What was said about Urlacher that leads to the belief he's done/gone? (I do think he is done...just wondering what Trestman said.)

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How long has it been since the Bears had a GM & a head coach who are smart, well spoken, & prepared? Compared to the 2 dumb fucks who Phil & Marc replaced, they look like geniuses.
How refreshing was it to hear Trestman actually answer questions with details & treat the media guys with respect & dignity? I like the fact that he is a QB & offensive guru, & is also a disciplinarian. He wont put up with Jay's bad mechanics & habits. He also talked alot about the importance of coaching & teaching players, which the Bears have lacked for many years. The country club is gone.
I'm excited about this new Offensive Bears organization.

BEARSSS!!!

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Remember Dick Jaurons first move? He cut Eric Kramer. Listen,anybody can sound like a great coach,but we shall see. Best of luck to him & us Bear fans.

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

It wasn't his team, but he coached that team.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

I got the impression I was listening to football Coach Thibs this morning.

He was asked about urlachers future, and he said nothing like " would love to have him, or which wouldn't. Want a hall of famer"..by him saying almost nothing it says a lot.

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Actually you would want to take piano lessons from someone like that who knows that with the right practice the same result can be obtained by the student striking the keys in an identical manner.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Not trolling here. Just asking a question. To those who say Trestman did decent, or won, or whatever, during this presser - why do you feel that way? He came off really bad, IMO. His insistence that the CFL and NFL are the same is just ridiculous. He was very awkward with his I love ball quote and his weird, gay Jay Cutler innuendo. He sounded really unprepared at giving press conferences and the whole thing sounded like amateur hour. The usual suspects will be along soon to say that I am biased, but this was exactly the type of thing that everyone was excited to be getting away from. He certainly didn't sound like the smartest guy in the room. He sounded like the dumbest, and the most awkward. And Mike Mulligan was in the room.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yea, you're biased. People get excited about things like this. Doesn't mean much at all. Just sports fandom.

"I'm excited for no reason!!"

Fantastic. Thanks for the answer.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Most people probably aren't interested in engaging an opposing team's fan who says their coach is the dumbest in the room, and giggles about phrases that could be taken sexually. Not really an interesting conversation.

Yawn.

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

What about when Makavelli makes the exact same points? Get the fuck over yourself. I like how youre trying to make a point about maturity while also saying my opinion doesn't matter because I am a fan of a rival team. Pretty meatballish shit.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Whether he wins or loses press conferences is irrelevant.

Performance matters. If he wins, he's a genius. If not, he's an in over his head intellectual who had no business coaching "the charter franhise".

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I agree with that. But like Chris alluded to, we're sports fans and shit like this is 8 pages for a reason. What was your initial impression Speeps?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

And I thought he sounded completely out if his league during the press conference. His answers wavered between pseudo-intellectual jargon and pandering meatballism.

But if he wins a Super Bowl, I'll have forgotten that he sounded goofy at his opening presser.

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No, FavreFan, you're right to be skeptical. Everyone who said he was Jauron Redux was right. Smart for a football guy, awkward, vaguely weird, not so much eccentric as just weird. All the raving about what a departure he is makes no sense to me. I called this in November: that any McCaskey hire would be pious, polite, and pseudo-intelligent, just like Jauron and Lovie, so that Mike McCaskey can go on thinking that he presides over something greater than just a bunch of fat guys and Naturally Superior Athletes running into each other till their brains go soft. I truly feel the #1 criterion in Lake Forest, and the synecdoche is very appropriate here, is "don't be like Ditka." Run a dead-ass scheme, ignore the media, shelter your players, suck at your job for a while, but just for the love of God and all that is holy, do not, whatever you do, be an archetypal football coach.

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Not making a point about maturity, I laughed at the drops on B&B. Doesn't mean seriously referencing them as to why the coach was the dumbest guy in the room will lead to a good conversation.

Everyone is skeptical. No one thinks a good press conference means they will win a championship.

After watching this press conference, I believe they will win the championship

He was fine.

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

Fixed that for you.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

oh my god if that guy coaches like he does press conferences we are fucked. he read the cutler stuff from a script, and the rest were bullshit cliches. bring back the old tapes boys, were not watching this show again but were watching this show again DICK JURON!

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

That's the exact quote from Trestman.

When you start off by saying, "not trolling here..." you are trolling. I'm sure Mike McCarthy sounded like goddamn Malcolm Gladwell or Barack Obama at his presser. I'm sure his sounded more like Russ Grimm's than anything. "Cheese curds and potatoes..."

He said the blitz packages and the offensive packages were the same in the NFL and CFL. They don't use a fucking tennis racket up there and play on roller skates. There are some differences but it's not night and day. Yes the WR's can run perpendicular to the line of scrimmage prior to the snap, the field is different dimensionally, blah, blah, blah.

I'm sure 95% of us on the board would be just as nervous as he was. This has been his goal for decades and he finally lands the job of a lifetime with a charter franchise. I'm sorry I haven't seen your latest TEDtalk, so I've missed your eloquence with the spoken word.

You're just shitting on Bears fans because you enjoy it. Please stop cloaking yourself in pseudo-neutrality. Why do you even post in the Bears section? I don't post on GB boards, Hell I don't even talk shit when they lose. I get it, they are a great team.

I liked the fact he said Cutler needs work and that he did not call him a franchise QB.

I liked how he spoke about making Cutler more efficient and getting him the protection he needs to a) survive and b) win games.

I'm sure it has been pounded into his head how much of a fucking prick Lovie was, so he needs to be anti-Lovie.

He seems like a nice guy and that he knows what he wants to do and what can be done with what he has. I am looking at this "glass half-full" as opposed to a lot of people on this board. Maybe he'll suck and maybe he won't. We will see in September.

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RFDC thinks I'm retarded.

Except unlike Jauron, Trestman is an offensive guy, The last offensive oriented head coach the Bears had was Ditka. It's been a long freaking time. I went from not being thrilled about the Trestman hire, to liking it a lot. For the first time in a long long time, we're going to see a Bears team with a legitimate modern day NFL offense...& hopefully a defense that plays a little more aggressive.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

I was not that impressed with him. He definitely had some awkward and bad moments along the way. But I do not think it was even close to being so bad that he sounded like the dumbest most awkward guy in the room. I would say it was the epitome of an average press conference.

With that said, today matters not. What happens from here on out is what matters. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and see how it goes. Fans wanted Lovie gone and wanted an offensive minded guy. They got both their wishes. Let's see how it goes.

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

I didn't think it was bad. The media are the ones pumping him up getting all giddy about his law degree, Grey Cups and book. He didn't label himself as an offensive savant. He sounded like any other coach really happy to have got his shot. Sure he sounded goofy at times with the weird business jargon and unintended gay innuendo. But I think nearly every NFL head coach is weird/goofy.

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I'm a team guy.