Breaking: Bears Complete Coaching Staff; Marinelli Promoted to DC

Is a motivator, and a great one at that, but it remains to be seen how his play calling skills are. To say the least, this season will be interesting

We’ve been down this road before with Babich. This defense needs NEW ideas not the same old BS.

I’m not so big on any of these.

Just because Marinelli hasnt called plays before you cant say he will fail. He is a Firey guy and thats something this defense needs to lead them.

are both puppets being controlled by their masters. Let’s call it The Lovie and Mike show!

is there a sign that says that outside of Halas Hall yet? or at least outside of Lovie and Angelo’s office … christ. this is a lame and predictable move.

They take there time at first getting coaches, then they jump off the ledge to get everyone on board to meet a deadline. I was really hoping since they took their time up to this point, that they would wait and interview Williams. New blood and change on the offense is what was needed, instead we get hosed. Williams is an up and comer with probably fresh ideas. He is good at coaching db’s by the way Indy has performed and was really interested. Thanks a lot Lovie you sack of monkey dung.

just because he had the idea that all of his coaching staff would be in place before the Super Bowl doesn’t mean it had to be. He would rather keep to his word and hire someone that has never called plays before than look like he didn’t make his own personal deadline. Same old Bears taking one step forward and two steps back. Ridiculous.

the day after Turner was released. What a bunch of dim wits. Smudgers, please do something with a clown car and these fella’s jumping out.

Lovie promoting Marinelli is just a way for him to stay in control of the D. He may have given up the DC title but that doesn’t mean he’s turned the defense over. He is the one that will run the defense and he is only using Marinelli as a puppet to do so. He didn’t hire anyone else because they weren’t going to be lackeys. I’m so sick to death of Lovie Smith. He is the WORST coach in the NFL. This is why he should’ve been fired. But I guess we will have to wait another year to see that. I’m just so shocked at the level of stupidity that Lovie is operating on

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but taking a step back, I have to wonder if Marinelli was the best only decision.

the next Detroit Lions. I have been wishing for this since ’85, good fricken times.

…….. that I’m in love with Rod as the DC , but he will fire them up . Maybe thats all we need is a firey guy to motivate these guys . At times last year they looked very flat and unmotivated , so heres to hopin this works out . Honestly I think it will be fine . At the very least we’ll have someone doing the game planning so we don’t look so unprepared . Lovie just had too much on his plate last year with running the team and calling the defense so really all we needed was someone to help out and thats what we got .

If Marinelli, for better or worse, was going to be hired all along, why wait until now to promote him? Dumb.

If you are going to wait until February 5th to hire someone, why not wait another 3 F**KING DAYS to see if a guy who has worked in a successful Tampa-2 scheme is interested?!! Again, DUMB!

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This does not shock me at all.

Jan 14, 6:09pm

Rod Marinelli will be the “DC.” You heard it from my mouth first.

Andrew Hayes-Stoker and Mikal Smith, the coach’s son, were promoted to offensive and defensive quality control, respectively.

Might as well let the McCaskey’s coach the team, and put a giant nepotism logo on the helmet. All of Lovie’s best friends and his son coach the team. Embarrasing.

this basically looks like a desperation move after all other options have failed. And the epic story of ole’ lovie and his buddies continues! boy oh boy am I excited!

Is Rod Having a bit more power to go after Vince Wilfork and a DE. Also since Lovie loves Rams players maybe he’ll go after O.J. Antogwe.

I’m not real surprised by either coordinator hire/promotion. I am not upset with Martz, even though I wonder why it took so long. I am not happy with Marinelli being the DC. Yes he has fire and passion but when has he been successful? When he has coached the D-line because that’s we he loved to do. If I am not mistaken wasn’t he quoted as saying that he wasn’t sure about being a DC because of all the additional work he wanted to do with the Dline?

This is obviously a scenario where Marinelli gets the title but Lovie still has his fingerprints all over that defense and the playcalling. If the defense improves at all next season, it will be because we stay healthy, plain and simple.

He has been true to his philosophy throughout, and this set of hires confirms this. The question is, what is beneath his philosophy – football principals or tragic pride of a captain going down with his ship?

It’s the worry of the latter that concerns me about the most recent coaching staff moves. I don’t think any of the people Lovie Hired are extremely bad at what they do – but I do worry that what Lovie is asking them to do may be fundamentally flawed. And, more than anything, I worry that Lovie is just buckling himself in to a ship that he already believes is going down.

The problem with the D last year was on 3rd down and people being out of position on plays, busted coverages etc…The D line was 9th in the league in sacks last year, there’s nothing shaky about that….If Marinelli is a stickler to details as they say he is, we can expect if nothing else to have guys where they are supposed to be, then its up to them to make the plays..We need a true Safety in the defensive backfield..The Bears D hasnt been the same since they let Mike Brown go…. Coincidence? The D will be fine if We get a safety and Peppers or Kampman…The cover 2 as a scheme is veeery broad and im sure they will have variations in it at least i hope they do…Im hoping the Offense picks up and cuts out the INT’s which put our d in alot of bad spots last year and kept us from putting points on the board…Cutler cuts that INT total in half and increases his touchdown passes, the Bears are gonna be scary

IF they fail next season I can only imagine the in fighting that will cause…

Lovie: Well we won with this type of defense before and the offense has proven to be prolific in the past….I mean we even added my sons as quality control assistants….So it must be the players I am given….

Angelo: Well I gave him everything he wanted in coaching and look where that got us….

Virginia: Its ok boys I will give you one more year…

Michael: Ya! So long as the fans pay the money to come in and they continue to by Bear merchandise, It’s all good!!! I don’t care what that SackMan or Dane Noble say….

But at the same time lets give him a shot and see what hes got

is going to act like this was a great move in his next “Chalk Talk.” He acts like every move the Bears make is a stroke of genius.

UH
OH.

Lovie’s habit of employing his buddies.

what I was fearing. Martz and Marinelli are chosen end up as the coaches. Not because they are the first choice, but because they are the only choices left. I cannot say I am wholly surprised. At least when the Bears improve on offense and continue to decline on defense, I will feel vindicated about calling now for Lovie’s firing. 2010 will see a few things happen. First, Lovie will be fired by the end of another losing season, say 7-9. Martz will effectively end his coaching career by being dragged down by Marinelli again. The defense will be ranked in the bottom 3rd of the league and give up too many yards, 3rd down conversions, and points. Charles Tillman will lay his body on the line and be carted off the field by the 3rd game of the season. Thankfully, I can now rest assured that Lovie will no longer defile our Bears after this upcoming season.

Best thing we can do, is hope for the best.
Hope this finally was the missing piece.

Every position coach makes this step on the hierarchy of Coaching someday.
Let’s hope Marinelli’s first will be good enough.

Hope we get something like the Saints this year.

Wow, I didn’t see this coming. (not)

Many other organizations know what and who they want then go out and accomplish that by any means necessary, not our organization. First of all, they kept Lovie Smith when Gruden, Cowher, Shanahan, and Holmgren were all available to talk to at the end of the season. Every one of these guys is a better coach than Lovie Smith and I would trust Holmgren to do a way better job than JA at being a GM. Lovie Smith is an emotionless sub-par coach who can’t evaluate talent, coach players beyond their potential, or get past his ego of being some kind of defensive guru that he is not. Jerry Angelo couldn’t spot professional football talent if it came up and bit him in the ass. He has gotten lucky a few times, but by no means should he still have a job imo. Rod Marinelli didn’t work any kind of special magic on our D-line and should have been fired right with Lovie and JA. The DL might have been a little better than the horrible ‘08 effort, but by Chicago Bear standards, not even close to what memorable Bear D-lines have done in the past. Which brings me to my last point, the only person who got fired that should have got fired is Ron Turner. Now we all know what kind of mess was created by not firing all of them, exactly what the last four weeks have been. The two people who should have been let go immediately, Lovie Smith and JA, couldn’t even go through the hiring process correctly imho. They must really think we are idiots. Martz wanted the damn job from day one and Marinelli would have taken the DC spot right away. That just goes to show you the intelligence of JA and Lovie Smith. I don’t like any of the people we have in place right now from the owners down. I hope we suck next year and those incompetent owners of ours finally fire all of the people in place, including Ted Phillips, and start over with real NFL coaches…Gruden or Cowher!!!! Get somebody in that actually knows football talent as our GM and somebody else as president who know’s how to run a business properly. Virginia and Michael McCaskey, you don’t have to know anything about football, just hire people who do…Please, I am begging you.

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Dennis Miller the whole time I was reading that, lol!