Time for another quick Friday Fun Day post and since the Pro Bowl is coming up, I thought I’d drop some trivia on you.
Yes, today marks 26 years since the Chicago Bears defeated the New England Patriots 46-10 for their first and only Super Bowl Championship. Yes, we ago BGO are going to remind you. We will continue to do so until the Bears rise again. Yes, I’m getting tired of it too.
Let’s shuffle.
Mike Tice, the Chicago Bears new Offensive Coordinator ( Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-US PRESSWIRE)
If we get nothing else out of new Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice, we will get a simple, common sense approach to his new job. That’s what I was able to extract from Brad Biggs’ latest piece on Jay Cutler’s new boss. It’s a 180 degree turn from Mike Martz, who showed more “mad” than “genius” in his 2-year run with the Bears.
Tice tells it like it is and seems open to the idea of empowering his players and taking what the front office gives him and trying to make the most out of it instead of taking his system and cramming down the players’ throats. Hit the jump to see some of the highlights and lowlights of Tice’s interview with Biggs.
Is there a football man in the house?
The Bears are conducting their second round of interviews to hire their new GM and I have zero confidence that they will make the right choice. The Chicago Tribune’s Vaughn McClure caught up with one of the candidates who didn’t make the second round of interviews, Giants’ Director of College Scouting Marc Ross who is down in Mobile, AL at the Senior Bowl. Of course he was disappointed not to get a call back.
“Of course I’m disappointed. You always want to win,” Ross told the Tribune after Senior Bowl practice Tuesday. “You always want to come out on top. But I’m in a great place, which I feel is the best organization in the league. So I’m happy where I am.”
That’s not the real story, in my opinion. Follow me after the jump to see what my issue is.
Eli Manning and the Giants return to the Super Bowl.
Last week Chicago Tribune columnist David Haugh drew comparisons between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants. One big difference is that the Giants have a ring and are making their second trip to the Big Game (I love when radio and TV commercials can’t say Super Bowl, so they’re forced to say “Big Game” instead). Meanwhile the Bears are left wondering what might have been.
In Monday’s Trib, Steve Rosenbloom puts his spin on the Bears and Giants comparison and not surprisingly, it’s a more negative tone:
This season’s 49ers team seems modeled on Lovie Smith’s old Bears, which is part of the reason the Niners lost the NFC Championship Game to the Giants, who represent what Smith’s new Bears want to become.
At least, what Smith’s new Bears ought to want to become.
Problem is, the Bears almost never show the desire or talent evaluation to become that kind of team.
No, wait, check that: Smith has stressed some of the salient traits the Giants rode to the Super Bowl.
Follow me to the other side of the jump for my take on why the Bears should be encouraged by the Giants’ success.
Mike Tice will be the Chicago Bears’ offensive coordinator in 2012 as the Oakland Raiders have decided to go in another direction for their next head coach. Tice had been scheduled to interview with for the Raiders’ open head coaching position at Senior Bowl in Mobile Alabama on Tuesday but the Raiders decided to go into a round of second interviews with the candidates that they had already interviewed.
At least the Bears can move forward on getting their quarterbacks coach/passing game coordinator and offensive line coach vacancies filled. Rumors last week linked former Wisconsin O-line coach Bob Bostad coming to fill the O-line coaching job.
Phil Emery will advance to the second round of interviews for the Bears' vacant GM job.
The Bears have narrowed their GM search down from five to three. They will invite Chiefs Director of College Scouting Phil Emery and Patriots Director of Pro Personnel Jason Licht back to Lake Forest for a second round of interviews. That means that the Giants’ Marc Ross, San Diego’s Jimmy Raye III and their very own Tim Ruskell will not get the job.
I wonder if this means for Tim Ruskell’s future with the Bears. He is currently serving as interim GM while he served as Director of Player Personnel. Will he get the axe or does the new GM keep him around to ease the transition?
The Bears avoided stepping on a PR landmine, because a promotion for Ruskell would not have been welcomed by Bears fans, as they’d see it as a continuation of the previous Jerry Angelo regime. So there will be a new face at Halas Hall. Or maybe not?
We know that Emery was with the Bears from ’98 – ’04. He’s familiar with how things go at Halas Hall and some internet reports on Monday afternoon had him just finalizing the details of a deal before the Bears released a statement on the second round of interviews.
Lots of Congratulations going around tonight. First we gave a shoutout to Peanut Tillman for being named one of the Finalists for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of Year Award and now on to some more fun news – Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and on-again, off-again, on-again fiancee Kristin Cavallari are expecting their first child! This quote from Kristtin from the People.com article:
“We are thrilled to announce we are expecting our first child together,” they tell PEOPLE exclusively. “It’s an amazing time in our life and we can’t wait to meet the new addition to our growing family.”
The exciting news marks the end to an interesting year. Continue reading this post »
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