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Señor Columnist is ok if Trestman is a weirdo, he just needs wins to go with it.

So the Bears are like magical moths, now, or something?

“We’re a part of something bigger than ourselves,” Bears coach Marc Trestman said, enjoying the chance afforded by the suspension of tight end Martellus Bennett to indulge his desire to wax philosophical. “That’s a transformational process. It doesn’t take one week, it doesn’t take one month. It may not take a year. It may take more.”

Dude.

As an e-mailer to the Boers and Bernstein Show asked yesterday, “Is Trestman coaching football or training monks?”
I know this is part of the deal with Trestman, as we figured out shortly after he took this job. He’s just an odd bird: on one hand a practical, law-school-trained mind who approaches tactical strategy with a detached sense of logical analysis, and on the other something of a hippie spiritualist – a true believer in the applied value of new-agey ideas to the workplace.

That this workplace happens to be a patch of grass on which massive angry animals are paid to rip each others’ arms off is what makes this interesting.

Bennett is one of these mercenary millionaire beasts, but his behavior ran afoul of the law of Trestman’s land and earned him temporary banishment. As if reading from his own book, Trestman explained his expectations.

“The overriding philosophy is to get to know each other, to develop levels of trust between each other – coaches and players, players and coaches – and to define our behavior through respect and humility,” he said yesterday. “We’re going to respect everybody around us. We’re going to treat them in high regard, and we’re going to understand what humility means.”
With all due respect to those lovely ideas, I would like the Bears to define their behavior through not again having the NFL’s 30th-ranked defense in both yards and points allowed. But I’m silly that way.

There’s nothing wrong with being nice to each other, of course, but this isn’t some binary world in which anything short of corporate team-building retreats of rope courses, trust-falls and walking on hot coals must somehow result in a locker room full of Richie Incognitos. Once that ball is in the air, it’s still about smashing people so hard they spit blood.

From all accounts, newcomer Lamarr Houston has already been involved in multiple on-field shoving matches and scuffles with Bears teammates, playing each rep to the echo of the whistle in a way that flares tempers. I have no idea how that relates to respect and humility or the giant oneness that binds all living things, and I’m confident in thinking that he doesn’t, either. He’s trying to destroy the quarterback.

And this quarterback is at the center of the Trestman-as-guru narrative. Jay Cutler continues to have preconceived stories projected upon him, as he has learned to sprinkle enough buzzwords into his typically blasé comments to play along. He’s the same guy with the same skills, albeit older and wealthier. There are some who can’t wait to lap up the gooey story of his rebirth under new mystical guidance, but the rest of us understand what it means to finally have satisfactory pass-blocking and a pair of All-Pro wide receivers built like NBA small forwards.

Trestman could write the book he did because he won titles in Canada. After he hoists those Grey Cups, he can package whatever philosophy he wants and is free to run his training camp as whatever kind of kibbutz compound he desires.

All those cultural concepts of supernatural metamorphosis were put in place last year, and the Bears were 8-8.

For any precious process to be more than self-indulgent drivel, those numbers have to undergo a transformation.

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mercenary millionaire beasts would be a good name for bernstein's fantasy team

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You can always count on bernstein for some creative slurs: "massive angry animals", "mercenary millionaire beasts". Keep on keepin' on, danny boy!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

It's a slippery slope in Dan's world.

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

That is an all-timer. Well done.

incredible

No one can beat a thought dead better than these guys. Please someone call up and bring up lance Armstrong or Joe Pa.

bernstein's entire "Trestman is weird" narrative is just made-up claptrap. Trestman's philosophy doesn't seem any different than a million other football coaches. Maybe he has a slightly larger vocabulary to describe it, as opposed to Ditka sighing and saying "gang" three or four times, but it's pretty much the same "us vs. them", "we're a family", "play for the guys in this room" cliches that I've heard from coaches my entire life.

But I guess if you need to kill five hours on radio five days a week, calling Trestman "weird" is a way to do it.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think he's prepping a soft landing in case Trestman turns out to be less of an intellect than Dan has long suggested.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

I think it is fairly obvious that he isn't.

Hopefully he worked on his game winning kick strategy in the offseason.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

This.

If Trestman washes out then Bernsie can say that he always questioned his methods. Being a skinny guy with glasses and a large vocabulary isn't exactly the norm for NFL coaches but it's far from weird.

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Just heard Terry reiterate that the Bears don't want their backup QB to play well...again.

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One of the best posts evah!

They are reaching for content today. That is weird as there should be real camp news.

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Elections have consequences.

I agree. Stop losing to Tom Waddle.

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For an alleged well educated guy, who enjoys hearing himself impersonate a lawyer, doctor or coach on the radio, he sure writes a crappy article.

While some of you might not like Hanley, he is a real good columnist. He has done it for 20+years, maybe he should be the SENOR guy

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

only if mully lets him speak

Maybe he didn't want such an easily lampoon-able title.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I don't know why he is beating around the bush. He might as well start calling them "darkies" or any type of slur he would be totally offended if someone else came up with.

Sadly waddle ( who annoys me ) and JD whom I also dislike killed the Trestman show today. Maybe it is because I am a big basketball guy but they talked way more basketball and Hamel it was just more interesting. I gave up on waddle because well he seemed not to care about sports. That being said he seems more interested in them these days and does know how to be on the radio. He understands the job.

Both those guys are good guys to talk with. Yes, Hanley is more soft spoken on the air, but he knows his stuff. This would come back to my thought that just because a guy writes well doesnt make him a good radio guy and flip the script.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Agreed. Bernstien is a pretty good talker. Honestly if boers cares he is pretty good at both. I personally came up with an English degree and did radio. I am a pretty good speaker. I aspire to be a better writer but the internet and ADD ruined me. I am in sales and teach classes etc... I wish I could have devoted more time to my written skills though. That is kinda my passion which I lost along the way. Cry me a river. Yes you timberlake.