Colts beat Bears - who gets the deflated ball?

his ability to throw 50 times w/out dying is outstanding 

I honestly believe he thought Flus was the right guy. I think his close working relationship did not allow him to see it as objectively as he should have. Harbaugh comes up for consideration like every 4 years or so. We missed that window. Damn it.

Harbaugh wasn't going to get the job even if the Mc's were okay with it. 1, the MC's don't tend to like previous Bears players on their coaching staff. 2, like you pointed out, they don't want strong willed experienced HC's, Fox was never meant to be more then a couple years to help right the ship after the complete fail that was Trestman. 3, Poles and Harbaugh don't have a good relationship b/c of Covid and the Big10 cancelling the season. Add in that you are also correct, he was going to demand GM like power and neither the GM nor the owners were going to allow it. Lovie got a larger say over the team roster makeup and they went from went from SB loss to hovering around to get to .500. It won't happen again. 

People need to get over the Harbaugh thing, it was never an option. He wasn't overlooked or passed up b/c of Flus. It was never an option to begin with. The next HC that comes in will fit the same mold and Nagy and Flus, and Lovie before that. Young coordinator talent that is up and coming and happy to have a job, so they'll do as they are told. Same w/the next GM. I still don't buy that Poles only needed to interview 1 guy, and it just so happened to be a guy the Mc's had already interviewed and wanted. 

The Mc's demand yes men, and they get it, and it more often than not hurts the team more than not. Rot is from the top down in this Org. You can only hope that when Warren decides to clean house he'll have actual say w/out the Mc's interference. But when will he be fed up with this mess? He's got a stadium to deal with; and he's busy cleaning up the mess Phillips and his staff left w/that. 

If Harbaugh came here. I'm willing to bet we don't get Rome and draft an Oline tackle with our #9 overall pick. Harbaugh believes in building the lines first.