Tim Tebow Foundation helping Philippines victims

A good man continues to do good works, as reported in the <i><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/tim-tebow-launches-effort-help-philippines-storm-v/#ixzz2kcyrzi89">Washington Times</a>:</i><br /><blockquote>Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, who was born in the Philippines while his parents served as missionaries, is stepping up to help victims in the country devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.<br /><br />The Tim Tebow Foundation has activated a donation link so people can help those in need. Mr. Tebow has also made the Philippines one of the primary beneficiaries of his outreach programs, First Coast News reported.</blockquote>The humanitarian relief is in coordination with Tebow's father's foundation, the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association, that builds churches and cares for orphaned children in the Philippines.<br /><br />The Tebows ... a family giving back.

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Today's Teamster News 09.28.13

<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-27/regulator-said-to-look-other-way-on-unsafe-mexican-trucks.html" rel="nofollow">Regulator Said to Look Other Way on Unsafe Mexican Trucks</a>  Bloomberg   ...“They need these companies, they need the numbers,” said Fred McLuckie, director of federal legislation and regulation for the Teamsters, which unsuccessfully sued to stop regulators from allowing Mexican trucks. “They’re looking the other way...”<br /><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/22827341-418/chicago-teamsters-reject-rahm-emanuels-bid-for-contract-concessions-on-461-11-vote.html" rel="nofollow">Chicago Teamsters reject Rahm Emanuel’s bid for contract concessions on 461-11 vote</a>  Chicago Sun-Times   ...Already feuding with police, firefighters, teachers and other public employees, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration sought but failed to win concessions this week from the only major labor group that had supported Emanuel’s election...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/funeral-industry-giant-sci-committed-unfair-labor-practices-labor-board-says" rel="nofollow">Funeral Industry Giant SCI Committed Unfair Labor Practices, Labor Board Says</a>  teamster.org   ...Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board has found merit in several unfair labor practice charges filed against funeral industry giant Service Corporation International (SCI), which has locked out 59 funeral directors and drivers at 16 Chicago-area funeral homes...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-vote-wegmans-offer" rel="nofollow">Teamsters To Vote Wegmans' Offer</a>  teamster.org   ...Workers will cast ballots on the company’s proposal that would eliminate the pensions of more than 900 of its Rochester employees and dramatically reduce their compensation package...<br /><a href="http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/beware-of-outlandish-claims-about-economic-benefits-of-us-eu-free-trade-deal.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eyesontrade+%28Eyes+on+Trade%29" rel="nofollow">Beware of Outlandish Claims About Economic Benefits of U.S.-EU ‘Free Trade’ Deal</a>  Public Citizen   ...The study ignored the predictable social and economic costs that would result from such extreme regulatory rollback, such as an increase in the incidence of foodborne illness and a rise in financial instability...<br /><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/federal-ruling-domestic-workers-protection-charts" rel="nofollow">4 Reasons Why the White House's Domestic-Worker Protections Matter </a> Mother Jones   ...Starting in January 2015, the federal labor laws that currently ensure minimum wage and overtime protections will be extended to the nation's direct-care workers—some 2 million people who perform jobs like caring for the elderly and the disabled. And yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights into law, expanding the legal protections for its estimated <a href="http://nelp.3cdn.net/6568360c9c5188e6d6_4hm6ibsc7.pdf">360,000</a> (PDF) domestic workers...<br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/how-the-nfl-fleeces-taxpayers/309448/" rel="nofollow">How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers</a>  The Atlantic   ...Taxpayers fund the stadiums, antitrust law doesn't apply to broadcast deals, the league enjoys nonprofit status, and Commissioner Roger Goodell makes $30 million a year. It's time to stop the public giveaways to America's richest sports league—and to the feudal lords who own its teams...<br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/27/ron-wyden-nsa-systematically-deceived" rel="nofollow">Sen. Ron Wyden: NSA 'repeatedly deceived the American people'</a>  The Guardian   ..."the leadership of NSA built an intelligence collection system that repeatedly deceived the American people..."<br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/27/nsa-employees-used-surveillance-system-to-spy-on-spouses-lovers/" rel="nofollow">NSA employees used surveillance system to spy on spouses, lovers</a>  Raw Story   ... a woman told the NSA that she’d recorded a conversation between her husband and a foreign telephone number because she suspected he’d been unfaithful...<br /><a href="http://laborpress.org/sectors/green-initiatives/2778-school-bus-companies-ordered-to-restore-lost-wages-to-atu-1181-workers" rel="nofollow">School Bus Companies Ordered to Restore Lost Wages to ATU 1181 Workers</a>  LaaborPress   ...Judge Matsumoto ordered the companies to return to the bargaining table they abandoned in March; bargain in good faith with the union; rescind the wage and benefit cuts and all other terms and working conditions previously imposed by the companies; and restore the wages, benefits and working conditions in effect at the time the companies imposed their cuts...<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/09/27/i_worked_all_week_for_free_the_horrifying_true_story_of_0_paychecks/" rel="nofollow">I worked all week for free?!: The horrifying, true story of $0 paychecks</a>  Salon   ...Photos provided to Salon by the National Guestworker Alliance, the group behind the work stoppage, show checks reading “No Dollars and No Cents,” and a page dated June 25 warning guest workers on H-2B visas that, “Any worker who does not show up for your assignment will be immediately removed from Mister Clean Housing and will be reported as AWOL (Absent Without Leave) to ICE (Immigration Custom Enforcement)...”<br /><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/27/american-workers-hanging-on-by-the-skin-of-their-teeth/" rel="nofollow">American Workers: Hanging on by the Skin of Their Teeth</a>  Counterpunch   ...Americans are losing faith in the nation’s economic recovery.” Because they don’t see any recovery...<br /><br /><br />

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Regulator Said to Look Other Way on Unsafe Mexican Trucks  Bloomberg   ...“They need these companies, they need the numbers,” said Fred McL...

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Jim Harbaugh: NFL's read-option rules flawed, biased

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.nfl.com/">http://www.nfl.com</a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/jimharbaugh/2515790/profile" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3378" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Jim Harbaugh</a> didn't like <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/greenbaypackers/profile?team=GB" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3379" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Green Bay Packers</a> linebacker <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/claymatthews/80431/profile" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3380" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Clay Matthews</a>' "<a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000238292/article/niners-jim-harbaugh-condemns-packers-tough-talk" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3381" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">tough talk</a>" about hitting read-option quarterbacks, so he <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000238827/article/niners-jim-harbaugh-nfl-exec-discuss-qb-hit-rules" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3382" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">contacted the NFL</a> earlier this week.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/sanfrancisco49ers/profile?team=SF" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3383" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">San Francisco 49ers</a> coach said Friday he didn't care for the answers he got.</div><table align="right" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222221; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; width: 260pxpx;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; margin: 5px; padding: 10px; width: 202px;"><a href="http://fantasy.nfl.com/?icampaign=news_include_fantasy_join" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3384" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;"><img align="right" border="0" src="http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2013/07/09/0ap1000000217012.jpg" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">"I think it's flawed and a bit biased," Harbaugh said of the league's response to his concerns about quarterback hits.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">Harbaugh then went on an approximately 5-minute monologue and discussion with reporters about the rule, which included him <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/376095167050031104" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3385" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">miming options</a> for how QBs might have to show they don't have the ball.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">"I'm not advocating that they don't hit the quarterback if he has the ball, but if he's in the pocket I believe there should be a strike zone." Harbaugh said. "Same strike zone that is given to the quarterback when he's in the pocket and throwing the ball. I feel like you give a license now to players to hit quarterbacks at the knee or in the head."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">Harbaugh explained that he was concerned that defenders would hit quarterbacks in the knee or head with an excuse that they couldn't tell if the QB had the ball and could be considered a running back.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="nfl-video-tag nfl-video-small nfl-video-right" id="vid2" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #222221; float: right; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="yui3-widget yui3-nfl-video" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_1662" style="background-color: black; height: 216px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 384px;"><div class="yui3-nfl-video-content yui3-widget-content-expanded" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_1664" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 216px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 384px; z-index: 1;"></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">"By definition, a fake is a deception," Harbaugh said, continuing to voice his concern. "It is a deception, deceptive maneuver....Now are they opened up to being hit in the head and the knees, treated like a running back?...It seems like they would have more of an appetite to look at that, and they've said they don't have an appetite to look at it any further."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The strong ending suggests Harbaugh isn't going to let the issue fade away.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">He did tell reporters his game plan wouldn't change or affect how he uses quarterback <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/colinkaepernick/2495186/profile" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3386" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Colin Kaepernick</a>. At the very least Harbaugh has ensured refs will be keeping a close eye on all the hits Kaepernick takes <a href="http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2013090811/2013/REG1/packers@49ers" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3387" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Sunday</a> against the <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/greenbaypackers/profile?team=GB" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3388" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Packers</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3997" style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-4973891917352186"; /* hotnewsof_main_Blog1_ */ google_ad_slot = "6959597717"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>

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Super Bowl XLVII: CBS drops the ball in Superdome blackout coverage by failing to press the NFL for answers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">Not once during the 34-minute delay did a representative of the National Football League appear on camera to attempt to explain what caused half the Superdome to lose power. Why should they? No one from CBS put any pressure on them.</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><h3 class="byline" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">NEW YORK DAILY NEWS fROM: http://www.nydailynews.com</h3><h5 class="dates" content="2013-02-04T02:59:35" itemprop="datePublished" style="background-image: url(http://assets.nydailynews.com/nydn/img/static/bg/header.png); background-position: 0px -576px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013, 2:59 AM</h5><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt=" The Superdome goes dark for 34 minutes, and nobody from the NFL offers an explanation. " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1254675.1359964345!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/superdome.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The Superdome goes dark for 34 minutes, and nobody from the NFL offers an explanation.</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fans inside the Superdome were not the only ones left in the dark when half the building’s power went out in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII Sunday night.  Viewers were left with unanswered questions as CBS Sports’ sideline reporters, and the rest of the cast, failed to go into a reporting mode.</span></span></div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There was no outrage, no questioning how a thing like this could happen on the NFL’s biggest night of the year.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At a time when they should have been aggressively gathering news, CBS’ crew was satisfied with the crumbs the NFL dropped on them. And they swallowed the scraps gladly. Not once during the 34-minute delay did a representative of the National Football League appear on camera to attempt to explain what caused half the Superdome to lose power. Why should they? No one from CBS put any pressure on them.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead of having anyone with a microphone express a hint of outrage, they accepted what was going down. “As soon as they know (what knocked the power out) someone (from the NFL) is going to come down and we are going to interview them to ascertain what knocked out the power,” said Solomon Wilcots, one of CBS’ sideline reporters.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No, that ain’t the way it works. The idea is to find an NFL suit, stick a microphone in his/her face and ask the following question:  What the hell is going on?</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Think about it. CBS pays billions for the right to air NFL games. Much of that dough is shelled out to secure rights to the Super Bowl. So, on the big night, there is a major screwup and the NFL won’t put  someone on the air — and CBS won’t push the league — to try to explain what’s going on? That’s mind-boggling.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But not quite as wacked as CBS’ laid-back approach to reporting this story, which will go down as one of the more unusual moments in Super Bowl history. All the players were on the field, waiting, stretching. Why not take a camera and microphone on the sidelines for an interview? If they blow you off, fine — at least viewers would have something worth watching.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead of hearing from James Brown, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher and Shannon Sharpe (Boomer Esiason was working the radio) that the 49ers would benefit from the delay, why not ask players from both teams their thoughts on the matter?</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Niners" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1254676!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/niners.jpg" /></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Members of the 49ers can only sit and wait for the lights to turn back on.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At one point, CBS had a shot of John Harbaugh screaming at some suit who we assumed worked for the NFL (we take that grand leap because CBS never identified who the gentleman was). Why not stick a microphone in Harbaugh’s face and ask him why he was angry?</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe he would have told you his brother’s team was going to benefit from the delay, which it did. At one point Steve Tasker, the other sideline reporter, said he had signaled for “John Harbaugh to come over,” but the Ravens coach had declined. That is the closest viewers got to a legit interview.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For the record, Jennifer Sabatelle, CBS Sports’ VP/communications, said Tasker and Wilcots  “and our studio team reported on the situation as a breaking news story providing updates and reports while full power was being restored to the dome.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Compared to what? In 1989, when an earthquake (duh, much more serious than a piddly blackout) hit Candlestick Park before Game 3 of the A’s-Giants World Series, Al Michaels and the ABC crew segued into full news mode and covered what was going down thoughtfully and thoroughly. Michaels and Co. showed how sports reporters can handle a news story by just asking the right questions.</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead of doing just that, CBS stayed in a total sports mode, replaying first-half highlights and getting insight from Cowher on what he would be telling his team under the same circumstance. Imagine if someone from CBS asked one of the Harbaugh brothers that very question? With CBS only updating viewers on when the game might resume, it is reasonable to wonder how many of them bailed out during the delay. CBS was fortunate the game tightened down the stretch, making for an exciting finish.</span></div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s doubtful Sharpe’s one-liners, like wondering who paid the Superdome’s electric bill, were holding the audience. Same for his other gem: “I’m not saying the fat lady is singing, but they cut the power off so she could warmup in the darkness.”</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CBS’ inability to report the news, dig into all angles of the story, is a direct result of how the NFL controls the media. If normal coverage is limited and restricted, it stands to reason that league suits would try to black out all coverage of a Super Bowl blackout.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The lights going out signaled a major embarrassment for Roger Goodell and Co. On the night of the league’s biggest event, a game that media and fans go gaga over for two weeks, the NFL came off looking like a minor league operation.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the end, the league could have looked even worse.</div><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If CBS had done its job.</div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div></div>

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Super Bowl 2013: 49ers-Ravens QB matchup is run vs. gun

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Sprinter's speed makes San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick truly dangerous. Baltimore's Joe Flacco is a classic drop-back passer. Which philosophy will prevail?</h2><div>From:http://www.latimes.com</div><div><img alt="Joe Flacco, Colin Kaepernick" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-510da8ef/turbine/la-sp-joe-flacco-colin-kaepernick-20130202/580/580x410" /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">The Ravens are counting on quarterback Joe Flacco standing tall and delivering from the pocket while the 49ers will rely on the arm and legs of quarterback Colin Kaepernick in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday in New Orleans. </span><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">(<span class="photographer">Getty Images</span> / <span class="dateMonth">February </span><span class="dateDay">2</span><span class="dateYear">, 2013</span>)]</span></div><div><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="byline" style="background-color: white; color: #292727; display: block; font-size: 13px;">By Sam Farmer</span><div class="date" style="background-color: white; color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">February 2, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">4:05 p.m.</span></div><div class="date" style="background-color: white; color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;"></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">NEW ORLEANS — Much of the talk leading up to <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/super-bowl-xlvii-EVSPR000237.topic" id="EVSPR000237" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl XLVII">Super Bowl XLVII</a> was about the coaching Harbaugh brothers, San Francisco's Jim and Baltimore's John, and the historic spin they put on the<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/national-football-league-ORSPT000007.topic" id="ORSPT000007" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="National Football League">NFL</a>'s splashiest showcase.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">But the outcome Sunday hinges on the unrelated brothers in arms, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/colin-kaepernick-PESPT000009783.topic" id="PESPT000009783" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Colin Kaepernick">Colin Kaepernick</a> of the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/san-francisco-49ers-ORSPT000057.topic" id="ORSPT000057" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="San Francisco 49ers">49ers</a>and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/joe-flacco-PESPT0000012410.topic" id="PESPT0000012410" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Joe Flacco">Joe Flacco</a> of the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/baltimore-ravens-ORSPT000161.topic" id="ORSPT000161" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Baltimore Ravens">Ravens</a>, quarterbacks of contrasting styles, and how they handle the biggest game of their lives.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Kaepernick is a sculpted, 6-foot-4 nightmare for a defense, a second-year player with the speed of a sprinter and a pitcher's right arm. He's the quintessential dual threat, whose post-snap intentions are as hard to read as the tattooed Bible verses that run up and down his biceps.</div><div class="articlerail" style="clear: both; color: black; float: left; font-style: normal; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: none; width: 234px; z-index: 4;"><div class="articleRelates module" style="border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 10px 10px 0px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="columnistBio" style="clear: both; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="clearfix" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></li><li class="columnistLinks" style="clear: both; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></li><li class="newRelatedItem" style="clear: both; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-what-time-is-super-bowl-20130131,0,7814588.story" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target=""><img alt="What time is the Super Bowl?" height="105" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-510c0bb7/turbine/la-et-st-what-time-is-super-bowl-20130131/186/186x105" style="border: 0px; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 8px;" title="What time is the Super Bowl?" width="186" /></a><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-what-time-is-super-bowl-20130131,0,7814588.story" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target="">What time is the Super Bowl?</a></li><li class="newRelatedItem" style="clear: both; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-super-bowl-show-20130202,0,2786968.story" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target=""><img alt=" It takes sweat and a lot of practice to broadcast the Super Bowl" height="105" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-510d91c7/turbine/la-et-ct-super-bowl-show-20130202-thumbnail/187/187x105" style="border: 0px; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 8px;" title=" It takes sweat and a lot of practice to broadcast the Super Bowl" width="187" /></a><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-super-bowl-show-20130202,0,2786968.story" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target="">It takes sweat and a lot of practice to broadcast the Super Bowl</a></li><li class="newRelatedItem" style="clear: both; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-super-bowl-logos-through-the-years-20130124,0,4049564.photogallery" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target=""><img alt="Super Bowl logos through the years" height="105" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-51046b69/turbine/la-super-bowl-logos-through-the-years-20130124/187/187x105" style="border: 0px; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 8px;" title="Super Bowl logos through the years" width="187" /></a><a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-super-bowl-logos-through-the-years-20130124,0,4049564.photogallery" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target="">Photos: Super Bowl logos through the years</a></li><li class="newRelatedItem" style="clear: both; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="http://timelines.latimes.com/nfl-super-bowl-timeline-history/" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target=""><img alt="Super Bowl history: A look at the NFL's championship game" height="105" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5103a95d/turbine/la-sp-super-bowl-timeline-link-20130126/187/187x105" style="border: 0px; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 5px; padding-right: 8px;" title="Super Bowl history: A look at the NFL's championship game" width="187" /></a><a href="http://timelines.latimes.com/nfl-super-bowl-timeline-history/" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; text-decoration: none; width: 212px;" target="">Super Bowl history: A look at the NFL's championship game</a></li></ul></div></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;"><br />The 6-foot-6 Flacco is only 28, and he's already an old-school throwback. Although he's far from immobile, he's much more of a drop-back pocket dweller than his <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/super-bowl-EVSPR000004.topic" id="EVSPR000004" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Super Bowl">Super Bowl</a>counterpart. And lately, he's on fire. In Baltimore's path back to the sport's marquee game — victories over Indianapolis, Denver and New England — Flacco has eight touchdown passes with no interceptions.<strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/nfl/super-bowl/" style="color: #2262cc; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">SUPER BOWL 2013 FULL COVERAGE</a></strong></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">The Ravens, with Flacco at quarterback, have gotten to the playoffs each of the last five seasons, a feat no other NFL team has accomplished. What's more, Baltimore has won at least one postseason game in each of those years.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">In this copycat league, the quarterback who hoists the Lombardi Trophy at the end of this game will be Exhibit A for two opposing football philosophies.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Does this league belong to the runners, or the gunners?</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Steve Young, the last quarterback to win a Super Bowl for the 49ers, and a Hall of Fame player who wasn't shy about tucking the football and running, believes we're witnessing a fascinating historical hiccup. By his thinking, the Kaepernick-style quarterbacks — players such as Seattle's<a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/russell-wilson-PESPT0015762.topic" id="PESPT0015762" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Russell Wilson">Russell Wilson</a>, Washington's <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/robert-griffin-iii-PESPT0014793.topic" id="PESPT0014793" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Griffin III">Robert Griffin III</a> and Carolina's <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/cam-newton-PESPT00008878.topic" id="PESPT00008878" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Cam Newton">Cam Newton</a> — eventually will log more pocket time than a stingy man's wallet.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">"Sooner or later, you get straightened up to the fact that to deliver championship football, it's from the pocket," said Young, now an <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/espn-%28tv-network%29-HOC792.topic" id="HOC792" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="ESPN (tv network)">ESPN</a> analyst, who capped the 1994 season by securing a fifth championship for the 49ers.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">"I might be proven wrong, but I think we have a special gap in time. There's something unique happening, and I think it will close. Will it completely close? No. And I think that young, mobile quarterbacks will become more valuable now rather than in the past, and maybe become the prototype."</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">But, Young said, the ability to shred a defense with the run "can never be the full measure of what quarterbacks need to do in the league." That's why players such as Kaepernick, Wilson and Griffin — all of whom can pass, all of whom made the playoffs this season — are offensive cornerstones, and the one-dimensional <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/tim-tebow-PESPT008528.topic" id="PESPT008528" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Tim Tebow">Tim Tebow</a> is not.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Flacco, whose own father describes him as "dull," is one of the more exciting passers in football because he throws the risky passes, the ones that tickle the fingertips of defenders but ultimately rest in the hands of his receivers. From his bombs to his back-shoulder throws to his darts he could wedge through a mouse hole, Flacco takes chances.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">In three games this postseason, Flacco has completed 54.8% of his throws for 853 yards and a lofty overall passer rating of 114.7. He has thrown 162 passes without an interception, his last coming in a Dec. 16 loss to Denver. He's not a dink-and-dunk quarterback; he's completed 15 passes of 20 or more yards in the three playoff games.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">"He's a guy that was always in constant control," said K.C. Keeler, Flacco's college coach at Delaware. "And I asked him one day, 'OK, I'm going to talk to a youth group someday about you, what made you great. What makes you great?' And he goes, 'I'm not afraid to fail. It's that simple. I'm going to prepare as hard as I can, and I'm going to go out there, and it doesn't matter what the arena is, I'm just going to go play. And if we're successful, great. And if we're not? I'll live with it. But I'm not afraid to fail.'</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">"When you watch Joe play, you just wonder, 'How does he stay so calm?' Well, that's how he was brought up. This isn't something that I instilled in him or any other coach did. His parents just did such a great job of their simple messages. And that simple message of not being afraid to fail is the reason he's playing in this big ballgame now."</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Flacco might not be afraid to fail, but, in the NFL, the stakes can't get any higher than Sunday's game.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">Both of these teams were turned back at the altar last season — Baltimore came within a dropped touchdown pass of beating New England in the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/american-football-conference-ORSPT000000250.topic" id="ORSPT000000250" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a> championship game, and San Francisco fumbled away its <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/national-football-conference-EVSPR00003532.topic" id="EVSPR00003532" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a> title chances in an overtime loss at home to the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/new-york-giants-ORSPT000197.topic" id="ORSPT000197" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a>.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">"I think last year, just speaking for myself, is just like, 'Damn, we got so close,'" 49ers defensive tackle <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/justin-smith-PESPT000008996.topic" id="PESPT000008996" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Justin Smith">Justin Smith</a> said. "I've never been that close in my life. You don't think it's over or your window is closed or anything like that, just personally speaking, and you feel it kind of shutting.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;">"To be back in the NFC championship game, I don't think our team took it as much for granted how hard it is to get there. Getting to the Super Bowl, now especially, you have to take advantage of it."</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The 49ers have a rich history of seizing these moments. They are 5-0 in Super Bowls and aiming for a sixth ring, which would tie them with Pittsburgh for the most by any franchise. San Francisco and Dallas are currently tied for second place.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">San Francisco has won a Super Bowl in New Orleans before, stomping Denver, 55-10, in Super Bowl XXIV (Jan. 28, 1990). In five Super Bowls, the 49ers have outscored opponents, 188-89.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Ravens have worn the crown more recently, winning the Super Bowl at the end of the 2000 season.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"We've played in some big games but nothing quite like this, so it will be interesting to see how we'll react," said Flacco, who is one win away from tying New England's <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/tom-brady-PESPT000789.topic" id="PESPT000789" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Tom Brady">Tom Brady</a>for most playoff victories (nine) in his first five seasons.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"I think we have the kind of team, and I think I'm the kind of person, that will handle that pretty well, but you never know until you're put in that situation. I hope that we all just kind of get good, positive feelings from it and it brings our confidence level even higher and we just go out there and play."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">So it's Kaepernick and Flacco, the runner and the gunner, two players who — though they won't be on the field at the same time — will be ambassadors of their contrasting styles.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Baltimore's <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/football/terrell-suggs-PESPT000008622.topic" id="PESPT000008622" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Terrell Suggs">Terrell Suggs</a>, for one, likes the Ravens' chances.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"We'll have to wait and see Sunday," the outspoken linebacker said, "but I know which one is going to show up. Like I said, I'll let y'all be surprised."</div><br /></span></div></div>

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Pro Bowl might be hampered by rainy, windy weather

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2013/01/27/0ap1000000131424.jpg" /><br /><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222221; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; text-align: left; width: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Andy Fenelon/NFL.com</td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;">Rain is in the forecast for the entire island of Oahu, meaning Sunday's <a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2405" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Pro Bowl</a> could be a soggy affair.<br /><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">HONOLULU -- The </span><a href="http://www.staradvertiser.com/multimedia/photo_galleries/viewer/?galID=188572391" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2406" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Honolulu Star Advertiser</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> on Sunday morning billed this year's </span><a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2407" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Pro Bowl</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> as </span><a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/peytonmanning/2501863/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2408" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Peyton Manning</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> vs. </span><a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/elimanning/2505996/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2409" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Eli Manning</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">, a battle of the brothers, with the headline: "Footballs Will Fly."</span><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">But hours away from kickoff of the NFL's all-star game -- a game that likely will determine if others are played in the future -- a weather system coming through Oahu could make footballs fly in all sorts of directions.</div><div id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2842" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The National Weather Service has issued a flash-flood watch for the entire island of Oahu, which includes Honolulu where the game will be played. On Sunday morning, winds starting picking up, creating a choppy Pacific. A cold front is expected to bring showers with heavy rainfall to Oahu by the afternoon. Also, there's a chance of thunderstorms that could bring intense rain.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The flash-flood watch remains in effect through Monday afternoon when most players and fans will depart for the continental United States.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">It will be interesting to see the effort level if the weather conditions don't improve. <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/denverbroncos/profile?team=DEN" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2412" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Denver Broncos</a> quarterback<a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/peytonmanning/2501863/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2413" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Peyton Manning</a> and the two head coaches -- <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/denverbroncos/profile?team=DEN" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2414" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Broncos</a>coach <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/johnfox/2514313/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2415" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">John Fox</a> of the AFC and <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/greenbaypackers/profile?team=GB" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2416" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Green Bay Packers</a> coach<a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/mikemccarthy/2520528/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2417" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Mike McCarthy</a> of the NFC -- have <a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl/story/0ap1000000130139/article/peyton-manning-implores-pro-bowl-participants-to-play-hard" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2418" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">emphasized the importance</a> of this game. And NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has threatened to pull the plug on the <a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2419" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Pro Bowl</a> if it isn't played more seriously.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">After Friday's practice, <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/peytonmanning/2501863/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2420" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Peyton Manning</a> said, "The guys will be ready to play. It will be a good, competitive game, I think. This is an important event for the NFL and for the players. The commissioner's made it clear that he's making considerations to cancel it. And I think it's important to have more of a quality game."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">But injuries at this event always have been a concern for players and, with inclement weather, the risk of injury seemingly would increase. It might be unfair to get upset with players if they choose to hold back a little in a rain-drenched contest.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

NFL Super Bowl Pro Bowl might be hampered by rainy, windy weather

Andy Fenelon/NFL.com Rain is in the forecast for the entire island of Oahu, meaning Sunday's  Pro Bowl  could be a soggy affair. HONOLUL...

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Pro Bowl viewing guide: Five things to watch (you know you’re gonna watch it)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;">By </span><span class="fn" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/author/frank-schwab/" rel="author" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Frank Schwab</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"> | </span><span class="provider org" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Shutdown Corner</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"> – </span><abbr style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;" title="2013-01-27T04:36:34Z">15 hours ago From: </abbr><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/">http://sports.yahoo.com</a><br /><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ww6vQZrlNJRnvqKqYYPldw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnflexperts/uspw_6970500.jpg" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.383333206176758px;">(USA Today Sports Images)</span><br /><br /><div class="first" id="yui_3_5_1_1_1359318055738_1261" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; padding: 0px;">Ask around about the Pro Bowl, and you'll hear a lot of, "Who would watch that game? I never watch it." Many of the people who tell you that are lying.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The Pro Bowl does monster ratings. Someone has to be watching the NFL's all-star game. The Pro Bowl got a 7.9 rating last year, which dwarfs the NBA All-Star Game's 5.4 rating last year and makes NHL Stanley Cup Finals' ratings look like a 2 a.m. infomercial.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">So, you don't have to admit you watch, but we're here for you. Here are five things to look for in the Pro Bowl, which could actually be the last Pro Bowl ever if the players don't care as much as those millions of viewers who will turn it on:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span id="more-40782"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong>The final game of Jeff Saturday's career:</strong> Wait, you're not excited to watch a center who didn't deserve to be in this Pro Bowl? Fine, we'll find some better reasons. But Saturday has had a great career, and he is retiring after the Pro Bowl.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 190px;"><a href="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3ZBWCc8Y6ArUykoAiPPzVQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnflexperts/uspw_6969520.jpg" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-40785" height="272" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/PrQJLdAZtUleO.hPJOdIew--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnflexperts/uspw_6969520.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="(USA Today Sports Images)" width="190" /></a><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">(USA Today Sports Images)</span></span><strong>Will the players play hard?:</strong> The game that nobody admits to watching but everyone tunes in to see might be going away. There have been threats this week that if the players don't play hard, this Pro Bowl could be the last one. Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning implored the players to play hard to save the game. Houston running back Arian Foster was honest: Football is a physical game and players aren't going to go 100 percent in an all-star exhibition.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"This isn't basketball - you can't go play a pickup game of football," Foster said, according to the Associated Press. "I think it's an honor and a tradition, but for you to expect the best athletes in the NFL to come out and play a game 100 percent when you can't game plan, you can't blitz, you can't do all these things, it's not going to be competitive like everybody wants it to be."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">So it might be better than last year's debacle, but don't expect too much.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The players might want to think about their annual free vacation to Hawaii when they decide how hard to play. The best guess is they play just hard enough for the NFL to justify bringing it back. Think of it this way, how many times has a television network wanted to get rid of a show with those kinds of ratings? The TV partners would likely try to convince the league to keep the game going.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Larry Fitzgerald gets to play with a real quarterback!</strong>: Everyone misses Larry Fitzgerald. Still in his prime at age 29, Fitzgerald had 798 yards and four touchdowns this season. Arizona's front office should be convicted for stealing Fitzgerald from us. He is one of the NFL's best players, but has become an afterthought because nobody can get him the ball. Fitzgerald spent a season catching passes from guys like Ryan Lindley, but for one afternoon he gets to play with Drew Brees, Eli Manning and Russell Wilson. You know Fitzgerald will be playing hard. He might sob with joy over the rediscovered feeling of trying to catch a pass that isn't thrown four yards behind him.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 190px;"><a href="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rGPwrjGUWWxKMHbi4A3lGw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnflexperts/uspw_6967234.jpg" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-40784" height="285" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/f6vzgNhp5yxo_djqfBWCZg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTE5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnflexperts/uspw_6967234.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="(USA Today Sports Images)" width="190" /></a><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">(USA Today Sports Images)</span></span><em class="ywp-page-play-pause ywp-page-video" style="font-weight: normal; outline: none !important;">Peyton Manning</em>, J.J. Watt, and Adrian Peterson are there:</strong> Arguably the three best players in the NFL this season didn't drop out of the game, and they might be too competitive to take it easy. Manning already has implored the other players to play hard, so you know he'll be serious. Watt, the Texans' defensive end who had a dominant season and should be the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year, doesn't seem like the kind of guy who is capable of going half speed. And Peterson, the Vikings 2,000-yard back who is one of two legitimate MVP candidates along with Manning, already said he'll play hard.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"When you play down, you put yourself in jeopardy of getting hurt going through the motions. So I won't be playing down," Peterson said earlier this month, according to Associated Press. "I'm going to play hard."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The greatest players are wired with a certain competitive streak, and while they're not going to be playing at the same level as their playoff games this month, if they're playing to win, it's worth tuning in to see them.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong>It's football:</strong> The 2013 season is probably going to kick off on Sept. 5. Once the Super Bowl's final gun sounds next week, we have more than seven months before another game that counts. While most of the Pro Bowl players are going to play hard enough to fool us into thinking the outcome matters to them, you're going to miss football when it's gone after next Sunday. It's OK to tune in - we won't tell anyone you did.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div>

NFL Pro Bowl Pro Bowl viewing guide: Five things to watch (you know you’re gonna watch it)

By  Frank Schwab  |  Shutdown Corner  –  15 hours ago From:  http://sports.yahoo.com (USA Today Sports Images) Ask around about the Pro Bowl...

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Anna Burns Welker, wife of Patriots star, apologizes for criticizing Ray Lewis on Facebook

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="image620 " style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 350px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;"><img alt="Ray Lewis (52) of the Baltimore Ravens covers Wes Welker (83) in a file photo." src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/01/22/lewis_welker_file_78237363_620x350.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div class="imgText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ray Lewis (52) of the Baltimore Ravens covers Wes Welker (83) in a file photo. <span class="greySplitter" style="border: 0px; color: #c4c4c4; font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">/</span> <span class="creditImg" style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PHOTO BY GREG FIUME/GETTY IMAGES From: </span><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.cbsnews.com</a></div><div class="imgText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8em; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last year, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57372409/did-gisele-bundchen-tirade-violate-team-code/" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Brady's wife Gisele made headlines</a> after the Patriots' season ended, essentially blaming Wes Welker for dropping a key pass in the Super Bowl loss to the Giants.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, it's Welker's wife who is in the news for comments she made on Facebook following New England's season-ending loss to the Ravens.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the game, Anna Burns Welker took to Facebook to support her husband - but mostly take a few shots at Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baltimore-sports-blog/bal-anna-burns-welker-wes-welker-wife-ray-lewis-critical-facebook-page-0121,0,5768158.story" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">according to the Baltimore Sun</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; 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display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 140px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;" /></figure><div class="meta" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px; z-index: 11;">23 <span style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PHOTOS</span></div><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; color: #202022; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.07em; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 220px;">2013 NFL Postseason: Conference Title Games</h3></div></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"></span><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Proud of my husband and the Pats," Welker wrote on her Facebook page. "By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis' Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model!"</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The post has since been deleted.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lewis, who is retiring at season's end after a surefire Hall of Fame career, was cleared of murder charges in 2000 after a Super Bowl party fight involving Lewis and his entourage resulted in the stabbing deaths of two men in Atlanta.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It didn't take long for Mrs. Welker to apologize for her post.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm deeply sorry for my recent post on Facebook," she said in a <a href="http://larrybrownsports.com/football/anna-burns-welker-apologizes-ray-lewis/171214" style="border: 0px; color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">statement sent to Larry Brown Sports</a>. "I let the competitiveness of the game and the comments people were making about a team I dearly love get the best of me.</div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #202022; font-family: Georgia, 'Time New Roman', serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"My actions were emotional and irrational and I sincerely apologize to Ray Lewis and anyone affected by my comment after yesterday's game," she continued. "It is such an accomplishment for any team to make it to the NFL playoffs, and the momentary frustration I felt should not overshadow the accomplishments of both of these amazing teams."</div><br /></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br /><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #a1a17f; font-size: 1.2em; font: normal normal bold 14px/18px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 582px;">Marc Trestman ready to teach Offense 101 to Jay Cutler, Bears</h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">By <a href="http://espn.go.com/chicago/columns/archive?name=jon-greenberg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon Greenberg</a> | ESPNChicago.com</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"></span></span><br /><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CHICAGO -- Wide receiver <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/10/cris-carter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cris Carter</a> was in professional limbo when he signed with the<a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/min/minnesota-vikings" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Minnesota Vikings</a> early in the 1991 season. Released by Buddy Ryan and the <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/phi/philadelphia-eagles" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Philadelphia Eagles</a>, he needed a change in his life. He found one in Minnesota.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="mod-inline image image-right" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><a class="enlarge" credit="Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images" href="http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0117/chi_g_trestman1_sy_600.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Marc Trestman" border="0" height="200" src="http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0117/chi_g_trestman1_sy_300.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; 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outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><cite style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ababab; display: block; font-size: 10px !important; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images</cite>Marc Trestman's attention to detail was one of the qualities that impressed Phil Emery, as well as Trestman's former players.</div></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Carter connected with a 30-something coach named Marc Trestman.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"My career really blossomed under him and Tom Moore," Carter said on the phone Wednesday. "Those guys identified my ability and thought about developing the passing game around me. They gave me the confidence to get me to the height of my career."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moore, later famous for directing<a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/1428/peyton-manning" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peyton Manning</a>'s offense in Indianapolis, was the assistant head coach in Minnesota, and Trestman was the quarterbacks coach.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How did the quarterbacks coach help the receiver? Trestman helped Carter become a quarterback's best friend.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He was trying to get me to understand football the way coaches understand and make me think like a coach on the field," Carter said. "This was the first time I had encountered someone as a pro who took me under their wing and taught me how the pro passing game operates."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman, with his glasses and his professorial mien, looks more like a teacher than your archetypal football coach. This Bears team doesn't need Mike Ditka or an imitation. It didn't need Bill Cowher's chin. It didn't need a yeller just because Lovie Smith wasn't one.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman got hired to be the 14th head coach of the <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/chi/chicago-bears" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicago Bears</a> to teach the remedial Offense 101 class at Halas Hall, starting with the bad boy student himself, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/9597/jay-cutler" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jay Cutler</a>.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because whether or not they want to put the onus on Cutler, this move was made with him in mind. You didn't see too many defensive coordinators interview for this job, did you?</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The No. 1 marriage in all of sports is the marriage between the quarterback and the coach," Trestman said at his introduction to Chicago on Thursday afternoon. "That's it. It starts there and everything proceeds from there."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman also knows what Cutler is going through as far as scrutiny. In his leadership book/autobiography "Perseverance: Life Lessons on Leadership and Teamwork," he writes about being scapegoated for problems in San Francisco, where he led two playoff offenses at the end of George Seifert's time, and in Oakland, where he helped get the Raiders to the Super Bowl at the end of the 2002 season.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But as Trestman told a few reporters Thursday, after writing the book, he had to realize some of that was on him, too.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman, 57, wasn't the sexy choice for this job. He knows Jon Gruden but he's not Gruden. For those folks who didn't follow his peripatetic career, I highly recommend reading his book. He explains everything. He started his coaching career as a volunteer by convincing Miami coach Howard Schnellenberger to let him tutor their two redshirt quarterbacks, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/6457/bernie-kosar" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bernie Kosar</a> and <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/9/vinny-testaverde" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vinny Testaverde</a>. This was while he was in law school.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Between 1991 and 1995, he took time off to be a municipal bond broker after seven years coaching in the NFL.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At one point during his stint as the <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/ari/arizona-cardinals" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arizona Cardinals</a>' offensive coordinator in 1998-2000, he was the highest-paid in the league.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He learned presentation and leadership from Gruden. He ran no-huddle with <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/1177/jake-plummer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jake Plummer</a>.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He has to be the only coach in NFL history to help send Cleveland, Detroit and Arizona to the playoffs.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"That's something that is part of his résumé that is certainly positive," Seifert told me in a phone call. "All these things he's done over the years is the foundation of what you're getting in a good football coach."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But he never got that opportunity for a head-coaching gig in the NFL until now.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I've been in this stuff too long, it's all about timing, everything is about timing," said Rams assistant and one-time Bears coach Dave McGinnis in a phone call with ESPN Chicago's Melissa Isaacson.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Carter said Trestman was "pigeon-holed" as a quarterbacks guy. As it turned out, that's exactly what the Bears need right now.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But for all his travels, his name recognition was so faint that five years ago, when Trestman was hired to coach the Montreal Alouettes, his quarterback Anthony Calvillo had to Google him.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Calvillo was immediately won over by Trestman's openness, how he called veterans to talk shop, and didn't come in like an imperialistic NFL coach. He was flexible. But he was also strict on preparation. His practices were quick.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Everything was so detailed," Calvillo said in a phone call. "I've never been around a coach so detailed about your drops, where you hold the ball, the alignment of the receivers. 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outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman's Challenges</h4><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite never having coached in the CFL, where the rules are as unfamiliar as the recipe for poutine, Trestman won two Grey Cups.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman will be calling the plays and working with offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer, late of the <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/no/new-orleans-saints" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #225fb2; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New Orleans Saints</a>, to craft a gameplan. Trestman will sit in the quarterbacks meetings. He will be connected at the hip with Cutler.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Calvillo said Trestman's eye for detail is a thing to behold and it's challenging for players to conform. Cutler needs to fix his mechanical flaws and his lapses in fundamentals. This isn't a secret. Trestman wouldn't call out Cutler. But he will teach him.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Part of the calendar is getting together with Jay and taking it play by play throughout the (2012) season and evaluating his performance in different ways," Trestman said. "On a macro level and a micro level. The big things he wants to improve on and we want him to improve on, and the micro level, from taking a snap to dropping back and throwing the football and everything in between. It's a meticulous process. That's the way it's going to start."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman, who trained Cutler before the draft during his consultant phase, got reacquainted with him Monday during the interview process. He said they never opened their lunches because they were talking so much.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When he asked the loaded question of whether or not Cutler is "a franchise quarterback," Trestman chose not to go the easy route and just say yes.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Jay Cutler is a guy who loves football," he said instead. "Jay Cutler is a guy who's willing to learn. Jay Cutler to me, in my very short time with him, wants to do everything he can to help this franchise and please our amazing fans. That's where we're going to start. One day at a time, proactively with a sense of urgency to get him to be the guy he wants to be and we want him to be."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He said Cutler "will have the keys to the car," but stressed he had to be efficient, which isn't his strength. He knows how it important it was to keep Cutler protected. It's tough to have perfect throwing mechanics when you're constantly under pressure.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kromer is well-respected throughout the league and spent the last five years in New Orleans, including the first six of 2012 as the interim-interim head coach. But Trestman knows protection as well. In his first season as coach, the team gave up 46 fewer sacks (68 to 22) in 87 more pass attempts than the previous year, when the Alouettes were the worst in the league at protection, without changing any starters.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So what did he do?</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"There's a standard practice in our league on how to block certain blitzes, popping out offensive linemen to block linebackers and leaving the middle pocket vulnerable to one-on-one battles with guys you don't want to block one-on-one.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"So he had them protect from the inside out, with as many double-teams inside as possible. Our protections changed week in and week out, but the base was inside-out."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No other team in the CFL was blocking like this, Calvillo said. But it worked.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't worry about West Coast offense or putting labels on what the Bears are going to do offensively. Trestman's track record shows an ability to react to certain situations and be flexible.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Your philosophy is fluid," he said. "It changes year in and year out."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But that doesn't mean you don't prepare the same way. In Trestman's first interview, he won over general manager Phil Emery with a detailed plan for the future.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He presented me a calendar that was a 13-month calendar. so where does that take you to? From the time of the interview to where?" Emery said.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Up until the parade," Trestman said later during a sitdown with reporters. "I think you have to start at the parade."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He wasn't being presumptuous, he said. The parade is the symbol for the destination, and once you know where you're going, you can begin to prepare.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="mod-inline image image-right" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(194, 194, 194); 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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><a class="enlarge" credit="Michael DeHoog/Getty Images" href="http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/1101/nfl_g_cutler1x_600.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Jay Cutler" border="0" height="200" src="http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/1101/nfl_g_cutler1x_300.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 4px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></a><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><cite style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ababab; display: block; font-size: 10px !important; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael DeHoog/Getty Images</cite>Marc Trestman said he's going to give Jay Cutler the keys to the car, but he's going to help him learn how to drive efficiently.</div></div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But it wasn't just the symbolism that impressed Emery.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Every day accounted for, every time slot accounted for, every meeting accounted for," he said of the schedule. "And not only that, but he included the provisions of our CBA, which takes a nuclear scientist to figure out exactly what you can do."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seifert said Trestman stood out when he got interviewed to join the 49ers after their Super Bowl win. He was replacing Mike Shanahan, who replaced Mike Holmgren.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"One coach said (Trestman) was the smartest guy he met in the interview," Seifert said.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trestman hasn't gotten any dumber over the years.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm excited," Carter said. "I think the NFL needs fresh coaches, not fresh to the NFL, but guys getting a shot to run a whole football team. A lot of these teams recycle. I believe Marc is one of the best teachers, especially now with the game focused around the QB. 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