Chicago Bears: Is John Fox Good or Just Lucky?

If we have all this talent why are we getting our asses kicked every week?  Why by the third week of the season do we open a game with an offense that can't score more than 3 points in a half or control the ball for more than 8 minutes.

Why in the second year of what's been sold as the same offense installed by Gase (that's why Fox kept Loggains right) have we looked like we're still playing with nothing more than what we'd ordinarily see in the preseason while they were still working on timing and getting the kinks out.

Why can't our OL keep pass rusher off Cutler long enough to at least allow him the time Hoyer got and Monday night to complete some passes.  If they gave Hoyer that much time to throw in the second half against that soft Cover 2 Zone they played don't you think Cutler would have done as well or better?

Everyone want to criticize Cutler's lack of leadership but who is it whose ultimately responsible for seeing every unit of his team is prepared and ready to play on game day?  It ain't Cutler, or Loggains, or Fangio or Jeff Rodgers it's John Fox and he plain old fashioned hasn't done it.  If you call that great leadership then thank the Lord he's not your commanding officer leading you into a fire fight because you'd be dead by now.....three times over.

You are seeing things I do not because if enough players were actually making plays we'd be winning.  I can't count on maybe 6 or 7 guys out of 22 starters who seem to be making some plays consistently but if you don't have 22 of them doing it you lose.  The sheer number of mistakes and breakdowns is overwhelming and that is not the earmark of a well coached team.

Fox and his staff have had one whole season and two offseasons to get these guys prepared to at least be competitive on game day.  We were for many games last year and if we have even more talent this year than last why are we so non-competitive?  What's the answer for that and it has as much to do with an almost complete lack of offense and an over worked defense as anything else I can see.  If you want them to hold up for 60 minutes they can't be on the field for 40 of it.

So whose not here this year who was last year and who was it who made that offense work fairly well year one and in it Cutler had the best and most efficient year of his career?  Loggains was Jay's QB coach last year and also contributed to that so he certainly know that offense well enough to coach it or is it actually the same offense or now that Gase is gone has Fox been messing with it?  You tell me?  Did Jay and Loggains get struck stupid in the offseason? 

Fox wants to run the ball yet he let his best RB go with no one to adequately replace him and we're either we're blocking so poorly or running so poorly we only called 12 running plays period last game and in every game were throwing the ball 60%-70% of the time.  So the experts say to win ya' gotta take the ball out of Jay's hands.  Shoot if we did that the first two games we'd have been shut out both times.  This ain't rocket science if you want to control the clock you have to be able to run the ball and we can't.  Why?

I don't know much about Fox when he coached at Carolina but I can tell just about anything you'd like to know about him when he coached here in Denver and he is a really nice guy and his player like him but a master strategist and great game day coach he is not.  He won in Denver when he had two pass rushing studs both of which Elway bought for him either through FA or draft day trades and he had two very good OCs to run his offense and for three of his four years he had Manning for a QB calling his own plays as often as not.

Take all of that way and John Fox has a very average .500 record as a HC and in some of the biggest games of his career he was badly out schemed and out coached.  Think about this and then I'm out for a day or two.  In four years he made the playoffs every year but only in 2013 did he make it past a division game and to the Super Bowl.  He had the #1 offense in the NFL, Manning as his QB, and middle ranked defense.  Seattle tore them apart 43-8.  That's on par with the 46-10 beat down the '85 Bears put on NE.  In 2014 he was one and done again in the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 years and let go.

All I'm saying is that I know a very different side of John Fox than some of the Bears fans know and I think whatever magic he may have had before when the stars all aligned for him he doesn't have now and giving him how ever many more years you want will not change that.

C ya later.