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Mike Singletary Dines On The McCaskeys
I miss the Bay Area. The place I worked at was across from a Whole Foods and I fattened myself up every morning on their hot bar. Yum.
While I lived in the Bay Area, I grew to sort of enjoy the 49er football legend. Not that I had a choice. If you're into sports in the Bay Area, you either fall in love with Bill Walsh or get your ass kicked onto the pavement of the Bay Bridge.
Plus, and I'm not ashamed to admit this, I am old enough to remember that I sort of thought Joe Montana had some potential when he was at Notre Dame.
Anyway, back to Whole Foods. So I would go there every morning, and, one day, I saw a big, beady eyed dude I knew I had seen before. A guy I had seen in photos, but a little older. I'm not much of a celebrity monger so I sort of went to myself, "Huh. Looks like Mike Singletary."
I finally figured out this dude was there every time I was, about 8 am or so, every Friday morning.
So, one day, I finally gave in.
As he was dumping piles of raw meat into his brown salad bar box, his drool barely missing both the salad bar and his little brown box, I asked him, "You're not Mike THE Singletary, are you? Da Bears?"
I kid you not, folks, I actually presented myself that way to him.
He looked at me with a smile and said, "yes." His eyes glared at me, telling me to pick something out of the salad bar, even if I didn't like it.
I gave him a thumbs up and that was it.
At that time, he was the defensive coordinator for the 49ers (ironically, under Mike Nolan, who is a big reason Denver is having such a good year).
We ran into each other about once a week after that, but never, ever did I believe that he would become the head coach of the team that made me truly realize just how gawd awful our offensive coordinator is.
Forget the play calling, if you can, that Ron Turner has been doing over the last few years. The offensive line, last night, again, was offensive.
I suspect I will wake up and see morons comparing Cutler to Grossman, but nobody who has watched more than a quarter of football all the way through will blame Cutler for this disaster.
Cutler, truly, has nobody surrounding him. He is like a Winston cigarrette surrounded by years of tobacco lawsuits.
I swear to God, tonight, he looked just like that Winston cigarette, frantically seeking some way to just offer some justification for his existence, tossing his wad into the fat fog of the Ron Turner offense.
Ron Turner is the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL. He has turned Matt Forte into a disaster. Anyone who saw tonight's game can see what Forte can do given, say, a few yards each way.
Forte, on his passes tonight, acted like a dog who had been leashed for a month.
I'm not going to get into the intricacies of football play calling because for me to say, "hey, an option play might be nice" just begs the obvious question: When was my last play call in the NFL?
But what I saw tonight was scary bad. Cutler will go down, eventually, under the Ron Turner regime, so hard that he'll be out for a season.
The line gets buried every play, when it isn't getting a penalty called on it. When Cutler emerges from the wreckage of this line, and doesn't throw an interception, I breathe a sigh of relief.
When Forte manages to crack the wall that is heading his way, I emit a small cheer.
Ron Turner gets ripped for his play calling.
I haven't seen him criticized much for the pure ineptitude of this offense at every level.
Ron Turner is the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL.
He turned a promising QB, Rex Grossman, into a laughing stock. He couldn't motivate Ced Benson. He is turning Matt Forte into a ghost of his freshman year, and his offensive line is a paper bag.
Ron Turner is the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL.
Not by his play calling.
But by the way the offense carries itself. The offensive guards slide when they should be going forward, and pull when they should push.
Ron Turner is the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL.
Mike Singletary just ate Ron Turner's offense for breakfast.
God knows what would happen if Singletary could feast late at night at the meat-laden salad bar that is Ron Turner's offense.
so tell us what you really think of Ron Turner?
unfortunately I didn't get to watch much of the game, here and there. The first INT I saw and that was just an awful decision by Cutler. On the other hand, a play action on third down at the goal line after two runs that go nowhere is never going to work.
The second INT I saw on a replay and looked like Hester fell down.
Didn't see much of the other 3.
I will say, why does it always look like the defense knows when the Bears are going to run? Do they tip their pitches so to speak?
Fire da bums already!
3 of the INT's were Cutler's fault. He is throwing the ball around way too much. The Bears O-Line stinks, Ron Turner stinks, and yes, Cutler stinks. Please tell him it's ok to throw the ball to a spot and let the receiver run to it...not right at the receiver who is triple covered.
This team, full of bad penalities, bad coaching, and bad leadership, is going nowhere. 6-10 maybe.
The team needs a big receiver who will go get the ball, like Larry Fitzgerald...like Randy Moss..heck, even like Marcus Robinson. Cutler needs a better O-line, and a better offensive coordinator. To absolve him of the abomination of last night doesn't make sense.
The first INT Cutler threw into triple coverage. I'm surprised he could even SEE the receiver.
INT #2: Hester fell down, oddly enough AFTER his cut. Wicked piece of grass he tripped over.
INT #3: Hester stopped so as not to run into the referee. Run THROUGH him, Devin. Knock the geezer on his ass.
INT #4: The safety knocked Davis off the ball then made the pick. As clear-cut a case of pass interference as I've seen. A non-call by the most prolifically penalty-happy team of refs in the game.
INT #5: Everyone watching the game knew he was going to go to Olson. And a good throw would have done it. Instead, Cutler threw it 5 feet behind #82.
I've never been a big Fire Ron Turner guy, but when you play a team that's weak against the pass but very strong against the run (#3 in the NFL coming in, I believe), you don't run the ball up the middle on first and second downs.
Tho he did finally unveil a screen pass. Maybe he's finally warming to the idea of playing to the weaknesses of the other team. That's cutting-edge thinking there...
Fire Lovie Smith moment # 2,436:
Late in the 2nd quarter the Bears take a delay of game penalty. That's not good.
Worse: It was after a clock stoppage (incomplete pass).
Even worse: They were lining up for a field goal.
Inconceivably worse: They had a timeout to spare.
You keep using that word..I do not think it means what you think it means...
Well played
Why is Jerry Angelo getting a pass?
He is Ed Lynch without the brains.
Do you know there are no players from the 2005 draft on the Bears?
Can't make chicken salad outa of chicken shit.
the only possible reasons to give angelo a pass:
1. he did obtain cutler. (overpaid? another discussion entirely.)
2. it is now "off-season" for player acquisitions. he couldn't change players now, even if he wished.
plenty of time and opportunity to flame angelo beginning 2/1/2010.
I'm starting Mike Shanahan watch the day after the last game of the season.
Fire da bums already!
rob g-
for head coach, or gm, or both? count me in, if for no other reason than cutler will have a genuine teacher/leader/offensive guru from whom to learn.
will cutler turn into the "carlos zambrano" of the bears? worlds of physical talent, plenty of hubris, but nobody to grab him by the family jewels and say "here's how to grow from being a thrower into a leader". angelo mortgaged the foreseeable future for this guy; he must be given every single assistance possible to flourish.
i grabbed the 2/1/2010 date as something close to the super bowl; merely arbitrary. you have my whole-hearted support in beginning a shanahan clock today. whatever that's worth.
well preferably as a coach, but Shanahan will probably want both which he never did well at...
at least he can put together an offense....
as for Cutler, he's made some dumb throws, but damn, no offensive lines, shit receivers and no running game are basically making him a one-man show...
They should not be throwing 52 times in a one-score game.
Fire da bums already!
This not MLB.
If you can't draft you can't win.
Who has he drafted outside of Briggs that's consistent?
there is no question angelo has a middling-at-best record in drafting. probably not much better at signing free agents.
i was looking only at the immediate situation; if lovie-dear was not happy with the players he was coaching, he sure frittered away the windows of time to get different bodies.
which leaves me thinking that neither angelo nor smith knows how to recognize talent, and then develop it.
angelo did not hire dick jauron. only when his hand-chosen coach (lovie) gets launched does the clock begin ticking for angelo.
just my take. if i were the boss, the whole crowd would be gone. between shanahan, holmgren, and cowher three much more sensible options exist. whether any/all would want the task...
if I read correctly, Smith is signed through 2011 and Angelo through 2013.
if I know my McCaskey's they won't eat a contract...
Fire da bums already!
You both are correct.
Angelo reminds of a mix of Ron Santo and Floyd the Barber when he's interviewed.
I know this is not indicative of how he works, but it does not help.
I'd give him Alex Brown and Devin Hester.
I'd also give him Tommie Harris, not Angelo's fault he tore up his knee.
Vasher , Tillman and Anderson had their moments, and I like Forte.
If you consider Benson and Colombo, he seems okay at recognizing talent, just didn't work out in Chicago.
but they should still fire him...
Fire da bums already!
So let me see if i understand what you're saying: Ron Turner is the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL?
Good discussion, folks.
10man, I doubt Turner is REALLY the worst offensive coach. I just enjoyed saying so after nearly every paragraph. It was fun.
The bottom line for me is that a light bulb went on in my tiny little brain and I realized that maybe the Turner naysayers, who focus on his play calling, have it all wrong.
He's the offensive coordinator, which means that when people who leave his management succeed, as Benson has done, and as Grossman will probably do now that he is number two under Shaub, and when the offensive line can't protect the run OR pass scheme, then it should fall on his shoulders. It's like any other job. If you manage a team and the team doesn't perform, you sack the manager first, then hope the new guy can weed out the weasels.
Turner should be fired for the offensive line woes alone.