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  1. UMFan83
    Seriously. When the season ended I expected to be disappointed at the GM and HC hires. Instead we got a highly praised and respected GM, a solid coach with a good track record and (IMO) great assistants. Very happy with how this played out. But we have a lot of work to do
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    Probably because he wasn't the top choice. I think they were trying to get Chud and couldn't. Also, Gase was still pursuing other gigs that he didn't get. I think both sides ended up here out of a lack of other options. Well right that's his point. Fox would know better than anyone how good Gase is, and he still persued multiple other options before falling back to Gase.
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    Not sure how it could get "sexier" Fangio seems to be one of the highest regarded DCs in the game, and the move was widely praised Gase was a candidate for a majority of the HC openings this offseason The DB coach coming with Fangio is also one of the highest regarded coaches at his position in football Not sure how the other coaches hired are regraded, but DC and OC are the ones you want to nail and it seems like the Bears did. Jeff Rodgers hire is pretty uninspiring at special teams but whatever. I was lukewarm on Fox, but after seeing his coordinators and considering how beneficial it is to have a high floor coach in there, I'm pretty excited.
  4. UMFan83
    Matt Maiocco was asked about Gase as a potential offensive coordinator, and he reiterated that he was under the impression things did not go down very well. Earlier in the day, friend of the site Melissa Jacobs, wrote at TheFootballGirl.com that she had heard rumblings he had let recent success go to his head, and come off as cocky and entitled. http://www.ninersnation.com/2015/1/20/7863665/what-went-down-with-adam-gase-in-his-49ers-interview Yeah there are definitely some red flags around Gase: -Age (not a big deal but its something I've heard come up repeatedly) -Peyton Manning effect (only experience in a big time coordinator role was with him at QB) -The fact that he went from big time HC candidate to still unemployed with only a couple coordinator positions still open -The fact that the Broncos showed little interest in keeping him on board after firing Fox -The rumors that the Broncos were actually pretty unhappy with the entire coaching staff under Fox I would still prefer him over the other names mentioned at this point.
  5. UMFan83
    Maybe he's tired after a long weekend in front of meatballs and then flying back from Chicago?
  6. UMFan83
    http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/espn-11-of-12-footballs-under-inflated-by-2-pounds-of-air.1115345/ Haha, Pats fans: -Officials are to blame for not inspecting properly -The balls could have been deflated from game conditions (but the Colts balls weren't apparently?) like Gronk spiking the ball -It was probably a mechanical error when inflating the balls I've only read the first 2 pages so maybe their perspectives changed on the other 11 pages of the thread, but funny to read anyways
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    Excellent
  8. UMFan83
    Charlie Weis's offensive ratings during his 2.5 years at Kansas: 2012: 118 of 124 2013: 120 of 125 2014: 118 of 128 (Weis only coached 4 games, in which his offense averaged 15.3 PPG - only 1 game against power 5 school, his successor averaged 19.1 PPG in 8 games, all against power 5 teams and 5 of them against ranked teams) Of course its not fair to only look at his 3 years at one of the worst Power 5 schools, but those are pretty terrible numbers and that was his most recent sample to draw from. I do not give a flying [expletive] what he did at Kansas. I'm not sure I'd want him but that is definitely not why. Cool...just an example of his failings as a coach. His offensive stats as OC in NY, NE and KC are pretty mediocre/below average as well.
  9. UMFan83
    Charlie Weis's offensive ratings during his 2.5 years at Kansas: 2012: 118 of 124 2013: 120 of 125 2014: 118 of 128 (Weis only coached 4 games, in which his offense averaged 15.3 PPG - only 1 game against power 5 school, his successor averaged 19.1 PPG in 8 games, all against power 5 teams and 5 of them against ranked teams) Of course its not fair to only look at his 3 years at one of the worst Power 5 schools, but those are pretty terrible numbers and that was his most recent sample to draw from.
  10. UMFan83
    Schefty sort of confirms
  11. UMFan83
    Oh God...
  12. UMFan83
    Never a bad idea to hire former head coaches as your coordinators. I'd guess Trestman does fine in this role. His problem was a complete lack of leadership skills. Right....Marinelli was a terrible Head Coach (though to his credit the talent on his teams stunk) and has been a pretty good DC since then. Trestman has some semblence of an offensive track record. Even with the Bears his first season the offense was pretty damn good. I think he lost the team and allowed the veterans to run wild with the Bears. That won't happen under John Harbaugh.
  13. UMFan83
    He had one source tell him that he was losing the team, and another source saying it couldnt be further from the truth.
  14. UMFan83
    I still would have preferred Kubiak over Fox for some reason, but whatever he didn't want to come here so I'm all on board with Fox.
  15. UMFan83
    Also, the practice that KC Johnson tweeted about was apparently cancelled last minute. The cynic in me wonders if the players vetoed it, but it was probably just Thibs coming to his senses.
  16. UMFan83
    He didn't really say that he's on the hot seat, just that the Bulls aren't afraid to eat his salary. Which could have easily been leaked by the Bulls to send a message to Thibs that his job isn't rock solid. I don't think he's in danger yet...we are talking about an 14 game stretch of 5-7 ball after going 13-2 in the previous 15 games...meaning they've been a mediocre but not terrible (relative to expectations) 18-9 in their last 27. But I will say that its starting to feel a lot like the end of the Skiles era. That team had championship aspirations (although less than this team), had pretty much the same team that lost in the second round the year before. That team started losing and effort and intensity were being questioned and it seemed like the same players that were performing at a high level were simply not executing. Skiles kept seemingly getting angrier and angrier in his postgames and the players just weren't responding. Once it went downhill it went downhill quick.
  17. UMFan83
    That is just amazing At the time, I thought it was a smart move. In hindsight, unless you're more proven or you know for sure you have another move secured, you can't do this. I thought he had the Jets job locked up. If not the Jets job, one of his best friends (at least from what I read on Twitter and heard on the Score) got the Bears GM job and interviewed him but still didn't give him an offer.
  18. UMFan83
    I'm glad we could take them both from a team I don't like and distribute them to my 2 favorite football teams
  19. UMFan83
    We now have 2 coaches on the Bears that would be better HC's than Marc Trestman
  20. UMFan83
    Was a bit disappointed in the ST coordinator hire but this makes up for it and then some!
  21. UMFan83
    http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ib783R401qgfdhto1_500.gif Marc Trestman and Mike Martz? Were Ron Turner and Mike Tice not available to interview?
  22. UMFan83
    https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/6B2158A71B1169144684715634688_38680437f42.0.1.12059892443795971648.mp4?versionId=eUvuhRIQmyw18gVxgP.eOsZRyBHSEe0. PS why can't we embed youtube/vine videos, etc like pretty much every other forum in the world?
  23. UMFan83
    The Bulls need to prove they can win in the playoffs under Thibodeau for me to have any sort of confidence going forward. They're 17-22 under Thibs in the playoffs in his coaching tenure. Which has what to do with the post you quoted? Plus Thibs' playoff record with the Bulls is skewed by not having Rose for two years. The Thibs playoff record argument is hilarious. 10-7 record in games Rose plays in 7-15 in games Rose doesn't play. Shouldn't it matter that that record was amassed in one postseason, 4 years ago? No, considering that was the only postseason that their high usage superstar played in. The next year the team was completely built around Rose being the dominant scorer. The after that it was built around Rose coming back for the playoffs (and they still managed to win a series), and the year after that it was against built around Rose again playing and being the dominant scoring threat. I would accept an argument that its inconclusive but not that Thibs has proven to be a bad postseason coach.
  24. UMFan83
    The Bulls aren't like the Spurs where they can coast because they've proven good enough to win a title. I will agree that this stretch of terrible basketball could easily be a blip, and the regular season is a bit of a meaningless exercise for a team like the Bulls, but Thibs wants to win every game, Rose wants to prove he is back, this team wants to win and right now they aren't
  25. UMFan83
    The good thing about the bulls is that they are obviously much more talented than they are playing. It's not like we are arguing that the Bulls aren't talented enough to win a championship like we have the last 2 years. Its simply the team isn't playing up to the sum of its parts. Will that get fixed? I am not sure. The effort has been terrible, something is broken in the defense, Thibs doesn't seem to have answers right now. But there is legit hope that they put things together and figure it out.
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