This Should Have Been My Column This Week............

QUOTE; If Bears ownership were asked the great child's dilemma there is no doubting the answer to the question of which super-power they crave. Forget speed, incredible strength, flight or elasticity. Invisibility is what the McCaskey family seems to crave."


It seems Mully and I must be twin sons of different mothers because if I recall I think I was just making this point myself.  Where are the McCaskeys right now?  This was their master plan for a reversal of fortunes for their "Beloved" Bears" whom they have not beloved anywhere near as much or as well as they should have and certainly not like their founder did.

Nope, we got the red headed bastard step children of NFL ownership to run our team for past 30 years.  The whole gang because if you're a McCaskey you will always have a job with the Bears regardless of whether your competent to fill it or not.  THIS current plan was supposed to be it. The long awaited reversal of fortunes for Bears fans. The OK ever body out of the pool changeover from Emery and Trestman drafted and designed by NFL honcho Ernie Accorsi and rubber stamped by GMcC himself just so Mama Bear wouldn't be pissed any longer.

Well if she's not still pissed and ready to make even more changes well then she never will be and this franchise has little or no hope of ever achieving what they often like to tell us they will. You can't get any farther away from being run like New England or any closer to being run like Cleveland than this.  So who steps up to claim this mess now?

Let me reflect on what I have seen posted here often over the past few weeks when the topic of replacing Fox has come up.  Those of you opting for a brand new start with an entire new staff would like a younger offensive minded HC.  Well I'll be God damned if we couldn't have done just two years ago.  We interviewed him for the job but instead we hired his boss, made him work yet another year under him here as OC, then watched him walk away just like we all knew he would. He's doing OK as a rookie HC in Miami too turning Tannehill into a winner like he was trying to do with Cutler here even with the restraints I'm sure John Fox placed on him.  Imagine what year two of him might have been like instead of year one under Loggains.

Well if we could figure out that Gase would be one and done as OC as nothing more than interested but still casual observers tells me how Ernie Accorsi, Ted Phillips and GMcC couldn't?  That's the brain trust that planned mess together aren't they.  They were the ones who uh...maybe "persuaded" a rookie GM it would be in his best interest if he hired their choice for HC but don't let on we said that OK?  We actually interviewed the exact guy many of you are calling for then decided not to hire him just like we never hired Nick Saban because JA and/or Tedd Bear (you choice) refused to give him all of the authority and control he demanded.  We coulda been the 'Bama of the NFL by now instead of the Vanderbilt. 

We got Lovie instead but he only did as good as HC as Cutler has done a QB so we fired him and soon Cutler will most likely be gone because he only one 50% of his games.  Never mind that the others only won 31% of theirs Jay pouts and fumbles when sacked (wow imagine that).  And he throw picks well about as often as a whole lot of others who wear gold HOF jackets but they don't pout so Jay has to go.  I just hope like hell we can replace him better than we have Lovie or we can add one more colossal screw up to this pile of shit.

Other than the top management and GM the single most important elements to building a consistent winner are a great HC whose a fit for your team to lead them off the field and a very good QB to lead them on the field.  So lets look at OUR team.  No matter what we can't seem to hire the right HCs under the McCaskey regime.  The second best one we ever had having been fired by them about 25 years ago.  We also can't seem to draft or acquire in any other manner a competent QB to lead on the field under their regime either but we'll keep drafting them anyway because we have to...Jay pouts.

So.....will all of you who think that simply replacing a HC and QB will change amy of this please move your chairs to the back of the room.  There's work to be done upfront.

IMHO the McCaskeys have one more shot at at least trying to get this right by doing more than just making the same old ineffective widow dressing moves they always have.  Here's what I see that needs to be done and the only things that might possibly change this franchise and even then I won't guarantee it.  But like Cutler's last pass (kinda like Custers last stand, he he) I'd rather lose at least trying to win some games then sit there and tell fans "losing is hard on all of us", so get used to it we don't like it either.  That should be memorialized on the McCaskey Coat of Arms or their crypt preferably.

Step 1; They MUST to hire an Exec VP of football operation now as GSH did by hiring Jim Finks. He and Mugs were still there but Finks got Carte Blanche to run the show.  The only way this ever happens is if Teddy Bear is either removed or 100% neutered.  If he remains in any football capacity it all stops then and there because he will never relinquish that much control to anyone else.  Why do you all think we ended up with a learner GM.  The better more experienced ones won't work under Phillips.  Eric deCosta was the first choice.  He refused to even interview.  How many others said no thanks?

Until that's done you can forget the rest.  It will fail again and 20 years from now we'll still be "rebuilding".  Haven't we been doing that this time ever since Lovie arrived?

Step 2; The Exec VP will decide the fate of Fox and his staff, hire the new HC after firing Fox (hopefully) with the assistance and consent of GM Ryan Pace who will report to him and ONLY him.  Once that's done the three of them will determine the fate of the QB job in Chicago and who should be competing for it in 2017.  They will jointly review the current roster with an eye toward UFA acquisitions in March and how to draft in April.  From that point on the franchise will be on a strict time schedule to complete this rebuilding with the directive that the team will become competitive while they do.  No two year "outs" even for "owies".  This is a win now campaign.

That's it.  Simple to conceive but also so simple I'm sure the McCaskeys will either refuse to do it or do another half assed job of it and nothing will change except me.  I'm not gonna stick around to watch 'til the second coming. 

I'm gonna become a Packer fan so I can go to hell like the rest of them.

I'm a simple guy.  And admittedly I probably take too many things at face value.  I believe Virginia McCaskey wants to win even more than any of us.  I believe George McCaskey would do anything to make that happen before him mom passes away.  And I also believe George is the best McCaskey we've had to deal with regarding the Bears.  I feel very comfortable with him at the helm of the Bears.

Regarding the past 10 or so years, the Lovie Smith got us to the Super Bowl but that was it.  The McCaskeys realized that he wasn't able to get us a SB win.  To their credit, he was fired after a 10-win season.  

The Emery/Trestman hire was immensely popular with most fans and certainly the sports media applauded the Bears for "thinking outside the box" with the Trestman hire.  Heck, I thought it was a good move too.  But in hindsight it wasn't

When we hired Pace/Fox a lot of people also thought that was a good move.  I was thrilled to have a veteran guy like Fox who could attract coordinators like Adam Gase and Vic Fangio here.  Others thought so too.  But in hindsight, it looks like Fox is not the guy to get us where we want to go.

I'm much on living in the past.  And, admittedly, I am a "glass half full" guy.  An optimist.  I still believe we can win a championship here in Chicago with George McCaskey, Ted Philips & Ryan Pace here.  I admit that I could be dead wrong about that.  But I still think it can happen.  Obviously only time will tell.

Which brings me to my oft repeated theory that they probably woulda had better results throwing darts at a dartboard . I'm sure some of you think I'm joking - I'm not ... the only 'joke' has been what the Bears have been for umpteen years .