Brick Haley On His Way Out?

by WCG on Jan 6, 2009 7:23 AM CST Comment 12 comments

With money wrapped up in the defensive line with the sizable contracts of Tommie Harris and Adewale Ogunleye and a modest one with Alex Brown, much was expected of the Bears defensive line. What they got was quite different. The biggest downfall of the Bears defense this year was the inability to generate a consistent pass rush. You can lay blame in a lot of places bad scheme, overrated players, unimaginative play calling, but in the end you must work with what you have.

That leads us to Brick Haley, the Bears defensive line coach. Haley, though it has not officially been announced, is expected to take over as the defensive line coach at LSU. That in turn brings us back to the recently interviewing of former Detroit Lions coach Rod Marinelli. Marinelli and Coach Smith have history and are good friends. Marinelli has also interviewed with Seattle about their vacant defensive coordinator position.

I think the Bears are looking at Marinelli as an upgrade over Haley, but also as defensive cooridinator in waiting of sorts. They will give Babich another year to prove he can do the job and if he doesn't they can easily make the transistion to Marinelli.

Marinelli signing or not, the Bears will have a new defensive line coach next year.

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I've got a crazy idea..

how about we hire somebody who played defensive line in the NFL!

by Hatchetm on Jan 6, 2009 7:46 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

FWIW...

… former athletes often do not make good coaches, and many, many good coaches were either not former NFL players, or were not any good as NFL players.

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by big_lowitzki on Jan 6, 2009 8:54 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, and the bears

have plenty of those guys

by Hatchetm on Jan 6, 2009 9:15 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Lovie and Jerry both like Marinelli from their Tampa days...

And according to reports out of Detroit, they have formally offered Marinelli the D-Line job.

I would love to see if Marinelli can get 12 sacks out of Mark Anderson, like former D-Line coach Don Johnson did, before Lovie ran him out of town.

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by SackMan on Jan 6, 2009 9:12 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

there is something weird going on here...

if lovie really wanted marinelli he would have offered him the coordinator position. he is sticking with babich which is extremely disturbing. lovie is effectively saying “there is nothing wrong with our coaches/scheme, it is the players that are the problem. the ball is in your court jerry.”

by Hatchetm on Jan 6, 2009 9:20 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

It's troubling...

There’s some friction going on right now between Lovie and Jerry, as evidenced by their post-seaon press conferences.

Lovie said he lost his #1 and #2 WRs… Jerry said you don’t win games with WRs and RBs, you win because of QBs. Yet… well… he’s put all our QBs, RBs, and WRs, in place. So, he’s indicting himself.

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by SackMan on Jan 6, 2009 9:37 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Why I couldn't stand the Bears this year?

All I wanna know, fans, was it worth it?

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by tyger1147 on Jan 6, 2009 10:43 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I think

they are going to make his title Def Line/asst head coach or something to that affect..

by tfrabotta on Jan 6, 2009 11:06 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Offered

According to Chicago Tribune, the job is his if he wants it:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-06-bears-chicagojan06,0,4221053.story

by bentley on Jan 6, 2009 3:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Hub sez...

the bears expect marinelli to be offered the seattle job and bears will not match the $$$.

by Hatchetm on Jan 6, 2009 7:04 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

well, i will say this

if we opt to be stubborn and not replace babich, who failed terribly this year (yes, his players didn’t play that well, but he was still clearly out-coached every week, seen by his running a soft zone D with personnel that didn’t match + having terribly designed blitzes) with the many much better options out there, like marinelli, crennel, and mangini, we will have missed a great opportunity to upgrade quickly. seriously, does anyone honestly think marinelli isn’t a much better option than babich? offer him the DC position (or be willing to do the same for the several solid candidates on the market) asap.

by guy incognito on Jan 6, 2009 8:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs