Showing posts with label Dre Bly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dre Bly. Show all posts

Dre Bly: Still Searching For Humility

Monday, July 6, 2009

Two years after leaving the Lions as a key member of arguably the worst defense in football, Dre Bly once again found himself as a key member of arguably the worst defense in football.

But for all his bad luck Bly doesn't make excuses, he just plays the victim.
"If I wouldn't have signed, I'd have been OK with it. I mean, I would have been frustrated, but I know how the game is. I know the way things ended last year in Denver had something to do with why I didn't sign (until May).

"I was made the scapegoat," Bly said. "Especially on the other side of Champ, you're gonna take (criticism). But I don't care who you are, if you don't have a pass rush and you're not aggressive on defense, they're gonna catch a ball.

"We weren't aggressive last year in Denver. We let people take the fight to us. We were so predictable on defense. I don't make no excuses; none of us played well in the system.... People are going to question my ability, saying I'm not this, I'm not that, that's fine. I use all that for motivation."

That sound you just heard is Bly throwing the Broncos under the bus.

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The Ghosts Of Lions Past

Saturday, May 23, 2009

In a typical May non-event event, the 49ers signed Dre Bly a couple of days ago to help replace the injured Walt Harris. What makes this a little more curious though is that the Bly signing marks the fifth former Lion player or coach added by San Francisco in the last two years. In 2008 the 49ers hired Mike Martz to teach his kill-the-quarterback offense to the team and he brought his henchman J.T. O'Sullivan. After purging the team of the coach and quarterback, Mike Singletary added former Lion coach Tom Rathman to his staff while the team signed Moran Norris and now Bly.

In the most recent iteration of how-many-licks-to-the-center-of-a-Tootsie-Pop we get how-many-former-Lions-to-the-center-of-a ummm ... what? Championship?

With Bly beating out Brian Kelly, another former Lion, for the vacant defense back position, rumors that the 49er front office as been inundated with resumes from Dwight Smith, Edwin Mulitalo, Paris Lenon and Brian Calhoun are entirely unfounded.