Chicago Bears: Is John Fox Good or Just Lucky?

Team is now in serious running for the #1 overall draft pick in 70 years, and Fox is in the HC that is likely to do it. That's what he is.

When I said this a few years ago, it was heresy.

My take on Fox right now is he's just one more coach like Martz whom the game has passed by and as Martz and Lovie both did with JA my take is that Fox has had his way to much and too often with a young inexperienced GM like Pace.

I was a big fan of drafting a kid like Prescott in the middle rounds prior to the draft.  Of all the possibilities his mobility and his arm seemed to be the best match for the type of offense Gase had created and I thought he'd be a perfect guy to sit and understudy Cutler for a year or so and maybe even show good enough to win the #2 spot over Hoyer.

When we passed on him to take a swing at a far riskier pick in Deon Bush just to add more back end of the roster depth at Safety I was pissed.  I didn't even think Bush should have gotten a roster spot over Demontre Hurst.  But he was one of three 4th round picks all on defense and again I smell the influence of a defensive minded HC over his GM.

If Pace is smart and values his job he'll begin to distance himself from Fox now and swing the balance of power around Halas Hall back in his direction.  It's all too clear now that Gase should have been the HC hire even though he had no previous HC experience.  We had to know that he'd be gone after a year and this is like a deja vu of Lovie losing or should I say firing Chico Rivera and instead of forward thinker we end up with HCs who coaches like this is still the 1980s.

Fox has lost me and I don't regret it.  It's far easier for me to see why Elway parted company with him now and if Pace is as sharp as I think he may be he'll take a similar approach and lay down the law and the rules for how it's gonna work from this point on.  If Fox disagrees and chooses to resign then so be it.  It's no great loss.  It really isn't not even if it happens at the end of this season.

Yep, and for how many years has that been going on now?  Other teams like NE and GB are always picking up QBs in the middle rounds even though they have well established starters and we draft Safeties.  The lowest and most disposable player on the defensive totem pole.  And we never take the very best of them higher they're always kind of an after thought pick and few last more than a year or two.  It's become a joke among us but not a very funny one at all.

As I posted if Pace is a smart young GM he should do what I would and that is to begin to distance myself from Fox because in another week we'll have a 0-4 start and be well on our way to an even worse season than last year.  We have six NFCN games to play starting with Detroit next week.  If anyone honestly believe we stand much chance of winning any of them with this team with no running game and a defense as bare as we have now it's time to put down the pipe.

So that's a very good chance of 10 losses right there.  2-6 after 8 weeks at best is what I see and probably no more than 2-6 the last 8 weeks unless we improve on offense and get some defensive starters back.  We;d need to get very lucky to even get to 8-8 and that won't be good enough to keep the Chicago media from clawing at Fox.  Remember they don't like his secrecy and his vagueness to begin with and now it appears that at least some of his reports have been half truths or out an out lies.  Once he gets on their bad side he'll stay there for a very long while just as Cutler had and even trading Cutler to save his ass like Trestman tried doing when he benched him won't work.  That'll be way too easy to see through for anyone with half a brain.

He'll escape because the McCaskey's, or should I say Ted Phillips, won't eat two years of his salary but I'll be surprised if he recovers from it in 2017 with a new QB and an OC no better than Loggains.  After the Emery/Trestman/Tucker episode fans patience is wearing very thin and the other wild card is how much longer will Ginny McCaskey last and what will that mean as far as the Bears ownership if she does pass?  They say the team will never be sold but they once said that about Wrigley and the Cubs.

Like I said if I'm a 39 year old newbie NFL GM with a career to protect it's time to think about doing that now and not be to concerned about a 61 year old HC whose on his last job before retirement to wherever.