An anonymously sourced story throwing the starting quarterback under the bus, an offensive coordinator tearfully apologizing for it and a franchise player left shaking his head in disbelief.
The scene in a Chicago Bears meeting room, as recounted by Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune, must have been surreal. It's even weirder to those of us who weren't in the room.
Anonymous sources sometimes tell reporters about locker room rifts. It's rarer that a coach is the one who violates the sanctity of the locker room, but it happens. That that coach would turn around and confess to the player he sandbagged is practically unheard of. That four different people turned around and told Biggs it happened is stunning.
Kromer's first offense, speaking candidly to a reporter about his quarterback's disappointing performances, is not the reason he, or head coach Marc Trestman, should lose their jobs.
The Chicago Bears need a new coaching staff because Trestman has utterly failed to do what he was hired to do: unlock the potential of the Bears offense and lead them back to NFC title contention.
Two years ago, the Bears fired head coach Lovie Smith on the heels of a 10-win season. Why? Smith's repeated failures to build an offense that could keep up with his defense.
"If he stayed," then-new general manager Phil Emery told The MMQB's Robert Klemko, "he would be picking his fifth offensive coordinator."Enter Trestman: an outside-the-box hire with an impressive old-school NFL pedigree who'd been spinning offensive straw into gold in the Canadian Football League. Giving him Cutler, all-purpose stud running back Matt Forte, go-to receiver Brandon Marshall and explosive youngster Alshon Jeffery seemed incredibly promising.
Trestman just needed to get through to Cutler and consistently get the best out of his incredible physical talent. Of course, offensive minds from Mike Martz to Mike Shanahan had tried and failed to pull the sword out of that mental block, but Trestman seemed smart, creative and innovative enough to pull it off.
"If you’re going to have success," Emery said, "the most important relationship is between the head coach and the quarterback. I like our quarterback. I think Jay Cutler is very talented. He wants to improve. I know he needed to improve for us to be a championship team. When we were looking at making a change we knew that if we were going to do it we were going to make that the focus point."
Source http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2298012-aaron-kromers-candid-comments-prove-marc-trestman-bad-fit-for-bears-hc-job
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