Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 22:14:58 GMT -6
Don’t overthink it, Bears: Fire John Fox now and make Vic Fangio the interim coach
Bears head coach John Fox
Steve RosenbloomSteve RosenbloomContact ReporterThe RosenBlog
Link: www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/ct-bears-fire-john-fox-now-rosenbloom-20171121-column.html#nws=true
Perhaps you missed this significant piece of science news reportedly recently:
Astronomers saw a potentially habitable planet hurtling towards us, and I’m thinking, if it’s already inhabited, then maybe someone there knows why John Fox remains coach of the Bears.
Because I can’t find one earthly reason for it.
Hasn’t Fox earned a permanent siesta? A lull forever?
If his team can embarrass itself against the evil, dreaded rival Packers and then the coach can stand up there a week later and say his team goes to sleep for parts of games, then isn’t that a wakeup call for a new coach?
Geez, the alarm has been resounding since last year. But ownership and management apparently are as somnambulant between games as Fox’s players are during them. Stop the stupid.
Fox’s teams are 12-30 overall and 3-13 in the NFC North. He has been in last place forever. The Bears are battling the 49ers, Giants, Browns, Broncos and Colts for one of the top three picks in the draft. Again.
Fox cannot be allowed to come back to coach the final year of his contract in 2018. Everybody knows it. So, why wait?
What is being accomplished right now? Mitch Trubisky has shown growth, which is the most important part of this season, but it has come in fits and spurts and with the head coach seeming to smother a quarterback and offensive coordinator who want to let the engine out. Maybe it’s Trubisky’s fault his progress is non-linear. Maybe’s it’s the conservative head coach’s. A change at the top might help clarify things, and besides, what else do you have to lose?
If winning games is important, and Fox lets us know this is a production-based business, then Fox is failing. He likes to note how close the losses are, but look, another coach can lose close games and maybe speed along Trubisky’s growth curve.
What’s more, the change is simple. Promote defensive coordinator Vic Fangio to interim coach. He has deserved a chance. He coaches the best part of this roster. You might as well take a look at the guy for this price in the last six weeks because, guess what, hate to break it to the McCaskeys, the Bears aren’t winning the Super Bowl this year, same as every year for the last 30.
Fangio can continue to coordinate the defense or he can promote secondary coach Ed Donatell to the position. Donatell’s unit is the most improved on the field, give or take a Marcus Cooper return.
I wrote last week about making this change and I’m writing it again because it feels more relevant. Fox forces it to feel more relevant with each loss, from the worst challenge of all-time to hiring one of the worst kickers of all-time after firing the kicker who remains the franchise’s all-time leading scorer. Right now, that’s three losses in a row and seven of 10 this season in a production-based business.
It will cost money to pay Fox to go away. It will cost even more money to bring in someone competent next season and to pay for the new coach’s handpicked assistants. That’s the price of doing business. The Bears will have to throw money at the problem because they haven’t thrown brains at it.
The Bears have never fired a coach in midseason. We hear that a lot. Let me ask you something: How has that worked out for them in the Super Bowl era? That’s some management-level self-scouting.
Remember, just because the Bears have always done something a particular way doesn’t make it right.
In fact, that’s exactly the reason the Bears should do the opposite.
Bears head coach John Fox
Steve RosenbloomSteve RosenbloomContact ReporterThe RosenBlog
Link: www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/ct-bears-fire-john-fox-now-rosenbloom-20171121-column.html#nws=true
Perhaps you missed this significant piece of science news reportedly recently:
Astronomers saw a potentially habitable planet hurtling towards us, and I’m thinking, if it’s already inhabited, then maybe someone there knows why John Fox remains coach of the Bears.
Because I can’t find one earthly reason for it.
Hasn’t Fox earned a permanent siesta? A lull forever?
If his team can embarrass itself against the evil, dreaded rival Packers and then the coach can stand up there a week later and say his team goes to sleep for parts of games, then isn’t that a wakeup call for a new coach?
Geez, the alarm has been resounding since last year. But ownership and management apparently are as somnambulant between games as Fox’s players are during them. Stop the stupid.
Fox’s teams are 12-30 overall and 3-13 in the NFC North. He has been in last place forever. The Bears are battling the 49ers, Giants, Browns, Broncos and Colts for one of the top three picks in the draft. Again.
Fox cannot be allowed to come back to coach the final year of his contract in 2018. Everybody knows it. So, why wait?
What is being accomplished right now? Mitch Trubisky has shown growth, which is the most important part of this season, but it has come in fits and spurts and with the head coach seeming to smother a quarterback and offensive coordinator who want to let the engine out. Maybe it’s Trubisky’s fault his progress is non-linear. Maybe’s it’s the conservative head coach’s. A change at the top might help clarify things, and besides, what else do you have to lose?
If winning games is important, and Fox lets us know this is a production-based business, then Fox is failing. He likes to note how close the losses are, but look, another coach can lose close games and maybe speed along Trubisky’s growth curve.
What’s more, the change is simple. Promote defensive coordinator Vic Fangio to interim coach. He has deserved a chance. He coaches the best part of this roster. You might as well take a look at the guy for this price in the last six weeks because, guess what, hate to break it to the McCaskeys, the Bears aren’t winning the Super Bowl this year, same as every year for the last 30.
Fangio can continue to coordinate the defense or he can promote secondary coach Ed Donatell to the position. Donatell’s unit is the most improved on the field, give or take a Marcus Cooper return.
I wrote last week about making this change and I’m writing it again because it feels more relevant. Fox forces it to feel more relevant with each loss, from the worst challenge of all-time to hiring one of the worst kickers of all-time after firing the kicker who remains the franchise’s all-time leading scorer. Right now, that’s three losses in a row and seven of 10 this season in a production-based business.
It will cost money to pay Fox to go away. It will cost even more money to bring in someone competent next season and to pay for the new coach’s handpicked assistants. That’s the price of doing business. The Bears will have to throw money at the problem because they haven’t thrown brains at it.
The Bears have never fired a coach in midseason. We hear that a lot. Let me ask you something: How has that worked out for them in the Super Bowl era? That’s some management-level self-scouting.
Remember, just because the Bears have always done something a particular way doesn’t make it right.
In fact, that’s exactly the reason the Bears should do the opposite.
LOL
