The Bears have hired Mike Martz to be their offensive coordinator. One of the relatively white friendliest coaches going to a team run by coal black afficianados Hatie Smith and Jerry Angelos; hey it's never too late to bring back Mike Hass, though my guess is that the Bears will continue with their time-honored tradition of believing that only black journeymen types with hands of stone make suitable NFL receivers.
On a somewhat related note, the writer of this blog takes the Bears to task for not drafting Austin Collie, then he and Collie wonder how Austin lasted so long in the draft. Yep, it's a great mystery, one repeated annually when itcomes tomany different players of a certain hue.
Collie showing Bears what might have been
By JEFF DICKERSON
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Indianapolis rookie wide receiver Austin Collie was still on the board when the Bears took Juaquin Iglesias with the 99th overall pick of the 2009 NFL draft. Actually, Collie was still around when Jerry Angelo pulled the trigger on defensive end Henry Melton (105) and cornerback D.J. Moore (119).
Collie, the 127th overall selection, caught 60 passes for 676 yards and seven touchdowns during the regular season, and has hauled in two scores so far this postseason.
Why did such an accomplished college player at BYU last until the fourth round?
"If you look at the draft class, from a wide receiver standpoint this past year there were a lot of good wideouts," Collie said. "There was just little differences in each one of us.
"When you have that many wideouts, even though you go in the fourth round it doesn't mean you got overlooked, it just fell where it did. I'm really not concerned about where I was drafted, all that I was concerned about was the situation in which I was drafted in. The fact that I got to come to Indianapolis, and be a part of all this, it couldn't have worked out any better."
http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/post/_/id/4664230/collie-showing-bears-what-might-have-been