Bears CEO Ted Phillips
Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo
Bears Head Coach Lovie Smith
First off, Welcome to 2010. As this is the first post of the New Year, I promise to bring it and start the year off with a bang. Lots of goodness and a big announcement coming, too!
I couldn't pick just one of what the Chicago media is calling the "Three Stooges" who stood before that media and Bears fans at Halas Hall in Lake Forest yesterday and contradicted one another and themselves for an hour, so I picked all three.
They promised change, so they fired Ron Turner and six offensive assistants along with opening up the defensive coordinator position.
But sitting through it and reading some take on the press conference, two things were made clear. First, the defensive coordinator will be a "Butt puppet" and second, all the talk on the status quo not being acceptable means nothing if you keep the head coach.
I know the offensive coordinator will likely be allowed to do what he wants to do next season - He'll also be Jay Cutler's fourth offensive coordinator in as many years - the reason Lovie was not fired as coach was not cited during the wreck of a press conference.
The real reason is the looming possibility of a lockout in 2011 that would mean Lovie and likely Jerry Angelo and Ted Phillips, if let go, would collect a check for doing nothing and their successors would do the same. And the McKaskey's can't afford that.
On the football front, this team needs a bit of help on defense, mainly at defensive back, and the offensive line needs to be retooled, AGAIN. And that's after the Bears address the need of a No. 1 wide receiver. And all of this without a No. 1 or No. 2 draft pick this year unless they get creative and start making trades to get picks.
Yeah, they had better get to work because I'm a little apprehensive about the whole thing.
Click here for Part 2.
I know I missed this yesterday, but I cannot pass up a chance to talk about one of my favorite things as a kid. Yes I was a big WWF follower and like the first words out of Bret Hart's mouth "Hell must have frozen over."
"The Hitman" was one of my favorites as a kid and even watching this I felt like it was 1997 again. The Shawn Michaels bit was pretty good, but I HATED with Vince McMahon finish to this segment. What does kicking Bret in the balls say about anything? It says Vince needed to have the last laugh and didn't want Bret to have the moment for himself which was pretty fucking (sorry!) lame.
I'm at least glad Bret finally got back to WWE TV and could pave the way for him to make some sort of Wrestlemania appearance and at least help present his father, Stu Hart.
On top of it all, it made pro wrestling relevant again for the first time time Stone Cold and The Rock quit wrestling about five or six years ago.
Back in July Chad Ochocinco hinted that he'd start his own line of condoms. Well, over the weekend he released the prototype box. I'm not sure what the NFL thinks of this idea, but it's pretty funny if you ask me!
I have a couple videos for you now before I get into what is a pretty big announcement.
I'm all about the military, but these guys aren't that bright!
Scoops Jackson is taking the Interweb by storm. This is one of his best. Look for him at a press conference near you! If you like this, be sure to check this one with Tom Brady... CLASSIC!
Alright, now for this big announcement I've been pushing you to read more and more for. You probably remember Vaughan, who wrote for me a couple months back. Well, he and I, among others, are joining forces to push his sports consulting firm, On The Line Sports, to the next level this year. He's partnering with me here at Wilber's Way to reach out to basketball coaches and players. Be sure to check out the link and head over to his blog. It should be going full strength shortly and we'll have some great content for those looking to get into coaching and play the game of basketball at the highest level.
We can't have the first blog post of the new year without the Nussie Hunter chiming in. He's been following the Howard Stern Show for a bit and over the weekend when it was revealed that Artie Lange was rushed to the hospital. Everyone thought we were going to get updates Monday morning when the show came back from vacation, but that was not the case as Howard was pretty quiet.
Speaking of the Stern Show one Lisa Michelle was name Miss Howard TV for the month of February. I'd say she's well deserving of the title. Take a look for yourself below. Here's more of those...
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