Thread: Chicago Bears Hire Marc Trestman as the new HC

Originally Posted by soulman

And a big old DaBears welcome to our new friends from the Great White North. How's it goin' you hosers? And I mean that with all due respect. It's great to have you guys with us. You'll be able to provide some great insights on Trestman and his ways and it will be very much appreciated.

A couple of other thing I think you'll appreciate: he doesn't panic and throw the game plan out the window when the team is behind in the second half, plus his play calling is seldom suspect. There are other coaches in the CFL that have had me screaming at the TV thanks to a brain dead play call, but I never had that feeling with Trestman. Even when the Als lost, you wouldn't see many of his fingerprints on it.

One thing his teams did have an issue with though - penalties. They were always among the leaders in penalties and many were of the unnecessary roughing variety. His teams played very hard and crossed the line quite often. The Als have/had a few real hard-assed types and he didn't seem to do much to rein them in, beyond the occasional chewing out.

Originally Posted by billatter

A couple of other thing I think you'll appreciate: he doesn't panic and throw the game plan out the window when the team is behind in the second half, plus his play calling is seldom suspect. There are other coaches in the CFL that have had me screaming at the TV thanks to a brain dead play call, but I never had that feeling with Trestman. Even when the Als lost, you wouldn't see many of his fingerprints on it.

One thing his teams did have an issue with though - penalties. They were always among the leaders in penalties and many were of the unnecessary roughing variety. His teams played very hard and crossed the line quite often. The Als have/had a few real hard-assed types and he didn't seem to do much to rein them in, beyond the occasional chewing out.

I assume he had a hand in bringing in his players? Also that he had a preference for the "real hard-assed types"? I know that in itself will make him a hero here. Chicago loves a tough football player, but a player that generates too many penalties will not be looked upon too fondly.

I see. Well, I hope he reins in that kind of stuff here.
We don't play that way, but they have some of the very same problems in Detroit with a few of their players. The HC does nothing and sometimes even defends them.

Originally Posted by billatter

He may have had a hand in bringing Emry along, a couple of the others I'm thinking about joined the Als before 2008. Rather it's that he doesn't seem to sit them when they get carried away. Emry was fined by the league three times last season. The last time was for a deliberate, blatant nut shot which got him tossed from the game. I'm sure Trestman didn't like Emry's behaviour, but he trotted Emry right back out there the next game. There may have been sanctions we didn't know about, but the bottom line was that Emry kept up the late hits and the cheap shots all season.

I don't believe for one second that he endorses really late hits on quarterbacks, cheap shots, etc. He will get after a player for a dumb penalty or a cheap shot, rather that he doesn't seem to change their behaviour long term. It seems like such a contradiction that his teams were so well prepared, but couldn't avoid the penalty problem.

I should be clear that I'm talking about the roughing penalties. Overall, the team was decent when it comes to things like offsides.

Trestman would never defend such actions.

In fairness to him, he may have been hamstrung with Emry as this guy is what they call in the CFL "a ratio buster" - a very valuable commodity (won't bore you with the details), plus he's a crucial part of the D. In retrospect, Trestman probably couldn't afford to sit him. Unfortunately he couldn't rein him in either.

There were a few other guys on the Als who seemed to take one too many ill-timed, selfish penalties and the TV commentators would occasionally mention that it was such a contradiction on an otherwise well coached team. It will be interesting to see if this problem follows him, or was it just something about those players.

Originally Posted by billatter

Trestman would never defend such actions.

In fairness to him, he may have been hamstrung with Emry as this guy is what they call in the CFL "a ratio buster" - a very valuable commodity (won't bore you with the details), plus he's a crucial part of the D. In retrospect, Trestman probably couldn't afford to sit him. Unfortunately he couldn't rein him in either.

There were a few other guys on the Als who seemed to take one too many ill-timed, selfish penalties and the TV commentators would occasionally mention that it was such a contradiction on an otherwise well coached team. It will be interesting to see if this problem follows him, or was it just something about those players.

Could very well just be a few players that were out of control

We had a center that would always take stupid drive killing 15 yarders, regardless of coaches

Then there was the time he cracked a teammate over the head with a 25 LB weight...