Post by matsellah on Nov 1, 2024 8:46:58 GMT -6
He got lucky a few times with a few picks. 2022 1st overall pick, Panthers GM being dumb, Getting #1 overall and #9 overall in the same year.
I look at Flus and compare him to other DC/HC. Lovie Smith era defense was much better and lead us to a Super Bowl visit. Fangio defense was ranked #2 best of the 2010 era behind the 2015 Broncos. I don't see elite defense with Flus. He can pad his stats against trash teams but what happens when he faces the big boys? 1-10 against teams who are .500 or greater.
There's very few games we have lost the last 2 years that are due to the defense getting trucked, if any.
So, IMHO talking about "FIRE EVERYBODY!" is just silliness. The problems with this team right now are the same problems it had last season:
1) The offense and OC are still crapping the bed too much. Especially to start games.
2) The HC has blown 4 late games leads and is consistently outclassed as a gameday tactician by his counterpart on the other sideline.
It's the same shit over and over and over. Those are the problems.
Its not the defense
Its not the STs
Its not the GM
Earlier in the show, Silvy talked about the "type" of coach the Bears continually hire. If you look at it, they have NOT had a head coach like Ditka... since Wannstedt?
Silvy states the McCaskey's don't want a BIG PERSONA at Halas Hall and he believes they're imposing that requirement on every hire.
And then it occurred to me, he may be right. We've had multiple discussions here about how the Bears doing things backwards. They have either hired the HC apart from the GM, got rid of their GM or had their GM consult an advisor. It's never been the accepted method of hiring a GM and letting him get his HC. But we were then told Poles was given the go-ahead to hire his own HC and he hired Eberflus.
But did he? I seem to recall Eberflus already being name bandied about before Poles won the job and he was given a short list of names to choose from. And he took Flus'.
Hmm. Something smells in Chi-Town.
Moving to later in the show, when they go back to this discussion in earnest.
pdst.fm/e/serve.castfire.com/audio/7017277/7017277_2024-10-31-222017.128.mp3?rssID=1493
Skip the first 5:20 and then the discussion starts.
At 9:30, they take a call from "Bill in Orland Park" who asks about accountability.
But it's the call from "Steve in Grayslake" @ 11:20 that lights the fire.
I don't think -now- that Poles hired Eberflus. I think he wanted the GM job bad enough and Eberflus was an unknown and worth the risk. I think Eberflus meets the McCaskey character criteria and even if they fire him (whenever), they're just going to wind up with a clone back at the helm.
Jauron. Smith. Trestman. Fox. Nagy... Eberflus.
That's definitely a personality trend.
This link is an alternative if the link above doesn't work. It's the 4 PM file you select, then the time hacks above work:
goodkarmabrands.com/espn-chicago/33556-2/#
