There is nothing like your first day on a new job.  Everybody likes you and wishes you well.  People help you find things like office supplies or the bathroom or give you a suggestion for a good place to eat.  As time goes on, your workplace experience begins to erode due to griping, agendas and other things that go on in a typical office.  Maybe you don't like a co-worker or they don't you.  Maybe your management style isn't working.  Maybe you have to bag some more sales or lose your job.  Whatever the case, the first day on the job is usually the best and it goes downhill from there.

Meet Mike Martz, the newest member of the Chicago Bears coaching staff.  Martz, a former head coach who once hired Lovie Smith in St. Louis hopes to return the favor by resuscitating the Bears anemic offense.  As part of the vetting process, Martz flew to Nashville and had dinner with Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.  Martz reports the two men hit it off and everything is going to be hunky and dory at Halas Hall this upcoming season.

Will it?  How will the sensitive Cutler react to the acerbic style of his new coach?  Will he live in fear of getting one of Martz's size 11's up his backside every time he makes a mistake?  Will he actually be coached this time or will he just be asked to "run the offense as directed?" 

Beyond Cutler, Martz will have to adapt to the Bears personnel.  Martz says he likes the speed of the Bears receiving corps.  Wait until he finds out that with the exception of Devin Aromashodu, none of them could catch a cold.  Then there is the fact that Martz has traditionally ignored the tight end position.  What plans will he have for Greg Olsen, who has the potential of being a solid NFL player.  Will he help Olsen continue to develop or stunt his growth by ignoring him?

Beyond the players, can and will Martz's pass heavy philosophy work outdoors in bad weather at Soldier Field.  There is a reason the Bears have always emphasized the run and some of that has to do with December. 

It's Mike Martz's first day and right now, happy Bears employees are showing him around Halas Hall.  How soon will it be before they show him the door?