The Bears Den - 5/15/09

While doing some research on these strange creatures called “cheerleaders” that I spotted on the SI link, I’m left wondering why the girl on the right looks like she has a pair of black eyes?

last 2 paragraphs of that sun times article are interesting. Thought it would just be a fluff piece but he makes some good points. Mainly that the Bears struggle will be one of philosophy: “There’s a tendency to play the game a certain way, and then you have this quarterback you think you’re going to open things up and let him go.” Homlgren is subtly acknowledging the Ron Turner conundrum. Holmgren’s reluctance to pick the Bears is mainly based on a lack of faith in Ron Turner. Turner has done nothing to impress me over the years and that is disappointing because the Bears offense has been flat. Sure no QB forever hurts and maybe that’s why Turner has been so bad. I do not know Turner but from what I have seen on the field/the playbook i question whether or not he has the creativity necessary to engineer a dynamic offense. (See FB Dive)

I also like Holmgren’s philosophy of opening up the offensive playbook if your team’s defense is great, not simply playing not to lose.

fire ron turner and hire Holmgren as OC. Let him develop Cutler and Forte.

Many think Twitter is useless at first. It does take some thinking and forming a strategy, but here are a few ideas to get started:
- Try to find as many Bears players or former Bears players as possible and follow them. Why? Because it will give you a direct connection to them to request interviews and also to here their thoughts first hand without reading it from another journalist. The Drew Rosenhaus comments about Idonoje and Ogunleye are perfect examples. I read stuff about Boldin being cheaper then 10 mil per year on their about 6 hours before it was covered on ESPN online or TV and NFL network and Foxnews. It could help us get scoops!
- When players are looking to be traded or in a contract dispute during the offseason from other teams we could look up their accounts as well for new stuff to talk about. This is only going to get bigger. Twitter is growing at a phenomenal rate. More new users per month then Facebook and Myspace combined! I believe it was 9 million new users in April.
- Follow every Chicago sports twitter in exchange for them following us. Then anyone that is a member of their audience might find us. If I love one feed about the Bulls and then see one for the Bears, it might be something I check out.
- We need to get a profile pic up that says Chicago Bears on it, so people want to click it. We currently have the boring default.

There are a few ideas just to start, but increasing the readership and staying up on players is a good place to start. But don’t be limited to those ideas. Be creative, their are many more ways that haven’t been thought of yet. Just think of some of the goals for WCG and then ask what could Twitter do to help meet some of them. And think of multiple ideas for each goal.

He already looks like he’s unhappy with his contract.