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So I don't think Leslie Frazier is going to be the coach. He definitely had a hand in developing that talent, but I also just feel like it's a situation where buffalo was loaded, plus McDermott was a phenomenal DC himself. His Minnesota defense was bad, then his Tampa defense was bad.

Sorry for implying it was a temper tantrum, I can see from your post it is not a temper tantrum.

I am very excited about this class. I think this is going to be special.

He could have said that, but the reality of it isn't that different from what you described so I guess I don't care. Steve Cohen totally nailed his press conference, flattered all the fans who knew exactly what they wanted to hear. But then steve cohen had to hire a bunch of people and voila.

Is George McCaskey himself hiring a GM just astronomically better than including Ted Phillips? It's the same, it may be marginally improved with ted. It doesn't matter. The inclusion of Polian, etc is about as good as it can get with the ownership they have. They aren't going to fire themselves. And they would still have to hire a President, I really don't understand the difference. They can still get this right because they are going to pay tens of millions of dollars of someone with a highly sought after job opening to a whittled down group of candidates. And they can still get it wrong because this shit goes wrong every year anyway to lots of organizations. Who knew the giants would become such a shit show with a much more successful family ownership.

Yeah, not sure I'd pair a young QB with him, but there is a chance Tua was the problem. I'd be surprised though.

Everyone knows the deal though. Flores went to Miami and knew he had a long runway with their tanking. Gets them two winning seasons in first 3 years and is fired. Dan Campbell has a long runway with their rebuilding. But i'm sure by end of year 3 he'll feel heat if they aren't winning. Good process without good results will get you fired. Hard to argue with much of Rick Spielmans individual decisions, but their defense kept fading and record never matched. He's out.

I sorta agree. He seemed like a complete jerk in Miami. But I have respect for people just putting their heads down and working, and he did that in New Orleans for sure. Same reason I'm open to McDaniels. I laughed at his failure over and over, but the fact that he just sorta kept his head down for a decade and hasn't jumped at the first opportunity gets points with me. Ireland certainly has an eye for talent. I still can't get over that Kevin Clark piece though, was pretty damn persuasive.

Good example of the temper tantrum of twitter right now. Yes I'm sure they'd all be quite content if George McCaskey said they will judge the success of the next GM not based on Wins and Losses - they are so random in the NFL. Instead he will judge their process. Woulda gone over great!

I find the response to this press conference kind of obnoxious. The same people who 12 hours ago were saying how stupid the bears were because they are keeping Pace and are hopeless just seamlessly transition into how hopeless everything is because Ted Phillips is drawing up a contract and Bill Polian is consulted. It does suck that the Bears are the Bears but at some point they need someone to hire someone and even if they hire a President of Football, George McCaskey still needs to hire them.

Tom Brady, Peyton Manning.

not necessarily. Especially if they hire Jeff Ireland.

The media oogling over Ballard is annoying, but his discipline would have been far, far superior to post Emery Bears. Had we just fired Ballard, I'm sure our draft capital and salary cap would be in a different place. While hilarious they lost to the Jags, and Wentz being terrible, they've had a difficult decision with QB. He builds the team rapidly for Luck, then luck retires right before the season. While the Bears get Foles or Dalton, they were able to get Philip Rivers. They should have last year probably targeted Mac Jones, but with a fully formed team already, I get why they chose this route. Getting Yo-Yo'd by luck for years led to his lack of QB, we'll see what they do now.

Maybe not, but the case for it being possible is it being unknown what contract he's under, they are in transition, and have a good succession plan in Dennis Allen. There is enough respect they may work it out if there is desire. They cannot go through this without knowing.

While he may keep his job next few days, I think we'll see him gone with the GM search.

I do think Bears need to understand what is possible in getting Sean Payton first and foremost, including letting him choose GM.

It is going to be interesting. I think George's confidence is shot now. The Bears were so close to so many franchise altering moments. Choosing Arians in 2013 instead of Trestman. Ballard instead of Pace. Mahomes, etc. Some of these were trying to branch out instead of the obvious choice. Some it was taking the obvious choice (Fox) and it still not working out. I still find myself thinking about that Kevin Clark article. I obviously like Mike Tomlin a lot. I like Kevin Colbert a lot. I like Omar Khan. But in Pittsburgh, in places like Ohio State, in Green Bay, these aren't places where if one cog fails the ship goes under. If we take Mike Tomlin as our coach, we aren't the Steelers model of consistency. George is probably now going to get some big, obvious choice. And I will be excited by many. Loved the Trace Armstrong chatter, even though I don't know about Ryan Day. Love the idea of Harbaugh/Ireland. But all of these will be recreating GM runs scout staff, coach staff reports to GM, etc models that will have the bears relying that two single people get it right. That's why I kinda like the Trace Armstrong rumor the most, with the idea that he has outside experience to think about how to run this. I am not a ivy-league-oogler but I also find Kwesi Adofo-Mensah an interesting candidate as a VP/head role.

Eh, more likely JR scenario is that Angelo is still President or something. I would rather JR be Bears owner than the McCaskeys, easily. I think he is a better owner in a salary cap format. The bulls have underachieved given the advantages Jordan gave them, but nowhere near the underachievement of the Bears franchise the last 30 years.

When LA Chargers give Telesco a third coach, they just watched a season with one of the best rookie QB campaigns ever and a loaded offensive roster with some clear areas of upgrade. When the Bears would give Pace a 3rd coach, the team is old, expensive, without draft picks, and have an exciting QB who put up a pretty bad season. Just didn't make sense but being an insider can be a double edged sword.

Schefter confirmed. I think some media was way too in love with what they could hear from their team sources on what they thought would happen when when you stepped back the situation was far too untenable for Pace to stay and this was a very, very likely scenario and what they were hearing was very, very unlikely.

He should become the Alabama OC not kidding

I think it’s insider brain, snake eating it’s tail stuff

He’s in Minnesota man. He’s a real person.

i don’t think there is any chance Pace stays, personally.

The problem is he got his front office fired to take over so you wouldn’t know what kind of situation you are getting even if he was just HC.