Dick Jauron Gone As Bears Coach...
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^^ They're gonna be pretty good next year, the D's gonna be sick, especially since they're talking about trying to get Sapp, Urlacher would be back to his old self with 2 bigass linemen keeping him free.
They're saying right now the main candidates are Lovey Smith (sp?), dude from Iowa, and the Pats D coordinator...
They're saying right now the main candidates are Lovey Smith (sp?), dude from Iowa, and the Pats D coordinator...
lmao, I just found this on the Bears website... I hate Terrell but this was funny as hell...
Terrell blames Shoop for Bears' woes
By Larry Mayer
Senior Writer
December 29, 2003
LAKE FOREST, Ill. - After three years of frustration, David Terrell reached the boiling point.
The emotional receiver absolved Dick Jauron for the Bears' offensive woes, and without even mentioning his name, placed the blame squarely on coordinator John Shoop.
"I like Dick," Terrell said Monday in reaction to Jauron's dismissal. "He was a good guy to me, and for the most part I learned a lot. My problems never came through Dick. It was through over people."
When asked if he was referring to Shoop, Terrell said, "I'm saying that's what the problem was."
The eighth overall pick in the 2001 draft, Terrell was unable to earn a starting job until he quietly unseated the unimpressive Dez White with three weeks remaining in the 2003 season.
"We're going to have some new coaches coming in and I can hopefully come out and truly win a job and go out and play my game and not be stressing about making every play a big play when every play is not a big play," Terrell said. "When I can get a little catch and make that a first down and be comfortable because I'm in the game and I'm starting."
Terrell and former Michigan teammate Anthony Thomas were Shoop's two most vocal critics. After rushing for an average of 110 yards in his four previous games, Thomas carried just five times in the first half in a 12-10 loss at Detroit.
Terrell finished the season with 43 receptions for 361 yards and 1 TD. He caught passes of 35, 22, 22 and 21 yards over the final four games to boost his yards-per-catch average from 6.5 to 8.4.
Though as head coach Jauron was ultimately responsible for his coordinators, Terrell was only interested in blaming Shoop for an offense that ranked in the bottom third of the league in every major statistical category.
"I can't sit here and let you all talk bad about Dick because it really wasn't Dick, and that's the truth," Terrell told reporters. "If you want to talk about the truth, let's speak the truth.
"You want to talk about me having 6.5 yards per catch? Look at why I was having 6.5 yards per catch. Look at the routes I was running. Tell me why I was in the slot. Tell me who put me in the slot. Tell me how I was being used. Tell me how other players were being used.
"Look at other guys and look at their positions and what they did and then you tell me how we fought and how we went out against a lot of odds and still persevered and still came out and almost was a .500 team.
"It wasn't Dick, man. We came out here and we played hard for him with the situation the way it was, going out here knowing what we faced in front of us and what we had to use with it and it wasn't cool. We didn't have a lot of opportunities to make stuff happen with what he gave us."
so true, so true
Terrell blames Shoop for Bears' woes
By Larry Mayer
Senior Writer
December 29, 2003
LAKE FOREST, Ill. - After three years of frustration, David Terrell reached the boiling point.
The emotional receiver absolved Dick Jauron for the Bears' offensive woes, and without even mentioning his name, placed the blame squarely on coordinator John Shoop.
"I like Dick," Terrell said Monday in reaction to Jauron's dismissal. "He was a good guy to me, and for the most part I learned a lot. My problems never came through Dick. It was through over people."
When asked if he was referring to Shoop, Terrell said, "I'm saying that's what the problem was."
The eighth overall pick in the 2001 draft, Terrell was unable to earn a starting job until he quietly unseated the unimpressive Dez White with three weeks remaining in the 2003 season.
"We're going to have some new coaches coming in and I can hopefully come out and truly win a job and go out and play my game and not be stressing about making every play a big play when every play is not a big play," Terrell said. "When I can get a little catch and make that a first down and be comfortable because I'm in the game and I'm starting."
Terrell and former Michigan teammate Anthony Thomas were Shoop's two most vocal critics. After rushing for an average of 110 yards in his four previous games, Thomas carried just five times in the first half in a 12-10 loss at Detroit.
Terrell finished the season with 43 receptions for 361 yards and 1 TD. He caught passes of 35, 22, 22 and 21 yards over the final four games to boost his yards-per-catch average from 6.5 to 8.4.
Though as head coach Jauron was ultimately responsible for his coordinators, Terrell was only interested in blaming Shoop for an offense that ranked in the bottom third of the league in every major statistical category.
"I can't sit here and let you all talk bad about Dick because it really wasn't Dick, and that's the truth," Terrell told reporters. "If you want to talk about the truth, let's speak the truth.
"You want to talk about me having 6.5 yards per catch? Look at why I was having 6.5 yards per catch. Look at the routes I was running. Tell me why I was in the slot. Tell me who put me in the slot. Tell me how I was being used. Tell me how other players were being used.
"Look at other guys and look at their positions and what they did and then you tell me how we fought and how we went out against a lot of odds and still persevered and still came out and almost was a .500 team.
"It wasn't Dick, man. We came out here and we played hard for him with the situation the way it was, going out here knowing what we faced in front of us and what we had to use with it and it wasn't cool. We didn't have a lot of opportunities to make stuff happen with what he gave us."
so true, so true
