Fangio not mincing words about Floyd.

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Last year Shea was all the DC ever wanted. This is a coach doing his thing, motivating his guy and getting him ready.

Here's another piece on it.


Vic Fangio says Bears' rookie Leonard Floyd is 'playing against men now'
Sep 1, 2016;
By: Bryan Perez | 2 hours ago

Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio didn’t mince his words when discussing the team’s first-round pass rusher, Leonard Floyd. In fact, you’d think the veteran wizard of the 3-4 defense was describing an undrafted free agent when talking about Floyd’s play this summer.

Calling the former Georgia Bulldog’s preseason choppy and inconsistent, Fangio was clearly frustrated by Floyd’s unavailability on the practice field. Whether it was an illness or a nagging injury, Floyd seemed to miss time on a near weekly basis.

“It has retarded his development a little bit,” Fangio said of Floyd’s missed time. “I don’t think he’s in the greatest condition right now.”

Fangio stressed that he isn’t upset with Floyd. Instead, he sounded like a coach who’s frustrated that one of his shiny new toys isn’t quite where he needs to be to make an impact on opening day.

“He’s playing against men now,” he said of Floyd, who came into the NFL with questions about whether his size would limit his ability to dominate as an edge rusher in the pros. At 6-foot-6 and 240 pounds, Floyd’s lean frame caused some draft evaluators to be concerned with how he’d hold up against — as Fangio put it — the grown men playing left tackle.

It’s possible that Fangio’s comments today were more about motivating Floyd on the eve of his first NFL game than really taking a shot at his less-than-impressive preseason.

Floyd is listed as a second-team outside linebacker behind Lamarr Houston on the Bears’ initial depth chart for the 2016 regular season.

The No. 9 pick of the 2016 NFL draft can silence the critics — including his defensive coordinator — by wrangling Brock Osweiler to the ground a time or two on September 11.

My thoughts are that Fangio is old school and is trying to bring in the old school in a young buck football junkie.

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