Thread: Would you like to see Jeremy Bates take over the play calling?

Oh hell, Tice just got the clipboard and he's more than likely got eyes on being a HC. No way he relegates play calling to Bates no matter how good an idea it seems. He's a hammerhead on drafting any OL do you think he would swallow his pride right off the bat? Doubtful. He'd bench Webb first before we'd see anything like that.

If anything Bates would "consult" and Tice would use elements or plays of that.

I think they're far smarter than we realize, and have been perfecting the super-secret "Hester Package" that's been whispered about for years now. It's kind of like "The Manhattan Project" when we secretly developed the atomic bomb. Only the "Hester Package" is more powerful and destructive.

It's the old Ali "Rope a Dope" and we're letting the league believe we're clueless on offense. Village idiots so to speak. But just wait until Tice unleashes the Hester Package. It will dominate the entire NFL for decades to come...

Here is a secret pic of the Hester Package being discussed at Halas Hall by Lovie and the boys:

Hindsight being 20/20, should have made this a poll. I've called for this before. As soon as he and Marshall were in The Den, I thought it would wind up that way. Stupid me.

Tice is the one calling plays and Tice is the one responsible for the game plan and neither have been very good so far. He's a rookie OC handling vet players with vet skills and he hasn't even come close to using them very well at all.

When a team with running backs and a QB like we have are averaging just over 4 ypa on first down and seem to be leading the league in second and third and long situations that goes on the play caller. When your team is getting hosed on offensive early in the game that goes on the game plan and the OC who prepared it.

So whose the HMFIC of the offense? So who should we be looking to as far as fixing these problems.

So yes I think Bates should be more involved in both phases. I also believe that if this situation doesn't improve soon as we start losing games because the offense still can't compete that Mike Tice will not be OC of the Bears next year and Jeremy Bates will. If he hadn't turned us down to take that Seattle job all for the privilege of being fired by that dickhead Pete Carroll then it's likely Bates would have been in his 3rd year as our OC right now and we wouldn't be struggling the way we are.

I honestly thought Tice was better than he's proven to be.

Houston is right, we don't know how much influence Bates already has.

That said, if he is not in the loop, I think it could be beneficial to give it a try (on a trial basis), but we just don't know. I still don't know why we don't bootleg more. I understand there are a lot of variables involved in that (mostly math-up and defensive schemes being shown during the game), but there have been any number of times where I have been yelling at the TV..."BOOTLEG"!!

Cutler is good at it, we have a running game that can help sell it, why not try it?

I just can't tell on TV if our wideouts are just not getting open besides Marshall or if Jay just isn't seeing them. Regardless, the offense needs to get better if this team is indeed for real. Otherwise, our tougher part of the schedule is going to knock us back down to earth.

Originally Posted by 4DaBERS

Houston is right, we don't know how much influence Bates already has.

That said, if he is not in the loop, I think it could be beneficial to give it a try (on a trial basis), but we just don't know. I still don't know why we don't bootleg more. I understand there are a lot of variables involved in that (mostly math-up and defensive schemes being shown during the game), but there have been any number of times where I have been yelling at the TV..."BOOTLEG"!!

Cutler is good at it, we have a running game that can help sell it, why not try it?

I just can't tell on TV if our wideouts are just not getting open besides Marshall or if Jay just isn't seeing them. Regardless, the offense needs to get better if this team is indeed for real. Otherwise, our tougher part of the schedule is going to knock us back down to earth.

It looks to me like Cutler is throwing to people he has confidence in. That is B.Marsh, Forte, Bennett and Alshon when he's healthy. When guys drop balls, it's like that person is dead to Cutler. The other people are open. Jay just doesn't seem to want to throw to them. Which makes me wonder if Cutler is "doing his own thing" to a certain extent, and not caring what Tice wants. Cutler wants to pass. He wants to pass deep. He wants to pass to B.Marsh. End of story.