Bears Year End Presser Set For January 4th............

This will affect the QB decision also.  If Fox (and maybe Pace too) are twisting in the wind by a slender thread, then there is no way they will let a draftee be their starting QB this coming season.  Not happening.  

It could mean a serious move to get Garoppolo.  Or even roll with Cutler one more season.  There isn't a QB in this draft that is ready to lead a team day-1.  At least not a team with as many problems as the Bears have right now.  Fox isn't gonna put his neck on the chopping block with a rookie QB leading the team.  No way.  

All very true which says to me very much what you have in the first paragraph.  Short of maybe Mike McCoy riding to Fox's rescue IF he's let go (and that seems likely) I'm not sure who else Fox might persuade to come.  His deal with SD is through 2017 so he'll be paid for 2017 less an offset for whatever the Bears pay him so I see him as a possibility buy no more than that.

If Fox and virtually the entire staff are retained yeah I'd call that that an "all in" move too except this the Bears whose owners often expect us to suffer in silence and applaud mediocrity as they do.  Truth be told I'm even more fed up with them and their history of mismanagement than I am with Fox.

If the coaching staff is to be little or unchanged and there is no white knight Exec VP on the horizon then the next item on the plate is to resolve a final plan regarding the QB situation and to work that plan.  Short of keeping Cutler or bringing in a young vet whose prepared to start I honestly can't see better than 8-8 for this team if that.  Forget the playoffs.

My dilemma is if that's the very best we can do why keep Fox?  Tear up his deal and move on with other changes that will work because his haven't and probably won't.  By now I think his patterns are very clear to see to those actually want to see them.  Since it's doesn't appear to be what will happen I just see more of the same battles next year.

I'll be more than happy to eat my crow if it does turn out to be more successful if those who keep supporting Fox will do the same without my need to say "I told you so".  Fair is fair.

But is that an option that's ever been on the table?  I mean realistically was that ever even on table?  I've tried at times to theorize a way to unwind from Fox while still not completely unwinding whatever progress has been made to date.

It's only ever been a simple theory but I've always felt it made at least some logical sense.  I'm all for not doing more than is needed to solve a problem.  That's always been my management style so it's what I tend to apply when I'm analyzing and problem solving.  It's just how I think.

Can't blame you for that.  I feel the same and don't take my "eating crow" as more than a figure of speech.  I'll be happy to be proven wrong and won't hesitate to admit it.