Today's CHGO was excellent with Brian Baldinger

+1,000

It sure looks like Warren/Poles/Eberflus are changing the culture for the better.  That was a key point that Courtney Cronin was making in that CHGO interview yesterday.  After decades of disappointments it is understandably difficult for us fans to believe in this present regime.  It is also understandably difficult for people around the NFL to believe in this present regime.  But it sure looks like the change has (finally) arrived and Warren/Poles/Eberflus are lifting this franchise up to what it should be.  It doesn't happen overnight.  Fans struggle with that.  Fans also try to find the negative - and that is understandable after decades of negative stuff happening with this franchise.  It truly is hard to believe Warren/Poles/Eberflus are the "real deal" now.  If this team is finally turned around, you don't fire the head coach who has been an integral part of changing the toxic culture here - and has achieved coaching success.  Right?

I'm not interested in seeing this happen.  Just interested to see how this develops.  I agree that if we reach that top 5/top 10 level of performance, maintaining the coaching staff as is will be the optimum solution.

Except we have a thread here about worrying about what the Bears are doing now in case Waldron is hired away down the line. Instead of thinking that its a good thing, OFF got better, Bears have someone on staff the league thought was good enough to be promoted to HC (because that is literally the only place an OC can go--unless he returns to college) and the the foundational players are in place (why the OFF was good in the first place)...we are discussing what? No one is actually saying what will happen, but it must be a return to the Fox-Loggain-Cutler days. Or the team completely falls apart and the OFF backslides to John Shoop levels.

I don't think my characterization is too far off. As a fan base in general (and based on the teams history I can see why) we tend to see good things and only focus on what could go wrong. We had a thread at one point saying that maybe it was a mistake to draft a QB (Fields) who they "might" have to pay down the line. Never mind that fact that the QB might have played well enough to get a second contract. We were all stressed out about the salary cap 3+ years down the line from having to pay a QB they drafted. I mean, its a good thing Fields didn't work out then, because they didn't have to pay him. 

We've had posts worrying about losing the player in PA who was signed to what is considered the worst FA contract this season. And this player literally was just a JAG according to all the stats, basic and advanced. Instead of seeing it as a chance to get younger and cheaper on the DL apparently we are doomed!

People are free to fan however they like, just like you are free to mock me for my 9-7 prediction I've had for the like the past 10 years.