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My view is - Bears should be doing all their homework now and have a short and tight list to tackle right when season ends. Keep your short list to 4-5 names and move quick in interview process and than give a good contract to your top guy. On my list of must interviews are: 1) Mike Vrabel - My personal favorite. If Bears don’t interview him - it means this is same ole Bears cause this is the exact type of coach they would not touch in the past. If Bears interview - at least it’s a good sign (even if they go another direction). But this guy is no nonsense, smart and has been successful with mediocre qbs. I also think he fits the style that works in a cold weather city and has shown a knack for finding good offensive coordinators (see Arthur Smith). 2) Ben Johnson - My guess is this is who Bears will hire. He runs a really good offense and has done it for 3 years. I don’t know how dynamic a leader he is - but long term on field results with Goff have been excellent (yes great talent too - but they scheme guys open as well). 3) Thomas Brown - He is in very tough spot - but some guys just have a special quality and he might just be that type of guy. Press conferences don’t mean anything but he clearly has juice on the podium and evidently in the locker room. 4) Kliff Kingsbury - I’m skeptical here because the Arizona gig went south but he did have a lot of early success and guys learn. He’s worked with Caleb and you can’t argue what is happening in Washington with Jayden. 5) Wildcard Candidate: Back channel to see if you can get Shanny or assess a Mike McDaniel / Browns HC. Do homework on Gruden as well - but I am Leary here given how long he was away from coaching and the circumstances around his removal - but if you think he is the best - go get him. Knows how to surround himself with great minds. Heck, his brother Jay had one of the all time great offensive staffs around him.

If nothing else it’s an interesting concept. Maximize more at bats for the stars of the game in big time situations. While at first glance I don’t like it - I get the concept.

Poles stunk at picking the coach (to extent he actually picked Flus or actually chose to keep Flus). And he was clearly involved in Waldron and others coordinators and that didn't work. Warren is arrogant - which can be good or bad - but he doesn't want to take half measures - he wants to be successful and I think he is more likely to basically rip things to ground if he doens't think its working, etc. He might end up being too inpatient and I won't pretend that he has accomplished much - but his attitude / ego is very different than Phillips for example and I think that means he is going to go full stop to do what he thinks is best. Where as I think Poles wanted to be right - but his way. I don't know - watch Poles step down or something real crazy.

This - the only scenario I see here is if you are Poles maybe you don’t go for Vrabel or Beli (or last year Harbaugh) cause they would bring more power and thus you prefer the greener candidates. This allows that scenario to be off the table but it also shows a lack of trust.

One difference - I really don’t think Jerry cares that much where as I know the McCaskeys care - they can’t get out of their own way but they care.

I agree - they had no good options though, which shows you how weak the staff Flus and Poles put together was. I guess from a locker on perspective Brown is the one guy with juice - Washington seems like he has a bit too so I presume Brown will turn the defense to him and focus on offense plus a few other things but ultimately it’s going to be a lot of work for Brown.

Hard job for him but it is clear he is the one coach team believes in.

Who will interim be

Lions showed this too. I do think if I were them I would focus on lines - move in draft where appropriate and use free agency. Interior fixes unless a stud lt prospect is there.

I will state - the way they are set up from assistant perspective they don’t have many options. That is on Flus and Poles too.

Seems like real smoke Flus is gone in next day or two. Only question who wears the interim tag.

His explanations were so stupid. Just call the time out with 12 seconds and decide your game plan. Run a sideline play to see if you can get in field goal range…if you can’t or prefer an alternative take 2 shots to end zone. Or you know…call a timeout with 30 seconds left once your qb got destroyed on some of the worse blocking i ever saw and than reset everyone knowing you have the sideline or whole field in that play but need a quick spike if it’s in middle of field. Bit at very least you need to know once clock hits x without the play going off you are calling a timeout. But he is actually explaining like it was good. I did actually think Odinze got held or interfered with on the play but you can’t bail them out for that level of stupid.

That looks real good.

I’m convinced that second to last play was a communication issue cause it didn’t look like wideouts were thinking it was a draw play and I don’t know what the hell the line did. It was almost as bad as the clock management. I just read Eberflus quotes - holy hell he is defending that train wreck and saying they did it right. What a moron. He did it against Washington and got away with it - Bears have a long week, Flus has to go tonight (or tomorrow at latest). No idea who they turn it to - maybe Hoke, but this was the last straw.

But he has all the chips to fill in those holes and really start to see this thing take a huge step forward. Will he make the right choices…who knows.

They have to say that - but there is zero chance they haven’t already made up their mind. Zero.

With that said - Flus may have to be fired now cause while they know he is a dead man walking this and Washington loss were the absolute 2 worse of ones of the season. How they didn’t call a timeout is just so so bad.

He missed a few where he rushed himself but he also had some dimes. It is nice to see a lot of highs with him past few weeks but still room for growth. With more experience and a more consistent oline I think we will see more growth. Very excited about what we have seen past few weeks (despite the shoddy coaching and in this case also on Caleb but that is what coaches are for too). Reality is they should have called an instant time out after he got clobbered in that draw play. Reset and know you have 25 seconds to get a play in and get down and spike. And yes he missed Moore on that one play on final drive but than he threw a nice ball to Keenan that was overturned and had a few other ones on that drive he overcame. Oh and Moore had that brutal 3rd down drop in 4th quarter earlier in game. Flus is gone but I don’t see what firing him accomplished. Players know he is gone but moving Brown to that role and than making him have to deal with that and the offense doesn’t sound that good to me. Maybe you can turn it to Hoke.

Way to go Caleb though. Not perfect and that is also on him but he played good in 2nd half.

Football is easy when you can manhandle dline like this. Good lord this is an old fashion ass kicking.

I don’t like Belicheck a ton but at this point I’d turn it over to someone with real swag and leadership. Vrabel is young and has it. He is opposite of Flus.

It was horrid. Killed momentum too. Lions are an awesome football team so I expect to lose but Flus is so bad.

I also would state that in football coaching matters more than any other sport.

No doubt. I also suspect they would have moved down, drafted an olinemen and than would have drafted Mcconkey or something. But no doubt in my mind they win a few of those close games and just have a total different trajectory. The dude flat out loves football, and is quirky, but he builds winning cultures and stresses detail and knows how to get his players to buy-in on his way.

I’ll wait until end of season. If offense is crushing it than he can interview and if he is the best, great. It is 2 weeks in and so far each week we have seen improvement, if we see continued progress and growth than go ahead and interview and or let next head coach evaluate him for oc. For record, Vrabel is on my short list with Johnson. I am a pretty big Vrabel fan - like tone he would bring and think he knows what it takes to be a pretty good head coach. Of course they should have given Harbaugh a blank check last offseason. But I can’t go back in time - despite me being adamant it at the time (as many of us were).