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From the Tribune's "hey this is going to be the guy they hire" article:
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I never said he had a great resume, just that he's clearly been involved with football related work his entire adult life.
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A 31-year football veteran, Phil Emery enters his 14th NFL campaign and his third as the Chiefs Director of College Scouting. He previously served in the same capacity for Atlanta from 2004-08 before working as a regional scout for Atlanta leading up to the 2009 draft. Emery was an area scout for Chicago (’98-04). The Garden City, Michigan native served as the Director of Strength and Conditioning Services and as an Associate Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy from ’91-98. He was responsible for the development, administration and supervision of all strength and conditioning activities for 4,000 Midshipmen. In ’96, his program helped the football team to its first winning season in 15 years. Emery joined the Naval Academy after serving as the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Tennessee (’87-91). Prior to joining the Volunteers, he served as the defensive line and strength and conditioning coach at Saginaw Valley State (’85-87). He also coached the defensive line at Georgetown College (’84-85) after serving as the offensive line and strength and conditioning coach at Western New Mexico (’82-84). Emery began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Central Michigan (’81-82) after serving as a student assistant at Wayne State. Education: Western New Mexico (M.A.T. ’83), Wayne State (B.S. ’81). Family: Wife - Beth; Child - April.
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He was a strength and conditioning coach/coordinator for several years and had experience as a position coach in the 80's. He's a football lifer.
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The thing is it shouldn't take much to make the current squad a contender, but this guy, and Ruskell, do not appear capable of steering this ship over the next 5 years. That restocking of the defense is going to be a huge endeavor. And the "tweaking" of the line is going to be a job that is never done - not to mention they need to do more than tweak.
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He was here for 6 years, not sure which ones those are, but from 1998 to 2003 they drafted some good to great players (Urlacher, Colvin, Kreutz, Holdman, Booker, Tucker, Brown and Brown, Parrish, Tillman, Briggs, I'd argue that Colombo and Grossman weren't terrible picks either, despite how they turned out). They were probably the most vital string of drafts for building what became the incredibly talented mid 2000's teams. Not hands down amazing, but for the Bears, pretty good.
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I see no upside to this hire. It's essentially just delaying the eventually inevitable overhaul of the team. Complete status quo BS when they had the opportunity to take a tremendous step forward.
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http://twitter.com/#!/BobMcGinn/status/161554824985444353 he just retweeted somebody else saying they are dotting the i's on Emery
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The insinuation in that tweet is that the decision may have been made and they are notifying the losers first.
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truffle thinks it's a miracle
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Second Base in 2012
jersey cubs fan replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
What? He's not some Bristol guy who just writes about Chicago from afar. He is a local reporter covering the Cubs. -
Prospects who were never Cubs
jersey cubs fan replied to TruffleShuffle's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
I don't know why, but this exists. http://deadspin.com/5878543/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-cubs-of-tomorrow http://idahocubs.com/ Apparently it's some local baseball organization sponsored by the Boise Hawks. -
In a game between two teams I don't really care for, I'd rather the team I feel is more deserving(i.e. didn't lose 7 games) win the championship. I can respect the sustained success the Patriots have had even if I don't root for them, the Giants are like the '06 Cardinals. Before yesterday, the Patriots hadn't beaten a winning team all year. And considering the Giants won the head to head matchup in November, I don't see how the Patsies are more deserving. It's a 16 game season, the difference in schedule is negligible. There are no Mountain West schools in the NFL. Again, I don't really like either team, but I can handle the team that has won 9 of 11 division titles and didn't lose 7 games this year winning a title a bit more. What? The difference in schedule is very meaningful in just a 16 game NFL season. For one, the AFC West exists.
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You've never seen a Patriots game if you think that.
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chill and humble Those were the words somebody used to describe Tom Brady and I have no idea how that is possible. He's not anywhere near "chill". He's also an NFL QB who knocked up his actress girlfriend, then left her for the world's greatest super model. He regularly tries to get into the model business as well. On the field he cries and whines about every call that does not go his way and beyond that demands outrageous calls go in his favor. The guy has absolutely no reason to be humble, I would love for him to have been the Bears QB for the past decade and would love to live his life, but let's stop pretending he's humble. He doesn't reach the Brett Favre level of douchiness, but since when is that piece of a crap the bar you must hurdle?
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BA & BP's Cubs Top Prospect Lists
jersey cubs fan replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
You think Szcur had to be close to making the top 10 OF list? I know opinions vary on the guy but I didn't think there were even those who were high on him that would list him up there. -
Second Base in 2012
jersey cubs fan replied to davell's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Somebody like Barney is fine as a placeholder on a team with big time production elsewhere, or on a small market team that just can't handle bigger impact players. But the Cubs better be thinking bigger than simply a guy who is good enough to play for now when filling out future rosters. -
Peter King didn't like it:
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Relative to the size of his celebrity, absolutely yes. The only thing standing in the way of Tom Brady being the biggest whiny bitch QB in the NFL is Philip Rivers.
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No it wasn't. It was a setback to teams that are willing to spend more in the draft. The Cubs were one of a few organizations in that position. It impacts some more than others based on current strategies, sure. We view it as particularly detrimental to the Cubs because we finally had a management team and ownership that wanted to focus on pouring more money into the draft. But it still impacts every team, and it definitely impacts teams like the Rays, Pirates and Royals more than us, because they can't fall back on building a huge scouting base as opposed to collecting as many picks as possible. How the hell can it be a setback to teams that had no interest in overspending in the first place?
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No it wasn't. It was a setback to teams that are willing to spend more in the draft. The Cubs were one of a few organizations in that position. Everybody has enough cash to spend bigtime in the draft, and more and more teams were doing it. 10 teams broke the 10 million mark last year. And the market sizes of those teams were all over the board. Everybody has enough cash, but not a willingness to spend that cash. The CBA was only a setback to those teams willing to go above the norm. It wasn't a setback to all big market teams, just the ones who were willing to spend more than the rest, which is, by definition, a lot fewer organizations than every one of them.
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No it wasn't. It was a setback to teams that are willing to spend more in the draft. The Cubs were one of a few organizations in that position.
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how the hell can you say that and then follow it with your other reponse.
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They have a better fulltime catcher, but Victor still caught 20-something games for them last year, and he's gone. I doubt they want their young guy catching 162. Plus Soto derives most of his value from the fact that he's had 2 fantastic offensive seasons, and there is reason to believe he can do it again, especially if he was able to DH a lot. Couldn't you say the same thing for the Yankees? They are talking about DH by committee. I honestly have no idea who the starting ctacher for the Yankees is going to be. Is it not going to be Russell Martin? The Yankees issue is they have half a dozen guys who might be a month away from DH duty.
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I hope so too, but at this point, I'm 95% sure it will be the dude from KC who used to be here. 1. He used to work for the Bears. 2. He's worked with Ruskell before. 3. Apparantly the new guy has to keep Ruskell and Lovie. He seems the most likely to do so for more than 1 year. But Ross is everything this franchise needs. A young up-and-coming football mind who could be here for the long haul and create some stability in the organization. I'm all in on Ross and will be extremely disappointed with Emery.
