Did we make a mistake keeping Flus over Jim Harbaugh?
I think so...
I (like many others) are going to be anxiously watching what he does to the Chargers. But I don't think he was ever a real option for Chicago. I think ownership is more comfortable with a "gentleman" coach. A corporate executive demeanor is what I think ownership is comfortable with. Harbaugh does not fit that mold. Personally, I think he intimidates them.
Did we make a mistake keeping Flus over Jim Harbaugh?
I think so...
I (like many others) are going to be anxiously watching what he does to the Chargers. But I don't think he was ever a real option for Chicago. I think ownership is more comfortable with a "gentleman" coach. A corporate executive demeanor is what I think ownership is comfortable with. Harbaugh does not fit that mold. Personally, I think he intimidates them.
Personally, I think the relationship (or lack thereof) between Warren and Harbaugh might also be a factor.
Did we make a mistake keeping Flus over Jim Harbaugh?
I think so...
I (like many others) are going to be anxiously watching what he does to the Chargers. But I don't think he was ever a real option for Chicago. I think ownership is more comfortable with a "gentleman" coach. A corporate executive demeanor is what I think ownership is comfortable with. Harbaugh does not fit that mold. Personally, I think he intimidates them.
I agree, and of course only success this club ever had in SB era, with coaches Ditka and Ryan, only solidifies that love for gentleman coaches. Oh, wait
Remember when we were talking about how FOS Greg Gabriel's "expert takes" are?
Funny bc David Haugh just posted an article on 670 about how Warren had previously decided he didn't want Harbaugh. The decision had been made awhile ago
Everyone is going to get things wrong. It's a matter of how often they get things right, and how easy it was to be.
GG was wrong here, but was right about the bears and Warren not wanting anything to do with him, per Haugh, another reliable source
I (like many others) are going to be anxiously watching what he does to the Chargers. But I don't think he was ever a real option for Chicago. I think ownership is more comfortable with a "gentleman" coach. A corporate executive demeanor is what I think ownership is comfortable with. Harbaugh does not fit that mold. Personally, I think he intimidates them.
Personally, I think the relationship (or lack thereof) between Warren and Harbaugh might also be a factor.
David Haugh wrote the same thing; and Gabriel, for all his faults, has said it for several years now. Harbaugh is hard to work with, and he and Warren don't like eachother. There was never a chance, 0% that Harbaugh was coming to Chicago. Even if Warren wasn't here, no GM was giving that much of their power to a sociopath like Harbaugh.
I (like many others) are going to be anxiously watching what he does to the Chargers. But I don't think he was ever a real option for Chicago. I think ownership is more comfortable with a "gentleman" coach. A corporate executive demeanor is what I think ownership is comfortable with. Harbaugh does not fit that mold. Personally, I think he intimidates them.
I agree, and of course only success this club ever had in SB era, with coaches Ditka and Ryan, only solidifies that love for gentleman coaches. Oh, wait
Love Ditka but truth be told he was not a very good head coach (I am being kind there because he was a bad coach). He was given an obscene level of talent and the 1985 team won in spite of him - not because of him. Ultimately he lost his team when his own players turned on him. He ended up in New Orleans and just crippled that franchise. That era was all about the player talent level - and a great DC (and Ed Hughes was a solid OC). Ditka was just a caricature dude.
