Re: Windy Topic

[azazel]

a me sembravano nere.

andremo avanti per qualche mese a parlare di sta cosa, per piacere non trovate una soluzione, lasciateci sognare :gazza:

[davelavarra]

a me sembravano nere.

andremo avanti per qualche mese a parlare di sta cosa, per piacere non trovate una soluzione, lasciateci sognare :gazza:

Strano, mi sembravano canna di fucile

[Strembald]

Strano, mi sembravano canna di fucile

Esatto solo che con la pioggia sono diventate col. ANTRACITE della ASUS...

[chinasky]

Rifirmato Dave Toub, coordinator degli ST fino al 2009... con Hester in squadra avrei rifirmato anche io.  :gazza:

[chinasky]

Come detto in off season Briggs è taggato... festeggerei, ma sto ancora pensando a Miami e non c'è un cazzo da festeggiare. Ah, Letterman è un infame (e per lui ci son le lame -cit-). 

[chinasky]

Novack firmato come kicker per prova... durerà una settimana?  :gazza:

[davelavarra]

Novack firmato come kicker per prova... durerà una settimana?  :gazza:

Se segna ancora contro Dallas durerà di più.... :gazza:

[davelavarra]

Bears hire Luke Butkus as assistant line coach

The Chicago Bears hired Luke Butkus as their assistant offensive line coach Monday.

He is the nephew of Dick Butkus, the Bears' former Hall of Fame middle linebacker.

Butkus, who went to training camp with the Bears in 2002 before he was waived, has spent the last two years as a graduate assistant at the University of Oregon.

He played center at the University of Illinois.

Fonte: Usa Today

[Angyair]

Scusate, ho capito bene o Rivera è stato fatto fuori? 

Chicago defensive coordinator Ron Rivera has gone from head coaching candidate to out of a job -- a little more than two weeks after the Bears were in the Super Bowl.

Rivera, who has talked with eight different NFL teams about their head coaching positions over the last two seasons, had a three-year contract with the Bears that was set to expire next week. The NFC champions announced Feb. 19 he will not be back.

Head coach Lovie Smith had been pushing Rivera for head coaching jobs, now he's pushed him off his staff.

"It's just something that coach decided he was going to shuffle his staff and we'll go from there," Rivera said during a conference call.

Rivera said he wanted to return and was told a few days ago he wouldn't.

Was there a personality conflict with Smith?

"No, no, no, no, please. I don't think there is. I really don't," he said.

"I believe this is just a football decision and it was made. Emotionally, I'm disappointed in not getting the opportunity to come back in '07 because as I said at the end of the year after the loss that this is a football team that's headed in the right direction."

Smith, a defensive-oriented coach, insisted there no philosophical differences with Rivera.

"As much as anything, it's just a fit that we have and right now the direction I would like to go and the direction that Ron would like to go, we're going in two different directions," Smith said during a conference call.

"It's been my goal all along to help Ron, to do everything I could to get Ron an opportunity to get a head football coaching job and it's no more than that. We've tried to do that. Ron had a contract. I don't see it as a firing or anything like that. His contract expired and he wants to go in one direction, and I'd like to go in one. No more than that. "

Rivera was a linebacker on Chicago's Super Bowl champion team in 1986 and then led a defense that helped the Bears make the playoffs in back-to-back seasons. Chicago had trouble containing Indianapolis in the Super Bowl, losing 29-17 to the Peyton Manning -led Indianapolis Colts.

Rivera has been an assistant coach for 10 years in the NFL beginning as a quality control coach with the Bears in 1997. He spent five years with the Philadelphia Eagles as their linebackers coach and then the last three in charge of Chicago's defense.

The Bears led the NFL with 44 takeaways in the regular season, but the defense was slowed in the latter stages of the season after injuries to defensive tackle Tommie Harris and safety Mike Brown.

Smith did not elaborate when asked if there were things about Rivera's performance he did not like.

"Those are the things Ron and I talked about," Smith said. "We feel good about the things we did together during that time, but no more needs to be said about that. That's between he and I."

Rivera was a candidate last season for head coaching jobs in Green Bay and St. Louis. This year he talked with Pittsburgh, Miami, Atlanta and Arizona before the Bears started postseason play. After Chicago lost the Super Bowl, he interviewed for coaching vacancies at Dallas and just a few days ago at San Diego.

Smith said he would move quickly to replace Rivera. Linebackers coach Bob Babich is considered a top candidate.

Even though many NFL coaching spots are already filled, Rivera said he is confident he will get a job.

"The timing sometimes could have been better or it could have been worse. It is what it is right now," he said. "It's just something that's happened and I'm going to go from there."

[jyk]

Scusate, ho capito bene o Rivera è stato fatto fuori? 

E salta la prima testa per il SB perso :gazza:
Certo che l'aver avuto 8 colloqui per fare l'hc da altre parti, in pratica con tutta la lega o quasi,  non deve aver aiutato la sua permanenza

[pitt]

Rivera va ad allenare i linebackers a San Diego

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- Chicago defensive coordinator Ron Rivera was out of a job, but not for long. Just hours after the Bears announced Monday he wouldn't be retained, the San Diego Chargers gave him a two-year contract to coach their linebackers.

[Teo]

Minchia che botta!

Rivera passa da 3° Coach dei finalisti del SB a coach dei linebackers dei Chargers!

Possibile che nessuno gli abbia dato qualcosa di piu' importante?

[vestanik]

Minchia che botta!

Rivera passa da 3° Coach dei finalisti del SB a coach dei linebackers dei Chargers!

Possibile che nessuno gli abbia dato qualcosa di piu' importante?

Veramente Lovie Smith gli ha dato qualcosa di estremamente importante a livello mediatico: un calcio nel sedere! :lol2:
Anche se io pensavo che la prima testa a cadere per la sconfitta nel Super Bowl fosse quella del OC!

[Angyair]

Beh, lì chi accusa la troppa prevent di rivera non sbaglia del tutto. Spesso si è concesso un cuscinetto tra la linea  di scrimmage ed i lb che garantiva troppa rapidità ai RB avversari in entrata dal mezzo. La linea di Chicago non ha retto il confronto, ma la difesa in generale è scesa di tono rispetto alle altre due gare di playoffs; alla fine è stata brava a limitare i danni sullo scoreboard, ma quanto a yards ha fatto troppa fatica. Secondo me ha pesato un po' di tensione e soprattutto la frustrazione di vedere l'attacco non concludere niente per troppo tempo.

Chris Harris non vale ancora un Brown, hai visto com'è partito tardi nel buco sulla prima meta dei Colts mollando il receiver? Errori che si pagano, alla fine credo che la loro O-line abbia giocato da dio per le corse, cosa non ripetuta dalla linea difensiva dei Bears e Urlacher-Briggs si sono trovati con troppa roba sulle spalle, imo.

Anche se il #54 per tre quarti di gara è stato semplicemente immenso.

Rivera è stato congedato. Abbiamo capito chi comanda a Chicago! :gazza:

[chinasky]

Rivera è stato congedato. Abbiamo capito chi comanda a Chicago! :gazza:

Mica sto qui a pettinare le bambole.  :gazza: