kyyle23

Off-season isnt over yet, and the coaching changes are coming quite deliberately. Let the dust settle before you light your torch and pull out the pitchfork. From everything I am hearing Marinelli is wanting(and wanted as) the DC in Seattle, and the money is better. Hopefully he can drag is son over there with him.

Im not going to argue against nepotism in the NFL, it is alive and well(and not just with the Bears, EVERYWHERE), but dont slight Marinelli at DL coach because he happened to be with a good team when he recieved all of his accolades. There are many that feel that he was a major part of that line being as good as it was. There are plenty of former head coaches who completely failed at being head coaches and went back to being brilliant coordinators and postion coaches, as long as Marinelli isnt given a shot at HC I think the Bears will be fine. The only problem I would have is if Marinellis brother came hand in hand with him as DL coach. That would piss me off to no end. It doesnt matter though, everyone will continue to bitch and moan about everything Lovie does, positive or negative.

If Warner comes to the Bears, the book is officially closed on Orton.

Its a joke for offering one of the best defensive line coaches in the game a position as....defensive line coach?

Why is it if someone disagrees with you, then they are high?

Ok, find me the player that is going to leave the Cardinals to free up the money to re-sign Anquan Boldin for the money he is worth(which is his problem, his current contract is deemed by him and rosenhaus to be insufficient for a player of his caliber. Which, is right on point), then I will tell you that your point makes complete sense. FYI, The Bears chose not to match the Deal for Berrian because it didnt make financial sense considering the players that were left to sign at the time and where the bears allocate money(ie. defense). Berrian wasnt worth the number one money to the Bears, and that is understandable. The Cardinals arent exactly the Cowboys in the sense of spending money all over the place. They arent in any position to be paying 2 wide recievers to be in the top 3 (money-wise) in the NFL. I could care less how this board conjured up deals and lowered thier standards, this board has not one bit of impact on the NFL and the way they do business.

Not at all, Briggs was a UFA, Boldin is still a RFA. Plus, Briggs most likely would not have been re-signed if the Bears were able to make a deal with Berrian. Arizona cannot afford to pay their two wide recievers #1 money, and both of those guys could totally be #1's

Boldin is almost sure to be traded, Arizona cannot afford to pay him what he wants, he deserves much more, and Arizona also has a very good replacement in Steve Breaston. He may not go to the Bears, but he will probably be traded. It isnt a Madden Fantasy at all

Would your tune change if the Bears acquired Boldin?

I dont even buy that it was an anomaly. Anomalies dont last for 3 plus seasons. They just had the perfect combination of an amazing offense and a decent defense. To call it an anomaly would discredit Torry Holt, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce and Kurt Warner.

Did this thread get truncated? Im interested in Sean Jones profile

I dont want tebow, but I think the argument that you shouldnt draft X position from a school is really lame. My reply to you wasnt about Tebow, it was about the drafting, the kids that have come from Florida in the past 10 years have been under 3 seperate coaching staffs, Danny wuerffel should not be compared to Grossman should not be compared to Tebow. I really dont want to be part of the Cassell experiment, I think its going to end badly for whoever opens up the vault for him.

this is simply not true, Berrian got BOUGHT. Thats all there is to it, he got offered a tremendous amount of money, and the Bears decided to invest that money elsewhere, and that became Tommy Harris, Lance Briggs, or Devin Hester. he was good, but not worth the great money he got. And the other guys that the Bears gave up on, Wade, Gage, Bradley, never showed anything while with the Bears. Its so easy to say "wow look how they are doing now" but I totally remember these players looking like complete crap while with the Bears, dropping, fumbling, half-assing. Moose is another guy who looked like he was disinterested and couldnt hold on to the ball when it mattered. Always pointing fingers and such, that guy was brought in to be a leader and he was divisive. He can do well in Carolina because he isnt the main focus, he is the sidekick.

Even Ditka got the Axe a few times

bernard berrian wasnt "easily dismissed" from the Bears. the Vikings overbid on him and the Bears didnt want to match the ridiculous contract he got

Do you even watch the games? They blitz all the time, THEY GET BLOCKED BECAUSE THE OPPONENT KNOWS ITS COMING. They dont pretend to send the LBs, they send them

Not at all, Im suggesting Matt Cassell looks a hell of a lot better throwing to Randy Moss than Orton does throwing to Devin Hester. Im saying the deep threat that Cassell displays now is very similar to the deep threat that Daunte Culpepper mysteriously lost when Moss went to the Raiders. Im suggesting that Matt Cassell is a complete unknown at this point because he is playing with a playoff made team that hasnt changed hardly at all from an undefeated season, and not worth throwing all the money in china at him. Try and keep up

Hub Arkush actually said that last night with Bernstein and Goff, I hadnt heard it either

For the most part, I agree with all of this. I just disagree with putting all of my eggs in Matt Cassells basket, considering the situation he is in this year, and his history going back to high school. If it was Jake Delhomme coming from the Saints or Drew Brees coming from the Chargers, there is a legitimate beef there, but Cassell (to me) is the product of what the Patriots system can do

Apparently Mangini went to management before the season and said "If you give me Favre, I will give you the playoffs and possibly a superbowl" Then he missed the playoffs while losing to the QB that he ran off to Miami. Not a good gaurantee and result according to management

No, the deep ball is not there because Moss isnt there, not because of Cassell. Cassell was, once again, handed the reigns to an undefeated team with an all pro line, wide reciever, and a great compliment of running backs. He doesnt have anything near that stability with the Bears. It would be a disaster. But you can hope for it, thats fine.

F*** that noise. Im sorry, Matt Cassell was thrown in as QB for a team that went UNDEFEATED last year. You put him on the Bears this year(or next), and I bet he is ridden out of town on the Jonathan Quinn rail. Cassell has talent, but Im not ready to crown him as a franchise QB when he has a season handed to him on a silver platter

a lot of NFL analysts I have been listening to on the Score have talked about how it isnt that Urlacher has lost a step or is ineffective, but rather that Bob Babich never knew how to use him properly and pretty much took Urlacher out of any position to make a consistent impact. They ahve talked about how his strength is running sideline to sideline, yet Babich is consistently blitzing Urlacher which is probably his worst skill. I dunno, I think if a new DC is installed, then we will know more about Urlachers skills and if they are declining

dude, I have watched plenty of winged ducks come out of that guys hands. He doesnt have the arm OR the mechanics to be an NFL QB. His throwing motion is too long, and he just doesnt throw a good ball. That doesnt make him a bad college QB, he is a damn good college QB, but he isnt NFL caliber. You are comparing QBs that have had 3 seperate coaches, in 3 seperate regimes and 3 seperate offenses? Give me a break, if a kid can play, it doesnt matter what school he comes from.