Devin Hester announces retirement

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Oh, good God . . . Dave Toub for HC again . . . "Eye," as they do in the emojis, "roll" . . .

What will the shoopster do if he is the only coach willing to come to the Bears, not that I think that will be the case.
 

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It seems like there is not a kickoff or punt today without a holding penalty, yet in Hester's prime the blockers seemed to have a ton of success without holding. Of course Hester got to the open field so quickly, that the blockers did not have to grab to open holes, just provide an initial push.

There was a penalty problem with Hester's returns at the beginning too.
 

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There was a penalty problem with Hester's returns at the beginning too.

And at the end when he was trying to make too many moves. But in his prime it seemed like they were pretty damn successful.
 

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It seems like there is not a kickoff or punt today without a holding penalty, yet in Hester's prime the blockers seemed to have a ton of success without holding. Of course Hester got to the open field so quickly, that the blockers did not have to grab to open holes, just provide an initial push.

Very true. It seems that most punts and kickoffs there is a holding or block in the back. Refs need to let them play a bit more
 

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when i #calledit during da 05 season and prior to da 2006 draft on da cbmb.. my invision.... me plan.. me hope... was da bears used him as a returner and on O like percy harvin was.. slot/backfield etc.. drafted in todays game.. he probably would be..

rip hester.. rip..

also.. i be read these article today

Let's overreact to Week 4 in the NFL: Is the Bears' offense for real?

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Dan Graziano
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CHICAGO -- Hey, if the football fans in the Windy City want to overreact, who's going to tell them to cut it out? It has been quite a while since the Chicago Bears were fun, and even with the Chicago Cubs back in the playoffs this town is fired up about a 3-1 first-place football team that just put 48 points on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on its way into the bye. Mitchell Trubisky just quadrupled his season touchdown pass total in one delirious afternoon, and if you're not allowed to overreact to that, what's the point of being a fan?

So let's start with the game I got to see in person as part of my Sunday NFL Countdown duties -- a game that was 38-3 at the half and ended 48-10 as Trubisky buried the Bucs' weeklong QB controversy with six touchdown passes of his own against a Tampa Bay team that couldn't do a thing right no matter who was taking the snaps.


Mitchell Trubisky had the best game of his young career, throwing for 354 yards and six TD passes. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

The Bears' offense is now as good as their defense
If you're a Bears fan who has been waiting to see the vaunted Matt Nagy offense that lit the league on fire last year in Kansas City, Sunday was your day. Nagy was scheming dudes open and leaning on mismatches with speedsters Tarik Cohen and Taylor Gabriel, and the Tampa Bay defense had no answers. Gabriel scored two touchdowns, including one on a nifty jet-action shovel pass at the goal line. He and Cohen each had seven catches and more than 100 receiving yards as Nagy went away from between-the-tackles running back Jordan Howard and leaned instead on the super-fast dudes he knew the Bucs' defenders couldn't catch. For the first time, Trubisky looked like a quarterback worthy of the 2017 No. 2 overall pick.

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Graziano's verdict: OVERREACTION. Fun, without a doubt. But the Bucs came into the game 27th in defensive DVOA, are banged up in the secondary and are averaging 34.75 points per game allowed. It's important to understand context. Bears players to whom I spoke about this game said they saw something good coming with Trubisky -- that they believe he has been developing the way they'd hoped he would. But no one here is assuming this is the way it's going to look every week. It takes awhile to master the Andy Reid offense Nagy brought from K.C. Alex Smith wasn't driving a league-leading passing attack until Year 5. One day of mastery doesn't mean everything is hunky-dory. What Bears fans should take from this is excitement and hope that this can be what it looks like, eventually. But the defense -- which, by the way, had another monster game with Khalil Mack wreaking havoc in the backfield -- is what will drive the Bears' NFC North title aspirations for this year at least. "It's like the LeBron effect," Bears cornerback Prince Amukamara told me of the Bears' preseason addition of Mack to an already-strong defense. "He just makes everybody better. When you see greatness like that up close, it just makes everyone else want to be great that much more."

Chicago Bears' torrid defense shows no signs of cooling off
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Chicago Bears' torrid defense shows no signs of cooling off
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The general consensus is that the Bears’ defense cannot possibly continue the torrid pace that it’s set in the early going, but there was no slowdown in Sunday’s 48-10 thrashing of the Buccaneers.

The Bears added four more sacks to their league-leading total of 14, and their three interceptions gave them eight for the season, matching their 16-game total in each of the previous three seasons. The interceptions came from S Eddie Jackson, which was his team-best second, OLB Aaron Lynch and ILB Danny Trevathan.

The high-flying Tampa passing game came in averaging 400.7 passing yards per game but managed just 251 at Soldier Field. The Bucs came in averaging 473.3 total yards per game but were held to 311 by the Bears.

“You get better or you get worse,” Trevathan said. “In this situation, we’re getting better. There’s no complacency with this defense. We’re a good defense; we know that. No one is going to come in here and put on a show on our field.”

OLB Khalil Mack who came in tied for the NFL lead with four sacks, added a fifth. He became the first NFL player to force a fumble in each of the first four games of a season and the first player since Robert Mathis in 2005 to have a sack and a forced fumble in four straight games.

“We’re getting better every week,” Mack said of a defense that has allowed fewer points in each week, starting with 24 in the season-opening loss to the Packers, 17 against the Seahawks and 14 against the Cardinals in Week Three. “It’s not just about me. You see the guys on the back end making plays, and that’s what you want to see. It’s a good feeling, especially going into the bye.”

Surviving and thriving

The first NFL start for undrafted rookie CB Kevin Toliver came Sunday against the Bucs, the NFL’s No. 1 passing offense, and he more than survived it.

Matched up frequently with Tampa’s 6-foot-5, 231-pound WR Mike Evans, the 6-foot-2, 192-pound Toliver helped hold the perennial Pro Bowler to just 59 receiving yards, less than half his 123.3-yard average.

“He’s a good player,” Toliver said. “I respect him a lot. On the field we were talking back and forth, I was telling him that I respect him; he told me just keep working. He had a couple catches on me, but I just had to still go out there and compete.”

The Bucs behind backup QB Ryan Fitzpatrick came in to Soldier Filed having thrown for 1,202 yards, the second most in NFL history for the first three games of a season. But the Bears sent Fitzpatrick to the bench after a lackluster first half. Jameis Winston returned to his customary No. 1 spot after serving a three-game suspension to begin the season. But he didn’t fare much better, tossing two of the Bucs’ three interceptions.

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I must have been imagining things when they gave Peanut a one day contract so he could retire a Bear.
 

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I was at the Bears/Broncos game when we beat Cutty and Marshall. I think I told my sister that he was gonna run one back right before they kicked it to him. Man was Soldier Field roaring when he hit the open field.


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I was at that game as well, and still have a grainy video of his kick return on my old flip phone. I will never forget the way the stadium felt before everyone of his returns. The whole stadium was on their feet and quiet, then when he hit open field the whole place exploded. What a great experience as a bears fan.


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I also love to see how often peanut was out in front on his early returns. Gotta have good blocking in addition to being the greatest ever.
 

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I also love to see how often peanut was out in front on his early returns. Gotta have good blocking in addition to being the greatest ever.

And #94 ayenbadejo, and #29 Adrian Peterson. Our special teams units were awesome back then.


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Never forget.

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It’s crazy to think that that SB return kick-off was his rookie year.
 

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He was truly a great one. We all have great memories of Hester, but my favorite one is from the game against the rams his rookie year.

He already returned one kick for a TD, and had just gotten embarrassed by Torry Holt. For some reason (I forget why) he was lining up as a CB across from the hall of famer and gave up an easy 5 yard TD pass.

So what does he do? Returns the ensuing kick for a second TD, effectively making up for his poor coverage. I even felt it coming. After that TD, I just couldn't sit whenever Hester was about to return a kick.

That was my favorite return too. If you remember, they caught Holt on the bench talking about how he saw a rookie on him and he knew he was going to get him. Then after the return, the announcer says you may have gotten him, but he just got your whole team.


Funniest Heater moment ever - don’t remember the game, but as a WR, he caught a ball and while showing the replay, whoever grabbed him pulled down the back of his pants in perfect view to the camera and in replay was in slomo. The announcers were talking, and then just silence until they stopped the replay. I think it was a Monday night game.
 
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And #94 ayenbadejo, and #29 Adrian Peterson. Our special teams units were awesome back then.


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If you look at the special teams roster from back then you would find a lot of starters were on there. It seemed like everyone wanted to be blocking for Devin back then.
 

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What will the shoopster do if he is the only coach willing to come to the Bears, not that I think that will be the case.

I guess if the Bears find themselves in that kind of bind then the shoopster himself can take the job . . .
 

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If you look at the special teams roster from back then you would find a lot of starters were on there. It seemed like everyone wanted to be blocking for Devin back then.

Yup, a lot of investment in STs.
 

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During Hesters slump before the rule change there was a reoccurring theme.
During Hesters best years he had a linebacker on STs that consistently put players on their backs. Ayenbadejo was one forget the other.
But those guys laid big hits. And while Hester was the magic those guys sprung him on most of his kicks by wrecking the wall of defenders.
When they gave Devin day light he was g-o-n-e->

After Ayenbadejo went to the Ravens I believe. Hesters returns went down. Until a new ST LB came on and laid out defenders.
Hester was amazing. Just wanted to throw some credit out there for the others.
 

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During Hesters slump before the rule change there was a reoccurring theme.
During Hesters best years he had a linebacker on STs that consistently put players on their backs. Ayenbadejo was one forget the other.
But those guys laid big hits. And while Hester was the magic those guys sprung him on most of his kicks by wrecking the wall of defenders.
When they gave Devin day light he was g-o-n-e->

After Ayenbadejo went to the Ravens I believe. Hesters returns went down. Until a new ST LB came on and laid out defenders.
Hester was amazing. Just wanted to throw some credit out there for the others.

Was the other linebacker you were thinking of Hunter Hillenmeyer? I believe he helped block for almost every td Hester had while hillenmeyer was still around.


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During Hesters slump before the rule change there was a reoccurring theme.
During Hesters best years he had a linebacker on STs that consistently put players on their backs. Ayenbadejo was one forget the other.
But those guys laid big hits. And while Hester was the magic those guys sprung him on most of his kicks by wrecking the wall of defenders.
When they gave Devin day light he was g-o-n-e->

After Ayenbadejo went to the Ravens I believe. Hesters returns went down. Until a new ST LB came on and laid out defenders.
Hester was amazing. Just wanted to throw some credit out there for the others.

Hester would be the first guy to give the credit to his teammates. I don't know if you remember it but when he was breaking the records, at the press conferences he was always giving his team the credit for it. He has never been an egotistical person which is a rarity nowadays in the NFL.
 

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