive coach? 2. hardhead: this guy i do NOT want in chicago. he is certifiably nuts. we don't need the drama of this guy with a young up and coming team. who would HE bring to chicago as a coaching staff? who would put up with him? how would a sane GM work with this guy? 3. mcdaniels: i guess i don't know anything about him. all need to remember this, if we change horses in mid stream we are basically starting over again. so add another 3 years minimum to our rebuild.

with everyone talking about dumping the coaching staff, who are you replacing them with?

what a joke. every aspect of the chicago bears is garbage. it's a waste of time watching this team underperform week after week, year after year.

i gotta say i'm in fox's corner at this time. he has everyone playing hard and the locker room to my knowledge has been solid. right now we are a project in the making. i don't see a complete overhaul in our coaching system as a good thing at this time. our defense is starting to shine so if fox goes so probably does fangio. this throws our offense into another tailspin as seen with cutler for his tenure in chicago and our defense is again in limbo if a new coach wants to NOT be handcuffed to a previous regime, like we have STUPIDLY done in the past, even IF fangio wants to stay. i gotta believe fox and co. get more time to turn this around. the only exception >>might

here is the problem... i THINK whitehair is the better blocker (can someone verify this who has access to game film rewinds?). although with that said he has also come up with some critical holding calls to go with the bad snaps. whatever the case these bad snaps HAVE to stop. whether benching him for a while or spend the entire practices having him long snap, someone needs to do something about this. the qb needs to have the confidence in his center to get the ball cleanly to him. maybe have our special teams long snapper work with him on this problem may offer some help.

i have to step in on this... although i missed the last half of the 4th quarter, sims in my opinion is not a worthless blocker. the two plays i took notice of his failure to contain he was lining up on the left side next to leno and trying to block a premier DE in suggs one on one. THAT is a complete mismatch. there is no way a normal TE can be expected to do this on his own. our OC should have known that and if trub had more experience he probably could have compensated on how to react to this mismatch with either an audible or rolling out to his right. i also saw some nice blocking from sims in our running attack to seal off lanes for our rb to hit. one problem is with so many bodies on defense in the box they can mix up stunts and any blitz packages they may choose to run also. this was a decent defensive game plan on the ravens part capitalizing on our limited play calling and a rookie at the helm. on your next point i completely agree. EDIT: on whitehair... i have no clue what is going on with his snaps. he has become a serious liability with these miscues. the one cost us yardage and a down in our own red zone. the one that was snapped on the ground and rolling into the endzone could have cost us a TD or safety if we had not called a time out. something has to be done about this problem.