It was a good day at the Chicago Tribune for fan questions. Dan Pompei answers another good one here:
“It’s hard to think Coach Trestman could keep up with NFL personnel while coaching for years in Canada. Don’t you think he has to be at a disadvantage versus other NFL coaches knowing player abilities as we add people with offseason roster moves? It has to take months to evaluate the tape for just our current players, much less help the scouting department decide that someone like Matt Slauson is the guard to go out and get out of many available? — Phil Elbert, Chicago
“I don’t think there is any question Trestman is at a disadvantage when it comes to personnel. He does not know the league as well as the large majority of his head coaching peers… The other point to be made here is Trestman is not in charge of personnel. [General manager] Phil Emery is. Trestman’s job is to tell Emery exactly what his systems need at each position. Emery’s job is to find and acquire the players who fit. So ultimately, I don’t think Trestman’s disadvantage will be a major factor.”
I don’t see this as a problem, at least in terms of off season moves.
Trestman’s ability to evaluate his own team most definitely is an issue. He’s going to have to determine where the teams talent is and what the roster and the depth chart should look like coming out of training camp. And he’s not going to know the Bears opponents quite as well when formulating game plans during the season. But you could argue that even this will actually be an advantage in a sense. He won’t have any previous biases. Perhaps he’ll be more likely to rely on what he sees.
Bottom line, most of us believe that former head coach Lovie Smith had too much say in the way the Bears handled personnel while he was here. That’s unlikely to be a problem with Trestman in part because of exactly this issue. Leaving the acquisition of talent up to Emery while Trestman concentrates more on coaching it could become a major strength rather than a weakness.
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If jay cutler can hang out in the pocket like drew brees and have some good reliable targets to throw to things would be alot different for the offense. How did lovie & co. think last year was gonna be any different than the year before? give the guy what he needs to do his job and cutler & co. will cut them up!
We shall see. There’s a lot to like about Cutler. But so far he’s shown an inability to get rid of the ball quickly. As noted by many experts, Cutler is a look and see QB. He finds an open receiver, then uses his arm to get the ball to him. He almost never throws with anticipation and I’ve never seen what I would call a really successful QB in recent memory who didn’t.
Maybe Trestman can get it out of him. Based upon what I’ve read, it certainly sounds like that’s the plan. Based upon what I’ve read, I’ve seen no indication that Trestman is willing to design a look and throw system. Its all about “getting the ball out fast”.