The NFL Has a Quarterback Problem......

This is not only true but also a major reason why I keep saying John Fox is not the right HC for the Bears.  Offensively he's another page out of the anachronistic playbook of guys like Mike Martz.  Martz's system didn't fit the Bears personnel at all but the defense was good enough and Cutler almost survived it well enough to get us to a Super Bowl.  We were that close half a decade ago although it seems more like 100 years now.

Fox wants to run a '90s style offense with a RBC approach and a typical pocket style passer using more of a 3 step WCO style approach at times and top defenses have caught up to that by now.  It's why Hoyer could move the ball between the 20s but still not score.  Fox is not a risk taker therefore "big plays" will be minimal unless they come from runs or YAC after a pass.  He's not gonna change either and I would think most can see that.

If there is friction between Fox and Fangio I'll lay odds that's where it's coming from.  Both are defensive coaches and I doubt Fangio appreciates much kibbutzing from Fox right now when he's the one who had to make up a defense that can at least function out of what he was left with a year ago.  Fangio is known for being creative whereas Fox is more of a "throwback" style guy.  This is like a deja vu of Lovie and "Chico".

Gase came in and has been the only OC Cutler ever had who said OK lets do this your way.  Let's do what you do best and Cutler improved dramatically.  No one can tell me that Loggains didn't cave in to Fox and make changes because that was the basis for much of the battle between Elway and Fox out here.  Fox wants things done his way and that's that. 

I'm sorry but I just don't see this working any better in 2017 than it has so far and a year from now we all be ready to throw in the towel and will have wasted another year and had an offensive roster and scheme even more screwed up by Fox.  The guy doesn't know what he's doing.  In fact I'm not sure he even has a clue of how to get there from here.

I see this article as supporting the argument to draft your own QB. With our dismal record, we won't have much better opportunities to draft a QB going into this draft. Quite frankly, I think Pace is behind a year on drafting a QB. I'm fine if we keep Cutlter and Barkley next year. I would keep Cutler over Hoyer. Barkley would offer more competition to a young QB than stickling with Hoyer as number two. I love the idea of brooming Cutler, but it doesn't make a lot of sense (assuming he isn't a problem in the locker room). Cutler' s cap isn't a major problem going into next year.

Let me correct you here.  It was Mike McCoy who did that not John Fox.  Fox wanted nothing to do with Tebow.  He kept playing his preferred weak armed pocket passer Kyle Orton (sound familiar) until the fans revolted and started becoming no shows.  Then it became a matter of basically requiring Fox to play Tebow.

I do agree with what you say about the disagreement that led to the um....mutual parting of the ways between Fox and Elway but we both know that's no more than a face saving euphemism.  Fox was invited to leave because no one butts heads with John Elway and wins.  But that doesn't change the fact that Elway wanted Fox replaced with a HC with a decent offensive mind because with Wade Phillips on board he has no need for Fox anymore than we do when we have Fangio.

So let's tackle this part next; "if that was Fox's way...why would very good coaches in this league agree to work with him?"

Fox brought quite a few guys with him who were on his staff in Denver and some of those like Magazu were also with him in Carolina as was Mike McCoy before he got the offer to coach in San Diego.  So Gase came along because he'd replaced McCoy in Denver and left as soon as he got his HC offer.  IIRC Clint Hurtt and WR Coach Mike Groh were the two main holdovers from Trestman's staff.  Groh is now in LA and Hurtt would be gone if we hadn't denied him that opportunity so again I don't see coached flocking to Fox or not leaving for other options.

So in reality the only two key coaching hires were Fangio and he brought Ed Donatell with him. They had just been fired in SF and Fangio was overlooked for a HC spot there so they needed a job and we had one.  I guess I don't see the reality of all these top NFL coaches who've followed Fox like he was the pied piper of NFL HCs.  For Gase it was a stepping stone to his HC job or he was in a position to be promoted to HC in Chicago if Fox failed which he has but unfortunately one year too late as far as  Gase goes. 

IMHO he's the guy we should have hired and I'm fairly certain we'd still have gotten Fangio.  I don't believe he came here just because of John Fox.

To summarize I think my historical assessment is fair.  John Fox is a career .500 HC and little more.  That's what he was in Carolina when ever Lovie did better with the Bears and he's been worse than that here.  He had a tailwind in Denver due mainly to a very good defense and more than anything have Payton Manning as his QB.  How far do you think John Fox would have gone out here with Orton and Tebow as his QBs?

John Elway used Pat Bowlen's checkbook to buy a Super Bowl team and we all know that.  Despite that not only didn't Fox fail to win a SB with the #1 offense in the NFL but he basically got his ass kicked about has badly as any team ever has because of poor preparation and Elway has discussed than on occasion as well.  Despite that Fox got his "one more year" and with the same team went one and done in the playoffs for a second time in four years.

Can John Fox win in Chicago if you give him the talent Elway gave him in Denver?  Probably but then so could you or I.  My point is he isn't gonna get that kind of high grade vet talent just handed to him.  He isn't working for an owner like Pat Bowlen or a GM like John Elway.  He needs to develop it himself and not matter what he may have done at Carolina 10-15 years ago he isn't doing it now.

So that's it.  That's my facts, my opinions, and my stand on John Fox and it won't change anytime soon if ever.

Yes we have some talent issues as well but that will continue to be the case vs what he had in Denver for quite sometime I'd say.  He's also gonna have to win without a Payton Manning which IMHO is a biggie for a guy who knows little about offensive football.

But that aside we'll just end up seeing it differently because I'm standing on my opinion of Fox and the Bears fortunes under him.  This is it.

"So that's it. That's my facts, my opinions, and my stand on John Fox and it won't change anytime soon if ever."