OT: What do you think about the Bears hire? Marc Trestman.

Screw the Bears. They will never amount to anything with Cutler as their QB. He is not a leader. Just an asshole.

They should of kept Lovie Smith.Ditka said it was dumb to get rid of him then it must be true.

i am a lions fan and love the hire.  love it.  between him and cutler i see a free fall into ryan leaf territory - 

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who coached with Trestman in 2001, was approached by the Bears.  In turn, Gruden might have recommended him.  I think he's a solid, if not great, hire.

I don't know much about Trestman to begin with but not retaining Marinelli seems very foolish to me, we'll see how a veteran roster adjusts to new coaching/scheme.

He's who we thought he was...

For those who aren't familiar, here is  the resume in brief for Trestman:

He's been in enough places and had enough experience that this is probably a pretty sound - but not exciting by any means - hire for the Bears from the experience angle alone (and to be fair, of course, not all hires need to be exciting), and the players that he has worked with do say very positive things about him, which I think you would want out of a coach, but still, I will be interested in what the staff looks like almost as much. 

If the Bears decide to promote from within for the DC spot, Brady Hoke's brother Jon would probably be the guy.

Is also a frontrunner to become DC.

I like the move. Lovie was a good coach but not the guy to take us to that next level.

Isn't able to get the best candidate out there. All these NFL guys are saying nice things about him....but why didn't he have a job in the NFL then? Outside of Canada from the list it seems like it's been awhile since he's been involved with any good teams. To top Lovie all he has to do is win a Super Bowl. Good luck with that.

Maybe it's genius, but this is a hire any bad team in the NFL could have made. The Bears were practically in the playoffs, have a really good D, and at least a QB you could win a Super Bowl with. But maybe that's all they can hire if the new GM wants someone under his control. At least it might be good for Hoke.

But the lack of good players on the O-line really has to be addressed. Watching the Bears run the football on Sunday often seemed like a replay of Michigan games on Sat. The blocking on third or fourth and short sucked. They blew the Seattle game not converting a 4th and 1. Hopefully a competent offensive minded coach can effectively use the tools Cutler possesses of which leadership appears to be lacking. Hopefully, Trestman does work out to be another Brady Hoke hire.

Trestman is clearly a good coach but he walked into an awesome situation in Montreal after Don Matthews (CFL HOF coach) retired. Player Personnel in Montreal is excellent in the CFL and he was gifted with the presence of multi-year Most Outstanding Player (see how the CFL does that?) Anthony Calvillo at Quarterback.

I'm not saying he won't have success at Chicago I'm suggesting that much like following Matthews who stopped coaching due to illness Trestman will follow a pretty successful Lovie Smith and inherit a quality quarterback.

To say Jay Cutler is a "prima Donna" is a complete joke. Quite buying and forming all the negative spin out Chicago media and sport talk radio into your own opinion. Why is he a prima Donna, because his knee was injured and he couldn't play? But you still love Denard right? He yelled at his lineman because, oh what's that, they couldn't do their damn job and he got knocked down or sack for 1000 time?!?!? You still love Tom Brady right?



Jay isn't elite, but he is damn good and could be elite if they fix the OF line and bring more skill players in via the draft. Bears fans are just like ND fans, looney tune characters!!



To the OP, the hire is a yawn at best.

Comparing Denard to Cutler is the joke. It is a fact, that Cutler is not easy to work with. He would admit that himself. I don't care that he yells at his linemen or that he got hurt in the NFC Championship game. The guy is a dick. I never said I didn't like him, he is what he is. Are you his mother? You seem really butt hurt by this.

I think it's a good hire, but the firing of lovie just didn't make sense to me in the first place.

What was the last "big splashy hire" that worked out? Did Parcells win a Super Bowl for the Cowboys? Rex Ryan and the Jets? Joe Gibbs coming out of retirement to join the Redskins? Lane Kiffin to the Raiders? Josh McDaniels to the Broncos?

The only "sexy" hire that has been successful in the past decade has been Harbaugh. (Edit-okay that's probably a huge exaggeration. My ultimate point is that the public barometer is a terrible measuring stick of success. I is wrong as often as it is right)

More often its the unheralded coaching hires like Mike McCarthy, Mike Smith, Chuck Pagano, John Harbaugh, and Mike Tomlinson (remember how Russ Grimm was the next great coach?)

In the nfl you just have to wait and see how they do on the field. There is no statistically significant way of predicting success.

I lived in one of the "hill" dorms at UMich and, to this day, whenever I see that name spelled Marc instead of Mark, I think of all the East Coast guys whose friends (from the same part of the world) would yell "MAAAWWWWWWWK!" out the window.

I hope that makes sense to someone.

He coached in the CFL.

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or Marinelli or any of the other knuckleheads the Lions have hired since 1964.

Bears fan here and I think the prevailing consensus is it's a boom-or-bust type deal. He's either a great offensive mind with the wisdom and personality of a Head Coach who was simply overlooked when it came to openings earlier in his career or he stumbled into good situations and didn't completely fuck them up, but is ill-equipped to deal with the day-to-day stuff required by an NFL HC. And that he has no idea what to do with the defense or who to hire to run the defense.

To his credit... Jake Plummer, Scott Mitchell, and Rich Gannon turned in career years when Trest was the OC for them. Getting Scott Mitchell to have something that could be considered a "good" year is something of a miracle.

My prediction: Proves his offensive guru label and turns Cutler's career arc from Jeff George to John Elway. Hires proven DC which wins over Bears veterans on defense. Wins 10 straight Super Bowls before retiring.

IMO, best hire of all the teams. Guy is a great coach and beloved without being Rex Ryan "the Jets are a frat house" level friendship with players. If any HC hire wins a SB with their new teams it will be MT.

for not hiring a guy fired by another team. They also thought out of the box. In the end, we'll see, but I'm impressed with the Bear's Management sticking to picking their best guy available.