I think it would be more like paying one to get the hell out of the way and stop mucking things up, while you pay another to fix the shit u. Although we usually find another that breaks new shit.
It's a gift. A real gift the Bears have. I think they just crapped when Lovie had 10 wins. Way too many wins. They got Trestman to get that down to 5 wins (very impressive), and now they have Fox getting that number down to a nice, manageable 3-wins.
I think the Halas Hall brain trust can find a coach who can swing for the fences and get that number down to zero-wins. I mean an honest to goodness 0-16 coach. It's definitely possible.
Teddy should be able to leverage some coaching "talent" from the Browns, or hell... he could even go the nuclear option and make sure we get the first overall pick for the next few decades and coach the Bears himself.
I am still somewhat optimistic about Foxy- not sure why, his conservative style and some real bone-headed moves would be enough normally for me to be all in on fired/executed. I was way less patient with tresticles. I still want to punch that dweeb every time I see his name or his face. How in the world he ever got a head coaching gig is beyond my understanding.
Anyway- with the sheer amount of injuries and missed time from jack-wagons doing PEDs, I kinda am giving Fox a mulligan. Next year had better dazzle. 8-8 with improvement might be enough, but I doubt it. If he can't get to 10 and a wildcard, to hell with the bum.
I am still somewhat optimistic about Foxy- not sure why, his conservative style and some real bone-headed moves would be enough normally for me to be all in on fired/executed. I was way less patient with tresticles. I still want to punch that dweeb every time I see his name or his face. How in the world he ever got a head coaching gig is beyond my understanding.
Anyway- with the sheer amount of injuries and missed time from jack-wagons doing PEDs, I kinda am giving Fox a mulligan. Next year had better dazzle. 8-8 with improvement might be enough, but I doubt it. If he can't get to 10 and a wildcard, to hell with the bum.
After wrestling with this myself, I think you are right. I am giving him a mulligan for last season. I'm sure Fox is to blame for some of the things that went wrong, but how much of it was on him, I don't know. We will know this season though.
I am still somewhat optimistic about Foxy- not sure why, his conservative style and some real bone-headed moves would be enough normally for me to be all in on fired/executed. I was way less patient with tresticles. I still want to punch that dweeb every time I see his name or his face. How in the world he ever got a head coaching gig is beyond my understanding.
Anyway- with the sheer amount of injuries and missed time from jack-wagons doing PEDs, I kinda am giving Fox a mulligan. Next year had better dazzle. 8-8 with improvement might be enough, but I doubt it. If he can't get to 10 and a wildcard, to hell with the bum.
After wrestling with this myself, I think you are right. I am giving him a mulligan for last season. I'm sure Fox is to blame for some of the things that went wrong, but how much of it was on him, I don't know. We will know this season though.
I'm not sure who is more to blame or less to blame. I just know if anything is wrong in terms of winning games, in the end it falls on Fox. If he does not fix it, then he should go. Same with the GM. If games are not being won and the coach blames things on injuries and the GM buys it, then the next year the HC and the coaching staff he likes better deliver. If he does not, then it is not only on him but the GM.
After wrestling with this myself, I think you are right. I am giving him a mulligan for last season. I'm sure Fox is to blame for some of the things that went wrong, but how much of it was on him, I don't know. We will know this season though.
I'm not sure who is more to blame or less to blame. I just know if anything is wrong in terms of winning games, in the end it falls on Fox. If he does not fix it, then he should go. Same with the GM. If games are not being won and the coach blames things on injuries and the GM buys it, then the next year the HC and the coaching staff he likes better deliver. If he does not, then it is not only on him but the GM.
I personally wonder how much was under Fox's span of control. There is a foggy range there for me. It could range from Fox having a lot of control but his performance and decisions were bad - or - I wonder if a significant part of this was not controllable by Fox.
I don't know the answer to that.
I'd compare it to my present job. I manage two offices at a university. I am expected to keep things running smoothly. But some critically important things are not under my control. I.T. is one area. The university has an excellent I.T. department. But if it didn't it would cripple us due to both of my offices being paperless offices. It gives us crazy-good efficiencies allowing fewer employees to handle large workloads and provide incredible service. But all employees in these offices live and die by those computers. Sure, we have paper backup strategies, but believe me, once you go to the paper, it is brutally primitive and painful.
If the I.T. department support ever failed, we'd be screwed. What if they blamed me for that? What if I lost my job over something I have zero control over? Now if the I.T. department was under my control that would be different, but it's not.
With Fox, I wonder how much of what happened last year was not controllable by him. Maybe a lot of it was. Maybe not. Did he have the resources he needed to do better? We can argue about the injury factor and its impact, but maybe it was a big deal. And then how good is the talent (and depth talent) even when healthy? There are a lot of moving parts here. New players. Young players. Rookie players. Players who probably shouldn't have been starting but were due to injuries and poor quality roster depth.
I come back to my own job situation and think about what it would be like to be called into my bosses office and fired over multiple issues that I had little or no control over. I know these things happen, and that's life. But I do figure it's okay to give Fox a mulligan for last year. It was his 2nd year in a major rebuilding of the team - and everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt.
By the way, the I.T. staff I work with are superb. If they weren't I'd be screwed. This is just a nutty example.