Butkus on Bears: 'It can only get worse'

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Butkus on Bears: 'It can only get worse'

'Was Lovie forced to hire these (coordinators)?'

Fred Mitchell and David Kaplan

7:19 PM CDT, October 18, 2010


Dick Butkus minced no words when assessing the Bears.

"The offensive line is awful," he said on "Chicago Tribune Live." "The 'Skins and whoever else we play have to be looking at tapes today and licking their chops. … It would be different if it was just the left tackle blowing a block every other play. But this is the left guard, then the left tackle, then the right guard."

On the new coordinators, Butkus said: "Was Lovie (Smith) forced to hire these guys? Is he a lame-duck head coach? … It can only get worse." Butkus was in town to promote his Charity Fight Night on Thursday night to benefit his I Play Clean foundation.

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Originally Posted by The Benjamin

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...1048484.column

chicagotribune.com

Butkus on Bears: 'It can only get worse'

'Was Lovie forced to hire these (coordinators)?'

Fred Mitchell and David Kaplan

7:19 PM CDT, October 18, 2010


Dick Butkus minced no words when assessing the Bears.

"The offensive line is awful," he said on "Chicago Tribune Live." "The 'Skins and whoever else we play have to be looking at tapes today and licking their chops. … It would be different if it was just the left tackle blowing a block every other play. But this is the left guard, then the left tackle, then the right guard."

On the new coordinators, Butkus said: "Was Lovie (Smith) forced to hire these guys? Is he a lame-duck head coach? … It can only get worse." Butkus was in town to promote his Charity Fight Night on Thursday night to benefit his I Play Clean foundation.

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He spoke the truth.

wtf the oline could get even worse then this lmfao

This OL has 0 talent outside of Chris Williams and maybe JaMarcus Webb. And Butkus is right we cannot expect it to get any better because this is not a matter of guys playing bad, it is bad players playing as good as they can.

As the season progresses this is what is going to happen.

-The OL is going to get less and less confident as teams start blitzing on every play of thegame.

-Cutler, if he is not already, will become shell shocked and look more and more like David Carr.

I watched the interview last night and he said he would blitz the bears on every down and for them to make the adjustments.

It's pretty bad when Ditka and Butkus are saying how bad it is. You wonder if they will say in time that it's time for the staff to go. THEN I wonder how long it will take.

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Originally Posted by short faced bear

It's pretty bad when Ditka and Butkus are saying how bad it is. You wonder if they will say in time that it's time for the staff to go. THEN I wonder how long it will take.

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Yep.

But i do love how Butkus still refers to the team as "we."

That's Bears royalty right there. Would imagine their opinion counts to Management.

Martz is out of control & it's time to cut his legs out from under him.

The Lion has escaped the pen in Martz' circus (AKA Greatest Show On Turf) and is mauling the spectators.

Time to get this thing under control.

Get a FULLBACK in front of Forte & LET'S DO THE DAMN THANG.

His opinion counts as much as Sayers.

We remember the response he got. Will Urlacher or Bear fans call him out now?

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Originally Posted by Jimmors

Yep.

But i do love how Butkus still refers to the team as "we."

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But not "we" enough to hold back criticism lol