Another Suspension!!. This time Freeman

Here's the unholy alliance...

I think my point is being misinterpreted.

I am not claiming that players are not themselves responsible for their actions and for an understanding of how some meds or supplements can violate NFL prohibitions.  Of course they are so some of you are stretching this far beyond my intent in saying what I have.

My point is that this fiasco coupled with the rest indicates to me (you all can see it your own way) the type of too casual culture, laxness, and lack of self discipline that have become hallmarks of John Fox coached teams.  This was at least part of the reason he was let go in Denver only it wasn't just PED suspensions.  It was also DIUs and DV issues with players as well.  Maybe Fox needs to treat them a little less like adults.

The bottom line here guys is this is a rapidly sinking ship that has seen more than it's fair share of player issues both on and off the field beginning almost from the start and worsening as time goes by.  John Fox may be a peach of a guy and I'd love him as a beer drinking buddy but as an NFL HC he's become a disaster.  Virtually everything he has had an active hand in has gone to hell in a basket and no one is enjoying the ride.

At the bottom line THAT is the only real point I'm trying to make.  Call it a curse, call it jinxed, call it whatever you like but since Fox arrived to rescue us from the horrors of Trestman all he's really done is create more of them and IMHO most of his own doing.

It's a business and it's a business in one hell of mess.  I've been hired to fix deals that were this bad too and you start at the top not the bottom.  Losing here is not the QB centric issue the Chicago media would like to pass off as the problem and so much for us to believe.  This is a management and ownership issue and I've posted about that at length in other threads as well. Sometimes you do have to drain the entire swamp not just skim some scum off the surface.  I think the time has come for that.

For over 30 years the names and the faces of players, coaches, trainers, scouts, other assorted employees, and GMs have all changed and in some cases several times over.  What's been the constant then?  I'm curious as to how anyone who has followed this team since the '80s could mistake this and that includes the fans and the media alike.  Apparently the media skirts it to remain in the teams good graces and not beat up too badly on a nice old lady owner.  Luckily I don't have those same restraints nor do I share those same emotions about Ginny McCaskey any longer.

For roughly 15 years from 1984 'til 1999 we had to put up with Mikey McCaskeys idiocy and ineptitude.  The same Mikey who GSH begged his daughter NOT to be allowed to run the team and yet she has the balls to tell us she likes to think she runs things as her father wished?  In a pigs eye she does.  She finally fires Mikey but do the McCaskeys hire a top notch NFL exec like GSH did when he replaced himself with Jim Finks?  No, the promote a bean counter who also had no experience running an NFL team to CEO/President.  So exactly how did this fix anything?

As I've said, about once every five years or so they'll make some changes that are more window dressing than tangible and through that make promises to restore GSH's beloved Bears to their former glory but it never works.  It's not that they don't care.  It's that they have no idea how.  They stumble around making changes but never the correct changes because those would push them out of their comfort zone which IMHO must be pretty God damn small and narrow.  I think it's only wide enough for dollar bills to pass through myself and it's not that they object to spending them, they don't.  Or at least not as long as they get to decide how they're spent and on who.

So stop worrying about fixing Jay or any other QB around here.  They were never the root problem anyway.  Even the GMs and Coaches had some good days.  Just not near enough of them.  If we want the team fixed than fix who actually runs it.  Fix the Irish Mafia McCaskeys and their Consigliere Teddy Bear Phillips. It's time to settle all the family business all at once and sooner than later or this won't stop with just a new HC and a new QB.  It's time to declare a little war at the top and get those changes made.

Where's Michael Corleone when you need him?