Harry Chappas

I am not against Harbaugh but shouldn't he have better results at Michigan to be given what people want to give him? Is the Big Ten that good that he averages 3.5 losses a season and went 2-4 in the short 2020 season. He is 1-5 in Bowl games. I wouldn't mind him but I do not think they should jump through a lot of hoops to get him.

He tied his wagon a few times to a too to many of the wrong horses. Maybe Fields works out but until we know for sure, too many failed attempts at QB and head coach. Comparatively speaking how is Pace at late round drafting v other teams? He appears to fail often on early round drafting.

Their offense changed when they could run out the clock. They just ran two very safe plays. I do not think they were taking a knee but most likely a safe run that would keep the clock going. After the Charger timeout they had to go for the first down as the Chargers could call timeout after 3rd down and get the ball back. Why the Chargers called the time out is baffling. Was there any explanation? Great news on the Bears as while Pace had done some decent things, they were not enough to beleive the foundation was there. On the NBC football wrap up there was a great dialogue about Pace and the Halas Hall renovation. Kruetz said it best, all he had to do was go to OSU and tell an architect, I want that. For some reason the Bears made it sound like it was revolutionary while it is just what every other team has. Kudos to the architect not Ryan Pace. Phillips will stick around in some capacity if Arlington Heights is real.

Joined in early 03 migrated from ESPN as well never really liked WSI. I think I was around member 100 or 200,

Battled colon cancer for ten years, 12 year old son lost both parents to cancer heartbreaking

I think Jenkins went out in the first quarter. The television production of that game and announcing was embarrassing. I am not a huge Allen Robinson fan. Maybe the system made him look bad but always seemed more like a TE than a receiver to me.

With the heat on MLB owners in regard to the working conditions of minor league players I doubt this will happen.

They do not need to sell the team. They just need a create a structure that can win games. A McCaskey does not need to be the CEO, hell let Phillips be the CEO and hire an actual football guy to be the President. Do that I do not mind letting Pace hang around under the new President.

The Lovie Smith era was pretty good. Maybe I am misremembering as it has been horrific since he was fired. It is amazing he was fired after a 10-6 season and this is what we are getting now. The game was lost due to the terrible penalties extending drives. That was one of the worst officiated games I'd seen. The Bears two personal fouls on 3rd down plays were amazingly bad. Then Minnesota does the same thing the Bears did and Jenkins gets the penalty. Ifedi confronting Jenkins on that the way he did was bad as well. I felt like the Bears were waiting for the other shoe to drop on their defense the whole game and it did not. Nagy, Pace, Phillips and George the ticket manager all need to go. George McCaskey has no ability to run a football team yet here we are.

The problem with a defensive minded HC is that the OC is fired because the offense stinks or takes a HC job if the offense is decent. See Adam Gase. Best case scenario is to get an older OC that isn't looking to be a HC. I thought the Bears had that In Fangio no the defensive side of the ball.

Like Bobby Bonilla. Larry Himes rebuilt it nicely after Hemond so there was never really any missing of Hemond in the 90's

The outpouring of support for him all over the baseball is rather amazing. He was a cool guy that would spend time to tell baseball stories that you never thought you'd hear. Stuff from the 70s is great to hear. As I read all of that I then circle back to how this franchise couldn't retain the talent they produced off the field. I read a story about how he almost traded Arthur Rhoades for Mark Langston on the final day of the season to pitch one game for Baltimore v Toronto for the division title. Dave Dombrowski was the Montreal GM at the time.

George was the ticket guy. Probably the easiest job in America is selling Bears tickets and that was his role in life prior to taking charge of the organization. George probably knows less about football than most folks on this Board, yet there he is along with the team accountant running the operation and wondering why they can't get it right. Pace will take a new title, Nagy with be fired and some other crap will be moved around. Nothing will change but talk radio with continue to spend hours on end trying to fill the airwaves with content while this is nothing that needs to be discussed after about 30 minutes.

I think Pace being gone is 50/50 and if the Bears run the table in the last four I think he stays.

I believe Graham could have been cut and Fuller retained. If that is in fact true it doesn't take a football genius to surmise that the Bears roster is a disaster. 1 CB and 5 TE's

They knew he would be over priced and never joined in the conversation and I'd have to say rightly so but I am not a fan of the large contracts that can hamper a team.

Playing in his neck of the woods. Can watch him live.

I find it hard to believe that they would move on from Tomlin. The problem with the Bears is that while there are salary constraints with players and they spend there, with non-salary operating expenses the Bears are still as cheap as they come. I don't think they pay for an experienced coach of additional football operations people.

He can go to LSU and why not...may end up there anyway.

Remember when White Fence Farm in Colorado closed and people (i.e. me) were ready to cry because we thought it was the one off I-55. Damn that Twitter.

He was never going to leave nor should he. Hopefully he is a the uber utility guy and a real RF and 2B are brought in.

Semien's contract had too many years and Ray and Gausman were gambles as neither have a long track record of success. I look at the cubs and see what bad contracts do to the long range plan of an organization. Darvish and Heyward cost them their core. This is carrying water for JR I know but I look more at securing pieces of the current core over adding high price long term deals that can impact the future.

You are 100% correct. I am guessing he ends up with the Yankees or San Fran.

No rationale fan thought this. Nor does any rationale Sox fan see them investing over $150M for a player on the wrong side of 30. Whether you like it or not that is the philosophy of the organization. How often does aiming really high in free agency pan out for teams that are not the LA Dodgers?

Yes that was a pretty amazing run. That conference is as good as any especially with Sandberg looking like they have improved.