2011 - 20?? Bears Offseason(s) Thread

[PenPho]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

[SKO]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

Why would they do that? Charles Tillman doesn't even know who to cover in an 11 on 11 situation. He just wanders off in the Cover Who and lets receivers do whatever they want.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

Why would they do that? Charles Tillman (Fuck you) doesn't even know who to cover in an 11 on 11 situation. He just wanders off in the Cover Who and lets receivers do whatever they want.

Que the so-called football "experts"'d

[R-V]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

Why would they do that? Charles Tillman doesn't even know who to cover in an 11 on 11 situation. He just wanders off in the Cover Who and lets receivers do whatever they want.

Please tell me Fro Dog coined this phrase.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

Why would they do that? Charles Tillman doesn't even know who to cover in an 11 on 11 situation. He just wanders off in the Cover Who and lets receivers do whatever they want.

Please tell me Fro Dog coined this phrase.

No one around here is brilliant enough to come up with something like that.

I want a safety who actually knows that if they are playing that crappy "Cover Who", that they wouldn't wander off letting a receiver go down the field for an easy touchdown (Danieal Manning).

[CT III]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

Why would they do that? Charles Tillman doesn't even know who to cover in an 11 on 11 situation. He just wanders off in the Cover Who and lets receivers do whatever they want.

Please tell me Fro Dog coined this phrase.

No one around here is brilliant enough to come up with something like that.

I want a safety who actually knows that if they are playing that crappy "Cover Who", that they wouldn't wander off letting a receiver go down the field for an easy touchdown (Danieal Manning).

I prefer the "I-Pass defense" myself.

[Richard Chuggar]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

Why would they do that? Charles Tillman doesn't even know who to cover in an 11 on 11 situation. He just wanders off in the Cover Who and lets receivers do whatever they want.

Please tell me Fro Dog coined this phrase.

No one around here is brilliant enough to come up with something like that.

I want a safety who actually knows that if they are playing that crappy "Cover Who", that they wouldn't wander off letting a receiver go down the field for an easy touchdown (Danieal Manning).

I prefer the "I-Pass defense" myself.

You would

[CT III]

Eagles request permission to interview Bears DB Coach for their DC position.

Why would they do that? Charles Tillman doesn't even know who to cover in an 11 on 11 situation. He just wanders off in the Cover Who and lets receivers do whatever they want.

Please tell me Fro Dog coined this phrase.

No one around here is brilliant enough to come up with something like that.

I want a safety who actually knows that if they are playing that crappy "Cover Who", that they wouldn't wander off letting a receiver go down the field for an easy touchdown (Danieal Manning).

I prefer the "I-Pass defense" myself.

You would

Agreed.

[Internet Apex]

In the least surprising something something file we have Brad Biggs' positional breakdown on the Bears' Special Teams unit. While it was one of the league's best this year without question, Biggs still wonders what might have been...

2010 overview: The Bears again finished as one of the best special teams units in the NFL and Toub again turned the trick while juggling personnel. The Bears made linebacker Tim Shaw one of their final cuts in September, a surprising move after he had set a franchise record with 30 tackles the year before. The Bears knew linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer was dealing with post-concussion symptoms and they still chose to unload Shaw because he didn't fit into a backup role on defense. When Hillenmeyer was placed on injured reserve after Week 1, cutting Shaw looked even worse. But he didn't have any trouble finding work as the Tennessee Titans claimed him on waivers.

Without Shaw, the Bears proved to be OK. Would they have been better with him? No question. But new linebacker Brian Iwuh was a better fit on defense and he proved capable on special teams, finishing tied for second with 18 total tackles and third with 10 solos. While Shaw led the team in tackles in 2009, Graham was the point production leader that season and he topped the charts for Toub again this season.

Jesus Christ. This has cruised right on past strange and is rapping vociferously at creepy's back door.


http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/02/bears-positional-analysis-special-teams.html

[Slaky]

In the least surprising something something file we have Brad Biggs' positional breakdown on the Bears' Special Teams unit. While it was one of the league's best this year without question, Biggs still wonders what might have been...

2010 overview: The Bears again finished as one of the best special teams units in the NFL and Toub again turned the trick while juggling personnel. The Bears made linebacker Tim Shaw one of their final cuts in September, a surprising move after he had set a franchise record with 30 tackles the year before. The Bears knew linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer was dealing with post-concussion symptoms and they still chose to unload Shaw because he didn't fit into a backup role on defense. When Hillenmeyer was placed on injured reserve after Week 1, cutting Shaw looked even worse. But he didn't have any trouble finding work as the Tennessee Titans claimed him on waivers.

Without Shaw, the Bears proved to be OK. Would they have been better with him? No question. But new linebacker Brian Iwuh was a better fit on defense and he proved capable on special teams, finishing tied for second with 18 total tackles and third with 10 solos. While Shaw led the team in tackles in 2009, Graham was the point production leader that season and he topped the charts for Toub again this season.

Jesus Christ. This has cruised right on past strange and is rapping vociferously at creepy's back door.


http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/02/bears-positional-analysis-special-teams.html

Good old Shawsy - always stealing Biggsy's laptop and writing articles for him. He's a crafty, gentle lover.

[Gilgamesh]

In the least surprising something something file we have Brad Biggs' positional breakdown on the Bears' Special Teams unit. While it was one of the league's best this year without question, Biggs still wonders what might have been...

2010 overview: The Bears again finished as one of the best special teams units in the NFL and Toub again turned the trick while juggling personnel. The Bears made linebacker Tim Shaw one of their final cuts in September, a surprising move after he had set a franchise record with 30 tackles the year before. The Bears knew linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer was dealing with post-concussion symptoms and they still chose to unload Shaw because he didn't fit into a backup role on defense. When Hillenmeyer was placed on injured reserve after Week 1, cutting Shaw looked even worse. But he didn't have any trouble finding work as the Tennessee Titans claimed him on waivers.

Without Shaw, the Bears proved to be OK. Would they have been better with him? No question. But new linebacker Brian Iwuh was a better fit on defense and he proved capable on special teams, finishing tied for second with 18 total tackles and third with 10 solos. While Shaw led the team in tackles in 2009, Graham was the point production leader that season and he topped the charts for Toub again this season.

Jesus Christ. This has cruised right on past strange and is rapping vociferously at creepy's back door.


http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/02/bears-positional-analysis-special-teams.html

Good old Shawsy - always stealing Biggsy's laptop and writing articles for him. He's a crafty, gentle lover.

TIM SHAW WOULD HAVE BEEN DOMINANT PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR THE BEARS THIS YEAR!!  HE WOULD HAVE TACKLED HIS ENEMIES INTO SUBMISSION, FOR HE IS TIM SHAW, DESTROYER OF WORLDS!!

[R-V]

In the least surprising something something file we have Brad Biggs' positional breakdown on the Bears' Special Teams unit. While it was one of the league's best this year without question, Biggs still wonders what might have been...

2010 overview: The Bears again finished as one of the best special teams units in the NFL and Toub again turned the trick while juggling personnel. The Bears made linebacker Tim Shaw one of their final cuts in September, a surprising move after he had set a franchise record with 30 tackles the year before. The Bears knew linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer was dealing with post-concussion symptoms and they still chose to unload Shaw because he didn't fit into a backup role on defense. When Hillenmeyer was placed on injured reserve after Week 1, cutting Shaw looked even worse. But he didn't have any trouble finding work as the Tennessee Titans claimed him on waivers.

Without Shaw, the Bears proved to be OK. Would they have been better with him? No question. But new linebacker Brian Iwuh was a better fit on defense and he proved capable on special teams, finishing tied for second with 18 total tackles and third with 10 solos. While Shaw led the team in tackles in 2009, Graham was the point production leader that season and he topped the charts for Toub again this season.

Jesus Christ. This has cruised right on past strange and is rapping vociferously at creepy's back door.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/02/bears-positional-analysis-special-teams.html

Oh for fuck's sake Biggs. Just peel his skin off and wear it as undies already.

[Gilgamesh]

Not even football can make the NLRB less boring.

[thehawk]

Not even football can make the NLRB less boring.

Not to mention anti-trust law.  But since I specialize in boring, assume that the owners do lock out  the players, and the NFLPA 'decertifies' (however that works), what then happens?  Is each player then essentially a free agent? Does basically any NFL labor related action (the draft a cap etc) become an automatic anti-trust violation?  Do dogs and cats start living together? Can I write another sentence without a quetion mark?

[Timmy B]

Basically, decertification is the players' nuclear option. When that happens, the union for the players would dissolve, becoming, ostensibly, a trade organization, and the NFL's antitrust exemption would go away (as long as they're negotiating with an elected union. they're given an anti-trust exemption). Based upon anti-trust law, if the NFL clubs, acting as 32 individual businesses, were to attempt to lock out the players, it would be a group boycott of the workers -- which is illegal. It would then open the NFL up to a class-action lawsuit by every individual player, and based on precedent, it would lose.