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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PackerfaninCarolina" data-source="post: 590426" data-attributes="member: 9364"><p>Would have to agree with everything Paulska said.  By no means am I saying Trestman was blameless in the Bears' awful season, when a team gets that bad and the players completely lose faith in the ability to win, that certainly does have to fall on the head coach.  But he most certainly did not make the call to chain the wagon wheels to Cutler, that was on Emery / Philips / whoever and Trestman had little to no say in that.  The Mel Tucker hire was not his choice either, I mean he agreed to it, but it was all Emery handpicking him, and as such, I don't believe he had the authority to fire him or Kromer.  I think he's a good head coach who was just in the wrong place, his resume if you look at his wiki certainly speaks of what he can do, some of his most prolific offenses were when he was coaching up some of the best in the game like Steve Young and Rich Gannon, and some of the Raiders' best years were when he was their OC.  This last gig will stick on him in not a good way, but I think if he were given another chance with another team, he might surprise.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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