Post by JABF on Oct 13, 2023 15:41:37 GMT -6
You cannot spend a year tearing down to replenish picks and FA just to flush what you have and start over again. It's a very Bears like move; and the reason they've spent the better part of 60 years irrelevant.
This is what buried the Detroit Lions for so many years too. But fans think that all you have to do is "fire everyone" and it will all be good. I'm not saying you keep or don't keep anyone in this present regime. But think about it. Many were wanting the GM and HC fired 3 games into the second season with these two guys. Again, I'm not saying we keep them or fire them. And why would a good GM or HC want to come here when we cycle through GMs and HCs like this? They see this as a franchise where you don't get time to establish anything... you get a year, and then fans want you fired if you haven't turned the perennial crap team around.
I get as frustrated as any fan. So I get it with the fans wanting instant results. But at some point (if you want to build anything good here) you have to have some "continuity" with management and coaching. I keep thinking about how the hapless Cleveland Browns fired Bill Belichick when he too was a new head coach. The Browns (like the Lions) have had a small army of GMs and HCs over the years. Bill Belichick went on to a Hall of Fame career with the New England Patriots. The Browns? They just kept floating in the NFL toilet stinking for years and years... but I'm thinking it sure must have made the meatballs there happy when they fired that Bill Belichick guy :-)
I suspect there are 2 problems hurting the Bears now. The roster talent isn't that good yet. And these first time guys (Poles, Eberflus and Getsy) are still learning their new jobs. They are making first timer mistakes now as they try to learn... it's literally "on the job" training here.
