Here’s a question:

Do you want the Bears to go 4-3 the remainder of the year taking 1 of 2 from the Lions thus showing tangible improvement? The danger is Flus comes back

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Go 1-6 the rest of the year and have a new coaching staff with potentially Poles gone?

Pretty sure the majority pick the latter.

  • BR1M570N3@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    The litmus test for me has changed given the prolonged mediocrity that we’ve experienced. Would I like to see success? Absolutely. But The team is consistently falling short in that regard, so in the interim I at least would like a front office, coaching staff, and players that were easy to get behind and demonstrated a degree of intelligence and leadership capability. Not even going to draw comparisons between this regime and previous cuz what’s done is done. Ryan poles? has made some good moves and made some bad moves, but generally speaking his accessibility to the media and transparency has been a massive plus in my opinion. I wouldn’t mind keeping him around necessarily. Eberflus? I think any other team would have fired him already. But he’s still here, and well at least he’s not parading around the sidelines with a stupid “BE YOU” play sheet and constructing an egomaniacal shrine in his mancave to his own self-perceived football genius. Of all the things Eberflus is lacking I don’t necessarily think humility is one of them. That’s also a plus. Fields? A ton of shoulda coulda woulda here but the kids demeanor, work ethic and all that other leader-y stuff is nice to see and makes it easy to want him to be successful, admittedly also making it supremely frustrating that he’s not. There’s plenty of other players on this team who I genuinely root for and want to see them do well. I don’t necessarily think hitting the reset button again is going to do much to get this franchise closer to be a winning football team. Don’t get me wrong I would love to have somebody with a proven track record of success as an NFL GM and/or head coach come in here and lead this team to the promised land but the problem is those guys usually already have jobs or don’t have any interest in coming here. Regardless this team is just never seem to be able to make that connection. The biggest question mark for me right now in this whole mess is Getsy. And my biggest concern with him is that he’s seeming more and more like another one of these guys that’s enamored with his precious scheme and tries to fit square pegs around holes in that regard. But even then I think if you can him, you’re starting all over from scratch with everything. It’s weird to think that somehow the most important coach in the building and the one around whom the future success of the franchise is based is not the head coach. That seems so typically Bears. I guess all this is to say I don’t hate anybody’s position in this organization enough to say yeah hit the reset button if there’s a chance they can build on something with what they’ve got.