Bears players want new coach to bring team an identity
"The right coach for Chicago is one that wants to instill an identity, demands a team that has an identity," Pro Bowl guard said Kyle Long said Monday, while teammates cleared out their lockers at Halas Hall. "And when we play opponents, we should say, 'We don't want to play those guys.' replica michael kors
"There's a handful of teams in the NFL that are like that, and I feel like we have the nucleus to be able to do that. And we haven't done that, and that's something that we need to do."
GM Phil Emery and coach Marc Trestman were fired Monday, leaving the brain trust of chairman George McCaskey, president Ted Phillips and advisor Ernie Accorsi to likely hire a general manager first. That man would be responsible for naming a field general.
"Best way I can describe (Trestman) is, he's enlightened," Brandon Marshall said on ESPN1000 . "He's not the (Jim) Harbaugh that's going to be on the sideline screaming and yelling."
The Bears could use some of that. McCaskey repeatedly said Monday a fiery personality was not a prerequisite, but his own impassioned answers need to know that when they play the Chicago Bears, that they've been throughhell, he said hinted otherwise.
After cornerback Tim Jennings spoke of finding a coach to build a "sound base" defensively, he was asked flat out: Was that a vote for the defensive minded Jets head coach deposed Monday? http://www.thewindsorlife.com/mka5.php
"Rex Ryan, I don know," he said. "I all for it. I all for anybody who comes in here. Hopefully the next guy that comes in here, he has his foundation already planned out, and we can go for him and get the right guy."
Marshall said the Bears grew predictable offensively, and that "some" players never bought into Trestman when he replaced Lovie Smith.
"When change happened," Marshall said, "a lot of guys didn't respond well, and that hurt us." www.thewindsorlife.com/mka5.php
"I can honestly say it wasn as heart breaking and it wasn Lovie like," he said. "But it always a bad, always a sour feeling when you lose a guy, a guy that you spent all your blood, sweat and tears with, a player it always heart breaking.