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I spent the final Ditka years and Wanny's entire Bear career living on the west coast. Seemed like I only ever caught the Bears losing to the Niners for the bulk of the 90s.
I spent the final Ditka years and Wanny's entire Bear career living on the west coast. Seemed like I only ever caught the Bears losing to the Niners for the bulk of the 90s.
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I bummed a smoke off Abe Gibron's cousin once.
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None of my business but I wouldn’t want to see you, or anybody, fall into poor health because of smoking.
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I followed every game in 1997 & '1998....back to back 4 win seasons. That was rough. You used to tune in just to see if the new draft picks were going to be great. Like Salaam and Curtis Enis. It was awful.
IMO, the Bears, being family owned, clung to the belief that defense and running wins championships because that was the Hallas philosophy. Our GM and coaching hires were based on that, so it trickled down. We were like the last team to finally move away from that philosophy and it's taking forever to get it turned around. Cutler basically failed. Mitch has got a long way to go.
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I don't think the philosophy was wrong. You could still make it work even in today's NFL. The problem with the Bears since 1963 has been their atrocious track record at hiring HCs, starting with getting rid of George Allen, and they also haven't drafted very well in general. Its kind of odd that the Bears would always give guys their first shot at being a HC, and NONE of these guys ever went on to have success in the NFL. Sometimes a coach will not succeed in their first go round, but learn from the experience and have success with a second opportunity. Most of the Bears HCs were so bad, they never got a 2nd opportunity.
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Now that you pointed it out...wow.
Even the two coaches that brought the Bears to the Super Bowl only got one more shot and both were very brief total failure hires.
(No pressure Coach Nagy)
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Wanny probably had the best post Bears head coaching stint. Four straight winning seasons with the Dolphins before quitting midway through their 2004 debacle. Only one playoff win, but certainly much better than Ditka and Lovie did with the Saints and Bucs.
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Your Jets have it worse.
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I completely forgot Wanny got a playoff win in Miami. So one coach left Chicago to become mediocre instead of terrible.
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Wannstedt inherited a pretty good roster from Jimmy Johnson. Playoff win was WC round (obviously) in Wannstedt's 1st year (obviously). Much like his time with the Bears, Miami's roster got progressively worse during Wannstedt's tenure, so that his last year the offense revolved around Jay Fielder, Sammy Morris and Marty Booker (105 targets! 1 TD! 50 catches!)
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That was bad but not near as bad as watching Fran Tarkington scramble for 30 seconds making 6 Bears miss tackles and then throwing a bomb to a wide open receiver because the Bears db's were gassed and just gave up.
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I don't know. There were a lot of problems. Yes the coaching hires turned out to be bad, but I think it's because they hired coaches that didn't put any emphasis on the passing game. (Contradicts philosophy.) None of our coaches or OCs were known for their "air-attack," so they were setup to fail in today's NFL.
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Trestman, tho
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I thought we were talking about 90s teams and prior.
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Today's NFL, meaning more passing, which started in the mid 80s with west coast offenses. The Bears didn't decide to adapt until Trestman. The Bears decided to get more modern in 2013 w/ Testman and Cutler. Laughable.
