We never should have been in this predicament to begin with. We should have entered the season with a good kicker. Too little. Too late now. Fox should be gone by the end of the season, and if Pace can't get his act together pretty soon, he needs to be gone too.
My thoughts EXACTLY. IMO Pace has two more years MAX (that gives his new HC 2 years to show SIGNIFICANT progress) and if the ship ain’t sailing in the right direction by then, another clean house is needed.
We never should have been in this predicament to begin with. We should have entered the season with a good kicker. Too little. Too late now. Fox should be gone by the end of the season, and if Pace can't get his act together pretty soon, he needs to be gone too.
My thoughts EXACTLY. IMO Pace has two more years MAX (that gives his new HC 2 years to show SIGNIFICANT progress) and if the ship ain’t sailing in the right direction by then, another clean house is needed.
That's my thinking too. That would be AFTER 5 years. If you can't show significant progress after 5 years, then it's time to let another person take over. We have been making a lot of excuses (whoops, to be "politically correct" now, we must call 'em "reasons") for still being a 3-win team and last place in the Division - again. At some point you are who your record says you are. We are losers.
Hopefully his injury is no longer a factor. What made Fox get rid of Gould for Barth, I will never know.
I thought it was money. That, and he was starting to struggle some. That one season I think the Bears lost like 3 games because of missed FGs. I remember us talking about Gould in the old forum and many were all for getting rid of him.
It was probably time to be looking for an upgrade from Robbie Gould and get a better kicker. But the Bears honestly seem to struggle with this concept of "better" - we've seen this happen with coaching and player changes. Often with the Bears they confuse getting a new coach/player, with getting a better coach/player. The whole idea is to get better, and not just cycle people in-and-out.
This has pretty much become the trademark of the Chicago Bears over the past decades. The players/coaches change. But we are still a last place team in the division.