The Bears Den: January 16, 2012

but now the endless “Eli is such a great QB” crap will continue. Eli has played well and played like crap throughout his career. There’s such a yin-yang balance to his play. For every amazing come-back win, he has an embarrassing loss. For every desperation TD pass, he’ll fumble the ball at the goal line. Eli is by no means a bad QB, but he has just as much of knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as he does of pulling off the greatest SB upset in modern history. The big difference between him and Cutler, the Giants have surrounded Eli with talent and good coaching.

But indications are that Ruskell has earned respect at Halas Hall, specifically for streamlining the grading system for players and fostering more communication between coaches and scouts…..

But Ruskell is the only candidate who already has been a GM, and the Bears might encourage the new GM to retain him….

Of the four candidates coming in, Emery is the only one with an obvious link to Ruskell. In fact, Ruskell hired Emery — then an area scout for the Bears — in 2004 to be the college-scouting director of the Atlanta Falcons.

In all likelihood, Emery would have no qualms about retaining the man who gave him his first significant career break…..

But that’s where Lewis comes in. He also has worked with Ruskell (with the Seahawks), and his roots were planted under former Green Bay Packers GM Ron Wolf….

In the last 14 years, Lewis has worked alongside people such as Wolf, new Oakland Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie, Packers GM Ted Thompson, Seahawks GM John Schneider and Ruskell.

Dunno how to feel about that…..But eh….

Found this humorous though……

The Seahawks also have capitalized on high draft picks with choices such as safety Earl Thomas and have unearthed gems such as safety Kam Chancellor (fifth round, 2010)…

Last night when the Giants defeated the Packers, Jensen tweeted something about that being a real feather in Ross’s cap in terms of being a candidate for the Bears’ GM job. It certainly makes sense, as Ross had a hand in building up a team capable of competing with and defeating the Packers consistently.

where the slack rusty after a week off, and rogers even more rusty as he hadn’t played since winning against us. i was hoping for a drop the pass virus that is virulent in the green bay area and hopefully lasts all next season as well

That’s beyond pathetic and embarrassing.

simply because of the way they went after Jeff Fisher.

Best weekend since the San Diego game.

DParrPFW Dan Parr
#Bears S Chris Conte also voted to Pro Football Weekly/Pro Football Writers of America All-Rookie team.