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  1. Sammy Sofa
    DO SOMETHING, YOU MOOKS.
  2. Sammy Sofa
    Oh God, Oh God, this is their offseason, oh God, oh God
  3. Sammy Sofa
    http://media0.giphy.com/media/PztcmOlezEKMU/giphy.gif
  4. Sammy Sofa
    Madness. Is this based on injury concerns?
  5. Sammy Sofa
    Everyone knows his role and reputation as both a leader and how he directed the defense on the field. You run into a point, however, where a player is likely to be off the field more often than not and that their ability to play is rapidly disappearing. If he had been willing to take a cheap 1 year deal where they could have had him around to effectively transition to a new defense, fine, but the reports were that he wasn't willing to take a short or cheap deal and as such it was just time to end things. Given that he didn't end up anywhere else speaks pretty loudly to both his unwillingness to back down on cost and/or his health.
  6. Sammy Sofa
    Of course it was good; but he was going to run into the same wall.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe, but aren't we still looking at mostly the same collection of players on defense? They had a LOT of scrubs out there. Yea but playing the hypothetical if they could have gotten the OC version of Trestman somewhere maybe the offense looks close to what it was in 13 without the drop off of 14. Either way I'm happy to have moved on, just sucks two years are down the drain on Trestman. I'm even more baffled by Mel Tucker; with Trestman I get what they were going for. Trestman had a limited history, but you could see what they were going for. Tucker has almost always sucked. To go from Lovie and Marinelli managing your defense to Tucker is an astonishingly bad downgrade even before they played their first game with Tucker.
  8. Sammy Sofa
    Maybe, but aren't we still looking at mostly the same collection of players on defense? They had a LOT of scrubs out there.
  9. Sammy Sofa
    Yes. I think a pretty significant part of the reason the defense fell as far as it did was coaching and, given what we've heard about the Lovie guys not buying in, probably motivation to some degree. The other major reason was a ton of injuries which, who knows. Butterfly effect and such. I think the 2013 defense would have been better with Lovie, but the offense would have been worse and they would not have won enough. That's why I said at best they would still been 8-8; having Lovie and Marinelli would have made a big difference from the coaching standpoint, but the talent/health simply wasn't there. This latest season they MAYBE would have been 6-10 or 7-9 instead.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    Having Lovie last year means you likely wouldn't have seen the short-lived bright spots of the offense responding under Trestman. So couple that worse offense with an aging defense that Lovie couldn't save unless he was a sorcerer and it blows my mind that you think they would have been better; at beast you would have likely seen the same .500 record. Guys didn't break down because Lovie was gone. There's only so much he could have done with the resources at his disposal because he and the other people in charge had failed so spectacularly for years to properly draft and develop new talent.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    This may be the craziest thing you've ever posted here, and that's saying something. Lovie's teams won because of the defense. Lovie's focus was on the defense. The defense, however, would not have been immune to the wall of age it ran into if Lovie stuck around. If anything, Lovie got out at the right time because last year probably would have been even worse under him. They had successfully cycled through top defensive players while not bottoming out in the past. Tommie Harris, agunleye, alex brown, vasher, mike brown etc. lovie was good at getting guys into his system. I have no doubt the defense would have continued to be better than average. There was no cycling happening at the end of his run; their draft picks were failing left and right, so do you honestly think that in a single offseason the presence of Lovie Smith as HC alone would have been enough to suddenly reverse that course and prevent the old defense from collapsing into the cellar? Lovie Smith doesn't reverse the aging process on Briggs and Peppers. Lovie Smith doesn't prevent Tillman from being injured. Hell, the only thing he possibly changes is them stupidly retaining Urlacher and he was nothing at that point.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    This may be the craziest thing you've ever posted here, and that's saying something. Lovie's teams won because of the defense. Lovie's focus was on the defense. The defense, however, would not have been immune to the wall of age it ran into if Lovie stuck around. If anything, Lovie got out at the right time because last year probably would have been even worse under him.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    If he was mad from the standpoint that he thought he was basically running the show or that he had a equal say in the final call, yeah, that's ridiculous on his part. But if he was mad because he thought Trestman was a terrible choice and he felt they completely ignored his input, OK, then I get being pissed off.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    I completely buy that people did not want to be involved in situations where you had to keep the head coach, or you had to use certain assistants. I do not buy that quality people are choosing to stay away from the Bears because of the presence of Ted Phillips. There has been no indication whatsoever that he is a meddler, that he has input on draft day or tries to go around people's backs. You read about that kind of nonsense with many teams out there, including Oakland, SF and to a lesser extent the Jets. Yup. If there was something there we would have heard about it. Hub is being the hackiest of hacks to try and imply otherwise, because it shows there's nothing to it, but he's still trying to dangle that plotline.
  15. Sammy Sofa
    Sure, I just think the talk from some about how he needs to go as part of cleaning house is often an overreaction; if the guy is good with the "business" side of thing and the McCaskeys are comfortable with him in that role then shifting him to that isn't a problem. It's not like a coach or management figure who can't (or, lets be realistic, almost always wouldn't) be shifted like that.
  16. Sammy Sofa
    I definitely look at it as a combo of the two. Obviously nobody wants Phillips really doing anything in terms of team building, but the way some people talk about him (and Kenney) like he's the source of everything that goes wrong and that he needs to go or else nothing will really change is absurd. All that said, if it takes getting rid of him to get Decosta, do it. Yeah, he should definitely be expendable along those lines.
  17. Sammy Sofa
    I definitely look at it as a combo of the two. Obviously nobody wants Phillips really doing anything in terms of team building, but the way some people talk about him (and Kenney) like he's the source of everything that goes wrong and that he needs to go or else nothing will really change is absurd.
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Hub said that a few times, and I'm not sure what he's implying...that he knows something about the McCaskey's that's illegal or scandalous? It's hyperbole. There's nothing to it. People just harbor boiling hatred him a la Crane Kenney and they can't wrap their meatball brains around the idea that anyone would want to hire him for anything.
  19. Sammy Sofa
    And stand clear if he tries to understand love: http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6ht47A6s11qc073co1_400.gif
  20. Sammy Sofa
    That's not how RAM works, dammit. Sounds more like an issue with hard drive space.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    I love it.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    Oh my God, nobody beat you guys up enough.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    Can't we move Al Contra to 2B and look for a CF instead since the middle IF options are apparently so crappy the Cubs are looking at Stephen [expletive] Drew?
  24. Sammy Sofa
    He's not going to look good regardless so who cares dude wears like hanes XXXL t-shirts and shorts to work with 30 year old tube socks he's like a real life version of muumuu homer Thank Christ for Frank Thomas having some [expletive] dignity and putting on some [expletive] pants.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    I honestly don't remember any of that besides the talk of him wanting to work with Alshon.
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