I live near Boston, and the fans here are just beside themselves. They have been good for so long, and now that they suck they are starting to feel what it is like. They were so spoiled that having a conversation with them is like watching a petulant child losing at Mario Kart.

I disagree with the thought that there isn’t a reason to fire Flus. My main struggle with Flus is his control of the team. We have the 3rd most penalties, and we are tied for most false starts with the Panthers. Penalties, and especially false starts, are a sign of a coaching weakness. These are fundamentals of football, and things that are focused on at the high school and college levels. If our team can’t even wait until the ball is snapped then that is a problem at the practice level, and a symptom of bad overall coaching. Usually this is because practices are focusing on making plays rather than fundamentals.

You can also see it in the tackles. Every coach will tell you that the way to tackle is to wrap up the person, so even if you don’t take them down you are still inhibiting movement. Instead we have guys throwing shoulders. Yes, throwing a shoulder will sometimes take people down, but if it doesn’t the ball carrier has nothing slowing them down after the hit. We see way too many blown tackles because the defense isn’t wrapping people up. Again, a sign of poor coaching.

I don’t actually think that Flus is a bad coach, but I don’t think he is a coach for a young team that really needs to work on gelling as a team, that needs to focus on fundamentals of football, that needs to develop in almost all areas including QB. He would be great taking over a team of vets, but he’s just not the type of coach we need.

I do think that we could benefit from a college D1 head coach. They are coaches that are used to working with less experienced players. They are good at creating teams atmospheres because their teams drastically change year after year. They are perfect to rebuild with rookies. I would love to see a D1 HC take over the rebuild.

Every QB would suck ass under these coaches.

This is the thing that I have been pushing since last year. Only an experienced Vet QB can do well in our system, because there is absolutely no development program. They throw these kids in like they have been in the league for 10 years as a starter. “Oh, you’ve only stated 3 games? You should be fine with 5 reads, a five man O-line, and only 1 of your WRs that actually knows their route. Don’t worry, we have a check down and Claypool is gonna block.”

Nope. We don’t have the coaching or play calling. The only people that could survive in our system currently as a QB would be a solid vet who doesn’t need help with their growth, and can stand up to bad coaching and play calling. Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, Kirk Cousins, or even Matt Stafford would work. Anyone that “has potential” won’t work for our current system, because the coaching and play calling are going to kill that potential. This is why we have two QB’s with potential, but neither are playing well.

Since Halas dies this team as struggled with ownership issues. They hire cheap coaches and GMs with little to no experience. They struggle with front office decision making. Really it was the death of Papa Bear that started us on our downward slope. The last person Halas hired was Ditka in 1982. Papa died in 1983, we won the 1985 season with the team that Papa built, and since that time we struggled.

We need new ownership, which hopefully will bring a better front office, and hopefully better coaching. I don’t think we see another SB under McCaskey ownership. 2006 was a fluke.

First, we can’t always talk about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence. Last year we had a really talented QB on a rookie contract, working a new system, with a ton of new coaches. We grabbed a bunch of new guys, and we were hoping to see big uptick in quality. DJ Moore should have been much more impactful than he has been this year.

I fully believe it doesn’t matter who is at QB if they haven’t already been a starter for 5+ years. Our coaching is the problem. CJ could be on our team, and he’d be doing shit, because we have a bad coaching staff and bad play calling. We don’t know how to develop a QB. We just take rookies or back-up QB’s with little experience, and we throw them in the deep end like they are a 10 year vet with playoff experience.

Fields and Bagent should be on 2 looks then check down. Not 5 looks with minor OL protection. The only QBs who can survive in our system are vets that don’t need to be babied, and will fight back against a coach making a stupid call.

This entire fanbase is knee jerk. I think Poles is doing alright. We have a ton of money to play with, we have a ton of draft picks coming at us, and nobody should have thought that this was our year.

Really I blame sports radio. They get people all whipped up in a fervor week after week, and people expect immediate results. None of those guys are talking about how this was never our year. They are all on the warpath to create ratings, and they do it by talking trash.