Mully: Trestman has been a failure

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/columnists/ct-bears-mulligan-spt-1029-20141028-column.html

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How bad has it gotten? So bad that only the Jaguars' Gus Bradley has produced a worse winning percentage .208 (5-19) than Trestman among the seven NFL coaches in the class of 2013. Bradley, remember, took over a 2-14 team devoid of much talent.

Trestman was hired after Lovie Smith failed to make the playoffs despite a 10-6 record. No other team fired their coach with a winning record that year. Doug Marrone took over the Bills after a 6-10 season and is tied with Trestman through 24 games with a .458 winning percentage (11-13)

The Cardinals' Bruce Arians, who finished second to Trestman for the Bears job, has the best winning percentage of the coaches in the Class of '13 with a .696 mark (16-7), despite coaching a team playing in the NFC West with the Seahawks and 49ers. Arians took over a 5-11 team and failed to make the playoffs despite a 10-6 record in his debut season.
 
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Speaks to the level of weirdness by the Bears that they would make Bruce Arians (reigning COY at the time) do a mock press conference is a joke. Emery is a joke. He had Trestman pegged from the moment the interview process began.
 

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Emery should not be a GM.

Would I want him to be my scout? Yes.

Would I want him to run my organization? No.
 

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Ah yes, the ol "Trestman took over a 10-6 team and look where they are now!" argument. Virtually anything Mulligan says is irrelevant to me because of the way both he and hanley completely leave out facts during their radio show and make so many ridiculous jumps from what was actually said to what they perceive was said that they would fit in quite well on this board.

This year has been bad but saying he has been a failure since he's been here is over the top. It's still too early to label him a failure.
 

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DMelt36 said:
Definitely trending in the wrong direction, but to call a coach a failure after he's only halfway through his contract seems awfully premature to me.
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how else would you describe his performance? he was supposed to get us to the superbowl, he has failed at doing that
 
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That team was 10-6 because it's first 8 games were against jaguar and raider type teams...we all know what happened when they faced decent competition, that year.
 

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BradyJay said:
That team was 10-6 because it's first 8 games were against jaguar and raider type teams...we all know what happened when they faced decent competition, that year.
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Agreed. This 2014 Bears team could pretty easily be 5-3 or 6-2 if the schedule was a little different but this team would still have problems top to bottom.
 

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so in the last week we've learned that a "high ranking official" fell in love with trestman and another "high ranked staffer" recommended decamillis.

so typical. we can bitch about trestman and emery but this organization is always at the mercy of the mckaskey's and their archaic, stupid approach to football. as long as they own the team, this will be the story.
 
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BradyJay said:
That team was 10-6 because it's first 8 games were against jaguar and raider type teams...we all know what happened when they faced decent competition, that year.
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For reviews:
*=playoff team
1. *Colts - W (Luck's first game), Colts did make playoffs
2. *Packers - L, Cutler sucked
3. Rams - W, Rams sucked
4. Cowboys - W, Cowboys sucked
5. Jaguars - W, Jaguars sucked
6. Lions - W, close defensive battle, Lions sucked
7. Carolina - W, Bears played badly most of the game, got what they needed at the end to squeak out a win. Carolina was an average team.
8. Tennesee - W, Tennesee sucked
9. *Texans - L, Cutler got hurt. Close defensive battle
10. *49ers - L, Kapernick's coming out party. Cutler didn't play. Defense looked like how it did in 2013 and this year that game
11. Vikings - W, Viking's sucked
12. *Seahawks - L, A game the Bears left many points on the board. Seahawks wore down the Bears D and took the game at the end
13. Vikings - L, Cutler imploded early
14. *Packers - L, Still can't beat Aaron Rodgers
15. Cardinals - W, Cardinals sucked
16. Lions - W, squeaked out a victory, needed Packers to win to make the playoffs, they didn't.

Bears played 6 games involving playoff opponents and won one of them against a team that had a QB starting his first game ever.

Last season... they played the Bengals, Saints, Packers, and Eagles as playoff teams. They beat the Bengals in week 1, and whiel they did beat the Packers, its hard to say they still win that game if Aaron Rodgers plays the whole thing. They lost the game they needed to against the Packers. They lost to the Saints and got blown out by the Eagles. But they lost to numerous non playoff teams (Lions 2x, Vikings, Redskins, Rams)
 
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