Mid Season Grades By Position: Offense

My point exactly and we've been doing it for a very, very long time.

Go back to JA.  He helped to draft a great defense and then bought an OL in FA good enough to get us to a SB but failed to keep building and sustaining an offense that could match the defense.  He trades for Cutler but fails to build an OL who can protect him or draft the type of WRs he can succeed with.  So there's our first half a loaf in this century.

I can't think that they actually got much of anything right as far as hiring Emery then sticking him with Lovie for a year which only created tension and a desire on Emery's part to hire his own HC and build a team his way.  So we fire only the second winning HC we've had since Halas retired in 1968 and the slide into oblivion begins.  This one lands at Ted Phillips feet.

Then instead of getting totally out of the way and hiring a Exec VP of Football Ops to hire the next GM and/or HC once again Teddy Bears and GMcC set out to prove they know what they're doing and hire an NFL consultant to help in the search and he's only able to bring them a package he knows they'll accept which turns out to be a rookie GM who'll be malleable enough to accept an aging HC on his way down career wise and one who never has shared Pace vision for building this team and we slide even farther into oblivion.

This year we actually draft the QB of the future but fail to find a vet QB who can take over for a year while the rookie learns from the bench and neither QB is provided with the weapons they need to mount a decent passing attack.  We had then at one time but let them all go because they didn't fit the offensive concepts of the HC whose about to lose his job come January anyway.  The NFCN title is up for grabs now but we're still too weak offensively to challenge for it.

I often sit here wondering how many more ways Phillips and the McCaskeys will find to **** up before we ever truly see this team run correctly.