Thoughts on Bears direction

"Thoughts on Bears direction"

This should suffice; bearswire.usatoday.com/2017/03/01/bears-are-building-for-long-term-success-not-quick-fixes/

Adam Jahns✔
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#Bears GM Ryan Pace: "We’re looking to set this thing up for long-term success. You’ve got to be careful not for these quick fixes."
11:29 AM - 1 Mar 2017

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In other words we're still in one of our seemingly perpetual "re-building modes" so don't expect too much just yet OK?  When is the "expiration date" on "future".  At what point does "future" expire and we can expect "now" to arrive?

For nearly 30 years following the pre-ordained crumbling of the Bears Super Bowl team around 1990 this team has been in a re-building mode far more often than it's ever been in a here and now mode.  How is it that other successful teams are able to "restock" their rosters on the fly, hire experienced and competent NFL Execs who can do that, and championship caliber coaching staffs but in Chicago it's always the same old story.

"We're rebuilding for the "long-term".

Please spare me and others who think like me of these same old tired out excuses and substitute them with the truth.  Let's try we actually don't have a decent long term plan, don't really know what the **** we're doing, but what the hell you all show up every Sunday and spend your money anyway so we aren't too worried about winning now.  In fact in truth we aren't anywhere near as worried about as you all are.  Not as long as we keep making the McCaskey Family wealthier without having to field great teams.


#Bears GM Ryan Pace: "We’re looking to set this thing up for long-term success. You’ve got to be careful not for these quick fixes."
11:29 AM - 1 Mar 2017

It seems to me we've heard this before somewhere around March 1st 2015 so I have to wonder whether this was simply a pre-recorded tape loop the Bears front office plays anytime the media asks when they think they might stop rebuilding and try to actually win some games.  The scene never seems to change and that's what has finally gotten me to the point of calling out this team over these same sad ass old excuses we've been listening to since the first George Bush was POTUS and I no longer accept it.

For those who disagree I'll just repeat what I posted back to JABF yesterday.

Look at this team and tell me if you will what has changed since the mid 1980s?  The McCaskeys still own it and run it their own way.  Mikey was simply replaced by Ted Phillips whose no less weak a CEO and also more about the bottom line and building the value of the franchise than he is about putting winning teams on the field.

The Bears are still hiring inexperienced former scouts or personnel guys as GMs who lack total autonomy over personnel decisions.  The team still lacks a top NFL Exec to manage all football operations and to whom the GM reports instead insisting that they report to either Teddy Bears or GMcC who have yet to show any ability to put a consistently competitive product on the field.

The Bears continue to hire HCs who are ill suited to keeping their team competitive no matter how many top draft choices we've made or FAs we've signed and the last two have presided over one of the worst regressions in the teams 96 year history.  Back to back Trestman and Fox have the second worst W/L percentage in team history (.343) beaten out only marginally by Jim Dooley (1968-71) and Abe Gibron (1972-74) (.316).  We haven't been THIS bad in over 40 years.  Think about it.

After that fiasco at least GSH was wise enough to admit the game was passing him by and he hired a top NFL Exec in Jim Finks to rebuild the team.  What have the McCaskeys done except to keep insisting no one can run it better than they can despite all evidence to the contrary.  They should be working in Washington right now.  They have the "alternative facts" down pat. 

The McCaskeys had nothing to do with building that 85 championship team and have yet to produce a single one since then but they have produced an less than enviable 178-206 since 1993 (post Ditka) and have managed to fire the only two winning HCs they've actually had since inheriting the team.  Also the only two who actually took the team to Super Bowls.  So how does that jive with top shelf team management?

You all can believe whatever you choose to.  I'm simply stating the simple facts for why I won't back their moves or buy into their lengthy but unchanging excuses.  If you feel you can that's fine but at least look at the facts and ask yourself again.  What's changed?