Case Of The Mondays

Even on a holiday, Monday's still happen, especially to the Chicago Bulls. They suddenly remembered that Vinny Del Negro is still their coach and promptly lost to the Golden State D-Leaguers, in one of the most perplexing idiotic losses of the season. It's the kind of loss that makes people wonder if Tim Donaghy is far from a "lone wolf" as David Stern once described him. Either way, this Bulls team continues to be, in the words of former MLB pitcher Tommy John, "consistently inconsistent".

Apparently Mike Nolan has been thrust into the discussion for the Bears open Defensive Coordinator position. He ran a 3-4 based scheme with the Bronco's last season, which had some pretty effective results. He also managed to do so without worrying about wearing a suit on the sideline. The Beard cautions his readers to not get their hopes up. Besides the fact that Nolan will be one of the most sought after coaching hires, there exists one large fundamental flaw for him to not want to work for the Bears. That flaw is that the defensive scheme is still dictated by Lovie Smith. Lovie has gone out of his way to say that whomever the Bears hire, will have to commit to his obsolete Tampa 2 based system. Smith has also said that with the addition of Mike Tice as Offensive Line coach, Tice will have a significant say on the structure of the offense. Why?! How the hell is that possible?! It's very difficult to remember a time when a team hired the offensive line coach before the offensive coordinator, and promised the o-line coach that he will have input on what offense is run. If anyone else can name it, please let me know. So far this has all the makings of another self-destructive, lame duck 5-11 season in 2010.

Finally, my uncle sent me an interesting article written a month ago in the Montreal Gazette. Here's the link to it. Jack Todd echos similar sentiments The Beard has expressed regarding Eldrick's self destruction, overall selfish, childish, and ego maniacal behavior that has always existed for those who bothered to pay attention to it prior to his wife catching him cheating. Todd also says some things that are a little goofy/inaccurate as well, namely calling Tony Dungy a "hero", writing that Jesse Helms was a South Carolina Senator (he was a North Carolina Senator), specifically going after Tiger's charitable efforts (Tiger has been plenty charitable with his foundation over his career) and suggesting that Earl Woods being alive would have prevented all this from happening, when Earl CHEATED ON HIS WIFE TOO!Again it's a two way street with Tiger. Yes he saw the opportunity to make as much money as he could by showcasing himself as a wholesome role model...no matter how shady, and exploitative his methods ended up being. He still needed a dance partner to pull it off, (i.e. mostly the myopic middle age male hero worshippers) and they bought his line of B.S. hook, line, and sinker. Sure people can be mad at him, No point in denying one's anger over their hero letting them down, but they better take a look in the mirror at themselves too. They played just as much of a part as he did, in making him the machine he was up until Thanksgiving Weekend...