I hope so too. Maybe these ongoing "secret settlement meetings" will produce something soon because I'm getting bored with the lack or football related stuff to sink our teeth into. As long as the courts have it in their hands we'll all be the losers.Originally Posted by dabears54
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap.
Honey Badger Don't Care. Honey Badger Don't Give a Shit.
This is draining not having any preseason conditioning or any free agency signing. It's going to take the judges at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals at least three weeks to return with their decision(s) after the questioning and debating is finished. I feel I'm losing air because all the football has been taken out of my system.
exactly!.. not "pro owner or pro labor",, but "pro fan"..get out of court and back to playing.. gone on long enough and courts accomplishing NOTHING, even they are sick of both sides
Anytime the judge says that the two sides should continue negotiation because the decision that is reached by the judge will one that neither side will like is an omen of sorts.
So back to the original topic, Tony Dungy comes to town for a visit.
http://www.chicagobears.com/news/New...?story_id=7899
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By: Larry Mayer | Last Updated: 6/7/2011 2:54 PM
With no players to work with due to the ongoing lockout, Lovie Smith invited his mentor to Halas Hall to share his expertise with the Bears coaching staff.
Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith coached against each other in Super Bowl XLI to end the 2006 season.On Monday, former NFL coach Tony Dungy spent the entire day in Lake Forest talking football and catching up with old friends. Both Smith and Bears defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli were part of Dungy’s first coaching staff with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1996-2000.
“What we can do right now to help out football team is just continue to improve as a staff,” Smith said. “I knew bringing Tony in would be a big benefit for everyone. Rod and I spent a lot of time with Tony [in Tampa]. I wanted the rest of the defensive staff to have an opportunity to also.”
Given that the Bears play a variation of the Tampa-2 defense that Dungy installed with the Buccaneers, discussing the scheme with him was like viewing a Rembrandt painting with the artist himself.
“It was awesome,” Marinelli said. “We watched a lot of our tape with him. He sees a lot and makes great comments. We must have met for 10 hours. It’s just about going back to what we believe in. When we were with him in Tampa when we first started, you see the roots of everything we’ve done.”
“It was great,” Smith said. “A lot of times we’re doing things, but sometimes the reason why was lost a little bit. To have a guy that started it all come in with us and hear it from his mouth was good.”
Dungy enjoyed his one-day trip to Chicago.
“It was fun for me to come in and talk football again,” said Dungy, who has worked as a television analyst since retiring as Indianapolis Colts coach following the 2008 season.
“We talked a little bit of Xs and Os, but we talked more about how you do things. That I think is what makes this group as good as they are. It’s not necessarily what you do but how you do it, and sometimes we lose sight of that. It was great to talk about how we started and how this defense grew.”
The scheme that Dungy employed in Tampa hasn’t changed very much over the years.
“There are some different wrinkles that you’re seeing offensively and things you have to adjust,” he said. “But a lot of the fundamentals are still exactly the same.”
Smith spent 13 seasons coaching at the collegiate level before Dungy gave him his first NFL job.
“When I was looking for coaches that first year in 1996, I asked a lot of our college scouts to tell me who out there in the college ranks was turning out good ballplayers,” Dungy said. “I had four or five guys say you ought to see this coach at Ohio State. I remember talking to Lovie and he had this quiet confidence. And it wasn’t just what he knew about the game but the way he was able to get it across.”
Coaching linebackers with the Buccaneers, Smith helped develop a young Derrick Brooks while simultaneously honing the skills of seasoned veteran Hardy Nickerson.
“Lovie was able to help both of those guys improve, and to me that’s the mark of a good coach, when you can take solid vets and make them even better and take young guys and bring them along,” Dungy said. “He just had those communication skills. You knew he was going to be a good coach.”
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap.
Honey Badger Don't Care. Honey Badger Don't Give a Shit.
To think that the Buckos would have won at least one Super Bowl under Dungy had they had even a smidgeon of an offense.
Dungy a class guy and glad to hear he likes how bears are doing things : )We talked a little bit of Xs and Os, but we talked more about how you do things. That I think is what makes this group as good as they are. It’s not necessarily what you do but how you do it, and sometimes we lose sight of that. It was great to talk about how we started and how this defense grew.”
The scheme that Dungy employed in Tampa hasn’t changed very much over the years.
“There are some different wrinkles that you’re seeing offensively and things you have to adjust,” he said. “But a lot of the fundamentals are still exactly the same.”
How could he not? They do things exactly like they did in Tampa Bay, and eventually in Indianapolis.
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