Thread: Mullins: Whos seat is getting HOT

Originally Posted by WindyCity

Ted Ruskell, he should follow Angelo out the door and we should go with someone younger and more connected to offensive football. If he became the GM it would be an improvement over Angelo, but not that great of a change.

Ruskell is JA 2.0. They both have the same philosophy-it would be equivalent to bringing in a Martz disciple.

I would tend to agree with you Windy. As little like as I have for Lovie Smith's brand of Chicago Bears football he has had success despite his obvious shortcomings on game day and his players love him. If we lose Lovie we lose Rod Marinelli and people want to come to Chicago to play and learn from those guys.

The only coach I would fire if things aren't drastically better this weekend and thereafter is Mike Martz. One more week of calling 40 pass plays and a dozen runs and his stint as OC and play called has to end even if it is early in the season. His offense doesn't work here and it never will. It's an antiquated system that came from an era when most of the best athletes on a team played offense and teams didn't have the pass rush and blitz abilities they do today. There weren't any Lawrence Taylors, Julius Peppers, DeMarcus Ware's, Clay Mattews and Brian Urlachers in those days.

Martz's offense with it's seven step drops and emphasis on the big play is killing us. The Bears strength has always been in running a ball control oriented offense that when coupled with a dominant defense and great special teams play brings home wins. Why Lovie seems inclined to attach guys like a Terry Shea or a Mike Martz to this I can't figure out. It didn't work his first year here and it isn't working now. If he allows Martz to continue along this path we become a .500 football team again. Only when we return to the other offensive style will we start to win again.

Jerry Angelo must go. Whatever small touch he has defensively isn't about to compensate for in woeful inability to improve the offense. The only good move he's made in that direction was to obtain Cutler and if the rumors were correct he had to practically have a gun put to his head to pull that one off. His failure to understand that the road to a great offense starts with the line and his ineptitude in meeting this objective are beginning to be legendary both in Chicago and around the rest of the league. Here are his latest failures.

Jerome Bushrod didn't even get a long term deal from NO. Here's his contract info; http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-orlea...ermon-bushrod/. Two years at $4.75 mil each. We pay damn near that much to OMG gave almost that much to Manu. How hard would it have been to better that deal with an offer for 5 years at around $30 mil? How in the hell did we lose out on this one.

Willie Colon resigned with Pittsburgh for $29 mil over 5 years but only $6 mil was guaranteed and his 2011 cap hit is only $2.7 mil; http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/pittsburg.../willie-colon/. That's just $400k more than OMG is costing us for a RT/RG who can pass block and IS able to play both OT and OG. We offered $3 mil more and lost him. What if we'd have really sweetened the pot by another $3 mil ($35 mil over 5 years) and upped his guarantee? How much better off would we be right now following Carimi's injury if we had Colon playing RT rather than OMG?

With the cap excess we had going into FA and the reduction in rookie pay that the new CBA brought about we could have probably had both of these guys with $35 mil deals and rebuilt around them. Both are young guys who are just now hitting their peak! We may have had to spend a little of that money but the 2011 cap hits for both wouldn't have exceeded $8 mil. Eight mil more for an Oline like this; LT=Bushrod, LG=CWill, OC=Garza, RG=Colon, RT= Carimi. By doing this we end up with Webb/OT and Louis/OG as backups as they should be and not starters. So in addition to Spencer as a backup OC/OG this would have been the Oline roster and that's what we might have had right now if Angelo had only done his job rebuilding the Oline.

Malcom Floyd signed for two years for $5 mil (2011/$2.0 mil, 2012/$3 mil) with another $1 mil each year incentive bonus. 2011 Cap Cost $3 mil if bonus is earned and $2 mil if not; http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/san-diego.../malcom-floyd/. Instead we took RWill for 1 year for $2.46 mil or roughly the same cost as Floyd; http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/chicago-bears/roy-williams/. As it stands which would we be better off with, a guy who has averaged over 18.0 YPC over the past three years and will catch in traffic or the guy who averaged 14.0 YPC on about the same number of catches who won't. Floyd is also 2' taller and 10-15 lbs heavier.

Up until this year I may have defended Jerry Angelo as being OK as a GM, not all that good but not all that bad. But after his complete failure to improve the three must upgrade positions, OT, OG, and WR in FA with a $30 mil cap excess to work with he's cooked his own goose and Phillips would be an utter fool to keep him. Fire both him and Ruskell and get a true football GM, not a glorified scout who couldn't tell a good offensive lineman from a bad one and one who can keep this team on top year after year. As fans we deserve that much in exchange for our continued loyalty.