Thread: Mel Tucker hired as DC

You do know someplaces you can be banned for being too positive about the Bears.

Originally Posted by BearJim

I hate to be so damn positive around here but I think this is another good hire. We can continue running the same defense if after evaluating the players it helps the team win. If not we can mix in some 3-4 or change completely. Changing things up on the defensive side can keep opposing offenses off balance, just like mixing things up on offense keeps defenses off balance. Trestman said he doesn't even know what offense he will run until he evaluates all the players, then he will adapt his offense & play to the strengths of the players. He & his staff will do the same on defense. How many times have we heard Urlacher, Briggs or Lovie say this is what we run or this is what we do(Cover 2)? We ran it as good or better than any team for the last 8 years but the better QBs & coaches in this league know how to beat it & if they don't turn it over we really struggle. I look forward to a defense that is a little less predictable each week.

To be honest I get a little more pumped with each hire because every hire has experience with excellence in some form or another IMHO. Trestman is doing exactly what he said he would & I can't wait to see what he, Emery & Co do next. FA starts March 12th & I can't wait!

Greeting from Jacksonville. Now not here to start nothing or talk trash. On this topic to say you lucky Bears. You just inherited a phenomenal DC. Prior to this year we had top 6 d in league. This one between the D gassed cause we could not score. Worst o line in whole Nfl by far. And injury bug. it looked worse then it actually was. Mel will surely be missed by all us Jags fans. And from my understanding based on what I was reading Bobavich is trash. So we got the crap end of stick. Mel is a fiery motivator and with your talent prob end up top 3 defense.

Thing is it will be adjustment for yous though. Mel does not do many complicated schemes. He is more smash mouth. Simplicity formations but does give different looks. In Jax we had a simple d. that stopped the best team last year. However see online trash. Add to that no pass rush prior to Babin in Jax. He gets the most of of his players. And it is a certainty you all will love Mel. Anyway thanks for your time.

Originally Posted by ctjags

Greeting from Jacksonville. Now not here to start nothing or talk trash. On this topic to say you lucky Bears. You just inherited a phenomenal DC. Prior to this year we had top 6 d in league. This one between the D gassed cause we could not score. Worst o line in whole Nfl by far. And injury bug. it looked worse then it actually was. Mel will surely be missed by all us Jags fans. And from my understanding based on what I was reading Bobavich is trash. So we got the crap end of stick. Mel is a fiery motivator and with your talent prob end up top 3 defense.

Thing is it will be adjustment for yous though. Mel does not do many complicated schemes. He is more smash mouth. Simplicity formations but does give different looks. In Jax we had a simple d. that stopped the best team last year. However see online trash. Add to that no pass rush prior to Babin in Jax. He gets the most of of his players. And it is a certainty you all will love Mel. Anyway thanks for your time.

Welcome! And thanks for the input. Lmao and don't tempt Webb to protect his title.....

Originally Posted by little bear

Dan Pompei
about an hour ago

What kind of changes are in store for the Bears defense with Mel Tucker in charge? My take:
There are not likely to be wholesale changes. The Bears will likely stick with a four man front, and Shea McClellin will continue to play defensive end. It is possible that over time they will transition to a front that two gaps a little more. The Bears probably will remain a team that primarily plays zone. But I would expect Tucker will take advantage of the talents he has to work with, and that means running his defense a lot like Rod Marinelli and Lovie Smith ran it.

VERY interesting. I've been worried that some stubborn DC, who believed in the 2-gap 'philosophy', would try to fit the round pegged Bear DL into his square holed D. That does not look to be the case here. At least I hope what will happen is that some 2-gap will be used as a change up from the 1-gap base. This, to make the Bears D less predictable. That, I like. Fingers crossed that it all works. It measures as a historically good defense on the FootballOutsiders metric.