Breaking NEWS: Bears Hire Ryan Pace as new GM

[JoeyTourettes]

WHAAAT?? Who? there you go! from Bears Twitter Feed!

 

[JoeyTourettes]

From Saints Website: Ryan Pace enters his first season as the Saints Director of Player Personnel in 2013. He will work closely with Executive Vice President/General Manager Mickey Loomis to oversee the club’s college and pro scouting operation and all aspects of scouting and evaluation of college prospects and professional players, including the Saints roster.

2 years as director of Player Personnel?
Press Conf. tomorrow at 11:00AM
14 seasons as member of Saints.

 

[JoeyTourettes]

Coaching Connections: Doug Marrone & Dennis Allen are the two names from Sean Payton tree.

Pace wasting no time- taking part in interview with Todd Bowles.

 

[Beengay fudgepackers]

Who the hell is that? Leave it to the bears to take another candidate straight out of left field.

 

[thunderspirit]

Who the hell is that? Leave it to the bears to take another candidate straight out of left field.

Which doesn't make him a bad hire.

I'm totally in "wait and see" mode.

 

[JoeyTourettes]

At the very least the Bears went away from "Bears family" reports are that Pace had a REALLY good interview and he had a good explanation of the Big Picture for the Bears moving forward, with multiple draft plans. And not just how to fix next year. That's good.

(the dude is the same age as me! smh... what have I done with my life? I could be the GM of the Chicago Bears. LOL)

 

[wood20ks]

Who the hell is that? Leave it to the bears to take another candidate straight out of left field.

we never hire anyone that any of us have ever heard of.............and the same as our new head coach............Most likely some off the wall candidate.

 

[JoeyTourettes]

we never hire anyone that any of us have ever heard of.............and the same as our new head coach............Most likely some off the wall candidate.

OMG!!! the guy has had the job for 30 minutes!!! Just like stupid ass Bears fans for bitching about nothing!
If Ballard was hired we would have heard that it was a bad move cause he was with Angelo/Emery.
GIVE THE GUY A FREAKING CHANCE!!!! Coach is next.

 

[NCChiFan]

Interesting hire... parts of me like it... Parts of me are dithering in the unknown.

 

[JoeyTourettes]

Haa... Reports are that Bowles was waiting in the lobby as the Bears finalized Pace Deal... then said Ok now go to work! Ha. That's awesome. Talk about being thrown in quickly. Ha

 

[averagejoe]

The silver lining to me is that I respect the Saints organization especially in recent history. It's not like the guy came from the Jaguars or Raiders.

 

[wood20ks]

OMG!!! the guy has had the job for 30 minutes!!! Just like stupid ass Bears fans for bitching about nothing!
If Ballard was hired we would have heard that it was a bad move cause he was with Angelo/Emery.
GIVE THE GUY A FREAKING CHANCE!!!! Coach is next.

No one said anything about not giving him a chance...........it seems like we hire gus that no one on this board has talked about........And the same will be of the head coach.

I`m betting it will be someone that has not been talked about.....that's all,nothing less.

So take it easy and take a chill pill for cry`in out loud.lol

 

[NCChiFan]

The silver lining to me is that I respect the Saints organization especially in recent history. It's not like the guy came from the Jaguars or Raiders.

What the hell, when have we ever hired anyone from the lousy stinking Jaguars.... oooo... Nevermind.

 

[NCChiFan]

No one said anything about not giving him a chance...........it seems like we hire gus that no one on this board has talked about........And the same will be of the head coach.

I`m betting it will be someone that has not been talked about.....that's all,nothing less.

So take it easy and take a chill pill for cry`in out loud.lol

Wonder how surprised Bowles was, when he walked into the room to find Pace there as the new GM.

 

[anotheridiot]

I know Andy Reid was hired before the KC GM
Pete Carrol was hired before the Seattle GM

I just like the GM being hired first and taking part in the HC search.

Emery was the next hot candidate nobody knew about, at least Pace is just a candidate not many knew about, but coming from a proud organization.

Entering his 12th year as a member of the Saints player personnel department, Pace spent the last six seasons as the club’s Director of Pro Scouting. In addition to overseeing the club’s staff of pro scouts, Pace’s responsibilities included recommending player acquisitions by evaluating current Saints players and scouting current and future free agents from the NFL and other professional leagues, monitoring the waiver wire, researching possible trade opportunities and supervising the advance scouting of upcoming opponents. In addition, as the organization prepared for the NFL Draft following the season, Pace assisted in the evaluation of some of the top college prospects.

In 2008, he was selected by the club to attend the Stanford Business School’s Executive Education NFL-Stanford Program for Managers, an educational program and honor known across the league as an important training ground for promising executives.

 

[anotheridiot]

BTW, first notice I saw was a headline of Chicago Ryan, I thought they hired Sexy Rexy

 

[toooverbearing]

Eastern Illinois has a weirdly fruitful pipeline to the NFL considering the stature of the school.

 

[nomoreshoop]

I got a friend that played OL once for EIU. But all eyes are on ISU Saturday, my first college

 

[cubzzzfanincali]

well, he was definitely not a guy I wanted, considering the Saints are on a downhill slide lately, and he was the one who did the trade up for Brandin Cooks, which I thought was a terrible deal for New Orleans to make.

But whatever. Have to give him a chance and some time and let him make his own bed.

At least he will be in on the head coach decision. That's a plus. And very glad we didn't hire Ballard.

 

[richig07]

we never hire anyone that any of us have ever heard of.............and the same as our new head coach............Most likely some off the wall candidate.

???

If you haven't heard of the new head coach we hire, that's kind of your fault for not looking into who any of the top assistants are. Or for not knowing the former head coaches that will be interviewing.