Nonsense!!! I thoroughly enjoy my banter with you. Therefore, we must, I say MUST continue to have our dialogue together. BTW, which nickname do you prefer? If you can't decide I'll just rotate in all three.
Well, that is certainly an eye-opening nugget from The Athletic’s senior NFL insider. On the one hand, Russini offering up Bears President Kevin Warren as the singular figure responsible for the team retaining Matt Eberflus as its head coach (1) is pretty damning and (2) gives fans someone to point the finger at and blame. But on the other hand, Russini suggests that it could be Warren leading the charge and taking the opportunity to line up the quarterback, head coach, and general manager. Could that happen as soon as this offseason?
I wouldn’t doubt Warren has been calling the shots. However, I think the GM is safe for 1 more year. On the other hand, I think the HC should be fired yesterday. I’m hoping they don’t let Poles pick a HC and then the FO shit cans poles the following year. Maybe the plan is to get rid of Poles and the coaching staff. It would make more sense than just firing the HC.
As much as I hate to say it Chicago may have to retain Poles. There has to be one holdover who is invested in Caleb's development. With BOTH a new HC and GM neither one would want to see it through because he wasn't there guy and will want to move on at the first sign of trouble. At least RP will want to make it work because Williams is his hand selected quarterback.
I think you see it all wrong. Williams should attract good GMs and HCs who want to build and develop a quality team around a superstar QB.
We were saying the same thing about Fields.... and The Bears are in the same cycle again.
Fields was never the same quality of passer that Williams already is. I think plenty of people outside of the organization understood he was a game manager with dangerous legs. Williams is much different. However, I do agree. The bears are screwing up Williams. However, I think he will attract offensive HCs who want to tie their wagon to him as a QB. If Poles gets shitcanned (which I’m half and half on merely due to the circumstances the team faces more so than his performance) then I think it will attract quality GM candidates for the same reasons.We were saying the same thing about Fields.... and The Bears are in the same cycle again.
I blame Ted Phillips for that. There were some quality coaches available last year. I realize that not all of them were favorites of this board. But my guess is that in Ted's mind, strong, controversial personalities like Jim Harbaugh and Sean Payton would have been bigger than Ted. He cant have that.
Aside from neglecting the trenches, (particularly the o-line), and retaining dumbfuck Eberflus last offseason, I like what Poles has done. I don't even really care about the couple of FA misses.
The problem we face with Poles is if he fails to build up the OLine this offseason, he’s going to get fired next offseason. Then we run the risk of Williams being on his fourth offensive coordinator in 3 years
If he overhauls it and it still is bottom of the league, I think he’s gone.
Pro Football Focus (PFF) weekly grades O-lines, and the Bears have graded out fairly average thru the first 10 weeks. Not great. But not last.
Yeah, those grades are garbage when our QB is the most sacked QB in the league by far.
We were missing both our starting tackles against the Pats which accounts for 9 of those.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Braxton Jones get replaced in the starting line up, he looks more like a good back up to me. Jenkins looks like he will never be healthy.
Its a team effort tho, Fudge. Before the Packers games, Caleb was waiting almost 5 seconds to throw. An O-line that gives a QB 4+ seconds cant be the worst. And our receivers gotta get separation.
