Bear Week 2: Welcome to Mel Tucker, Interim Coach

[Patler]

5th round pick in 2009. Didn't make the team. He was one of the highest picks by TT to be cut as a rookie. I think there was talk his work ethic left something to be desired.

I will admit to having been somewhat intrigued by what I read about him when GB drafted him, and have tried to keep track of him since. He's a smart kid, had a very high g.p.a. in college. As I recall, he graduated in 4 years, but stayed and played a 5th year. I don't think his work ethic is the problem, although that has been thrown out there in some articles. Others say he works very hard, but he has a lot of interests other than football, is opinionated, and stands up for what he believes. I read one description that said he will question coaches, because he wants to know "why". Some coaches can't deal with that very well, especially if a player is questioning some of the nonsensical things that go on in a locker room..

[KYPack]

Mike Golic has repeatedly told the story many times that some rookie would beat Reggie's lifting record (could have been a max bench or reps) and they would all run to Reggie, tell him and Reggie would go into the weight room.

He would then reset the record and leave.

Still works with the story that he did not like to lift weights.

Yeah, that's the deal.

The other DLineman would make a rib out of the whole thing.

Get some kid to set a weight room record.

Then Reggie would make an appearance.

He do his Muhammad Ali, Rodney Dangerfield impressions and blow the kid's mark away.

Everybody gets a laugh and the rook is now one of the boys.

The whole team is happy and nobody is pissed.

It's an ancient idea now, but I came up around a lot of players that were dead set against lifting. It used to be a school of thought that weights made you stiff and injury prone.

[George Cumby]

I will admit to having been somewhat intrigued by what I read about him when GB drafted him, and have tried to keep track of him since. He's a smart kid, had a very high g.p.a. in college. As I recall, he graduated in 4 years, but stayed and played a 5th year. I don't think his work ethic is the problem, although that has been thrown out there in some articles. Others say he works very hard, but he has a lot of interests other than football, is opinionated, and stands up for what he believes. I read one description that said he will question coaches, because he wants to know "why". Some coaches can't deal with that very well, especially if a player is questioning some of the nonsensical things that go on in a locker room..

That's right, his rep out of school was thought to be a "locker room lawyer".

[George Cumby]

I heard that Mike Wahle was a guy who didn't like traditional weight lifting either. In the off season he was said to do things liked flipping huge implement tires, lifting and carrying stones, etc. Should have competed in the Highland games.

Tire flips, loading and lugging ungainly objects make for a real world strength that bench pressing and a lot of other barbell movements can't touch.

[pbmax]

Tire flips, loading and lugging ungainly objects make for a real world strength that bench pressing and a lot of other barbell movements can't touch.

Nautilus?! GONE!

Free Weights?! GONE!

Tractor tires, anchors and bags of concrete! REPPED!

[Patler]

With Burnett being downgraded after practice on Saturday, and with the question marks surrounding Sitton and Lang being increased by the signing of Meredith, I am starting to get a bad feeling about this game.

If all three are out, and the Packers still win what is a desperation game for the Bears, I think the Trestman era might be short-lived. I know there are a lot of factors that are out of his control, but he succeeded a coach who was 10-6 the previous year (29-19 the last 3 years) and and went 8-8 and now sits at 3-5. If that goes to 3-6, he might need a miracle finish to the season to save his job.

[Cleft Crusty]

Tire flips, loading and lugging ungainly objects make for a real world strength that bench pressing and a lot of other barbell movements can't touch.

moving bags of concrete around is what put Clefty in the hospital

[denverYooper]

Awesome. Cutler sure loves throwing to Shields

Hopefully Jay-C throws 4 more on Sunday. But none to Hyde. I promised I'll self-ban from the JSO comment sections if Hyde catches more picks this season than Josh Sitton.

Better start working up your Ban-Fu.

[Harlan Huckleby]

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[Bossman641]

Anybody else remember when McGinn was pumping up the Bears as the new kids on the block who were willing to take chances and sign FA's? Ugh.....about that

[smuggler]

McGinn relies on scouts and has next to no football savvy himself. Everyone who knows football well could have told you that the Lions were the team to look out for. Most people on this forum said as much in training camp.

[Zool]

It's an ancient idea now, but I came up around a lot of players that were dead set against lifting. It used to be a school of thought that weights made you stiff and injury prone.

Mike Neal anyone?