Comments on: Retaining Defensive Assistants

By: Grabber

Grabber — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:43:28 +0000

I am rarely swayed by what Hub says, but he made a lot of sense when he said today that it would make little sense to holdover the defensive coaches for this year, thus forcing them on the new HC, who next year would have find new coaches only one year into a new contract.

Whoever the new HC is, should already have his own ideas of staff to hire immediately, and if not, that is already a problem, because it either means he doesn’t know who to hire, or is being forced to use Marinelli and everyone else.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:43:18 +0000

Personally I hope we keep the D coaches. It is the offence that needs the major surgery so keeping Marinelli and co can only be a good thing as far as I’m concerned in what will be a time of upheaval for the Bears.

As for the Singletary rumours I reckon this is all just paper talk. The Scrooge McDuffs, sorry Mcaskey’s loved Lovie so I can’t believe they would let him and his winning record go just to go to give the job to Samauri. The Bears also seem to be linked with anyone and everyone at the moment so any former Bear involved in coaching is going to be linked.

Hopefully this is resolved sooner rather than later.

By: Grabber

Grabber — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:33:13 +0000

Now that I’m thinking about it, here are some more names I think strongly merit Emery looking into as well: Willie Gault, Tom Waddle, Matt Suhey, Ray Rhodes, Marv Levy, Ron Zook, Emery Moorehead, LA Mike Richardson. I also heard Terry Shea is a doing a lot of good things these days.

Maybe Tim Beckman at Illinois is interested. And, after getting smoked last night – hey look, there’s Brian Kelly jumping up and down raising his hand and wanting to be considered too. While he’s at it, he should give Bernstein himself a call, and whatever answer he gets from Danny, he’ll know he has arrived at the right answer.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:25:18 +0000

I agree with jdm. It should totally be up to the new guy if he wants to keep Marinelli. I think it would be a good idea to keep Marinelli, but I think any halfway decent coach is going to want to have control over his staff, and I want a halfway decent coach (well, better, of course ).

It would be interesting if it did happen, though. I wonder how Marinelli feels about it–if he’d be happy staying here. I kind of get a–and I hesitate to resurrect the ghosts–’85 feeling about the idea, with the DC being a carryover for the new coach, the Head Coach and the DC fighting all the time, with the DC eventually leaving for a different job–but not before delivering a championship. I know, I’m getting ahead of myself–but it wouldn’t it be weird to see history repeat itself that way?

As for Singletary…I think it’s just a courtesy interview (possibly also a Rooney Rule interview). Which I’m okay with. I can’t imagine Singletary getting another job so soon after the disaster in SanFran. And I don’t want him to get this job.

By: jdm

jdm — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:07:23 +0000

Monte Kiffin did indeed stay with Tampa throughout Gruden’s tenure. In fact, the two other years they made the playoffs under Gruden, it was mainly because of the defense. In Gruden’s last year, Tampa was sititng pretty good at 9-3. Then, Kiffin announced he was leaving the team at the end of the season. The team took a nose dive, and Gruden joined MNF…
It should be up to the coach whether or not he wants to keep people on the staff. I would have no problem keeping Marinelli if the new coach wants to. It should be his call.
As for Singletary, come on guys, we need to bring that fire and passion back to Chicago. He knows what Bears football is all about! Remember all those fans that wanted to bring Singetary home? He’s not going to get hired, but if he does, I might became a Cardinal fan…

By: Mike N

Mike N — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:56:10 +0000

One need to look no further regarding how bad of a head coach Singletary would be than to look at the one year turnaround the Niners did under Harbaugh.

The McCaskeys and still many, many fans need to cut ties/let go of the 1985 Bears.

By: Jeff b

Jeff b — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:46:06 +0000

Great. Can’t wait to hear about Singletary taking his pants off again in order to motivate his team.