Well.....if you could see the looks that pass between them that I've seen if it's been a secret it's a poorly kept one. Who do you think those discount coupons for DQ banana splits came from? Not from Focks or GMcC I'd bet.
It's attractive to us as Bears fans, but not sure how attractive it might be to a potential HC. I mean that just as it sounds. I am not saying it is not attractive, I just have no idea how someone outside of the Bears bubble would view the team. It has not done very well, but shows some promise. I would think there would be more attractive places to coach, but for selfish reasons, I really do hope all the candidates do view this as a very attractive position.
It's attractive to us as Bears fans, but not sure how attractive it might be to a potential HC. I mean that just as it sounds. I am not saying it is not attractive, I just have no idea how someone outside of the Bears bubble would view the team. It has not done very well, but shows some promise. I would think there would be more attractive places to coach, but for selfish reasons, I really do hope all the candidates do view this as a very attractive position.
Nope, I'm not going there this time.
Sure.... just be a cheap hussy when you want to be and not when we need you to be.
It's attractive to us as Bears fans, but not sure how attractive it might be to a potential HC. I mean that just as it sounds. I am not saying it is not attractive, I just have no idea how someone outside of the Bears bubble would view the team. It has not done very well, but shows some promise. I would think there would be more attractive places to coach, but for selfish reasons, I really do hope all the candidates do view this as a very attractive position.
IMHO it requires looking both outside the record (is there enough core talent here) and being blind to Phillips and GMcC hiding behind the curtain pretending to be the Great and All Powerful Oz of Bears football.....and maybe an evening out with Pace doing shots of Patron.
Sure.... just be a cheap hussy when you want to be and not when we need you to be.
well, first of all, I'm an expensive hussy, but since you're begging for it....
If an oven cleaner can be an attractive position, I would guess Bears HC could be one as well. What's that? how can an oven cleaner be an attractive position?
Ha! gotcha! But still, this guy thinks an oven cleaner is an attractive position.
I can accept that just as easily as I can accept Phillips saying, "Here let me help you", and making some calls around the league helping to assemble a "go to" list. IMHO Phillips has not and will not ever be left out of football related matters until he's no longer CEO or a VP of Football Ops has been hired with 100% authority on all football related matters including the authority to close any office door in Phillips face when football discussions are being held inside.
Again....if Pace gave him a list of people to call..whats he supposed to do? He's the president, he's supposed to reach out to potential candidates. But from all reports other than whats been said on this board, it's Paces show on who gets hired.
I can accept that just as easily as I can accept Phillips saying, "Here let me help you", and making some calls around the league helping to assemble a "go to" list. IMHO Phillips has not and will not ever be left out of football related matters until he's no longer CEO or a VP of Football Ops has been hired with 100% authority on all football related matters including the authority to close any office door in Phillips face when football discussions are being held inside.
Again....if Pace gave him a list of people to call..whats he supposed to do? He's the president, he's supposed to reach out to potential candidates. But from all reports other than whats been said on this board, it's Paces show on who gets hired.
Well, I might react to a call differently depending on if Ted Phillips or Ryan Pace was trying to schmooze me. I'd be a sucker for Gidget, of course.
I can accept that just as easily as I can accept Phillips saying, "Here let me help you", and making some calls around the league helping to assemble a "go to" list. IMHO Phillips has not and will not ever be left out of football related matters until he's no longer CEO or a VP of Football Ops has been hired with 100% authority on all football related matters including the authority to close any office door in Phillips face when football discussions are being held inside.
Again....if Pace gave him a list of people to call..whats he supposed to do? He's the president, he's supposed to reach out to potential candidates. But from all reports other than whats been said on this board, it's Paces show on who gets hired.
IF.....and IF Pace asked Phillips for any help regarding football matters without being required to do so then I blame him since he has people of his own staff like Joey Laine who could do that or why not do it himself in order to keep his own confidence in whose on his list?
After all this is the guy whose own HC wasn't told who he planned to draft 'til just prior to the opening bell. If he can run that show with only the help of his own staff he can handle the preliminaries of a coaching hire too I'd wager. He's only trolling for interest so far not hiring.
If what Rapoport reports is true this is the CEO once again sticking his nose into football matters because coaching costs are separate from player personnel costs and other areas Pace does have direct charge of. Call it Teddy trying to useful or call it Teddy insisting on inserting himself and his influence where it does not belong but however you define it as well intentioned or otherwise Ted Phillips is meddling where he should not be.
Ostensibly Focks was Pace's hire too. Hasn't that always been the company line? Anyone whose willing to believe that is also welcome to believe what Kap is tweeting if they choose. I choose not to if only because the second biggest liars in the US have their offices at Halas Hall and Kaplan knows that too because he's commented about it before on Sportstalk. For all we know he's simply being used as a denier of fact here. The Bears version of Ms Sarah Huckabee-Sanders.
Believing as little of the "official" version of events at Halas Hall has usually worked out best for me but you are entitled to your own way of seeing it.
Again....if Pace gave him a list of people to call..whats he supposed to do? He's the president, he's supposed to reach out to potential candidates. But from all reports other than whats been said on this board, it's Paces show on who gets hired.
Well, I might react to a call differently depending on if Ted Phillips or Ryan Pace was trying to schmooze me. I'd be a sucker for Gidget, of course.
Actually, Gidget's family has been close to the McCaskey family for many years. This is why Fox was hired in the first place. It was all due to Gidget's family influence. Also, Gidget's family has been the real power in the Bears organization. I feel for Ryan Pace having to work with them on a daily basis.