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If it weren't for the off the field issues, I honestly think Jameis Winston would be as close to a sure thing as possible. Runs a pro offense, has dealt with significant pressure, handles comebacks, etc. Big arm, big frame, supposedly very hard working and football smart (clearly off the field smart). Pains me to say it but if we can get Jameis, I would do it (presuming he passes a battery of background checks thoroughly handles interviews and you can really see that football smarts). Either way, lets get Harbaugh in here to help with that decision (or Gruden). I am not very high on Mariotta cause spread QB's scare the dickens out of me in the NFL.

I think our coaches are a disaster and Jay is what he is, an average to slightly above average QB. If you stick with him going forward with new people, fine, but do so knowing that you need to surround him with a very good team and really manage him. If you do that, you can win and be succesful with him but he certainly isn't going to make you great and you aren't going to be able to plan / scheme on out-dueling peeps, etc.

Haha...I noticed where he said contractually I don't control the coaching staff. I found that hillarious given that it seems pretty well documented that he forced our worse coaches on Trestman (and picked our biggest turd..Trestman himself). I will say I do like some of our young players out there but wow and I guess I'll give Emery credit for that (as this past years draft looks a bit better...although jury is still out) but man what a collasal mess we are. Thankfully the more this happens the better shape we are in.

Think about what Emery has done. Hired a spineless coach, forced assistants on him, had an awful first draft...but even than, he has continued to misscout our internal talent.

The head coach can be less of an X's and O' guy and get away with it. The head coach needs to be a big picture guy, who commands respect, leads (in good times as well as through adversity) and really is able to bring in the right people to help him. I think Trestman fails at all of those things and in reality, is the opposite, a coordinator / specialist, who has to be exceptional at the X's & O's and can outsource the other components to his head coach. I have a hard time even blaming our assistants for the same reasons I mention above, I think they have no leader, no one to control anything, no one with authority. There is no discipline and it shows up each and every week. Just think about training camp when I blasted Trestman for what was going on in camp and more and more of it is coming to fruition. I also think Emery is just as much to blame because I think he hired a spineless coach by design. He very much wants to control all things, which is fine when it works, but when it doesn't, you don't get a 2nd chance. His biggest failures have been his inability to hire a head coach, the Cutler contract (vs. franchise tag) and what might be more damning than anything, his poor evaluation of our internal players. I'm not even going to talk about his early drafts, rather, who we have kept / not kept has been a gigantic failure. We have consistently misscouted our internal people and more often than not, been wrong on our own internal evaluations.

Someone else could have said stuff too. Who knows. Bottom line, if you feel that way and think it is the QB's fault, how about you tell the QB, how about you are vocal and actually make changes. Going behind and leaking stuff to the press is just pathetic.

That better mean Emery too. He can't get a free pass for how big of a disaster this is. I've never seen anything worse in my liftime of watching the Bears than this (lets say I started when I was 5...so that is 26 years). A lot of you have me beat but I'm going to guess you all feel the same. Wanny would be a freaking upgrade, LOL.

How has Kromer not been fired yet. I also find this whole thing laughable and feel so sorry for the Bears players to deal with this incompetence. The more and more I see, the more I wonder how much any of our offensive struggles are due to the players vs. just a historically disasterous coaching staff. Coaches blame our QB when he audibles...now when he doesn't. I've been hard on Jay but at this point, I just want Emery and all the stooges he brought in out, bring in some real football people and let them decide what they want to do with Jay. If they want to keep him, great, if they want to sit him for a year and than cut him, fine, if they want to trade him, fine, but I don't want any clown currently in the organization involved (other than of course Stein).

This does nothing for me. We need changes from the top down. Keeping the same people above and changing our DC isn't going to do much, especially since no quality DC candidate will touch the job so the replacement will be someone internal anyway.

You guys know what I think of Trestman. I think if posed with the alternative of hiring Mike as our HC, I would tell you forget it, please give Trestman a 10 year extension. Singletary would be just an awful hire as anything but a LB coach (with some sort of like Assistant HC title).

I would make the trade because it gives us financial flexibility one year sooner. I am not making the trade because I think RG III is a franchise QB though. I don't have a problem with a change of scenery for him and I have no problem if whomever we hire as HC likes him and thinks he is a good fit either but I'm all for cleaning house right now.

I have never wanted to have new coaches so bad in my history of fandom (that is any team). It is a joke how bad our staff is. A total joke and if the Bears try and pull this over, wow is all I can say. I have no idea how anyone could justify keeping this coaching staff around. I also don't see how you can really argue keeping Emery around either. I don't think anyone knows what the Bears are going to do but the McCaskey's.

Great article http://grantland.com/the-triangle/searchin...l-head-coaches/ A name we haven't talked about which would be extremely intriguing is Art Briles at Baylor.

All of our coaches say they want to run the ball. Actions speak louder then words though.

That would be a dream come true.

No. However, I bought Reid and McCoy over Arians and Trestman. I clearly was wrong on Arians. Trestman, I hated at first, then started to like and got duped like everyone else.

One other interesting stat: This years Bears team is scoring less per game (21.4) then the Bears did with Mike Tice as the OC (23.4 PPG). That was with Alshon having not emerged / being hurt most of his rookie season. We also had no one who could play TE that year (remember Kellen Davis, LOL).

Speaking of the offense, below is a great quote out of Forte after the Lions game: Re: Play calling, I really question our inability to adjust and it goes back to the points in the above post that I made, regarding the fact that our offense is on the decline after a hot first year. League got footage and we can't adjust / adapt at all. Re: Talent. Curious who Forte is calling out and I am okay with him making a statement like that. Forte has been nothing but a pro his entire career with the Bears. He deserves to play for a winner and outside of our one NFC championship game, it hasn't happen.

Bears will likely finish season at 6-10 and pick in the top 10 (Projection based on us losing to Lions / Saints / Cowboys and beating Vikings). We started last year 3-0 and finished at 5-8. If we do end up finishing at 6-10, that means in the last 29 games, we would be 11-18, which would be good for a .379 winning percentage. If you look at his overall projected record (14-18) with a .437 winning percentage and a negative trend. I have a hard time thinking, given how things went, that there will be a significant argument to keeping Trestman around. This is a unit that ranks as follows: Offensive: Points = 22nd Yards = 20th Defensive: Points = 30th Yards = 26th Special Teams Ranking (Per ProFootball Outsiders): 31st (w/Detroit ranking 32nd and Detroit's negative ranking is due to their field goal kicking, which was historically bad for much of the season) Our offensive trends are negative, defense is still bad (but is a unit showing improvement), special teams is horrendous but again, the big thing is our offense is bad and this is with our so-called Guru. You could point to injuries on the line and I would argue those are legitimate excuses, but to rank where we rank and to have not scored 30 at least once with this unit, unacceptable. To continue to be fooled by zone coverage and unable to adjust to it, to not take advantage of Cutler on the move (even though they talked about doing it more after the Vikings game, we still haven't seen it), it is just very perplexing. I really don't know an argument that could be made about keeping Trestman, except for the standard, you give coaches 3 years.

No word yet on how it happened, etc.

An interesting fact is that in Trestman's career in the NFL as a play caller, year one his offenses were historically very good, year two they came crashing back (per Patrick Mannelly on the radio) and only one team kept him longer then 2 years. Why the media is bringing that up just now is kind of astonishing as you would have thought that would have made for great commentary during the long off-season after year 1. Again, the fact that we are crashing back on offense is a huge reason why I don't buy into Trestman long term and why I think it doesn't make sense to keep him around. Maybe we win out though. I certainly hope.

How many offensive coordinators have we hired to cater to Jay? We seem to be afraid to tell Jay what his faults are. Maybe that is just me, but I think Jay is almost like RG III to the extent that we literally don't give him enough tough love (within the coaching ranks). I think we have coddled him. The fans haven't but I think the organization has. AT this point in his career, I am tired of excuses. I want results.

I am not bringing in yet another coach to cater to this QB. A new QB fine, but at this point, we need to do what is best for the greater good of this franchise. If the next coach wants to keep Jay, obviously you build your current offensive scheme around his strength's while you try to build up the rest of the team and find a QB who you can groom to take over.

In regards to the oline and offensive talent, we will never know if it was Lovie that refused or if JA thought we had the need. We did invest in the oline in terms of the draft, but didn't hit.

I think what we need to stop doing as an organization is catering to him. If we keep him around long-term, okay, but we need to shift our resources to other areas and we need to build a very good team around him and really manage when we take our shots, etc.