Rookie Expectations: Michael Joseph...........
Jun 4, 2018 8:16:35 GMT -6
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Post by JABF on Jun 4, 2018 8:16:35 GMT -6
Jun 3, 2018 20:47:56 GMT -6 @soulman said:
+1
I feel the same way. My gut feeling is that this year's team is going to be fun to watch, even though they will need another year of development before the Nagy team really shines. But it should be a fun ride for us fans this year to watch all these young guys learning their craft... we will have a glimpse of a bright future ahead here. I can't wait. In fact I can't wait for training camp to roll around. Me and Mrs JABF are gonna enjoy it this year for sure :-)
As I pointed out about the secondary and the great work Ed Donatell has done developing his players there is finally a sense that we have a coaching staff loaded with great teacher now on both sides of the ball. Even Vic Fangio has gotten into the act more directly by working with the OLB/Edge guys after Clint Hurtt departed.
On the offensive side we now have some guys like Furrey, Ragone, and Nagy himself who have actually played the positions professionally they now coach. I think that makes a huge difference in one's ability to understand the nuances involved and to be able to teach them to younger players. So far the whole "feel" is just different.
And not to slam Fox as much as to simply point out why we seemed to stall out in our rebuilding process I offer this excerpt from today's Denver Post. To at least some degree Fox has been a HC with a rep for not developing young talent for a very long time which may explain why it's taken 3 years for some of these guys to develop as the secondary has done and why players with obvious talent like Trubisky, Shaheen, and Cohen were seemingly held back last year.
But John Elway, as the architect of this roster, has also been frustrated with the Broncos’ failure to get meaningful production from young players, dating to when John Fox was in charge of the team on the field.
To me more than anything this is why a change needed to be made and why Fox was not the right hire for a rebuilding team who has to depend on the draft to build itself up again. Thank God those days are in the past.
I totally agree, Soul. Especially your statement, "there is finally a sense that we have a coaching staff loaded with great teachers now on both sides of the ball." That is exactly how I feel about the Bears right now. Having a coaching staff of great teachers is not something we have had in the past... at least not as many of them as it seems we now have. If this turns out to be the case, and the team on the field these next few years confirms that we have gifted coaches, then that is a priceless foundation for a team. Especially a team being rebuilt from the ground up with young players like the Bears are trying to do under Ryan Pace's tenure.
Pace seems to have matured and has hit his stride bringing good talent in. So it looks like the Bears:
1. Can now bring in the right young talent needed.
2 Can now properly develop that young talent (remains to be seen, but it sure looks like a better coaching staff now).
3. We have a young franchise QB (finally)
4. We have one of the best D coaches in football.
5. We (finally) have the offense coaches who have a clue - especially Nagy. The play calling should be so much better than in the past too.