One new coach or player won't magically save Bears

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I definitely don't think he's a long-term solution.  He may get replaced at the end of this season, or at best he won't be here more than 2017.  At his age he probably doesn't even want to be here himself, long-term.  I figure he was brought in for short-term crisis management.  In hindsight now, I realize that no coach - not even a Belichick - was going to win big this year here in Chicago.  Fox is a veteran guy who connects well with the players (he's always been touted as a players coach).  As such, he is actually a pretty good HC choice for a year like we are now experiencing with the catastrophic injuries and a roster seriously lacking talent too.  

Half of me admires Fox for not giving a rip about what people (especially sports writers) think.  It pisses these people off, and is definitely not "Politically Correct" behavior in today's NFL.  It must drive people like Rosenbloom crazy-angry that Fox screws with these people and couldn't care less about them.  Rosenbloom gets it that Fox wouldn't cross the room to piss on him if he was on fire.  

I do believe Fox cares about this team.  This is his last coaching gig, so I'm sure he wants to go out a winner if possible.  Nobody WANTS to be a 3-win team.  

As I have said many times in various posts, I'm fine with upgrading the head coaching position if it truly IS an upgrade.  People were bitching about Lovie Smith's 10-win season and he got let go - for Marc Trestman and Mel Tucker.  I was 100% fine with upgrading from Lovie/Tucker and supported that move at the time.  

But where was the "upgrade" there?  

It was a horrific move to a worse HC.  Now we have Pace/Fox.  I'm fine upgrading.  But don't just fire people and go from bad to worse... and don't kid yourself, there are worse options than Pace/Fox out there.  And I could sure see the Bears going that route.  So when these posters start foaming at the mouth about "selling the team" and rant about the evil McCaskeys, and talk like the bean counter Ted Phillips is evil incarnate, involved in some conspiracy manipulating Pace's every move... I'm not buying into that.  In fact I think it's pretty nuts myself.

The team does have some good talent when healthy, and with a 3rd Pace draft and free agency, I think we will be pleasantly surprised by the 2017 team - no matter who the head coach is, or if the McCaskeys are still the owners and Sweaty Teddy is the bean counter $$$ guy.  I think we are going to be okay.  But the folks that like "conspiracies" are not gonna believe that.

I heard the aliens are going to invade all of Chicago and carry off our women and children too.  The rumor is that Sweaty Teddy bankrolled the entire invasion - at the behest of the evil McCaskeys.  Strangely, they left Cutler & Loggains (obviously they are intelligent life forms).

If the only argument we got is "the team plays hard," those who never study history are doomed to repeat it:

Only thing Bears stop is miserable season
December 29, 2003|By Mike Downey.

....After the game, several players spoke of how the team "fought hard" and "stayed together" and "didn't give up," and Jauron expressed his pleasure in being around "really a good group of guys" who have a "commitment to each other."....

I know, with this roster we should have won the Super Bowl this year and Cutler should have easily been the League MVP.  I mean Barkley.  It's all a  conspiracy implemented by Ted Phillips in collusion with the McCaskey family.  It has nothing to do with a lack of player talent left standing on this team.  Right?