2014 Chicago Bears Offseason Thread

[jersey cubs fan]

I would think HBO would like to avoid the Bears. I think Trestman would be a hard sell to a large viewing audience if they're wanting an interesting coach.

 

Trestman is a pretty interesting guy, at least unique among the coaching community. Then you have a very famous QB who is easily cast as a villain and has his every facial expression critiqued regularly. You have the super religious pro bowl RB who has probably been owned in fantasy by just about everybody who has played the game by now. You have a mentally disturbed star WR, an emerging star WR, a crazy TE, Howie Long's son and what is going to be massive turnover on defense.

 

Emery and Trestman alone could make for all sorts of weird clips with their strange speaking styles.

[Guest]

i cant even express how much i would love to see cutler on hard knocks

 

marty b too (even though we've already seen that)

[scarey]

I would think HBO would like to avoid the Bears. I think Trestman would be a hard sell to a large viewing audience if they're wanting an interesting coach.

 

Trestman is a pretty interesting guy, at least unique among the coaching community. Then you have a very famous QB who is easily cast as a villain and has his every facial expression critiqued regularly. You have the super religious pro bowl RB who has probably been owned in fantasy by just about everybody who has played the game by now. You have a mentally disturbed star WR, an emerging star WR, a crazy TE, Howie Long's son and what is going to be massive turnover on defense.

 

Emery and Trestman alone could make for all sorts of weird clips with their strange speaking styles.

 

Trestman is not what the average viewer expects out of an NFL head coach. You're not going to get any bravado or tough guy stuff from him. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see it. It's not me that needs to be convinced though.

 

I don't think the average viewer is going to be very interested in Trestman and I think that hurts the chances of the Bears being selected.

[jersey cubs fan]

I would think HBO would like to avoid the Bears. I think Trestman would be a hard sell to a large viewing audience if they're wanting an interesting coach.

 

Trestman is a pretty interesting guy, at least unique among the coaching community. Then you have a very famous QB who is easily cast as a villain and has his every facial expression critiqued regularly. You have the super religious pro bowl RB who has probably been owned in fantasy by just about everybody who has played the game by now. You have a mentally disturbed star WR, an emerging star WR, a crazy TE, Howie Long's son and what is going to be massive turnover on defense.

 

Emery and Trestman alone could make for all sorts of weird clips with their strange speaking styles.

 

Trestman is not what the average viewer expects out of an NFL head coach. You're not going to get any bravado or tough guy stuff from him. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see it. It's not me that needs to be convinced though.

 

I don't think the average viewer is going to be very interested in Trestman and I think that hurts the chances of the Bears being selected.

 

Who cares what viewers expect? If you bother watching this show with regularity, you aren't going to tune out because the coach of the team isn't brash. Trestman is interesting and unique though. And you would have to be bad at making this show if you couldn't get compelling bits out of him.

[jersey cubs fan]

i cant even express how much i would love to see cutler on hard knocks

 

marty b too (even though we've already seen that)

 

Forgot to add that the QB's wife is already a reality TV veteran.

[Banedon]

People that don't like Trestman will just hate-watch the show.

[ctcf]

Forte is super religious?

[Banedon]

It actually might be a way for Cutler to rehab his image a bit.

[jersey cubs fan]

Forte is super religious?

 

The only thing he tweets are quotes from the bible, sponsor related stuff and the occasional reply to somebody wearing his jersey.

[ctcf]

Forte is super religious?

 

The only thing he tweets are quotes from the bible, sponsor related stuff and the occasional reply to somebody wearing his jersey.

 

Isn't that most pro athletes?

[jersey cubs fan]

Forte is super religious?

 

The only thing he tweets are quotes from the bible, sponsor related stuff and the occasional reply to somebody wearing his jersey.

 

Isn't that most pro athletes?

 

Maybe, but would that make him not super religious?

[Guest]

Forte is super religious?

 

The only thing he tweets are quotes from the bible, sponsor related stuff and the occasional reply to somebody wearing his jersey.

 

Alshon seems to be the same way.

[rawaction]

Forte is super religious?

 

The only thing he tweets are quotes from the bible, sponsor related stuff and the occasional reply to somebody wearing his jersey.

 

Alshon seems to be the same way.

 

Alshon almost exclusively tweets the same thing over and over. "Good morning. God bless everyone". Then he talks about South Carolina football.

[jersey cubs fan]

Forte is super religious?

 

The only thing he tweets are quotes from the bible, sponsor related stuff and the occasional reply to somebody wearing his jersey.

 

Alshon seems to be the same way.

 

Alshon almost exclusively tweets the same thing over and over. "Good morning. God bless everyone". Then he talks about South Carolina football.

 

I never stumbled on him before but just noticed and that is hilarious.

[tfarks]

Super-religious doesn't seem to make for exciting tv. To me anyways. Hopefully they draft a vocal atheist.

[jersey cubs fan]

Super-religious doesn't seem to make for exciting tv. To me anyways. Hopefully they draft a vocal atheist.

 

By itself no, but every sports movie or show ever made has its religious characters.

 

I would bet that Cutler and Cavallari, Emery and Trestman, Bennett, Marshall and Long would be headliners. Plus whoever gets drafted first and then some combination of veterans holding onto positions on defense plus young guys looking to take their spot. Briggs could be such a guy, but he's been around a long time and hasn't shown much of a personality.

[Soul]

Also, are there any rumblings of Tucker getting fired or is it looking like he might stay?

 

I was wondering about this today. The latest I can find is the Biggs mailbag from Jan 7th, where he speculates on both sides of the Tucker situation. The short answer is, it's still up in the air.

 

http://www.redeyechicago.com/sports/chi-biggs-answers-bears-questions-20140107,0,284146.story?page=1

[ConstableRabbit]

Super-religious doesn't seem to make for exciting tv. To me anyways. Hopefully they draft a vocal atheist.

 

By itself no, but every sports movie or show ever made has its religious characters.

 

I would bet that Cutler and Cavallari, Emery and Trestman, Bennett, Marshall and Long would be headliners. Plus whoever gets drafted first and then some combination of veterans holding onto positions on defense plus young guys looking to take their spot. Briggs could be such a guy, but he's been around a long time and hasn't shown much of a personality.

Yeah, not like he crashed an Italian sportscar on the Edens while drunk and covered it up. Bor-ring!

[jersey cubs fan]

Yeah, not like he crashed an Italian sportscar on the Edens while drunk and covered it up. Bor-ring!

 

What does crashing a car when drunk have to do with personality?

[ConstableRabbit]

Yeah, not like he crashed an Italian sportscar on the Edens while drunk and covered it up. Bor-ring!

 

What does crashing a car when drunk have to do with personality?

Everything. Briggs will make for good TV.

[Guest]

Can you imagine driving down the Edens at 3 AM and seeing Lance Briggs running from Devon to Touhy or whatever the hell he did?

[Soul]

Hey look at that idiot. He looks just like Lance Briggs.

[jersey cubs fan]

Yeah, not like he crashed an Italian sportscar on the Edens while drunk and covered it up. Bor-ring!

 

What does crashing a car when drunk have to do with personality?

Everything.

 

That is absurd.

[jersey cubs fan]

Briggs will make for good TV.

 

He's been on TV for a long time and seems incredibly dull to me.

[ConstableRabbit]

Briggs will make for good TV.

 

He's been on TV for a long time and seems incredibly dull to me.

The dichotomy between Briggs being:

A. A pro-bowl linebacker who owns (owned?) a $350k sportscar and,

B. An active comic book collector who created his own graphic novel (see:Lance's Comic World)

 

is intriguing, and I could see it being featured in Hard Knocks.