If Fox is let go, who should get a look for HC?

No way he leaves Michigan.  He's now passed Nick Saban as the highest paid HC in college football @ roughly $10 mil a year.  That's at least double the most the Bears would pay.

While common sense dictates that he should be gone over the bye week and given that we will in all likelihood finish worse than last year he should most definitely be gone once the season ends because this is the Bears who always insist on staying ****ed up for as long as humanly possible before admitting a mistake and showing a willingness to buy out of it I thing you're correct.

The injury thing will no doubt be the excuse they truck out for public consumption but it's a false one.  John Fox couldn't win with his ways even if he had a team that was 90% healthy and that's about all any team really is once the season begins.  I've yet to see any HC with his years of experience ever handle personnel decisions as poorly as he has and those comments he makes in pressers he may think are being crafty are just the opposite.  All they show me is a HC who doesn't have a grasp on his team and it's ability.

The only truthful thing I've heard come out of his mouth since the season began is when he was asked about his plans at QB once Cutler was healthy and he said he didn't have a plan.  No shit John and I'd say that pretty much covers every other position that isn't QB too.  Fox comes across to me as a worn out old man whose at the end of his days in the NFL and if there's anyone on this team whose simply just mailing it in it's him.

I can't support the guy any longer.  It's that simple and as long as he remains HC this rebuilding plan will be never ending.  He doesn't have the goods to put it all together any longer and he doesn't have a more dynamic GM with deep pockets whose willing to buy him the kind of vet talent he needs to win like he had with Elway here in Denver and despite that he still fell short of the mark set for him.

I'm sorry but this is not the guy you want running a team full of young players who need development and a rookie QB fresh out of college.  This is the Lovie all over again only not nearly as good or as successful. He needs to go and I doubt there is one member posting here who if they were being totally honest with themselves wouldn't see it that way too.

Firing him won't prevent the Bears from hiring top coaching talent.  Fox has made it very clear that the NFL is performance based and a what have to done for me lately deal.  So why should the process he used to evaluate his players not apply equally to him.  No one asked him to make this team into a Super Bowl competitor in two years.  He was however hired based on his past record of being able to turn tragedy into success relatively quickly and he's failed.  Failed miserably in fact with little hope of redemption even next year if his idea is to try to make it with a rookie QB and a vet like Brian Hoyer to bridge the gap.  Do that and you still won't see a winning team here in 2017 either.

What the Bears really need is a younger coach whose willing to put in the time and effort to get the job done no matter what it takes and they don't have that now.  They have a guy on the downside of his career whose beginning to wonder if he should ever have taken on this project to begin with and he's doing more harm that good as flails around for scapegoats and solutions.  If he stays I don't see that changing either and you can quote me on that.

Of course he should be. But I'm betting he won't be.

More than likely that will be the case and once again the ownership of the team fails to deliver on it's promise that things will change and it's all onward and upward from here.  It's not and it won't be while Ted Phillips is still CEO and President and the guardian of the teams bank accounts.  Profit is his highest and best motive, not the fans, and not a winning team.  That's just "nice if it happens but not necessary" in his estimation.