Hooray!

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Team Cutler.

WGN TV saying Trestman as well.

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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

Poor Phil. That's a lot of flight miles down the drain.

Golden Age of really smart GMs.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Guess I will wait for Seacrests apology.

How many more things will Secrest be WRONG ABOUT in 2015? Maybe he can enlighten us about Uber as well?

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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.’”

I wouldn't say this is a step in the right direction, but the McCaskeys are at least facing the correct way. Lets see what they do with the coaching staff and Ted Phillips, as well as who they hire. If its somebody from within, its just rinse and repeat.

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I do like those glasses.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I had this confirmed last night I just couldn't say anything because my source chickened out.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Uhmmmm

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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.’”

David Kaplan ‏@thekapman 4m4 minutes ago

Source: “George McCaskey had his mind made up a while ago. This was a done deal for at least a month."

David Kaplan ‏@thekapman 14m14 minutes ago

Two football names with longtime relationships with the McCaskey family are Bill Polian and Mike Holmgren. #Illtakeeither

Good. George ain't stupid.

Uhhmmmm...did you (or can you) read my entire post, bigfan?

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The list will be long.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Exactly.

Brad Biggs brought up a fair point. What would you rather have: Emery picking new coach or Phillips and Georgie Boy picking our new GM?

As an aside, I always get a little uncomfortable actively cheering and celebrating people getting fied.

That said, good day for the Bears.

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Team Cutler.

If they hire a GM from within the Bears organization, then all of these firings are moot. They need both a coach and a GM from the outside, and said coach and GM need to have 100% control over the roster.

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Yeah,a little different when they are millionaires but I liked Trestman as a person.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Agreed, that's why the Chris Ballard rumors from the same titled thread would be counterproductive to this move.

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

I wish them both the best. Seemed like good guys. Which is why they failed in the NFL.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Shitcan Phillips too.

But they won't. He knows where to many of the bodies are buried.

Anyone know if George asked Trestman to me a mensch and leave that checklist behind?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

Did Emery take notes when he got axed?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Trestman was a decent guy who got walked on by the players. They knew w/ his personality he wasn't going to crack heads.

I'm not against the firing but who is going to replace him? If you can get Rex Ryan that would be great. Are we going to go w/ a first time head coach who will learn on the job?

No correlation between the two. Fine, they might seem like good guys, but I don't know even after the handling of the Kromer situation and the Cutler character assassination using Fox Sports the week of his benching. Of course if the decisions was made weeks ago he had nothing to lose. I digress though, their failure had nothing to do with being good guys. Emery couldn't draft or hire well (McClellan, Mel Tucker, Trestman, etc..). Trestman came in with a history of having his scheme figured out in year two or three at the latest.

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

OK, not the only reason they failed, one of the reasons. I don't think you can treat football players like reasonable adults.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

He didn't treat them as reasonable adults though. Most of his tactics would not have worked with elementary school kids.

Alternating lockers and trying to meet someone new at lunch every day? These players thought he was a joke.

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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!

So when you think your boss does something silly, you try to undermine him and don't do your job? I doubt it if you are employed.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest