I don’t normally wish ill will on anyone that hasn’t wronged me, but Tim Tebow’s struggles this weekend were as satisfying as anything. It validates the opinions of the objective football viewer that he isn’t the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Look at David Schuster’s blog, toward the bottom.
He has no clue that the word is spelled “precursor” but he speaks of these events being a “pre-curser” for The Bulls. If there is a Chicago Sports Demon, then this is pre-curse for Da Bulls!!!

Martz would be such a huge mistake.

The injury to Dwight Freeny looks serious.

Tebow could do well in an arena league.

Someone tried to tell me that while everyone bashes Tim Tebow as an NFL quarterback, he would still make a good fullback.

And this is apparently something to brag about. Pro teams don’t draft fullbacks and the really good ones, no one knows about. So there you have it: A fringe NFL fullback that is sparsely used and will have to re-learn a new position.

And as a FB, once in a while, could chuck the ball downfield in the “wildcat”.

Free speech? Come on down! Tell CBS to give The Tebow Commercial the “No, Thank You.” http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/superbowl_focus/?rc=fb_share1

If you have the $, you can buy the air-time.

ok, i kinda tried to make this point friday but here we go again.

could it simply be a case of thhe bears going with the devil they know as opposed to the devils they don’t know? did they schedule Martz last because they wanted to find a needle in a heystack? Someone who can tolerate the brash QB and be cheap at the same time? I mean think about it, I never even heard of Ken Zampese, Hue Jackson, Kevin Rodgers or Rod Chudzinsky until these interviews. But everyone knows martz. He has been in the limelight before and what you see is what you get with him. In other words, there was probably nothing new said in the interview or nothing that lovie didn’t already know. While i am sure there was a bunch of stuff said in the other 4 that Lovie had no idea about in regards to philosophy, plans, coaching styles and things of that nature. Plus it gives a bunch of younger guys a chance to interview for a higher level position. The problem i have is that the bears were in no position to do that. They needed to hire somebody quick and if you knew what you’re getting with Martz, and guessed you’re going to go that way, then get him in and get Cutler into a film room with him and start nailing down that terminology and that playbook!!! If the bears had gotten deep into the playoff’s and Ron Turner was hired as a head coach, you can play the games the bears played, giving younger guys a chance to show their chops, doing them a favor, taking your time, and then falling back on the vetern. But at 7-9 it is just not the right time for that

Not true, Chet. That man-on-man dating service thingee got denied, not due to lack of funds, but as to controversial content. The double standard is piping hot at CBS!

Chet, you ignorant never-was. It’s not the money grasp. It’s the fear-of-offending the Sanctimonious Superstition Kids.

i love what the bulls did, but it doesn’t get any easier. the last time the bulls had back to back home games is jan 9-10. They don’t do that again until the 10th and the 16th. Granted the next two games are winnable, then they play atlanta in atlanta and that’s tough, then fly home and play miami and that’s a tough game, at indiana who plays us tough in their building, then orlando. the annual home and home with new york typically ends in a split,, then they play 4 easy games against bad teams then they play portland. If they can come out of February with a winning record, we play a bunch of home games in march, albeit against winning teams but i think this team might be able to vie for a home court series if they keep minding their p’s and q’s

IMHO, so long as the content doesn’t violate FCC standards then I think if the check clears you get your commercial.
Not saying that’s how it really is, just saying that I think it ought to be that simple…especially for a highly regulated industry that profits from the “public airwaves”.

tim tebow and the gators took a who gives a darn about the SEC on CBS and helped turn it into a pretty good ratings sweep. I don’t have numbers but i am guessing the ratings spike when the gators are on rather than let’s say Mississippi state vs ole miss or south carolina. I guess CBS feels they owe him one.

I will be shocked if the Bulls go 4-2 in their six.

lydell, just mute your tv, go to the bathroom, or find whatever is on spike tv for that 30 seconds. It ain’t worth getting your blood pressure sky high over.

I think that Lydell’s line, that Chet was a “never was” was 100% pure genius!!!

well for at least a bit.. The Bulls have actually earned Dan’s unwavering love for a change. .Give em credit. They could have rolled over.

Taylor Swift and Lady Gagga must be in the T of B this year.

(My TV is ALWAYS muted during televised sports. Blood pressure’s fine. Tone: matter of fact.) It’s the My God Can Beat Up Your God silliness–us vs. them–that seems…unChristian. Freedom FROM is as important as Freedom OF.

darn it, Gaga

If The Bears wind up settling for Martz as OC, I hope thgat someone says he was their “first choice” because that will be a great WYC entry.
At this point, the best thing to do would be to hire someone from The Colts or Saints.
People who know much more than me have blogged here in favor of Coach Lombardi of The Saints.

Chester….stallion….it takes big, inflated if you will, man to admit a spelling error in public. Your average Amurrican would blame someone else,

The funny thing is that I can spell, but I can’t type for $hit.

Given that I believe Martz definitively ends Lovie’s head coaching career in Chicago, in an odd way, I’m all for the move.

no i am tired of waiting. The lick your wounds period of the offseason is slowly coming to a close, it’s time to get to work NOW, and there is much work to be done

The key: hunt, measure twice, peck. And an index finger is all you need.

GOB is a sly, sly dog!

And now back to Bears Overchew….

That’s my problem, I usually speed along using two fingers!

“Bears overchew” is 100% accurate.
And certainly I have chewed that cud time and again and again and then again.

Fresh Cud: Tebow in Montreal. French arrogance + Christian intolerance =_________

= The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

Christian intolerance? well I never….

if a 30 second ad is all the news of the day, i think i will concentrate on work. someone wake me when somethign exciting has happened.

big time, do you honestly have the option of going to sleep right now? I’d kill for that.

The cud of the day is Martz!

Bears….. Give us a guy that can Cutler can trust and beleive and make sure you take advantage of Cutler’s arm. Turner was doing little 5 yard passes, screens, and plays designed for WR’s to block(they cannot block anybody). He was using a strong arm Cutler to make plays managable Kyle Orton was making. We need to have an OC that stretches the field and uses all weapons at his disposal. If thats Martz, fantastic, but we can’t wait forever because we know how hard it is to have a pro bowl caliber quarterback. Defense- Where was the mentality of a few years ago where we were always around the football whether it a run or pass, our defense lost heart and we need somebody to bring out their best, through talent and heart.

A Martzian Irony: how come an anal-retentive presence such Rando is loathe to include the Tight End?

Ill stick to what I said the day of thenews conference on Jan. 5th. They will hire Martz, the offense will improve (it wouldve anyway), Lovie gets fired, and Martz is your new coach in 2011.

Sun-Times media poll: Jim Rose, underrated? Are you kidding! He should win overrated! Been mailing it in and cashing that check for years!!

Jim Rose as under-rated speaks more about the dim-bulbs who responded to the ST poll.

Maybe they could even show shom love to Chet???
Nah, they can’t be that stooopid can they?

darn it some, that was supposed to be “some” love

I am really having a bad day with the typing
I feel like $hit today.

Yeah bts, I wish I could just close my office door and nod-off…but that would be playing with lotta fire (as in “fired”).

flynn, post the hyperlink when you talk about an article or something so we can all enjoy the fun of spewing all over jim rose’s name

that sounded really bad, vomiting is what i was going for

i meant in a preverbial sense, i did say i was going to concentrate on work, now stop it people, this blog is too addicting at times LOLOLOL, even when i want to get away i can’t

LOL you can tell its a Monday. People are f-ing up here left and right.

I still refuse to show any excitement over the Bulls. That Sacramento loss at home still ticks me off……up by 35 points in the 3rd qtr and lose in regulation. And that dumb azz coach saying “it happens”

Yeah I hold onto grudges.

Mike Martz is pig latin for “sabotage”

Because I care: prOverbial.

I need to update my Pig Latin Dictionary, my translation said that Mike Martz was PL for back-stabber.

Why do they even bother having an actual game for the Pro Bowl? Just make it an award.

I’m glad Derrick Rose has been proving me wrong. I was beginning to wonder if he’d ever turn the corner. I hope he keeps it up.

Booyah’s Robert Stanbury Olney, III is reporting that The Twins are after Orlando Hudson for leadoff and 2B.

Chet I think in this situation it could mean both. I hope the Bears draft a real front office in 2011.

I’m with you pulseczar…make the Pro Bowl an honor, an award but don’t play the stupid game.
Someone here had a great idea: do it as a skills competition.

Right you are ls, Martz will end the JA/LS dynamic duo.
I don’t think he could deep-six Ted The Bean-Counter.

In fact, I truly have enjoyed the “so much c rap” sound-bite from Jerry each Thursday at the start of WYC because each day he gives that new meaning as he dishes c rap we are supposed to swallow.

OCab and OHud, both homeless. But there IS hope!

Happy 6th anniversary of Janet Jackson’s mammary’s TV debut at the Super Bowl.

Pro Bowl solution: Forget about the game, instead bring back the Old Superstars Competition.
AFC vs NFC. The lineman compete in tug-of-war. The WR’s and RB’s do the obstacle course.
The QB’s and K’s have an accuracy contest. Do it all in a 3 hour live telecast.

and Booyah currently employs Don Ohlmeyer and his son, Don was the creator of Superstars back when. Could be a cinch, and much more entertaining than the slop I ignored yesterday (only saw “highlights”).

http://labs.suntimes.com/survey/index.php

here is the link to the sun-times survey.

And ever since the “wardrobe malfunction” we have had (in no particular order): Paul McCartney, The Stones, Prince, The Boss and Tom Petty…and now The Who.

the OC, (orlando cabrera), did sign with the reds lydell.

if o-dog does go to the twins, that would be bad, the twins are the only team that could challenge the sox in the division, if they have hudson for lead-off, that could get scary, hopefully they all freeze their @sses off up there in below -0 degree weather in april in the new outdoor stadium.

and what the heck was pink doing last night?

The only one of that list I actually enjoyed was Prince because I grew up with those songs. The rest of them, I am sure I was heaping a paper plate with BBQ while they was “performing”

I think that my wife admired Paul McCartney’s plastic surgery, and would say that the others looked so oooold.
Otherwise, meh.
I hit the head and then hit the kitchen….

I held out hope the Bears were actually waiting for the super bowl to end so they could pursue a coach from a WINNING team that had a great offense and of course i was wrong. NO has a couple young assistant coaches that seemed perfect, the QB coach from Ind. was never going to happen why would he give up OC with Colts down the line for Bears, But QB coach and TE coach of Saints sounded promising. This might be better though, we suffer thru another terrible season, 5-11or 6-10 at best then all new front office and staff. i keep dreaming!

u2 wasn’t bad although their actual shows are better, but what would be wrong about bringing let’s say kings of leon up or green day or something like that, even pearl jam would be better than this. that said, i think cbs and the who have been good for eachother over the years. the who provides cbs with it’s top show’s themes, cbs gives the who a stage

kings of leon would be great…and I’m an old ****

You can’t even say f art here???

Thanks on OCab. I didn’t know that was official. And I too fear The Piranha-y Hud.

My prediction for Super Bowl 2011: Eric Clapton.

The Pro Bowl vs. The Grammys. Dueling Clusterthings. That’s why Jesus gave us DVD players. Or so I’ve been told.

SBowl ‘11: can’t Rudy Vallee be exhumed? http://www.rudyvallee.com/

I hit the hay early last night, by cracky.

We’d need to get Rudee one heckuva megaphone!!!

I meant Rudy!

I think they are about one year away from having Englebert Humperdinck or Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

i was aksing myself over and over sat nite.

why was huet getting a 3rd straight start in net?

can anybody give me a good reason for that?

The more I watch Durant play, the more I think that Bernstein’s 2 for 1 trade idea (Rose & Noah for Durant) is not so crazy. I love having those two on the Bulls but I think we have seen Noah’s ceiling. Durant is 6′9″ and shoots like a 2 guard. He is second in scoring in his sophmore season despite playing for OKC. Add 25 lbs to that kid and he would be an absolute beast. With proper diet he can fill out.

i will say, if they invite Page and Plant who then in turn invite john paul jones and jon bonham’s son, i will not complain, and if they invite pink floyd i will only complain because there isn’t enough time to arrange the staging for a proper pink floyd show, plus by the time shine on you crazy diamond is half way through, it would be time to start the second half

my vote, if they are still alive, IRON BUTTERFLY

durant is the most athletic player, as far as hieght and arm length and flexibility, since THE…

SSSTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLTT.

it’s durant’s junior year but your point is well taken

And to think that Durant was the SECOND draft choice that year.

or I. Ron Butterfly as Rev. Lovejoy said.

jon, don’t get ahead of yourself, durant is good, but not the most dominate player in the game, but he is a unique specimen. Imagine if your the gm for portland, they draft tyrus and trade him for aldridge(good move), then they pass over durant and draft oden and all they get is a picture of his junk

by the way, is anybody fine with “the who” doing the super bowl half-time show? or does nobody really care about it? because i think what they’ve been rolling out has been cr*p since the wardrobe malfunction, the need to get some heavy rock in the half-time show, like metallica or AC/DC.

The Bears were in a no-win situation:
Keep Turner, even though it can be arugued that players actually got worse in his practices
or
look for a guy for one year.
The only criterea in choosing the new lame duck is that he:
Keeps Cutler alive
and
uses the same terminology for the rest of the offense. It’s simple. Angelo said “no” to Martz, and now he has to eat those words. I wonder who he really wants. I think Angelo is only in charge of drafting and player contracts.
Anyone see the Redwings/ Penguins game? Kromwell hits a guy square in the face: no call.
Some ticky-tack interferrence call in overtime could have given the Redwings an undeserved win.
Nice to see the right team won that match up.

I thought that The Who was just a boring, boring selection.
I mean, I was a kid in the 60s and they were second-shelf even then (waaaay behind The Beatles, Stones, Cream, Zep etc.).

now now, i didn’t say kevin was as good as the stilt, but probably the most comparable to wilt if he fills out his body a little bit, if durant does do some muscle building this off-season, he will be up there with kobe and lebron.

durant can get that proper diet here, here kevin, for lunch we go to Lou Malnattis, for dinner, gibsons, for midnight snack weiners circle, repeat 7 days a week, then get into the weight room and turn that globular stuff into muscle.

I’m sure that NHl/NBC wants to see a Pens-Caps rematch in the East.
I’d love to see a Hawks final with the survisor of that eastern match.

love the classic Sh-Caah-Go diet there bts.

joe-o and rock were talking about the SB half-time show sat nite, (i have really become a huge fan of their show), about how “the who” didn’t deserve to be brought out there, and they were saying that their should be some more current bands playing at the big game, does anybody here have a band that they want to see playing at the SB?

I believe that the Hawks beat eather the Pens or Caps in 7.

Terry & Dan B.:
I know you guys had a field day when you announced the news of Mike North & Dan Jiggetts joining CBS2 with “Monsters & Money in the Morning” a while back and had trouble trying to keep a straight face. “Monsters & Money” officially debuted this morning, and I woke up early enough to at least sample bits & pieces of it. Their new show is nothing more, nothing less than a glorified ripoff of CNBC’s “Squawk Box”, which airs around the same time as the new CBS2 morning show.

As for Mike Martz, I don’t want the lovechild of Steve Dahl & Roger Ebert, let alone the guy who looks like the Mayor on “Spin City” as the Bears’ new Offensive Coordinator. I can easily picture Martz clashing not only with head coach Lovie Smith & defensive coordinator (possibly) Rod Marinelli on the sidelines. I can also see Jay Cutler getting right in Martz’s face during a game if things go sour. The Bears don’t have nearly the personnel for Martz’s system to work, and regardless who is eventually hired, the new Offensive Coordinator could be here for one season if the Bears go backward again. Besides, they play at Soldier Field, where they play on a **** field not exactly suited to what Martz would want to implement.

durant also needs, “active rest”.

My bad, BTS. Man time is flying by the older I get.

to be honest chet, i think the only team that could beat the hawks in a 7-game series, is the washington capitals, if our goaltending is still shaky, the caps fire in goals at will, if it was the hawks and caps in the finals, there would probably be a combined 10 goals for each game.

ps. He’s also carrying my fantasy Basketball team!
And I am not saying that I want the bulls to make that trade…but it is not such a crazy idea.

My guess for 2011: Someone who is already dead.

Sounds like the NFL is playing it too safe. Show one mammary and now your SB Half Time show is performed by people the majority of football fans didnt know where still alive (if they knew who they were at all). I find it interesting that when they advertise The Who performing halftime they play soundbites of songs that are also played for the intros to CSI and CSI:Miami.

Its kind of reminds me of a few years back when the NBA was advertising their product with the music of Tony Bennett in the backdrop. Like the casual NBA fan has a connection to that kind of music.

and yet I’m not sure that the Caps get past the Pens!

Iron Butterfly! In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida would fit snugly into halftime. And I still enjoy the Clutch Cargo on Acid segment within. So would the rest of the country–if told to.

I didn’t watch the Pro Bowl, but I’ll have to admit that I did enjoy watching the NFL Networks coverage of the practices. It’s nice to see the personality behind the helmets and Warren Sapp is actually pretty funny as a sideline reporter. He is also good on the Sunday shows along with Irvin, Faulk and Eisner. They rip on each other all the time and it is entertaining.

Forgot about today’s North/Jiggetts remake. Jiggs REMAINS my favorite 400 pound black white stripe down the middle of the road. Sookie-sookie doesn’t pass for conversation. Let me know the day he says something remotely provocative. But also…..

Now that the exaustive search for the best and brightest O.C. has come to a close, the Bears braintrust can focus on bringing in the best available Defensive Coodinator., thus ensuring a most successful upcoming season…….not

SI.com reports Orlando Cabrera will sign with Reds.

Meh.

I very clearly and specifically missed North etc. this a.m.

The Captain is obviously correct, sadly.

Sorry, if I am not mistaken, most of the original Iron Butterfly line-up is dead.

Oh yeah, does anyone have a review on the Money-Monsters show?

Sigh.

Im betting on, so bad its entertaining.

I’m not usually so chatty. Maybe it’s a lifetime of SBowl Memories. Gathering. Overwhelming. Fargit. Let’s sing! Up, up, with people….you meet ‘em wherever you go….(I kid the people. They have such a great sense of humor.)

Pappy is the cat with 90 lives, so even if this is another bomb, Im sure something else will come up.

As Chet says, Pappy can “print money.”

Maybe Murph can join The Broadcast as Cub Economic Reporter. Cringe a little, cringe a lot.

what does pappy print money on, those gadget money printers found in the back of comic books?

his apple 2 gs? or his ibm image writer attached to his pc jr

he prints money, speaks garbage, the real chet coppeck is stuck in a time vaccume and the world is just soaring past him

dead-on bts…as usual

As long as there is a meatball population, there will be a Mike North show.

We must do something about the meatballs before TVs throughout Chicagoland implode after 3 secs of Monsters & Money

jon
huet get the start because he is their guy. like it or not.

I agree with pimp

also, the Playoffs is not the time to find out if he can play every game.

AHHHH, brain-****…I got Neimi mixed-up with Huet.

I am barely hangin’ on today…90-ish minutes and I can hit the highway.
Sorry I have been so braindead…today especially.

SO people who watch north & jiggetts = meatballs

people who post here all day mon- friday = not meatballs???

i dont get it. maybe just a different type of meatball.

Just remember, when eating your shoes, put lots of Marconi on em

Adrian!!!!!

There could be many appropriate names for people who post on the B&B blog, but “meatball” isn’t one of them.
If Colbert decided to do a take-off on an ill-educated version of his talk-host character, he’d be doing what North does.
But what the heck, I’m a dumba$$

No, Say My Name…the equation is off

Meatball = anyone that would even consider taking sport betting or money investment advice from Mike North.

Loser = guys like me who blog here during the day.

i am a sweedish meatball, a little more refined, not quite as likely to give you heartburn, but yet, still a meatball

actually i am just a guy who is married into a family where sports talk is ranked near the bottom of the talking points priority list, and since i am a transplant into my town, don’t have a lot of freinds to talk sports to, so here i am

I think the #1 requirement of the meatball is a bushy moustache while wearing a Bears hat.

By cracky.

I think my wife would rather get a root canal than even have sports on the tv or radio.
I remember we (including kids) went to a Big Mac/Sammy Cubs/Cards game at the height of the race for ‘61 in 1998 (OK we were suckers too) and she read a book the whole time.
This is my only shot at sports conversation.
I suppose I could call B&B and get yelled at for being a dolt and a buffoon, but…this is my best option.

meatball=lemming/pack mentality
loser=flawed, but able to think independently

good one Pete

i got it now, so i like north & jiggetss but I dont take financial advice from them and post here all day.

half a loser meatball?

No because in their own way, they can be fun bad.
Jiggs is a good guy.
But if you think North makes sense too often…call your Doctor!!!
Could be a warning sign of a stroke or Parkinsons.

And if you find Chet to be entertaining/enjoyable…call the funeral home because most likely you are legally dead.

a meatball poster would post nothing but inane cliche’s and generalities. you can like who ever the heck you want, it’s a free country, we just ask you come strong, and yes
soy un perdidor, i’m a loser baby so why don’t you kill me

hey, that’s a half time show, BECK

thx chet

TO bts, I really dont think “perdidor” is an actual spanish word.

i stand corrected, it’s perdedor thank you

Geez, I’m impressed.
I can only make typos in one language.

BTS, I dont think “perdedor” is an actual spanish word, in my 30 + yrs of being a latino , I have not heard of that word, I may be wrong.

I stand corrected, it is a spanish word, my apologies BTS. Google is an awesome invention. I should go back to Mexico.

the most misleading word in the english language,

IF

The three most misleading words in the English language:
Bears All Access.

The WBBM photo on top of this page of the guy who set fire to a Church makes him look like the love-child of Bill Clinton and Carroll O’Connor.

This postseason has been interesting…

I think I actually heard my first analysis of the game this morning. Up to this point, all I’ve heard about is:

-ProBowl FAIL.
-Tim Tebow’s unaborted fetus.
-Who Dat being peed on by the NFL.
-Pete Townsend’s offenderisms.

It’s kind of funny… I don’t remember a game itself getting less press in the time leading up to it than this one.

Hard to think of a team more boring than The Colts. (And I’m rooting for them).
And Who Dat…no real story lines about the team, just the city, the Quarter, Katrina etc.
Maybe, maybe, maybe tomorrow during media day we will get someone with a pulse.

I think that Media Day is actually today.

Booyah’s Jon Miller won the Frick Award from the Baseball HOF.
He is my favorite national announcer, he can overcome the dead-weight of Joe Morgan.
Miller is also tremendously funny and does great spot-on impressions of Vin Scully, Bob Sheppard (The Yankees PA announcer etc. etc.).

mike martz has officially been named the bears OC, so says zach zaidman.

Well….2-14 here we come

WOW I was just about to post, “WILL SOMEONE MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT SOMETHING ANYTIME SOON!!!” but i guess that just happened so at least from a news being reported point of view, i am pleased

cutler is dead meat

If it’s from ZZ, it’s from The Bears.

Now we need to draft Tebow so he can wear “Bears” on the left eye-black and 2-14 on the right.

and b&b say that martz cuts players who don’t understand his playbook, well, now the bears will have no wide receivers,

I hope he doesn’t now try to sign old Martz players, ya know an Adam Archeletta of WR (Bruce etc.)

that is such bad, sad news

I would have preferred Jim Zorn, and I hate Zorn’s offense

we’ll everyone knows i’m a fan of a team that has gone bad, well bears fans, you are now officially part of the club, you have achieved worse than the NFL blob, you are headed towards… the bottomdwellers.

Maybe Martz wanted too much $ when he first was interested, and jerking him around while they interviewed lots of other candidates was their way of McCaskeying him down.

and martz’ offense, B&B say, that cutler would have to make 7 step drops in this new offense, good luck with that.

With the current O-line, Cutler can’t drop 7″ no less 7 steps

Lovie, Martz, Marinelli, Tice. Is there ANY team in the NFL that has this many assistants who were former Head Coaches? Is this a good thing, or bad? I would suggest good if they were all working with a coach who had a long term contract and they were all working towards a common goal. However, for a lame duck such as Lovie, it would seem most of these former head coaches would be more interested in making their own selves look good for a possible shot as the guy to take over when Lovie gets canned. Counterproductive? you betcha!

Does Martz getting the job count as “as surprise or two along the way?”

All BAD Head Coaches!!!

with this news, i’m going to repeatedly throw up and then go lie down until spring training, that way i can miss the B.S. press conference the bears are going to have. yeehe.

150 – 151

That’s the combined NFL head coaching record of Lovie, Martz, Marinelli, and Tice.

And the Bears are trying to recover with THIS bunch? Booyah and NBC would be wise not to have this team on Sunday/Monday Night Football.

This is sadistically funny bad

The Bears handling of the coordinator search damages Jay Cutler, not just from an on-field perspective, but from a credibility perspective as well with his own teammates. The Bears players aren’t stupid, they can see the weight Cutler now holds in this organization. If Cutler was able to make the call on who will be offensive coordinator, how do you dare ever cross him if youre a WR, or offensive lineman on the team? You cant, or you risk losing your starting spot on the roster.
If the Bears want to get out of this slippery slope they have now created, theyd better let Brian Urlacher and/or Lance Briggs have a say in who will be defensive coordinator. That way they can say they wanted ALL of their leaders in on these key decisions. If they don’t, good luck to a player who isnt on the same page as Cutler.

nicely done flynn, nicely done, that thought never occured to me.

i am not so gloom and doom about martz being here, there will be days and games where the numbers will be outrightly gaudy and days and games where they will be putrid, but if he can turn jon kitna into a 4000 yard passer, cutler should be eyeballin 4500 no problem

Guys,

We know this is not going to work. I’m for trading Cutler now to move up in the draft….AZ could be looking for a QB…maybe they can package Boldin and their picks. Find a QB in the draft that these idiots can sell this bull to. I love to keep Cutler but keeping him with this coaching staff will be disasterous. This will go no where. Scrap the team and start over NOW!!!!!!!!!

i say hire **** jauron as dc and you have a bad ex coaches six pack.

I was thinking either Jauron, or Herm Edwards, simply because Herm Edwards is a “Lovie guy” who came through the Tampa 2 system. Boy would that be a fun cast of characters…

I don’t believe that Martz will work well with the Bears wide receievers but if the Bears go and get a running back like Reggie Bush, who might get cut by the Saints, could he serve as the Marshall Faulk role in the new Bears offense.

i am taking a wait and see approach. In one hand i have the rams of those awesome offensive years, on the other i have the terry shae experience or lack thereof. remember, shae ran the exact same offense and it was a disaster, but shae isn’t martz, let’s just hope martz doesn’t bring shae in tobe qb coach, although i remember martz usually handles both duties, i could be wrong there.

and he did have success with jon kitna, i will hammer that in, jon kitna passed for over 4200 yards in one season in martz’s offense. i repeat, JON KITNA did that, and they coudln’t have had a better line than the bears do now, so let’s not put cutler in a casket and assign 5 pall bearers yet.

Doesn’t hiring Martz absolutely increase the demand for a WR even more then before. The current receivers on the roster won’t be able to handle the timing and precision of the scheme and who knows if the quarterback will be able to. Forte gives you a cheap version of Faulk, but who fills the other roles? Knox and D.A. at wideouts? Hester won’t be able to handle this system, I mean c’mon the guy took nearly 2 years to figure out how to fit into the simple offense Turner ran.

What is the worse that could happen, Bears finish 6-10, clean house so the new gm will have a a top ten pick, finally a wr, lb or de for the future. In order to get good you have to be bad. YOu can only be good for so long with mid to late first round draft choices. sometimes you need those bad seasons to get a top ten draft pick.

Kitna’s better than people give him credit for. He succeeded to a degree at different times in Seattle and Cincy before Detroit.

Does this mean that if the offense is decent yet the defense sucks and Lovie is out… potentially Martz could be our next head coach?!?!? Tell me I am getting ahead of myself and they will all be fired.

Do you think that the the reason that the current crop of Bear receivers couldn’t learn routes and plays is because of poor coaching rather than being dumb. Maybe a little better coaching and discipline can change things. That what coaching is about isn’t it?

on friday mccaskey family wrote this

We are sorry for not having a 21st century stadium and grass.

maybe the martz hiring is a signal that they want field turf in the stadium. although i don’t know, field turf is bad knee injuries and looks bad on tv, then again so does whatever the heck the bears play on

it has to be poor coaching, I imagined these receivers played their position since HS, how can they not know the plays, in some way they lead their conference in recv yards()have not looked at the stats) so they were good. you need good coaching to bring out more that that natural talent they have.

Look at the improvemnts Hester has made from a DB to recever w/ no experience. He is no where close to being an all-star but has made great improvements.

Define great improvements. Hester is not a effective WR. Perhaps in a Martz timing system where he catches the ball and falls down he thrives, but simply put, the Bears put this guy in a position where he couldn’t succeed. The guy is a return man, simple as that. How about a little accountability on the players, hate to tell ya, but it’s not all coaching. Remember these guys have coaching longer then most of these players have been playing. There schemes are effective with the right personal, which they do not have. Major problem is that the Bears brass has over-valued their talent for the past couple years, Greg Olsen #1 example.

Martz did make recvrs out Holt, Bruce. You can use Knox and Hester that way also. Forte can be a very poor man’s Mashall Faulk ( I did say very poor mans version). Maybe MArtz has learned that he can use a TE more often. Really I dont know, they are going to be bad, interesting to see if the Chicago media play up to the Bears, that they may in some how be good. Glad summer camp is a long way from now.

Say My Name, agree with what you’re saying… it’s a good thing they have a long summer to work through the kinks

talent for talent, he ain’t no jay cutler

I like Ricardo Juron as a defensive coordinator. The Bills did not give up a lot of points.

Maybe, the Bears get pro turf into Soldier Field. Maybe Jay Cutler tells Martz “no hablo,” and do what he’s supposed to do. When the Bears had Terry “Michael” Shea’s offense, they didn’t have a real QB. They did, however, have decent wide receivers.

And, what’s with the Pro Bowl boost? C’mon, people: rent a movie. Watch
Andy Griffith. Now, this thing will never go away.

My head is in the oven, until the Cubs get to the 85 win mark (sometime in October (rimshot)).

sounds like pre-season has already started the caller says 4 weeks have been wasted did i miss the super bowl

There’s one big difference: Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce were much more highly touted than the Bears wideouts. Holt was considered the real deal coming out of NCSt, and Bruce only needed stay healthy. I’m not saying that one of these wideouts can’t become a thing, but there’s less to work with here.

I love it… JA saying that Martz was the only person they offered the OC job…yeah after 37 other candidates all passed before an offer was formally made. WYC JA??????

Can Lovie Smith effectively bench Jay Cutler? Who will be here in 2010-11? Cutler may just chuck the playbook and become his own coordinator.
Unfortunately, the way Smith runs camp, you won’t see the trainwreck until Week One, when the offensive personnel is all lying on the ground like it’s Day three of Woodstock.

The Cubbies have signed Kevin Millar to a minor-league contract, with invite to Spring Training.
That’s great news…he’s a ton of fun and an excellent PH.
I wonder if he still looks Amish as he did when with the Red Sox???

I am not so upset about this OC hire. Today I was listening to Waddle & Silvy (as I always do during that lame garbage called the Danny Mac show) and they interviewed Ricky Proehl. He was very honest and did state that he knows that Martz has an ego but he also thinks that he is a genius when it comes to X’s and O’s. He said that the offensive meetings during the Rams years were exciting because Martz would come up with packages for each offensive weapon based on the next week’s opponents. He also said that Martz really did his homework and would tell them exactly what defenses would do in certain situations and he was always accurate. B & B and listeners can come up with many assumptions about martz but I would rather trust opinions from a man who lived through a day-in-day-out relationship with the man and, more importantly, won with him. It is now up to Angelo to put the proper pieces in place to help this offense. That is the most important thing right now.

Then JA better find an O-line right quick.

**** Jauron for Defensive Scoutmaster? As a Bear FAN, no. As a pathetic Sportstalk….Enthusiast, I’m with Death Wish Dan. Why be silly when you can be very silly? Cornered desperate rodents do the darnedest things! And then blame someone else.

Interesting censorship program. This is only a test: the diarrhea escaped like a flock of startled starlings. I’ll never Patty Melt again.

Stay vigilant, Rickhead!

Welcome, Lydell, to the strange world of Score blog automatic censorship.

This blog is like Seinfeld…200 posts about NOTHING.

May well get Cutler killed but don’t care about role for Olsen. OVER-RATED…..

Let’s not worry about a guy that didn’t have a role with Turner. Supposed to be this great connection last year. How’d that work out for ya?