The Bears had two 1st round picks that year. But it was (truly was) a bad year for QBs. We spent our two 1st round picks on Michael Haynes and Grossman. Haynes never made a regular season roster after we cut him after 3 seasons.
We did get Peanut and Lance Briggs in that draft in the 2nd and 3rd rounds though. Pretty good value for those two.
This really shows JA and Lovie had no idea how to evaluate Offensive players
I wanted to ask you a question as a former player and get your perspective. When an NFL coach is said to be a "defense minded" coach, are those guys typically pretty clueless about the other side of the ball? Or are they pretty savvy coaches even though they may have coached defense.
This has bugged me for a long time now. Are these guys pretty clueless about the other units? Or are they pretty smart anyway?
This really shows JA and Lovie had no idea how to evaluate Offensive players
I wanted to ask you a question as a former player and get your perspective. When an NFL coach is said to be a "defense minded" coach, are those guys typically pretty clueless about the other side of the ball? Or are they pretty savvy coaches even though they may have coached defense.
This has bugged me for a long time now. Are these guys pretty clueless about the other units? Or are they pretty smart anyway?
Isn't that more dependent on the individual we are talking about?
I wanted to ask you a question as a former player and get your perspective. When an NFL coach is said to be a "defense minded" coach, are those guys typically pretty clueless about the other side of the ball? Or are they pretty savvy coaches even though they may have coached defense.
This has bugged me for a long time now. Are these guys pretty clueless about the other units? Or are they pretty smart anyway?
Isn't that more dependent on the individual we are talking about?
That is what I am wondering. Lovie is said to be a D minded coach. Fox too. Other coaches are pigeon-holed as one side of the ball coaches. I think Lovie was clueless about offense, but is that how it often is? Or are head coaches at the NFL level pretty smart people team-wide? I figured JJ, being a former player would be able to give us a player view here. LOL, I hope I didn't put him on the spot here.
The Bears had two 1st round picks that year. But it was (truly was) a bad year for QBs. We spent our two 1st round picks on Michael Haynes and Grossman. Haynes never made a regular season roster after we cut him after 3 seasons.
We did get Peanut and Lance Briggs in that draft in the 2nd and 3rd rounds though. Pretty good value for those two.
This really shows JA and Lovie had no idea how to evaluate Offensive players
It makes me wonder if we know how to evaluate offensive players now...
Seeing that no one knew that Howard would be as great as he is and the fact that this coaching staff thought Kevin White would be elite.
This really shows JA and Lovie had no idea how to evaluate Offensive players
I wanted to ask you a question as a former player and get your perspective. When an NFL coach is said to be a "defense minded" coach, are those guys typically pretty clueless about the other side of the ball? Or are they pretty savvy coaches even though they may have coached defense.
This has bugged me for a long time now. Are these guys pretty clueless about the other units? Or are they pretty smart anyway?
Well I have found it really doesn't matter, what does matter is who is their OC or even DC is, especially for the Chicago Bears. Lovie and Fox both picked very strong DCs and both had rumors they wanted to dump their DC's, and both have picked weak OCs, 2015 being the exception and don't have on answer for this other then he was a promise made at sometime. And my thinking has always been that Defensive HCs don't want their OC out shinning the Defense. On the other side Offensive HC feel they need a strong DC to help with their short coming and it seems a lot don't care either way when it comes to their OC they just want someone who has their same ideology as they do. The most successful HC embrace their weakness, where egoistical HC have to be the only thing that shines i.e. Lovie and Fox
Thanks jj, it really is the person and not his leaning toward o or d. The way I look at it, an offensive minded HC has to understand defense...how else did he previously scheme his o to attack the d? And conversely, a defensive minded coach also schemed against offenses, thus he needed to have understood offense ...at least at one time in his career. But if that HC has to be the shining star, well, that shine wears off pretty quickly.