The Trib Guys Are Particularly Brutal Today...........
Nov 15, 2016 8:30:34 GMT -6
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Post by JABF on Nov 15, 2016 8:30:34 GMT -6
This is brutal regarding John Fox.
There is zero chance Fox survives this season. I just don't see it as being possible now. I think the team will quit on him too. The players will be playing for themselves and their future careers. The team though, and this season are done.
There is zero chance Fox survives this season. I just don't see it as being possible now. I think the team will quit on him too. The players will be playing for themselves and their future careers. The team though, and this season are done.
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How does John Fox survive when his Bears are worse than Marc Trestman's?
Chicago Tribune
Get a load of this quote:
“I think we had a great week of preparation. I think we had good plans really in all three phases.”
That came from the surprisingly still-employed mouth of John Fox right after the coach of the once-proud franchise formerly known as the Bears oversaw his team's 36-10 humiliation at the hands of one of the worst teams in the NFL.
But here's the thing: Those words could've been offered by Marc Trestman, the previous standing joke in Halas Hall who was fired because nonagenarian boss Virginia McCaskey got “pissed off” at the embarrassment.
Shouldn't Mrs. McCaskey have reached that point again? Like, right now? How could she not?
Fox's tenure has devolved into the Trestman tar pits. The parallels are pathetic and scary. Mirroring Trestman's descent, Fox's reign has turned worse in his second year than his first as his team displayed some of the weakest physical and mental aspects.
Already, in less than two full seasons, we have seen Fox's teams pull off big wins on national television when it's easy to prepare, only to dive-bomb into the toilet the following week or two.
Last season, the Bears beat the evil, dreaded Packers in Green Bay on Thanksgiving night, then gagged home games to the execrable 49ers and Redskins.
This season, of course, the once-proud franchise formerly known as the Bears beat the corpse formerly known as the Vikings on “Monday Night Football” and experienced humiliation in Tampa by the worst home team not named the Browns — and this, mind you, followed an open date that allowed everyone to get healthy.
Trestman pretty much doomed himself when his team gave up a fiftyburger to the Patriots, then got a week off to regroup and came out of it by allowing the Packers to pound them with another fiftyburger.
It's hard to believe that was only 2014, just two seasons ago. You tried to wipe that misery from your memory, didn't you? But sorry, Fox is bringing it all back — the lousiness, the embarrassment, the lack of answers, the shredded credibility — and you have to wonder why he's still working here this week.
Trestman at least had a three-game winning streak. Fox hasn't done that here.
Trestman went 13-19 in two years. Fox would have to finish this season 5-2 to match that.
The players determined the outcome in Tampa. Jay Cutler, specifically. He was pathetic. He has killed his team with career-long ball-security issues. He has never conquered the strip-sack-stupid part of his game, and it was right there for everyone to see Sunday.
But the coaching staff allowed it to happen. The coaching staff refused to bench Cutler. The coaching staff, meanwhile, appeared to bench Jordan Howard after a fumble but refused to sit Cutler after four turnovers. This explains how Fox's coaching and his staff could so misread the team's readiness: Fox and his staff can't see what is happening right in front of them.
At the very least, they should be able to smell the stench their game plans and coaching have produced.
But no. Didn't happen.
The humiliation grew worse against one of the worst defenses in the league. And that was before Alshon Jeffery was suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs, and he'd better get something that actually enhances his performance, by the way.
The argument against firing Fox is that he's only in his second season, but here's the thing: So was Trestman.
What's more, the second season has always been marked by a Fox turnaround. That was the story in Carolina. That was the story in Denver. That is not the case in Chicago. That is not even close.
Another argument against firing Fox right now is that the franchise would then have its third coach in three seasons and start looking like the Browns, but here's the thing the Lake Forest wonks in charge of this clown car ought to know: The Bears already look like the Browns.
They have become a laughingstock from the top down, and you know what? That unfortunately brings up the best argument against firing Fox:
The same wonks who brought in Trestman and Phil Emery also were responsible for Fox and Ryan Pace, and worse, send help, they're still here. Why would you trust what George McCaskey and Ted Phillips decide?
Any sane evaluation of their football hiring knowledge suggests the hopelessness that they're more likely to change the big red noses and big red shoes than change the franchise's fortunes.
How does John Fox survive when his Bears are worse than Marc Trestman's?
Chicago Tribune
Get a load of this quote:
“I think we had a great week of preparation. I think we had good plans really in all three phases.”
That came from the surprisingly still-employed mouth of John Fox right after the coach of the once-proud franchise formerly known as the Bears oversaw his team's 36-10 humiliation at the hands of one of the worst teams in the NFL.
But here's the thing: Those words could've been offered by Marc Trestman, the previous standing joke in Halas Hall who was fired because nonagenarian boss Virginia McCaskey got “pissed off” at the embarrassment.
Shouldn't Mrs. McCaskey have reached that point again? Like, right now? How could she not?
Fox's tenure has devolved into the Trestman tar pits. The parallels are pathetic and scary. Mirroring Trestman's descent, Fox's reign has turned worse in his second year than his first as his team displayed some of the weakest physical and mental aspects.
Already, in less than two full seasons, we have seen Fox's teams pull off big wins on national television when it's easy to prepare, only to dive-bomb into the toilet the following week or two.
Last season, the Bears beat the evil, dreaded Packers in Green Bay on Thanksgiving night, then gagged home games to the execrable 49ers and Redskins.
This season, of course, the once-proud franchise formerly known as the Bears beat the corpse formerly known as the Vikings on “Monday Night Football” and experienced humiliation in Tampa by the worst home team not named the Browns — and this, mind you, followed an open date that allowed everyone to get healthy.
Trestman pretty much doomed himself when his team gave up a fiftyburger to the Patriots, then got a week off to regroup and came out of it by allowing the Packers to pound them with another fiftyburger.
It's hard to believe that was only 2014, just two seasons ago. You tried to wipe that misery from your memory, didn't you? But sorry, Fox is bringing it all back — the lousiness, the embarrassment, the lack of answers, the shredded credibility — and you have to wonder why he's still working here this week.
Trestman at least had a three-game winning streak. Fox hasn't done that here.
Trestman went 13-19 in two years. Fox would have to finish this season 5-2 to match that.
The players determined the outcome in Tampa. Jay Cutler, specifically. He was pathetic. He has killed his team with career-long ball-security issues. He has never conquered the strip-sack-stupid part of his game, and it was right there for everyone to see Sunday.
But the coaching staff allowed it to happen. The coaching staff refused to bench Cutler. The coaching staff, meanwhile, appeared to bench Jordan Howard after a fumble but refused to sit Cutler after four turnovers. This explains how Fox's coaching and his staff could so misread the team's readiness: Fox and his staff can't see what is happening right in front of them.
At the very least, they should be able to smell the stench their game plans and coaching have produced.
But no. Didn't happen.
The humiliation grew worse against one of the worst defenses in the league. And that was before Alshon Jeffery was suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs, and he'd better get something that actually enhances his performance, by the way.
The argument against firing Fox is that he's only in his second season, but here's the thing: So was Trestman.
What's more, the second season has always been marked by a Fox turnaround. That was the story in Carolina. That was the story in Denver. That is not the case in Chicago. That is not even close.
Another argument against firing Fox right now is that the franchise would then have its third coach in three seasons and start looking like the Browns, but here's the thing the Lake Forest wonks in charge of this clown car ought to know: The Bears already look like the Browns.
They have become a laughingstock from the top down, and you know what? That unfortunately brings up the best argument against firing Fox:
The same wonks who brought in Trestman and Phil Emery also were responsible for Fox and Ryan Pace, and worse, send help, they're still here. Why would you trust what George McCaskey and Ted Phillips decide?
Any sane evaluation of their football hiring knowledge suggests the hopelessness that they're more likely to change the big red noses and big red shoes than change the franchise's fortunes.
