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A Brief Update on Dave Toub...........
Updated: January 16, 2012, 4:30 PM ET
Dave Toub, Bears in negotiations
By Jeff Dickerson
ESPNChicago.com
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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Bears' exclusive 15-day negotiating period with special teams coordinator Dave Toub expires on Monday. Come Tuesday, the respected assistant can start to entertain offers from around the league for similar positions.
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The Miami Dolphins, meanwhile, are continuing their search for a new head coach. Toub interviewed for the vacant Dolphins job a few days after the conclusion of the regular season.
While it's unclear if Toub and the Bears are anywhere close to agreeing on a new deal, the two sides did begin to negotiate last week, per a league source.
Under Toub's guidance, the Bears annually rank as one of the top special teams unit in the league, finishing No. 1 overall in 2006 and 2007. That consistency has come despite major roster turnover almost every year.
This past season, Corey Graham became the fifth Bears' special teams player selected to the Pro Bowl since Toub arrived in Chicago since 2004, joining Brendon Ayanbadejo (2), Devin Hester (3), Robbie Gould and Johnny Knox.
With such a proven track record of success, Toub could be seeking a substantial raise in his next contract.
In the event Toub lands the head coaching job in Miami, or accepts a more lucrative deal to coach special teams for another NFL team in 2012, the Bears could look to promote special teams assistant coach Kevin O'Dea, who is the former special teams coordinator for the New York Jets (2008-09) and Arizona Cardinals (2004-05).
The Bears also might decide to look outside the organization; there is expected to be no shortage of candidates given the importance placed on special teams by Bears head coach Lovie Smith, plus resources such as Hester, Gould, Knox, punter Adam Podlesh and long snapper Patrick Mannelly already in place. Jeff Dickerson covers the Bears for ESPNChicago.com and ESPN 1000.
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This one is tricky and hard to call. I don't think he's gonna get the Miami HC position but will he leave the Bears just to be a ST Coordinator somewhere else? Are they gonna be willing to make him one of the highest paid coordinators in the NFL?
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Could he be the next assistance OC? to help build that resume?
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Originally Posted by
Riczaj01 
Could he be the next assistance OC? to help build that resume?
Not with the Bears. If anybody gets that title it will be the QB coach they hire. I think all they have to do is pay him and he'll stay. The question is will they?
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Keeping him will be vital to the Bears success. He has performed better than most, if not all ST coaches in the league and deserves a extension AND a raise. Let's pay the man and get him locked up for at least a couple more years !
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He earned his pay with that one trick play alone.
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Originally Posted by
Bear Goggles He earned his pay with that one trick play alone.
Ain't that the truth. Most creative punt return I ever saw. That penalty call on Graham was pretty cheesy (or in other words favoring those cheeseheads as usual) IMO.
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If Toub has desires as a HC, he might need more then a ST background, not sure we can keep him w/just more money. He needs more responcibility also.
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Just singed a 2 year deal with the Bears.
Toub signs two-year extension with Bears
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Originally Posted by
Riczaj01 If Toub has desires as a HC, he might need more then a ST background, not sure we can keep him w/just more money. He needs more responcibility also.
Well we dodged a bullet and did keep him which makes me happy because if Lovie fails this year Toub might be in line to get a shot at the Bears HC job. Ditka came to his HC post from being a ST coach and so did John Harbaugh. The guy knows how to coach plain and simple.
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