Chicago Bears Offseason 2012

[Theo]

oh and Tim Ruskell fired.

[minnesotacubsfan]

 

Love, LOVE, his philosophy on running backs. Put it like this, if Emery is our GM in 2007, there is no way in hell we waste a pick on Garrett Wolfe.

 

Care to paraphrase?

[jersey cubs fan]

I remain highly skeptical of the intense boy scout story all of the writers are praising today, but I do find the Ruskell firing interesting. Given their history, I would have thought at the bare minimum he'd let him work out the rest of the contract. Emery strikes me as the type of guy many of his peers might be annoyed at behind his back. I wonder how many will want to come work for him. He's got two directors to hire and I assume he does it soon.

[Magnetic Curses]

marc ross marc ross

[jersey cubs fan]

marc ross marc ross

 

I don't see how they can get one of their GM candidates that got eliminated in the 1st round of interviews to make a lateral move from the Giants to Bears.

[jersey cubs fan]

press conference about to begin, many fat men milling about in front of podium at the moment

[jersey cubs fan]

ted speaking highly of Phil's leadership ability, decision making prowess and wealth of experience

[jersey cubs fan]

phil's gawky boy scoutness shining through early on

[cubbyvirus00]

Phil's got ears for days

[jersey cubs fan]

Phil speaking highly of the team's core of playmaking players, as well as the scouts already on staff. Says they will add to that staff.

[Magnetic Curses]

keeps talking about rich mckay. wasn't angelo a mckay protege, too?

[Magnetic Curses]

marc ross marc ross

 

I don't see how they can get one of their GM candidates that got eliminated in the 1st round of interviews to make a lateral move from the Giants to Bears.

 

wouldn't director of player personnel be a promotion from director of college scouting?

[jersey cubs fan]

marc ross marc ross

 

I don't see how they can get one of their GM candidates that got eliminated in the 1st round of interviews to make a lateral move from the Giants to Bears.

 

wouldn't director of player personnel be a promotion from director of college scouting?

 

Emery is going to hire a director of college scouting and a director of pro scouting.

[jersey cubs fan]

weird response to the "what's your offensive philosophy" question.

 

His philosophy is to score points. He also said he sees the league trend as toward balance. That's nonsense, of course, as the trend for winning teams is all about the passing game. The teams that gain yards, score points and win, do it through the air.

[jersey cubs fan]

Emery is putting his faith in Lovie's decision making with regard to coaching staff, at least for now.

[UMFan83]

I don't like the way this guy talks at all. doesn't appear particularly smart. random stories that really don't have much to do with anything.

[Magnetic Curses]

weird response to the "what's your offensive philosophy" question.

 

His philosophy is to score points. He also said he sees the league trend as toward balance. That's nonsense, of course, as the trend for winning teams is all about the passing game. The teams that gain yards, score points and win, do it through the air.

 

that's not weird, that's worrisome. despite all evidence to the contrary, he's still paying lip service towards balance. the most successful teams, including the 2 in the super bowl, have consistently used the run to catch teams off guard, to the tune of around 60/40.

 

we need to pass to keep up, and we have the guy to do it.

[manbearcub]

Let's face it, the only way this guy is any good is complete dumb luck on the part of Phillips. I'm putting the odds at 90% that he is an absolute dope. I'd rather have kept Angelo.

[jersey cubs fan]

weird response to the "what's your offensive philosophy" question.

 

His philosophy is to score points. He also said he sees the league trend as toward balance. That's nonsense, of course, as the trend for winning teams is all about the passing game. The teams that gain yards, score points and win, do it through the air.

 

that's not weird, that's worrisome. despite all evidence to the contrary, he's still paying lip service towards balance. the most successful teams, including the 2 in the super bowl, have consistently used the run to catch teams off guard, to the tune of around 60/40.

 

we need to pass to keep up, and we have the guy to do it.

 

I meant how he phrased it.

 

This guy is all about the blowhard coach speak nonsense that is typical in football. He's a total Jim Hendry in that regard but with more discipline. Thankfully that sort of thing can work in the NFL. This guy doesn't give me any faith though.

[Magnetic Curses]

we don't exactly need an ivy league egghead to be successful, but it would help.

[UMFan83]

Boers and Bernstein rip everyone after interviews but they are really going to town on this dude.

 

I missed the first part of the PC but apparently he just kept saying stuff about having a process or something.

[jersey cubs fan]

Boers and Bernstein rip everyone after interviews but they are really going to town on this dude.

 

I missed the first part of the PC but apparently he just kept saying stuff about having a process or something.

 

I figured they would be all over this guy. He's an easy target. He just kept saying bland nonsense about processes and leadership and holding accountable and blahblahblah.

 

He didn't say a damn thing about the team, and I think that will continue as he most closely associated himself with Pioli, who comes from the Belichik school of don't say anything but BS. If it works, great, but get ready for a hell of a lot of non-answer answers.

[manbearcub]

Boers and Bernstein rip everyone after interviews but they are really going to town on this dude.

 

I missed the first part of the PC but apparently he just kept saying stuff about having a process or something.

They loved Theo's though.

[jersey cubs fan]

Boers and Bernstein rip everyone after interviews but they are really going to town on this dude.

 

I missed the first part of the PC but apparently he just kept saying stuff about having a process or something.

They loved Theo's though.

 

Theo said stuff and articulated pretty clearly what the plan would be to make this team better. He left any listener with a sense of hope for the team. Emery said nothing and left people with nothing but the need to hope he won't be a complete bust.

[jersey cubs fan]

The only two things I really take away from this is that the Bears will be even more obsessed with character guys in the draft and are even less likely to show up on Hard Knocks.