Marinelli as a talent evaluator

[visionary]

We get it, GB. You hate Rod Marinelli.

I'll consider you a football athiest.

I can only assume that this is your last post and you have since been struck by lightning

Personally I'm a supplicant

 

[Galian Beast]

Blasphemous post, but entirely accurate. The Bears D, for example, needed Peppers to break through.

To get a good read on what a true "Marinelli guy" is, look at what he has been associated with when he was the DC, then head coach in Detroit then later Chicago.

Some real awful players. You can blame Matt Millen, poor scouts in Chicago or whatever, but the defenders which I am sure he signed off on were not good.

Good luck if you can find a lot of good in these players, all picked in premium rounds where Marinelli has been over the past decade:

Ikaika Alama-Francis
Jordan Dizon
Gerald Alexander
Ernie Sims
Daniel Bullocks
Andre Fluellen
Jarron Gilbert
Corey Wootton
Chris Conte

About the only player that was somewhat successful for more than a season was Cliff Avril.

Where is his proven track record for "rushmen" and the like? He might have had a Melton go one good year or Paea but he is not some rainmaker with pass rushers. I don't understand how he got that reputation.

He needs to have free agent talent and high draft choices to eliminate the chance of error.

His best skill is coaching what he has, teaching, inspiring and motivating. I doubt he really can look at a player like a true evaluator. Otherwise, he would not have a track record like he has.

Precisely. I think he knows his defense well and he knows what he needs to make that defense work, but I'm not sure he is great at buying the groceries. Maybe that hasn't been his role, but even if that were the case there is nothing to suggest then that he has a talent for it.

The Bears defense was great with Rivera, and then with babich took over it went to hell. Bringing in Peppers was the key catalyst for them to turn that defense around.

I first noticed this when I looked at Shea McClellin, and then I worked my way back... and I was like how does he not have any elite players drafted in the first in chicago. Then I went back Detroit, and then Tampa... It isn't encouraging.

I think having Hardy, Lee, and McClain and then having some positive draft results from Lawrence and Gregory will change this defense, but Gregory fell in our lap. We traded up to get Lawrence, but that's because we missed out on edge rushers in the first round.