Yea, yea, I know. He hasn’t coached one game or called one play yet, but why not start early? At least he has had a shred of NFL success, albeit in another life. Not as bad as the Troika of Stupid ™ which is Shea, Shoop and Turner.
And the OC position for the Bears rolls on year after year after year, in that same old form…which is to say “well, he’s not as bad as (insert previous OC here)”.
I would like to note that I called Martz for this job the second Turner got fired. They didn’t even act like they were trying to get a premier name for that job.
Just bought fire mike martz .com
Apparently Mr. Martz isn’t too savvy about the ol’ interweb
This is the first thing he should have done before he took the Bears job
NICE – re direct it to here and we are golden for the next year or two.
Nice to see that Carl is on top of things. Excellent work buying Fire Mike Martz.
Lovie keeps saying this is a “running football team”; the exact opposite “philosophy” of Martz. Next season should be interesting and not in a good way.
I’m not sure which is worse. A guy stuck in his ways that never got a first down, or a guy stuck in his ways who will cause turnovers on every possession?
I’m putting the over/under on Jay Cutler picks at 32 right now (i.e. 2 per game). And I can only see that number going up as the offseason progresses and the Bears do nothing to improve their offensive line or skill position players.
OK guys you know I hated DumbRon like everyone else, but let’s start stirring up a little hope in BearNation. I’m not saying we are on our way to the SuperBowl, but if this 4 headed monster improves the team at all in each of their respective areas then we may at least make the playoffs. PLAYOFFS!?! Yeah playoffs. A lot of things have to happen but with our schedule for 2010 we can win our division or be a WC if we beat our NFC East opp’s (BIG IF but this one’s all about hope). Here’s the schedule:Home: Philadelphia, Washington, New England, New York Jets, Seattle, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota.Away: Dallas, New York Giants, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota, Carolina
Honestly look at it 7-1 or 6-2 @ home (say NE and some other punk team like GreaseBay gets lucky). Then we only have to go 4-4 on the road Buff, Miami, Det, & Car should get us there. OK big ? why do I think these 4 (Lovie, Marinelli, Martz,Tice) can do it? Well Martz/Lovie have shown they can get to the big dance, but that aint all. Everywhere each of these guys has gone they may not have won every game, there teams remained good or great at what each of them originally coached! Marinelli sorry Lions even avg. at least 2 sacks a game. Tice had the O-line in J’ville produce 3600yds passing and avg 4yds/carry rushing. Martz teams 4k passing and SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE 4.0 yds/carry! Lovie has the demeanor to get these bigheads to the table and keep them there. Now all we need is help in free agency, give up 2-3 players for some drafts picks, no injuries, and Hester to start returning kicks again and WE GOT IT MADE!!! Disclaimer: these statements were made to generate an inkling of hope for 2010. Place no wagers monetary or otherwise based upon these statements!!!
Yall stop laughing…for real…it could happen…maybe…Damn stop laughing!!!
haha T06 good comment. But you forget that next year is UNCAPPED, which means that the McCaskeys will have to open the purse to get any quality free agents…and we saw what just happened with the coaching moves…
Fire Martz? Really? Don’t look now but the McCaskeys just hired their next head coach. You heard it here first.
Go ahead and laff.
The offense may improve a bit next season. The Bears will have more close games and be in many until the end and could possibly sneak into the playoffs as a lucky-ass wild-card since the schedule will give them that opportunity. Should this scenario pan out Lovie will be gone and Martz will become head coach for far less than they paid Lovie.
It’s the McCaskey way. It’s the Chicago way.
The McCaskeys are too cheap to go out and get any talent. Like Dan said it is going to be an uncapped year and the contracts are going to be even more ridiculous than before. Martz was the easy hire. He will be here until Lovie’s contract is up and then they will clean house. The Bears will be throwing the ball like crazy and probably suck. They will have about 10 starters go down with injuries just like they do every year. The defense won’t be very good and they will think that because they are down ten with a half to go, that they have to throw the ball every down. RUN THE DAMN BALL!!! Also, thanks a lot Matt Forte for grinding out a terrible season with an injury. That really helped the team out. Peterson would have had twice the season Forte had. We could have gotten the ball to Wolfe in space. We could have run Bell. What the hell was he thinking? The staff is a joke from top to bottom. Where was Aromashadu all season? Riding pine because the coaching staff blows. At least they didn’t pick up Charlie “Tenderloin Sandwich” Weiss. Maybe the only guy who would have thrown the ball more than Mike Fartz
I think Forte was hurting from ’08 – he carried the ball WAY too many times. When you get the I formation of death ™ called twenty times a game, hard to make any headway.
If Tice/Martz don’t get the line fixed, it will be the same old shit. If Jay has to run for his life every play, the picks will come. Same thing would happen to Manning or anyone else you would put back there.
Forte had his knee “scoped” and cleaned out a couple weeks back. It was reported that he played all year with a knee injury which actually hurt the team more. Even with that injury, they still never played Adrian Peterson. Which was crap but it’s all water under the bridge now.
One more year until Lovie gets his pink slip.
Double HELL YEAH on the Forte issue. He decided to hang out at Tulane in the offseason then gets hurt and doesn’t take the advice to have scope and rehab. Dumb Coaching staff let him! You could tell he was hurt all season, and DumbRon made sure he got plenty of extra wear/tear with the I-formation of Death! A’shodu had an early injury but then Ron totally forgot he was there! If were not for a few injuries and a last ditch effort to save his job, Ron would have never played him!
Can we go buy a vet like Brandon Marshall, Anquain Boldin, or somebody in this uncapped year?!?! Or will we try it again with Devin, Devin, Johnny, and Bennett? Hester needs to go back to returning kicks, and 12 off. plays a game. A/shodu, Bennett, and a Vet should be our 1-3 WRs and Knox should be 4th (IF HE HAS LEARNED NOT TO QUIT ON ROUTES and we move him to slot).
He’s the Bears OC, so yeah, let’s have him fired!
T06 – good points as usual. I don’t know how much the coaches can make any player do anything, but after that brutal beating that Forte took in ’08 I wish they could have made him do whatever it was that he needed to do to get back in shape. He was clearly a step or two slower in ’09 and as you so duly note, he got absolutely crushed time after time with the I formation of death ™ this year.
RB – sad, but true. I am hoping next year is better but won’t count on it.
Fro – I am still scratching my head over the Kahlil Bell over AP deal.
I seriously want to shoot Lovie Smith after his comments today…
“When I say ‘get off the bus running the football,’ I mean that is a mindset”
“In Chicago, we play in the elements. That won’t change. But there’s nothing wrong with being able to run the football well and having balance to be able to pass the football.”
Though at least Martz is saying the correct things in his debut…
“Everything starts in the offensive line. Everything. They allow you to keep your defense off the field, to protect the quarterback, to do what you want to do on offense. When that’s established—which we’ll get done—then I think more than anything else, you get off the bus and really you are getting in a position to hit them right in the mouth.”
“[Forte] has the same kind of abilities as Marshall [Faulk]. He has the soft hands, the change of direction in pass routes, [he’s a] good route runner, he’s a very unselfish pass blocker, so he’s willing to stick his nose in there. We know what he has done as a rusher. He’s the complete package.”
“What I know of [Mike Tice] as a coach and being able to visit with him, I think this is just a terrific hire and a major reason that I was interested in this job.”
Good of him to talk up some of our players and really try to put something over. Sounds like he’s got things going correctly, at least initially. I’ll wait until 3 games into the season to really pass judgment on him. BTW, I still hate his guts.
Oh yeah. And an Angeloism for you…
“Philosophy, we’ll just wait and see what Mike does. Obviously, we know what Mike’s reputation is. He likes to throw the football. He’s very aggressive in play-calling. He runs an attacking offense.”
No shit, Sherlock? Also, what exactly is the difference between this year’s “Attacking Offense” and last year’s “Attacking Offense”? I’m pretty certain you used that phrase last year, dumbass!
My Biggest concern with any OC is that they need to know how Jay Cutler works. He is a play action, roll out and hit the tight end or full back in the flat 5 or 6 times a game and then he goes up top once the safeties start to bite. Mike Mark believes in the 7 step death, I mean drop, which works for a highly accurate QB, not named jay Cutler, who can make good decisions quickly. Cutler has a big arm, he is not Kurt Warner material and never will be. Why in the hell did we let someone like Jim Zorn go to the Ravens, we are missing out on a top flight QB coach.
tdog, great point. We screamed all last season for Turner to call some plays that rolled out Cutler to no avail.