Marc Trestman and The Bear Truth.

Later today, The Chicago Bears will hold a press conference to officially introduce Marc Trestman, former head coach of the Canadian Football League’s Montreal “Alloutee, gentille” Allouettes (see what I did there?). 

Now while the announcement of the hire came Wednesday, last Friday, former coach and FOX NFL Analyst, Jimmy Johnson pretty much spilled the beans by Tweeting  a congratulations (WST mentioned this in FULL CIRCLE) to Trestman.

 Jimmy Johnson is not the type to just tweet shit unless he knows something concerete. So I took it seriously and read up on Marc Trestman and here's a little of what I know:

I could tell you he worked as Jimmy Johnson’s Quarterbacks coach at Miami in the 80’s.

I could tell you Scott Mitchell & Jake Plummer had their best seasons under his tutelage during tenures in Detroit and Arizona

In 2003, Rich Gannon won NFL MVP and took the Oakland Raiders to the Super Bowl with Trestman as his offensive coordinator.

I know that in 2008, he left the U.S. to become a head coach with the Alouettes and led them to the Grey Cup (pretty much the Canadian Super Bowl) in his first year, but lost to the Calgary Stampeders. 

He then proceeded to win back-to-back Grey Cups in 2009 & 2010.

In 2012, he was the runner-up for the Indianapolis Colts head coaching position that ultimately went to Chuck Pagano.

I know in the off-season, he trains college QBs for the NFL Combine and pro days. The names of past clients include Tim Tebow (no), Brock Osweiler, Jimmy Clausen, Brandon Weeden, Jason Campbell and some sour-faced fella named Jay Cutler.

He has five years of head coaching experience with 31 years of coaching overall between college, the NFL and CFL.

So in retrospect, he fits the profile of what the organization told the media they were searching for and what the fans were clamoring for: an offensive-minded coach with a fine reputation for developing QBs.

Does any of this mean he’ll be successful? No.  Does it mean he is QUALIFIED? Hell yes.  Like any job, PERFORMANCE cannot be evaluated until the work starts. Got to give the man at least 8 games into the 2013-14 season.

Woke up yesterday morning, turned on the car radio, checked facebook, checked twitter and it was exactly what I expected: Fans bitching!  Why?  Well the two other candidates for the job, Bruce Arians of the Colts and Darrell Bevell from the Seahawks weren’t selected.  

The logic offered to why either would have been a better pick?

“DAT RUSSELL WILSAM HAD A GOOD SEASONS, WE SHOULD HAVE PICKED UP DARRELL BILSON! HE LIKES TO USE PLAY-ACTION.”

“DOSE GUYS DON’T GIT IT, WE SHOULD HAVE HIRED BRUCE ARYAN!”  HE RAN THAT TEAM WHILE PAGANI HAD CANCER!”

“KANADA FOOTBALL LEAGUE?! WHO IS DIS GUY TRESTLER? WE GOTTA RUN FORTEMAN MORE. TERRIBLE HIRE!"

Some silly bastards were angry coaches who weren’t even remotely considered for the job didn’t get it.

 WE SHOULD HAVE GOT GRUDMAN, COWLER, OR FRANK LENTI FROM MT. CARMEL HIGH! 11 STATE TITLES AND HE’S A SOUTHSIDE GUY. MY BROTHER RICHIE WORKS WIT HISS CUSIN!

And of course..

“WE NEED DA KOCH TO GET IN CUTMAN’S FACE. BRING BACK DITKA”

Stop it! No! No! No! No! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!

I love the Chicago Bears.  Anyone who knows me two minutes can figure that out, but a lot of our fans are MORONS.  I am not joking; the Bears may own the dumbest damn fanbase in the NFL!!

I have one person who's theory was that if Trestman knows the fans aren't expecting much, he'll try harder.  Damn it, he's a head coach!  He's always trying!  In fact, I shouldn't have even let myself get baited into the argument.

Never get into a Football operations argument with a guy who' has only won two games in two seasons of Fantasy Football.  Two games! Trust me, it's not like he wasn't trying either.

I’m just so sick of the Neanderthal, Super-Fan, Grabowski, Super-Bowl Shuffling, Ditka loving, can’t forget 1985 mentality most fans in this city carry. In fact, fuck Mike Ditka!

You know what Mike Ditka is? 

He is a drunk ass, egomaniacal, prick who’s treated as a god in this city because he wasn’t dumb enough NOT to ride the legs of Walter Payton and a dirty defense full of men who would KILL YOUR MOTHER if she showed up to take snaps in a different colored jersey!  Then he forgot to let Payton score a TD in the Super Bowl!!

I was only 5 months old when they won it all and I know that!

This season, our QB and coach had to ask our fans to shut-up when the offense is on the field and people got pissed about it!!!!

Damn, I thought yesterday was supposed to be the rant!