John Fox roasted by Michael Irvin, fans in Bears' ugly loss

I don't know much about Carolina but I do know a bit about his stint here.

Elway and then GM Brian Xanders hired Focks about a week after Elway became VP of Football Ops for much the same reason he was hired by the Bears.  Josh McDaniels had created a mess much like Trestman did and Focks was seen as a guy who could regain control of the team.  He did that and far more.

But after going 8-8 in his first year Elway also realized that he needed to stock the team with some vet talent and a top QB very quickly if he expected to win with Focks as HC and having total control of all football ops he went out and got them including Manning.  Focks would never have done what he did here without him.

Following the SB loss to Seattle 43-8 when even Elway expressed how completely unprepared the Broncos looked despite having the top offense in he NFL Elway added even more defensive talent in 2014.  Once again Focks finished 12-4 and earned the second seed in the playoffs only to lose to Indy and again go one and done for a second time.

The day after Denver lost in that Divisional Round of the playoffs, Fox and the Broncos "mutually agreed to part ways" which was a convenient was for Focks to save face rather than to be fired as he would otherwise have been.  Even though Focks had the highest regular season win percentage in team history Elway felt the Broncos hadn't shown enough preparation fight at critical times in the playoffs.

Sounds familiar doesn't it?  So we hire Focks where he's about to become the losingest HC in team history.  From the top of the mountain to a cellar dweller his rep for having his team less than prepared followed him here and I suspect it may have been much the same in  Carolina where he went from 12-4 and his first SB loss to a 2-14 record two years later.

Even with a .719 winning percentage in Denver Focks is now barely a .500 HC.  Take that part away and his winning percentage is .453 and .283 as the Bears HC.  We need someone who can do better than this.