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I know some will say it doesn't hurt to talk, but I think this indicates the bears overweighing the importance of interviews in this process.

Has a very similar resume to Daboll, including the "at same level" for a while. Unclear why people didn't tap him after success in Tampa, etc but he's been dynamite since moving to College.

He may well, that’s why bears need to actually try to get someone others like rather than believe their pathetic interview round robin will surface the best coach. Trust others!

Must be what Cincinnati needed to get Luis Robert or something

We probably wouldn’t hear with Vrabel because most of the leaks are due to the nature of the request. I wouldn’t put smith at same level as McCarthy…McCarthy actually wins. I thought their offense would collapse without Moore, only to be more explosive last year. He’s a good coach, I wouldn’t hate it, he definitely needs right mix of players. He definitely can hire a damn staff that’s for sure. Now with Smith, the feather in his cap is probably that the falcons talent wasn’t what we thought, maybe he’s better than assumed. He’d be low on my list though.

This Ben Johnson chase reminds me of the white Sox 2018 offseason where our ability to land them seems a lot more based on other teams hopefully not deciding to land him than us getting him.

If Ben Johnson wanted Trent baalke kept them I’ll eat a hat

Jets have an open GM too. I’d assume Johnson’s hesitancy with that job were the stories of woody Johnson’s kids making decisions based on madden ratings (which to be fair are better than poles valuations)

I want Johnson and I want Johnson to pick his GM, personally. If I’m him as soon as I get in the private interview with Warren I ask for my preferred guy on same timeline

You know I don’t know if board will kill me but I wouldn’t mind a Pete Carroll Brian schottenheimer reunion.

Have to say…I’m not sure firing the coach in season did much (maybe got us a better pick). George may not do it again. Best news of day? Jags keeping baalke. No hot coach will sign up for that after how often he’s backstabbed the coaches under him.

one thing I’d respond to though, because in general it sucks that I care about this, is that it seemed like the 2017-2019 Hahn Sox were getting the big trades right, but they were getting a ton of the small stuff noticeably wrong. That stuff was often dismissed as not mattering, but it was the signal they weren’t capable of sustaining and was dead obvious by 2020 when they had no chips to improve the team in a playoff run. A front office we know is good would not get this much heat on stuff like this, but Getz got very few of the little things right last year, and he has to earn the belief of fans that he has the foot on the gas in collecting the right talent in every avenue.

One of the things we saw last year was they overloaded on guys like this (take advantage of churn…fine) but the 40 man was way too many old players with no options. When they had to shake things up after their terrible start, those players were all released or sent off. They had no margin for error, had to decide on all of them based on ST and 1 month of ball. 1 month of relief appearances wasn’t a lot. Anyway the guys they let go were a lot better than the ones they put in. This guy does have one option, so I guess maybe in 5-6 years Getz is trading for guys with full careers left and are young and promising instead of old and bad.

That’s the funniest tweet he’s ever written though I give him props. I laughed extremely hard.

Oh did the 30 year old reliever have a nice line in AAA

I don’t think anyone has a chance over Lamar again.

If you’d have told me that this crop a year later would have all had average to strong production I think I’d have pointed to it making sense because of the huge amount of reps that group came in with. Daniels, Penix Nix and Caleb all had thrown a ton of PA in college. Very often the last decade this hasn’t been the case, esp during Covid era

I have many layers to my disdain for Jerry (one here is he could have used his power in ownership to create more favorable competitive rules for his club, not just align against labor)… but it is true that the only real model for success Sox could emulate is the braves. And they may operate as a big market club soon, but they are similar in stretching up budgets with competitive teams, but not often players for big FAs. We can’t say Sox should be the guardians or brewers because they don’t get the additional goodies. They need to actually be better in drafting and player development while using the additional payroll they have extremely wisely (I.e. re-signing stars unlike Cleveland, but not just signing addl bullpen help). Thats actually an extremely tight rope to walk, and why I don’t really have tolerance for the Sox so often settling for being average at some aspect of team building when they need to be exceptional at 2-3 to survive

I unno I think the dodgers are smarter than me but if I could pick a misstep it would be signing a 32 year old outfielder for 3 years. They will survive but not the signing that sends shivers down my spine.

Bears emulate colts Sox emulate royals Bulls emulate iowa state

i feel like it must have been hoge and jahns podcast but boy is it hard to search the athletic. So I can't prove that, but this was from the latest. Re-open, don't know, but over and over again we hear that it was poles choice. " To be clear, Eberflus was never forced on Poles — at least not by anyone employed at Halas Hall. The two share representation in agent Trace Armstrong and, per Poles’ account, had become friendly after meeting years back through mutual acquaintances. Eberflus also came highly recommended in 2022 by Colts GM Chris Ballard, who spent 12 seasons in the Bears organization (2001-12) and also worked with Poles for four years with the Kansas City Chiefs (2013-16). Also don’t forget that the Bears’ 2022 coaching search was spearheaded by an outside consultant: Bill Polian, whose 14 seasons in the Colts organization left him, for better or worse, with deeper connections inside that franchise."

It's hard to believe, yet there has been tons of reporting that they offered him to open up the search, start over, interview whomever he wanted, yet he really liked flus. And he fired flus and it would have been a great time for him to save face and plant the "I never wanted him" but...he hasn't done that. Everything has been " he hired and really wanted flus"

I just feel like we've really wanted to believe he was railroaded into Flus but just zero evidence of it. Unless the railroading was by Trace Armstrong. The lucas patrick/ryan bates experience is just so frustrating. It's sorta good to be patient, but you also have to realize you don't have unlimited time to build.

I think there was an obvious aspect to our defense falling off a cliff and it was our interior. It was very thin, and predictably injuries happened and it's very easy to run on us and then it's easy as hell to manipulate that and just open it all up. However, it's amazing how ineffective this defense is without flus. It's like it only KINDA works with him as the playcaller. So again, why on earth is he your hire to bring as your key strategy. I'm sure it isn't a hot take now but when flus was fired I thought it was perfectly reasonable to keep poles. But the mistakes of his are the kinds that you should just really see the impacts of. I would say first choice is absolutely give ben johnson the keys, let him bring his gm, and give him a shanahan structure of team. I don't really have a second choice.

You definitely don’t take things personally, no sir.