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Johnson just honestly feels like when Shanahan was entering the HC search. Is he an obvious “leader of men” with his Hurley hats and mumbling? Was Belichek? Easier to lead when people know you are putting them in best position. That said - I think it’s incredibly impressive when coaches can win with subpar qb talent. Vrabel and now Bowles (and Johnson) didn’t make excuses, worked with who they had and built the whole team. Robert Schmitz tried to talk s%*# about vrabel without Arthur Smith, only to find his numbers were completely off. Titans talent never felt overwhelming aside from two to three blue chip talents (brown, Henry, Simmons) but won. If flus had last years titans he’d have been 1-15. I don’t really know that anyone has a great feel for hiring coaches except the packers. But if we can’t import their brains for this decision…I’m ok with either Johnson or Vrabel. Anyone else is a huge wild card. And neither is a guarantee. But I don’t mind bears missing on Nagy, and I won’t mind if it turns out Johnson is just Daboll 2.0. Still is the right decision or “roll of the dice” imo. Definitely possible I fall in love with brown but I hope not. Id love to get the first of the lions coaches and the raid of coaching talent from it.

It’s funny comparing Kwesi operate in MN compared to poles. He inherited an underperforming roster with star power, has honestly drafted pretty terribly, but nailed coaching and has been amazing in FA. Kwesi interviewed Harbaugh and KOC and chose KOC. Poles chooses to stick with the worst hiring org in sports top 3 and hires flus over Dan Quinn. They were both top finalists for bears GM position and feels like they are inverse of each other. Damn if this doesn’t show how important coaching is to success in nfl tho.

I’m gonna guess it includes the lions or some teams not associated as losers anymore.

Yeah I’d just keep pointing to the lions regime inherited Ragnow and Decker, then drafted Sewell year 1. That year they had st brown, much of that offensive line, Goff, swift, and tj hockenson. Anthony Lynn was the OC and their offense was terrible. Johnson takes over and their PPG goes from 19.1 under Lynn to 26.6 under Johnson and hasn’t looked back.

I never said draft BPA. Some years there are certain positions stacked with top talent, and others that are weak. 2023 TE class, for example. I think the teams that make sure to dive into those pools end up with better classes. I didn’t say it had to be with with any one pick. Your “no RBs until the fourth” was much more rigid.

Couldn’t disagree more. You should take what drafts give you.

And Eberflus survived. Unbelievable.

Sorry - bears should consider a RB in round 2. I doubt Jeanty is there obviously

Jeanty is awesome but this is also a loaded RB class. Bears should consider it in round 2.

When you have to follow dabearsblog for ownership moves But it means having to read his brain dead bears opinions

Yeah I'm not a big morosi guy. He is often a bit early. I feel like Morosi was the guy touting Sale to the Nats? Often feels he's the start of a process but never the final destination.

That was a pretty good showing against the Vikings, even the drives that stalled had some pretty terrible drops. That defense has chewed teams up so dealing with it with a banged up Oline and rookie QB I think was definitely a feather in his cap. Also starting to agree that last year he may have felt more limited in the Reich offense (more Reid-ish tree) than this year. Also he just seems like a coach vs. Flus who seems to want timid guys.

There is a big push for Thomas Brown now. I'm very leery because I know Bears will make wrong decision, so if he IS a good coach it will be elsewhere. But I just look at Antonio Pierce. There was such a media push and good feeling push for them to hire him, esp after Bisaccia. And now it's 8 months in, he brought in a terrible staff, he offers nothing. I just cannot remember the interim ever working out, only times it SHOULD have (Arians, but nobody was firing their HC for having cancer). The difference here is really that he's bringing an improved offense, but unless he has plans on a staff overhaul, no thanks.

I read Bowdens article on Crochet market and here are my thoughts:

I would define any pitching prospect not in the top 15-20 as "not blue chip".

I would define any pitching prospect not in the top 15-20 as "not blue chip".

The red sox top ten update from BA had me salivate, such a bummer how expensive position prospects are in deals like this.

gotcha - learned today too that he said it COULD be used for scoring reviews and ...yeah what a dumb rule.

I missed that part of game but saw the outrage. I thought pereira said they couldn’t use boundary footage but the footage *proved* he was in, but bears fans were going nuts on how stupid it was they couldn’t use it. I feel like I missed something.

100%. And while we got the onside kick, we had another blocked kick and that absolutely insane muff. I’m still blown away how stupid that was.

Eh - if he does that they don’t go for 2 the second time, it’d be the same thing.

On the one hand - thank god Caleb looked awesome, and now we can get a real coach. on the other, the bears are selecting the coach. Er…sorry, some retired consultant will.

What’s Matt Eberflus record in one score games again? Is it good?

As soon as I saw the defensive alignment flus put out I knew they’d convert. Maybe blitz the backup coming in cold? Naw

Absolutely one of the stupidest teams I’ve had pleasure of watching. No level of football have I seen a player be that dumb.