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Dungy must not realize Mel Tucker is a minority, lol.

Interesting quotes from Tucker. I seem to notice a trend starting with Trestman about all the coaches. Do you see similarities from the quotes below: http://jacksonville.com/sports/football/ja...h#ixzz2INMMkMQh

This all stems from the lack of a minority hire this year. To me it is pretty simple, Caldwell crashed Indy to a 2-14 team, why would anyone hire him? Lovie? We all know enough about him to understand the reluctance to hire him. If they want to talk about diversity, where are the women coaches? Just saying.

Someone with 4-3 and 3-4 experience sure would be a good candidate to switch if the team decided to go that route.

Some good pics of Trestman here, he looks completely different as a player in the 70s: http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/c...hotos-20130115/ Interesting one here, what is with all the pictures of Gould in the background? http://www.trbimg.com/img-1358450221/turbi...--20130117/1280

or the scheme that was used to ad nauseam actually limited the true potential of the players and team. Just think of some deception built into our defense. Not just the silly pre-snap ritual where the LB's run to the line only to back pedal back to their positions at the snap. Soooo tricky.

The website is not complete BS, it is just not that rudimentary. There is more to it than just the basics they showed there. It is just not eye's only, but tone of voice, body language, posture, etc. The best way to know is to ask similar questions, worded slightly different that should yield the same answer. Within the same interview you would be surprised how much a story that is made up changes. To me, I think he was tricked, but then tried to hide it after he found out to possibly avoid embarrassment, but the story got out, and now it looks even worse.

DC for Jacksonville. Brought the defense up in 2011 when he took over playcalling from Del Rio. Otherwise, you can only do so much with crappy players.

First, you can't just pull 3 years out of the entire picture to improve your stance. The Bears, under a defensive minded HC, had a top 5 unit in 4 out of the last 9 years. I would be curious to see where other perennial defensive teams like Pittsburgh and Baltimore ranked in the same timeframe. You can also see the drop off after the firing of Rivera and the SB loss. 2 out of 6 seasons in the top 5 for a defense that is supposed to be the strength of the team. That too is not acceptable. We should've been a top 5 defense every year.

Actually, Lovie took over the Defense play calling from Babich in 2009: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3831098

UNPOSSIBLE!!! I don't see Lovie on that list, there has to be a mistake, a Dave McGinnis hire perhaps?

Waddle and Silvy talking to Cutler about Trestman: http://espn.go.com/espnradio/chicago/play?...5&s=chicago

Odd, his wiki summary shows this when you search his name on Google: but when you go to his actual page, it still says DB Coach.

Trestman+Kromer > McCoy+Wisenhunt

Looks like everyone but Hoke is gone: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/footb...0,5312921.story

Not if he is left-handed, then the direction is swapped:

Awesome, thanks. I believe Kromer was designated as the OC and OLine coach, so RB's coach and or Running Game Coordinator would make sense. Now we just need some intel on the DC. Hoke?

I would say it got mixed reviews due to the relative comparisons to other teams. Basically saying all the other shitty teams would kill for a 10-6 record. However, I have seen a bunch of NFL experts applauding the hire saying it was a great move. Chip Kelly is just a bigger name due to what he did at Oregon, not that he was a better hire. Reid was in KC before Kelly was in Philly. There are still 2 positions left I believe (Arizona and Jax) and neither has interviewed Lovie from what I have read. So to me, it does speak volumes about how valuable he is. If he was that good of a HC, he would've been in high demand and had another HC job already. Hey Lovie, I believe there is a vacancy in Montreal, but be careful, those are some big shoes to fill.

We are going from Lovie and Tice to Trestman and Kromer. Trestman alone is a better offensive mind than Lovie and Tice combined. Then you throw Kromer in there and the offense becomes a team strength. The 2002 Raiders are a great snapshot of this. They were the #2 scoring offense in the league. Gannon threw for 4,689 with 26 TDs and 10 INTs. The leading rusher was Charlie Garner who also caught 91 passes for 941 yards (91 receptions by the RB - wow), and the leading WR's were Jerry Rice (92-1211) and Tim Brown (81-930). I would say Cutler is at least comparable to Gannon, if not more physically gifted at this point is his career. Forte is much better than Garner was at the time. For the WR's, Rice was 40 at the time, so it is hard to not say Marshall is not better than him now than at that point in his career. Brown too was getting up there at 38. Jeffery is nowhere near Brown in terms of experience, but we saw flashes that leads me to believe with the right coaches and schemes, he could have a monster year. The 3rd best WR was Porter who had 51-688. I could see someone like Bennett replicating that. For TE's, they had Jolley and Williams combine for 59-622. Pretty decent production for those two players who were not very good. Now we just need a real TE and we will be good.

He also was on the Rams staff with Fisher before the ban.

18 games, but another way to look at it is by the team's pass attempts. Sacks went from 1 per every 10 pass attempts down to 1 every 26 pass attempts.

Now that is funny.

This seemed almost inevitable.

It's amazing to witness.

No Kool-Aid, I just felt that Tice and the scheme was holding the Bears offense back more so than the actual players. We will get the O-Line help via FA and draft. I believe Jeffery is that 2nd WR. Just think, we are going to actually have players in positions that maximize the matchups. There will be an actual game plan on offense.