Chicago Bears: Is John Fox Good or Just Lucky?

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.

Fox's biggest change from year 1 to year 2 with his old teams was being able to add an elite pass rusher and a QB who would play above average. When you add Peppers/Miller and a peak Delhomne/Manning, it would make Trestman look like a genius. Considering his prior QBs were Rodney Peete and Tim Tebow, that is some upgrade. Go to profootballreference and look at the difference in the starters from year to year 2 on Fox's team, upgrades all across the board. Here in Chicago? I doubt Floyd will be Peppers/Miller and there was no upgrade a QB. The 'Fox bounce' was a myth, yet many fans grabbed it like it was gospel.

i do wish i didn't agree with this.

Fox's biggest change from year 1 to year 2 with his old teams was being able to add an elite pass rusher and a QB who would play above average. When you add Peppers/Miller and a peak Delhomne/Manning, it would make Trestman look like a genius. Considering his prior QBs were Rodney Peete and Tim Tebow, that is some upgrade. Go to profootballreference and look at the difference in the starters from year to year 2 on Fox's team, upgrades all across the board. Here in Chicago? I doubt Floyd will be Peppers/Miller and there was no upgrade a QB. The 'Fox bounce' was a myth, yet many fans grabbed it like it was gospel.