In a mostly unrelated note, I was in Shanahan’s house once (in Franklin Park). I wasn’t impressed. Carry on.

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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

That’ll cover a couple-few years of maintenance on the lake bluff estate.

Guy needs another job asap.

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His next stop will be as a DC for a team that wins eleven plus games.

Hammer the doubt button.

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He’s a good defensive coach. Sorry not sorry, he does know what he’s doing in that realm. Never should’ve gotten the big job but realistically the only guys who will stoop to playing for the McCaskeys are desperate weirdos like him.

These guys all land OK after leaving the Bears. Even Trestman did.

He’s fine. He’s a guy. He’ll work forever but I very much doubt he’s DC on a playoff team inside of 5 years.

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Grasping at straws. This team and organization suck, and will continue to suck. Sorry, but it's the truth.

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My daughter went to school with his cousin. Same grade.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I was early on Johnson - just crazy for Johnson, could not get enough Johnson - but I’m starting to drift to Vrabel. If he can clear the limp dicks in charge, he’ll put them in their place inside of a season. George would be building a cuck-shed while Vrabel handles the organization.

I don’t love him as an Xs and Os guy. I think he maxxed out his philosophy with a prime Derrick Henry and that led nowhere.

But the organization needs a complete tonal shift.

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Does anyone still think this is anything other than the worst job? Aside from maybe the Raiders. I’d rather give it a go with the Jets than deal with George & Kevin.

Jets and Bears, no doubt.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

John Fox was supposed to be the red ass football coach who changed the culture, and it was nothing less than an abject failure.

You have what is most likely a very talented QB and what appears to be a skilled receiving corps, despite being a little droppy. You hire an offensive guy who can hopefully whip up the troops and try to go hang 40-bombs on people, there is no other way.

Giving Fox 2.0 Caleb's second year of his rookie deal would be a disaster, might as well let the new coach draft a new QB.

Man, that guy was allowed to hang around and do whatever for three full years because the Panthers went to a Super Bowl in 2003. He couldn't have been more retired if he coached in a Hawaiian shirt.

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He was more red faced than red assed because he was sipping margs on the sideline.

Vrabel is young and seemingly out of work because he thought he was a shoe-in for the Pats job. Fox was on the Accorsi pension list. Not at all the same.

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My only two memories of the John Fox era are the game where the Bears punted on every possession and that Scorehead/JohnKirk really, really liked him because he looked like a middle-aged dude who was semi-retired from a company in Elk Grove Village called "Interface Telelogistics" and as such would have gone golfing with him. Other than that, it's a blur of losing football, the nadir of the Bears until now.

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Scorehead was also a big proponent of Bruce Rauner since being a successful businessman was clearly all that was required to govern. His JORR-like fashion tips for air travel were also precious.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

I’m not saying you have to go Vrabel, but he’s a coach out of the John Harbaugh/Dan Campbell mold. I don’t think the Bears can risk going with a hotshot coordinator, they need a tone setter. Those guys are harder to find it seems, but man that’s really what this organization needs. Makes missing on Jim Harbaugh that much more painful.

Will say that Vrabel did finish 54-45 in his Tennessee tenure, and that organization isn’t recognized as some elite NFL ownership/management juggernaut.

This is the type of game that gets your GM fired.

He presided over the hiring of one of the worst coaching staffs in the NFL which has derailed the development of his last two young QB's, and that alone would get most GM's fired, but his lack of ability in talent evaluation and acquisition if the real story.

He spent tons of picks on DB's, maybe one is good, and he is not playing up to his salary.

He curiously threw tons of paper at Edmunds, not sure why, but the guy can't cover and has no interest in supporting in the run game. You can see why Buffalo let him go.

Sweat has a good year, got paid, and looks like he is coasting, you can see why Washington traded him. His collection of bargain basement DE's cannot rush the passer and are liabilities in the run game.

Dexter is pedestrian at best and Pickens is a practice squad guy on every other team. Billings is the only DT that has shown he can play the run.

Poles went all in at the WR position, and he got two vets who have taught the younger players how to bitch about coaching and who are good for one to two key drops each game, still not sure why he went after Allen instead of using that paper and draft pick for offensive and defensive line help.

He really does not care about the offensive line and that might be what costs him his job.

The next HC will have to totally revamp the offensive line and Poles has shown zero ability to draft lineman and even less ability to sign free agent lineman, so not sure why Warren wants to bring him back.

It's all a dumpster fire again.

You don't have a HC. Now you have someone else calling the defense because your HC left. You've drafted another mediocre QB in the 1st round that you're attaching yourself to, where the organization will stick with him a few years until he fails. This will be lost time until you draft another QB. The Bears faced this same situation with (Pro Bowl QB) Trubisky, Fields and now Williams. They would have been better off keeping Fields, trading down and drafting a left tackle in the first round. That's another thing---you've got a real problem at LT. The guy is on skates going backward because he can't stop a bull rush.

To right the ship the Bears have to make hard decisions, like on Williams now, and they've never been capable of making hard decisions like that. You have to keep drafting a QB until you find one. Either that or stay stuck playing mediocre football.

Lombardi has said the GM was a Levis guy and Vrabel was anti-Levis.
Ownership sided with the GM.

But they almost beat....but they almost beat.
Reality check as to how F'ed up this team is from top to bottom.
Even if they know what the problems are they have no idea how to fix them.
Betterquickly find a competent GM

was the basement dark?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Johnson, Gordon and Brisker are undeniably good. What happened to Brisker sucks, but you can’t blame the GM for it. I also think Stevenson can be a very good player but he’s being steadily ruined the exact way Anthony Miller was steadily ruined.

Caleb Williams...mediocre?!?!

He didnt draft jonson you dipshit

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He paid him though.

You do not seem to know much about football.

Let's see if I can explain it to you at an appropriate, well maybe appropriate is too big a word, so let's try this method.

The general manager is the person who decides which players get paid significant salaries, in this case your guy Poles decided to pay Johnson a significant salary, there ya go lil' fella.

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