Even when you take your shot, you blow it.

You have a press conference that every station is taking and you say nothing. You talk about what a great effort everybody gave.

And, then, 4 hours later, you announce you're benching Cutler.

You could have given a press conference where you look authoritative and lay down the law. You're making changes! Guys are being held accountable! It doesn't matter who you are or what your contract is!

But, no, we'll go through the process and I like the effort. Get this guy out of town.

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You don't think it reasonable to suspect that this is, instead, a reflection of dysfunction reaching levels so high that maybe this is a decision handed all the way down from on high - say, Ted or (ye gods) even George?

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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 suppose it's possible.

But, if so, maybe they tell the head coach before he has a press conference. It's been nearly two full days.

They figured this out at 3pm this afternoon?

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Part of me hopes Clausen lights it up and they win the last two games, and Trestman gives a big Fuck You to both Cutler and Emery. As much of a weirdo Trestman has turned out to be, I wouldn't be shocked if many of his actions and words were forced on him by Emery.

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Doc.....think about what you''re saying.

Trestman could fuck up a one car funeral at this point. He knows he's being fired. Do you actually think that, on his own, he's going to call Phil and say "By the way, I'm benching Jay"

No way is that even plausible.

The only reason Emery would bench him is to save injury. That seems thin.

This could make Emery look horrible if Clausen lights it up.

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He's going to be traded. That's the only logical explanation for a benching at this point. It can't be performance related.

And I hope Clausen lights it up. One more reason to can Emery.

Oh, I suspect he may well have known.

If you're going to tell the coach what to do, it's entirely reasonable to figure that also telling him what to say follows right along.

This outfit not wanting this coach to have to talk about this decision, for my little money, makes the most sense here.

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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

This would be an issue to bring up at a meeting! like a Press conference!

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“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.’”

The big question is when did Terry's guy leave him a voicemail message on the benching?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

He left him the message tomorrow.

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There has been far too much sloppy play on the field for me not to think the troubles are not at least equally with Trestman.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

maybe one held in a janitor's closet ?

24 hours later, you got some red-ass in you. Kudos.

You still don't do red-ass that well.

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Let him finish, Dr. Ken.

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- Henry George

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

That's just delightful.

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That is awesome.

This is the Douchebag section, not the lousy coach section. Trestman is not a very good figure of authority. He comes off as sorta weak. He may be a lousy head coach, but he seems like a really nice guy, with morals and good character. Nomination denied for that reason.

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concur with E.S. on this.

he didn't want to tell the whole team via a press conference. which is the right thing to do.

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I believe the shit show that is the Emery / Trestman regime will result in the Bears finally hiring an experienced football guy.
Just saw on the crawl that Harbaugh wants to see which NFL jobs are open before he makes a decision about the Michigan offer.
Go get him George.

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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

yeah it's not like the thug robbed a grocery store and went for a police officer's pistol.

Does someone with morals and good character consistently lie?

Someone that lies about things they did wrong, to cover up their misdeeds and someone who lies to protect his players are not close to one another. He should care less about helping players be better men, husbands and Fathers and more about winning in my opinion. But he cares about all that other stuff, because he's a good, moral, high character guy. I may not be one myself, but I recognize one when I see one. He's a good guy.

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Go Cubs!!!!

And there you have it. One bereft looking to judge those imbued, and arbitrating all around.

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Trestman is an idiot. You don’t start Cutler. You bench him and you evaluate a health asset over the offseason.

I wish George McCaskey was driving to Halas Hall right now to fire the whole lot of them.

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Worst Chicago coaching hire in my lifetime.

George McCaskey seems like a fucking weirdo. He's the one who serenaded Urlacher, right?