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Bears Face Most Important Off-Season in More Than a Generation
The Bears, beginning this week, will make the decisions to shape their football operations for the next decade. They do so from an uncommon position. Normally a team conducting the final round of GM interviews is coming off a dismal season; ready to rebuild without a corp of winning NFL players. The Bears are coming... Read more »
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20 days ago
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Audibles From the Long Snapper: Tice Remains, GMs Down to Two
MIKE TICE WILL REMAIN OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR Mike Tice was denied the ability to interview for the head coaching position of the Oakland Raiders as that organization’s newly hired GM Reggie McKenzie has decided to move on to his second round of coach interviews. Here are a pair of tweets from ESPN Chicago’s Michael C. Wright... Read more »
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21 days ago
The True Sadness of Joe Paterno's Passing
Joe Paterno built one of the most prestigious and successful college football programs in the history of our country. He was a generous philanthropist, specifically in the State College area, and had a positive (almost fatherly) impact on the lives of every individual who spent a few years on the Penn State campus over the... Read more »
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21 days ago
Fantasy Super Bowl Contestants Set
The offenses and the defenses this week canceled each other out and it all came down to special teams. Seven of us will advance to the Super Bowl. Because most of us will have opposing offenses and defenses, there will be a series of tiebreakers for the game in two weeks. THE FINALISTS Jeff “Blogfather”... Read more »
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22 days ago
Championship Game Previews & Fantasy Playoffs Continued
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS vs. Baltimore Ravens The Baltimore Ravens have looked awful on the road this season and, to be honest, they didn’t look much better at home last week. If the Texans had Matt Schaub playing quarterback they probably win the game by a couple touchdowns. The Ravens defense still has names but outside... Read more »
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25 days ago
More Audibles From the Long Snapper: New Springsteen Track Edition
I tweeted about this already but I think Bruce Springsteen’s new track, We Take Care of Our Own, has Born in the USA potential. It is a masterfully timely piece of songwriting with a potent and dangerous message. It also has a faux-patriotic hook that will surely be misused by a few candidates over the... Read more »
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25 days ago
Audibles From the Long Snapper: There's No Off-Season Edition
Mike Tice Will Interview With the Oakland Raiders Tuesday Unless you’re a devout follower of the ******** spewed by Steve Rosenbloom almost daily on the Tribune’s website, you understand that having your offensive coordinator interviewed for vacant head coaching positions is life in the NFL. And unless you’ve not checked a football-related website over the... Read more »
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26 days ago
Chicago Bears Extend Dave Toub's Contract
The Chicago Bears have signed special teams coordinator Dave Toub to a two-year extensions, making him one of the highest paid at his position across the NFL. Toub was under consideration by the Miami Dolphins for their head coaching vacancy. This contract extension means many things. (1) If the Bears have a disastrous 2012, the... Read more »
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27 days ago
Packers Loss Proves Tenuous Relationship Between Regular Season Success and Super Bowl Titles
They won fifteen of their sixteen regular season games, these Green Bay Packers. You remember them, right? These are the Green Bay Packers that won last year’s Super Bowl as the NFC’s six seed. These are the Green Bay Packers that ran through their regular season record with ease, doubling the scoring output of their... Read more »
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28 days ago
2011 Season Facts
0: The number of playoff games won by Caleb Hanie and Aaron Rodgers combined. 0 %: The worth of the Packers having gone 15-1 and winning the NFC North. 4%: The perceived talent gap between the Bears and the Packers which Ted Phillips used as his reasoning for the letting go of Jerry Angelo. Apparently... Read more »
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29 days ago
Sunday Divisional Round Game Threads
Three things on yesterday’s football: Brilliant performance by Jim Harbaugh, Vernon Davis, Alex Smith and the San Francisco 49ers. Nobody, and I mean nobody, thought this team was going to beat the Saints in a game that saw both teams in the 30s. (I couldn’t find one game prediction on the internet that had the... Read more »
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29 days ago
Divisional Round Game Threads
My betting guide: Saints -3 Patriots -13.5 and over 50 Ravens -7.5 and over 36.5 Giants & Packers over 53
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January 14, 2012
Divisional Round Game Previews & Fantasy Playoffs Continued
Nailed Saturday last weekend but Sunday had some genuine surprises. I did not expect the Falcons to let the Giants simply push them around in the Meadowlands. I did not expect Mike Smith to deliver such an inept performance from the Falcons sideline. I did not expect every member of Steelers roster to leave the... Read more »
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January 13, 2012
GM, Passing Game Candidate(s) Step Into View
First, the Bears are set to interview former Bucs OC and former Bears quarterbacks coach (under Jauron) Greg Olson for their vacant QB coach/passing game coordinator position. Olson has a great deal of NFL pedigree and would be a solid choice. But one need only watch Tom Thayer’s interview with Mike Tice below to recognize... Read more »
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January 12, 2012
Adding a Complementary Defensive End Key to Bears Success in 2012
I don’t get too excited about writing those “ten things the Bears need to do this offseason” columns that seem to inundate the internet in the immediate aftermath of every NFL season. We all know what the Bears need: backup quarterback (they’ll have options), number one wide receiver (they have great FA options), offensive line... Read more »
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January 10, 2012
Three Guys Bears Should Look at to Fill General Manager Vacancy
None of us, except those living in the war rooms of the respective organizations, know how involved the non-GM is with particular personnel decisions. But if you’re not going to hire a man with GM experience you target the high level executives at organizations run in a way you believe to be analogous with how... Read more »
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January 09, 2012
Audibles From the Long Snapper: Monday Morning Edition
On Tim Ruskell as the next General Manager I know this was written about in the Tribune and picked up nationally by ProFootballTalk but I don’t believe for one second the Bears will hire Tim Ruskell to be their next GM. Firing Jerry Angelo was a move motivated by public relations as much as it... Read more »
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January 09, 2012
Wild Card Round Game Threads
As the Bears wait to name a General Manager (I continue to believe the frontrunner is now and always has Falcons’ Director of Player Personnel Les Snead) we all spend this weekend watching other clubs partake in the tournament. I’ll be pulling for the Saints to wipe out the Lions tonight for two reasons: (1)... Read more »
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January 07, 2012
Don't Sleep on Mike Tice as a Potential Replacement for Lovie Smith
Note: Be sure to make your selections for the Fantasy Playoffs on the previous post. The prize is six delicious Lou Malnati’s pizzas sent to your door. Mike Tice came to the Chicago Bears as the offensive line coach. Now he’s been promoted to the offensive coordinator position. And if he is able to build... Read more »
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January 06, 2012
Wild Card Round Game Previews & Blog "Fantasy" Playoffs
I just like the photo above. A lot. HOUSTON TEXANS over Cincinnati Bengals Not to detract from what was a near-miraculous run for the Bengals this year but look at their schedule and you’ll notice something: they did not beat a single decent team all year. Reliant Stadium will be as raucous as its been... Read more »
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January 05, 2012
Why Lovie Smith Stays (And Why Most of the Media Has Situation Wrong)
David Haugh and Steve Rosenbloom – the Laurel & Hardy of the Chicago sports media – have weighed in on the decision by Bears ownership to replace Jerry Angelo in the wake of the 2011 post-Cutler injury collapse. I would quote Rosenbloom here but I have too much respect for the work I’ve done to... Read more »
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January 04, 2012
Bears GM Position a Double-Edged Sword
NOTE: CONGRATS TO UFFICIO, CHAMPION OF THE PICKS CONTEST. PLEASE EMAIL ME AND WE’LL SET YOU UP WITH YOUR PRIZES. When an NFL franchise fires their General Manager, it is usually because that franchise has a dearth of talent on their roster. (See: Rams, St. Louis) That is simply not the case with this current crop... Read more »
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January 03, 2012
Enter George McCaskey?
Is today the day George McCaskey officially seized control of the Chicago Bears? Is today the day we finally have an answer to the question, “Where does the buck stop at Halas Hall?” Across the Twitter world George McCaskey stories are starting to spread. That he had lunch with Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz and discussed... Read more »
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January 03, 2012
Jerry Angelo Out as Bears General Manager
From the Tribune: A public that has largely been calling for sweeping changes at Halas Hall has gotten its wish: Jerry Angelo will not return as general manager of the Chicago Bears for a 12th season, multiple NFL sources told the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday. Whether Angelo, who had a contract through 2013, retired or was released is not... Read more »
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January 03, 2012
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