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Boers and Bernstein have been talking that they have sources that are saying people in high places are done with him and want him gone. Who knows if it has any legs or is going to be any push on a new GM or if someone is just venting. Don't really care if they do, I just don't want ownership/upper management putting requirements into the GM search. Even if the potential GM agrees with the move, would likely turn them off if they feel they will just be told what to do.
The guy challenged people to a fight, via twitter, multiple times this season.
I would say this, Marshall has value. This team isn't going to the playoffs in 2015. Marshall costs a lot of money. Trading him is certainly an option. You could use the money on younger players. If you could trade him for a draft pick it would help. They need to start building with youth. Trading away an asset to get younger has to at least be a consideration. However, McCaskey and Phillips have been saying the Bears can compete for the playoffs next year. So it would seem they would be reluctant to get rid of him.
What locker room problems did he cause?
Are Brad and Angelina still a thing?
It's not like he's out getting arrested. You'd really be ok with parting ways with top tier players because of nonsense like that? In this day and age there's no way you're going to win with a team of choir boys.
Again, I'm going to need examples of him causing a disruption. And I watched every snap this year and he never loafed on one of them.
I would. It's not just those incidents either. That alone isn't enough to part with a guy with his talent. It's the whole attitude he brings to the team when things are going bad. We don't need our star receiver talking about how the team could've made a mistake on giving his qb a big contract in the media. It's poor form and just dumb. I don't think a guy getting arrested is the only way we should part with him. Most guys can avoid getting arrested, except Tim Jennings, apparently.
We're never going to hear first hand reports on problems he's caused on the team, if that's what you mean. The closest thing to that is the report of him calling out Cutler in the locker room after the game. But we don't need an injured wr coming off a bug contract himself talking about his qbs contract at all, much less saying he understands if the owners have "buyers remorse." Shortly after, he responded with "hell no!" when asked if he would go somewhere else if Cutler left. Then after Trestman had obviously lost the team and Kromer had ran his mouth about Cutler, Marshall said something along the lines of Trestman and Kromer being the best coaches he'd ever played for and he wanted to keep playing for them. That's a sign of an idiot.
I just don't get this. How do you interview coaches without a GM? It's just such a mess.
I don't necessarily think you get rid of him because he is disruptive. I think you get rid of him because he has value and you are looking to get younger. I don't think the Bears are back to playoff caliber for at least three years. If you can take his $10 million salary and sign younger players that is good. If you could get a third round draft pick for him, that is good. You have to look to the future and the question is, will Marshall still be important to the team in three years when they could be at a playoff level again?RBM said:
Was supposed to be Saturday and the thought was that they would have a GM in place, however, it sounds like Arthur Blanks Mother passed away and they have funeral stuff this week, so I heard we switched places with them... not ideal, but you have to find a way to deal with it.RBM said:
And Chris Ballard is supposedly still in Chicago, so they may have a GM for this interview.
14 years with Saints and promoted to highest level he could with that team. He knows his stuff
Exactly. The Bears have drafted poorly for a long time and I am concerned that Ballard may have been the better choice in that regard. If they chose Pace because he was not "the past", then I have concerns if the pick was primarily for optics. They need to get the GM pick right since the best coach in the world can't coach if he has little talent to work with.
Look at the last ten years of Saints drafts and see how many names jump out at you. They have not drafted well. That is not comforting, and that doesn't seem like a good recommendation for someone out of that organization.
There were idiots on this board that actually said the nerd look was a big reason they believed in Emery and Trestman. Like that dope Bernstein on The Score.
