Why Are We Even Talking About Fangio Leaving And Not Fox?...

He already has one. His name is John Fox.

Nonsense!  This isn't about instant gratification at all.  It's about not seeing the progress advertised and promised more than anyone by John Fox himself!  This team may not have the stars Fox had in Denver but Ryan Pace has provided Fox with a significant increase in talent on both sides of the ball while at the same time allowing productive offensive players to leave via trade or FA who were deemed a problem, a poor fit, or past their sell date.  And it looks to me like Fox would like to do that with one more.  They were all offensive players too.  So tell me, how's that offense looking now without them and a top shelf OC who also left.  Seventeen points a game will always get you a top five pick.

Fox didn't remake the Broncos John Elway did with the blessings of his owner who hired him to do just that.  Now contrast that to the deal in Chicago.  First of all you don't have owners willing to spend the kind of guaranteed money it takes to sign the best UFAs out there and second just who is in charge of personnel decisions?  Is it Pace with only slight input from Fox? I doubt that because that's not how Fox likes to operate.  Can Pace do as he pleases without Ted Phillips OK'ing the expenditures?  Ha, that would be a first.

So just how badly have they neutered Pace as a GM.  You support the thinking that this is Pace's team top to bottom so you out of all of us should be questioning that because what I see doesn't jive with that thinking.  Pace is not gonna outspend other GMs to provide Fox with instant turn around potential via a number of All Pro players at key positions.  It's not gonna happen so John Fox has to get off his ass and do some coaching to develop this team.  Has he or maybe a better question is can he?  I'm not seeing it.

No, the McCaskeys aren't selling and no one, least of all me, believes they will.  But they do need to remove Ted Phillips and hire a top Exec VP of Football Operations and turn this whole mess they've helped to create over to him in the very same way that GSH did when he hired Jim Finks.  Ryan Pace is not that guy.  He's too young and too inexperienced for that role.  Ted Phillips and his access to the team checkbook needs to be gone. He's costing them more than they think by being penny wise and pound foolish and his comments about corporate sponsorship vs winning and losing should not be lost on Bears fans. It's very telling where his thinking lies.

If you and others think I need that Rosenrant column to make my case you're wrong.  I don't.  Fox began to make it for me long before he arrived in Chicago.  You can read another post I made to pick up on that.  You can believe what I posted or play ostrich an not believe it.  That's up to you but I'll tell you my opinion of the latter attitude then and this isn't a hissy fit.  It's simply calling them as I see them.

Yours and other fans lazaisse faire approach to this is exactly why this team is in the fix it's in.  It only feeds into the prevailing attitude around the higher levels at Halas Hall that you and others will continue to support the team win or lose and that you will keep accepting the excuses they hand out for it whenever and however they chose to do it.  If you keep supporting this approach well then BOHICA brother because that's all you'll getting just as we have ever since this team has been in the hands of those unqualified to run it but refusing to ever turn that task over to those who can.

Well ya know something.  Whenever I'm getting f***ed I prefer to get a kiss or two and I ain't gettin' it so I won't continue to support this crap.  Thirty plus years of it is more than enough for me and I don't need Steve Rosenbloom to say that for me either.

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Yes, I also see some telltale pointers that Fox is not very good. Not as big of markers as there were on Tucker, but they are there. Keep in mind though that they don't get as big as they were with Tucker very often and yet people still rationalized it. It is no surprise to me that Fox still has a lot of backing. The only questions for me right now are:

1. How adept is Pace at seeing these things -- is is still young and some of this comes with age
2. Is he willing and able to act on them if he realizes what is going on?

I am sure he realizes also that he puts his own neck on the line by going to ownership and saying Fox needs to be replaced. If his chagnes do make make it better, he is likely gone the next season. He must be very sure, and he must have strong convictions. The path of least resistance is to keep Fox.

That is the way I think it will play out.