So, I don’t think Flus is a good head coach. I think he the defense improving and could/is a good d coordinator but the guy can’t seem to manage the whole thing. I see a lot of people saying that if the team improves over the last 6-7 weeks he could keep his job.
I disagree and point to one reason why I would bet Flus is fired. Hard Knocks.
No team wants to be on it, I guess for distractions. I know the bears don’t want everyone to see the shit show that is there incompetent organization.
The criteria is: you can opt out if: you have made the playoffs the last 2 years, have a first year head coach, or have been featured on hard knocks the last 10 years.
By my calculations it leaves 5 teams eligible as of now.
Bears packers Broncos Commanders Patriots.
Ron Rivera is gone after this season , and talks of belicheck leaving or stepping down leave 3 teams.
Bears will fire flus to not have to be on Hard Knocks, that and the fact he sucks at coaching.
Thoughts?
Firing a coach to avoid hard Knocks is the equivalent of not improving the team in the offseason to hope for comp picks. Bears should fire Flus but not because of hard knocks.
Flus is about fundamentally sound mistake free football. His team is not.
Flus as a head coach would prefer for both of his coordinators to coordinate their side of the ball. DC looked incompetent until he was fired for HR reasons. OC looks incompetent. If one side of the ball looked competent and the team was disciplined, I would be all for letting Flus hire one new coordinator.
Flus is bad at interviewing coaches. Two of the coaches he hired has been let go for HR reasons. Do you want him hiring two more coordinators this offseason? I don’t.
We aren’t seeing Fields progress as much as we’d like. Fields inability to raise the talent around him makes it unlikely the GM that didn’t draft him will want to build a team around a QB with a top 10 salary. As we will likely have a new QB next year, the main reason to fire Flus is to not start the next top 11 draft pick with a lame duck HC that will be fired after one season and have to learn a new system their sophomore year.