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

This, along with Ryan Pace's most recent interview complete with an invitation to join him at the kool-aid bar, would tend to confirm what I've been suspecting for the last two weeks.  Fox will get another shot at keeping his job so it's likely that 2017 will include a healthy dose of "more of the same".

I would guess this also means no major changes will take place at the very top which means again as I suspected the McCaskeys simply won't agree to hand the reins of running their team over to anyone who has total control and as a result no top NFL Exec will come to work for them and work under Ted Phillips.

Five'll get ya' ten that one reason we have a rookie GM is that others with more experience like Eric DeCosta said no to any overtures Accorsi may have made.  More and more this looks to me like the Bears always need to settle for less everywhere due primarily to the way the team is mismanaged at the very top.

Well run teams simply don't tolerate or accept the performance of a HC like John Fox.  Even Buffalo fired Rex Ryan who had a far better record that John Fox after two seasons.  So if anyone still has any thoughts that this is Ryan Pace's team to run as he sees fit I think you can tuck them away in a drawer labeled more Bears lies and bullshit from the top.

I'll make one more comment here as well.  I'll betcha we also hear little or nothing from Teddy Bears or the McCaskeys following this presser.  They're gonna let Fox and Pace make their excuses, and peddle their kool-aid and they will play ostrich so they can avoid all the hard questions that may be thrown at them.  Like I've said before some things never change.

DeCosta has said no to everyone who's asked for like the last 4 years...not just us. He's got the sweetest of gigs right now. And Buffalo hasn't seen a post season since 99...but they have had 8 coaches since then...just keep churnin and burnin baby..or get better freakin talent!

I'm not surprised Fox is staying and I suspect that comes from the top.  Ownership doesn't want to pay Fox AND a new HC too which they'd have to do if JF is fired (I think they just finished paying up on Trestman's contract as well).  Such is the nature of successive failed coaching regimes.

What I find most chilling is the final paragraph because I actually think Pace has shown promise as a young GM in finding talent both in FA and the draft.  I'd like to see him continue restocking the roster which was utterly bereft of talent, espcially young talent, 2 years ago.  This rebuild is still in the early innings so to speak in my mind and I'd hate to see Pace get canned for finishing 8-8 in 2017.

We are no where close to the same tier as Buffalo. They've had 2 winning seasons since 99. If you want to put us in the same boat as them you've lost this conversation and you're showing your emotional bias. And who have they spent money on? McCoy? Mario Williams? Further, you should know as well as anyone that "some" talent doesn't win you very many football games. 

As for DeCosta, again, we're not the only one's he's turned down and refused to interview for. He's refused to interview for Tennessee, Detroit, NY Jets, the Seahawks, the Raiders, the Colts, and the Rams among others. Yes, he told the Seahawks "no thanks, not interested in interviewing". So sorry to refute your narrative that you're trying to spin...he's not leaving Baltimore....for ANYONE.

And you should have never put me in the "anti-Fox" box to begin with. I'm not anti-Fox. I don't think he's the best thing since sliced bread, but he's certainly not anywhere close to the worst coach I've seen here. I've said repeatedly I don't think we have the TALENT here for any coach to bring us to the post season, throw in the injuries and you get what we see here. Even the guy who I consider one of the best defensive minds in the business couldn't make chicken salad out of this shit. Again, I don't expect broken guns to shoot straight...not sure why you all do.