Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 2:41:58 GMT -6
Dec 29, 2016 12:45:50 GMT -6 @belliot said:
One of things that's somewhat - interesting - is this narrative regarding Ted Phillips. I don't want to generalize so I'll speak narrowly :Some fans have been successful in erecting Ted Phillips as the strawman for all of the Bears woes.
Some fans - again trying to speak narrowly so as not to lump too many into this statement - seeing this strawman have turned their torches to Teddy fully buying into the negative narrative.
I don't know how some fans became privy to the personal workings of the Bears organization and I don't fully understand how Ted Phillips is the fall boys for all of our issues.
This team - as butkus3595 points out - is seriously lacking in talent. That's the issue. Maybe it's a symptom of a man caricatured as Sweaty Teddy or maybe it's as simple as the Bears weren't successful in transitioning away from Lovie's team of the mid 2000s and are now starting to make slow steady progress after an initial fail.
Who has been the team's President/CEO since the demise of Mikey and who was actually Mikey's personal protege to begin with? How long have you been following this team? Can you tell me you have no feel at all for how the McCaskeys have operated it and Phillips role in all this?
If not then I guess it matters little to you and you like some fans are willing to accept the results without protest. Me? I'm built different than that. I'm that kid in "The Emperor's New Clothes" who doesn't see any fabric at all except the lies being spun to cover ineptitude and kick the can one year farther down the road.
If tell you I'm wearing a plaid shirt could you tell from a 2" swatch what the rest looked like or would you need to see the entire shirt to know that? Can you recognize a repeating patter of behavior as well? I believe I can because it's part of what I've been doing professionally for a very long time. That doesn't make me a genius it only says I'm observant and that I use those patterns to base my decisions on. That's who I am and why I tend to post as I do.
So, I don't think I need to see the inside of Halas Hall to recognize some of the long established patterns of behavior I've seen come out of there for the past 30 years. It's mostly like that plaid shirt example I gave. Once you've seen it a few times it's not that tough to recognize again.