adam

I have to agree 1000%. Just look at Urlacher's sack totals, not completely related to scheme, but a big part. The defense became so predictable, and I know everyone despised the late game "protect the lead prevent" that just prevented us from winning. Lovie even preached that "we are not going to do any special" and "we are just going to line up and make you beat us". To me that is almost a stubborn approach. Why not play into the strengths of your players within a scheme and exploit the opponents weaknesses?

You know, this may come down to who their Coordinator choices are, especially on Offense.

Thanks, pinned.

So far Trestman is in the lead, followed by Arians and McCoy. With the announcement of the final 3, we have a good shot of getting this right.

Just can't see that with the money already tied up in Marshall and Bennett as well as the limited salary cap after we re-sign current players and possibly OL via FA.

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/291007364251910144 So Trestman, Bevell, and Arians are the finalists. I would be ok with any of them.

An interesting perspective from a Montreal season ticket holder on Trestman: http://www.windycitygridiron.com/2013/1/14...louettes-season

Yeah, I would trust your source more than 3rd or 4th hand info on the internet. The one fact we can conclude is it will be a current OC or Trestman. To me, I thought it was odd of Trestman to interview for an OC position if he had any indication that he was under strong consideration for our HC position. To me it seems like he was told something on the contrary.

Interesting: Looks like it is going to come down to a final two brought back for 2nd interviews from the original 13. So we may know who that is if someone is back at Halas Hall this week. I figure we will know by Thursday, with the official presser on Friday at the latest, so the coach can go to the East West Shrine game on Saturday. http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/post...among-last-four

If coaches we interviewed are interviewing for lesser positions, it hard for me to believe that they have not been already informed that they are no longer being considered for the HC job.

Who said that? It is not all black and white, right and wrong here. Does Cutler have a personality that rubs people the wrong way, absolutely, but that should not take away from what he does on the field. The face of the franchise is normally the best player or the player most associated with that franchise. Megatron is more the face than Stafford, AP more the face than Ponder, etc, etc. What do you mean is he unable or unwilling to behave in a mature way Brady yelling at OC: Manning yelling at Center, but if NFL Network makes light of it, its ok:

Here are the remaining playoff teams: BAL: McKinnie (FA, Former 1st Rd pick) Osemele (2nd Rd pick) Burk (FA) Yanda (3rd Rd pick) Oher (1st Rd pick) NE: Solder (1st Rd pick) Mankins (1st Rd pick) Vollmer (2nd Rd pick) Connolly (FA) Wendell (UDFA) ATL: Baker (1st Rd pick) Blalock (2nd Rd pick) McClure (7th Rd pick) Konz (2nd Rd pick) Clabo (FA) SEA: Okung (1st Rd pick) McQuistan (FA) Unger (2nd Rd pick) Sweezy (7th Rd pick) Giacomini (FA) HOU: Brown (1st Rd pick) Smith (FA) Myers (FA) Jones (4th Rd pick) Newton (7th Rd pick)

Supposed to be Peppers, the table I copied from actually had Peanut on both teams.

Yeah, I mentioned a few posts earlier. I can't believe they did not game plan for that. GB might look significantly different next year.

Nice to see some validation for these guys. Melton was the only guy to drop off from the Pro Bowl roster for the Bears. First Team WR Brandon Marshall, Bears CB Charles Tillman, Bears Second Team DE Julius Peppers, Bears CB Tim Jennings, Bears http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100000012...-headline-teams?

That would've been ridiculous. If he called out the fans for booing? I cannot even fathom the backlash that he would've received. They would probably ban him from the game and every Bears fan that doesn't like him would be calling for Sexy Rexy to come back to the Bears and throw some more picks.

They have to wait?

This is a great point, and often gets overlooked. How many times did we "just line up and try to beat someone", both on offense and defense. To me, that just begs to get beat by teams that are more creative than you. You don't let the other team dictate what you do, and you have to play to your strengths and to the opponents weaknesses. I don't know how often we did that. We really did nothing "advanced" on either side of the ball, it was the skill of our players that gave us our wins.

Absolutely, but I wanted to see what people thought from the information available. Maybe I will just make another one later in the week on who we want

Surprised to not see any McCoy votes.

Woodson said after the game that they did not plan for Kaepernick to run so much. Really? No wonder you got torched. They didn't have a spy on him. Seattle had the blue print for him, and I am surprised GB didn't follow suit.

Oh yeah, loving it. Rodgers running around like a little scared school boy.

Wow, SF and Kaepernick look good. Glad to see the Cheeseheads out of it. Now Clements becomes available, if Emery deems him worthy enough. GB doomed themselves by losing to Minny in Week 17. A win and they would've had a Bye last week and a home game this week. So much for Rodgers being the savior that can win any game on his own. Nothing can help a defense that bad.

Who calls the plays in SF, because it looks like Harbaugh runs the offense? Listening to the commentators, Harbaugh gets most of the credit for the QB development in SF.

Looks like we have 3 leading candidates.