Signs Hint Bears Promote from Within If They Fire John Fox

I've been feeling like I've spent way too many years debating the chaos camp and the preseason provide.  Deciding who makes the final cuts and who doesn't has become an arcane formula where injury, availability, STeams ability, scheme relevance, depth, and whatever other formulas or dice roles Fox and Pace use to decide on 53 players has become a bore.

It's only when the season starts that we can even begin to evaluate those decisions and comment on them with any surety and even then it's still open to some questions. Let's just say that none of what I said back in June has changed.  John Fox is still John Fox and John Fox will play his particular brand of football where he can only win with when he has both a dominant offense and a dominant defense.  Without that he'll lose just about as often as he has so far but we might lose games by just a little less now that the defense has improved.

Players like Howard and Cohen and maybe even Gentry may give us some kind of hope and peek into the future but as long as Trubisky sits we'll never really know just how much upside that future holds.  Since I really don't care much about the results this year other than they result in Fox being gone wins and losses don't mean much.  But how the younger talent plays is of interest so naturally I want to see as much of that as I can.  Unfortunately I'll probably be disappointed as will many others but it is what it is.

I still don't fully trust Ryan Pace and his game plan but then it's already a damn sight better than what we had under Emery so at least he's an improvement over that.  Whether or not that improvement is enough to bring back the Bears of the 1980s and turn them into consistent winners again I can't say. No matter what Pace does he still has to deal with Phillips and GMcC at the very top so that in itself may be limiting.  Many who weren't old enough to remember don't understand that the only thing the McCaskey family had to do with those teams is they inherited them and promptly set themselves on a path to undo what those before them had done.

Michael McCaskey single handedly turned one of the most dominant teams in NFL history into one of it's losingest teams during the '90s and this team has yet to fully recover from that under McCaskey ownership.  They have always done more damage than they have good.  So that part hasn't changed to date and whether it ever will or not is a conversation for yet another day because they ain't goin' away soon and maybe never in our lifetimes because the McCaskey children all have children of their own too and there isn't a Halas in sight anywhere.

I'll do my View From The Hubble each week and pray every Sunday or alternate game day that John Fox is one game closer to retirement and Mitch Trubisky is one day closer to starting so we can finally learn whether or not he's our "great white hope" or simply another missed opportunity to finally have our own All Pro QB again.  I'm tired of the Porkers having all the luck in that regard.

Other than that I'm either gonna smirk silently knowing I've been right about many things all along or........I'm gonna do what anyone should do when proven wrong and eat my crow hopefully BBQ'd with some potato salad on the side.