Chicago Bears: Is John Fox Good or Just Lucky?

QUOTE; "It's not just about Fox. If only it were that simple."

No it's not ALL about Fox just mostly.  Fox has won more often than he's lost ONLY when the talent he possessed both on the field and withing his coaching staff was virtually overwhelming.  His two previous OCs are both current NFL HCs.  His last QB already has his bust in the HOF made and waiting for him.  When he's lacked those kind of edges John Fox has been a .500 HC.  That's the bottom line even if there are those who like to pretend otherwise.

Quote; "If Pace can feed the coaches enough talent, I figure they should be able to bring the team back to respectability."

Oh for crap sake if you gave any HC enough talent he should be able to do that.  Jeezus you and I could win games with a cast of All Pro players.  Great coaches create talent out of their players or they scheme well enough to win with those the have.  What was it that Bum Phillips said about Don Shula?  He could take his'n and beat your'n or take your'n and beat his'n.  Who was the ONLY HC to beat that '85 Bears defense and he gored them.  That's great coaching and we do not have a great coach.

We fired a HC who went 10-6 the year before and who a couple of years prior to that had just missed getting to his second Super Bowl after losing his starting QB in the NFCC Game.  Denver fired a HC because he'd lost 4 or the 7 playoff games he'd taken the team to including getting completely embarrassed in a Super Bowl game scoring just 8 points when he had the #1 offense in the NFL that year.  So we replaced Lovie with who?  Lovie v2.0?  

If this wasn't happening and instead of losing home game left and right in embarrassing fashion and we did magically reach the playoffs and lose who'd get the blame in your book and that of many other Bears fans, Fox or Cutler?  We both know the answer to that.  Frankly I hope Pace does trade Cutler because then Fox won't have one more scapegoat to blame for his piss poor coaching and lack of preparation.

At least Ric is on the same page as I am with this deal about Fox and those who pay no attention to history are doomed to repeat it.

Any coach can win games with talent around them. We wasted talent around a mediocre coach before. His name was Lovie Smith who is now out of the NFL.

Fox is a very average coach, when he has the talent he can succeed, *see lovie smith*. When he doesn't he is lacking. But that is the vast majority of coaches, a talented team makes coaches, HoF qb's make HoF coaches. There are bad coaches, but rarely will a coaching change solve an issue and take a team from losing to winning, it's the ability to draft and find the right qb; and that is where the Bears have failed b/c the talent since the years leading up to the SB has been bad.

Trestman was a bad coach, so were his coordinators, but the talent level was never here for him to succeed.

Just what are these issues?  They were reported to be 100% healthy last game although now we seem to find out that wasn't altogether true as far as Cutler was concerned. What's so complex about playing lesser players in place of those who've proven to be better or in place of those who simply aren't progressing?

I'm sorry but it's mostly poor preparation and poor coaching.

Well tonight they play Dallas whose lost 8 home games so I guess we'll see whose the champion of the worst home record in the NFC but I'm out for the duration of the game.  I want to watch without any distractions.  Maybe we'll get lucky for a change.