Teddy KGB
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Seriously, at this point, I don't even give a crap. They're all just names right now.
Want a known name? You are getting someone who's failed before at what you're asking him to do.
Want an unknown? No discernable track record.
Want someone not connected to the Bears? Well, the best candidate might be the one who was a scout for the Bears in the past.
Want someone connected with the Bears? Well, the one guy who is hasn't been doing the job that long.
Add to that the fact that the GMs of teams that have won 5 or more playoff games in the last 10 years have not been anyone with previous GM experience, and all came from "losing" teams, and what the hell good sense does anything make anymore?
The media and fans want whats familiar, but familiar is familiarly bad once you get over the newness.
The alternative is to roll the dice and take a chance that you get the next Ozzie Newsome instead of the next Phil Emery.
The above goes for coaches too.
So really, at this point, I refuse to get all worked up over who's hired.
It's really like the draft this year - a total crapshoot.
You wanted a known? That chance was 2 years ago, when we could have had Arians and kept Marinelli, since it was revealed that the real reason Marinelli left was because they didn't go with Arians.
That was the chance.
The names this year? We're all just speculating and projecting. We got no fucking clue. And I bet neither do the NFL teams - not just the Bears; NONE of them. If they had a clue, would Doug Marrone have bailed and Chip Kelley made a power play threatening to do the same? Would Atlanta really let their new HC determine the fate of their GM? Would Buffalo really try to bring Polian in as their new football czar only for Polian to turn them down because too many people in their own building were talking shit about him?
We act like this is an exact science, and it just isn't. There's things that makes us comfortable, and things that don't, and unfortunately our comfortability has ZERO bearing on whether a hire will be successful or not - only whether it makes us feel good at the time or not.
So at this point, I don't care. I am not going to get worked up. The Bears could make the "wrong" move and it ends up working. They could make the "right" move and end up getting killed over it 2 years later. They could be praised for a move one year, only to get killed for it the next.
It's just a total crapshoot. And I am done pretending its anything but that.
Instead of getting all worked up, I'm just going to see who we get, and hope they are up to the task. Be it Former Bear Scout Chris Ballard, or anyone else...
Want a known name? You are getting someone who's failed before at what you're asking him to do.
Want an unknown? No discernable track record.
Want someone not connected to the Bears? Well, the best candidate might be the one who was a scout for the Bears in the past.
Want someone connected with the Bears? Well, the one guy who is hasn't been doing the job that long.
Add to that the fact that the GMs of teams that have won 5 or more playoff games in the last 10 years have not been anyone with previous GM experience, and all came from "losing" teams, and what the hell good sense does anything make anymore?
The media and fans want whats familiar, but familiar is familiarly bad once you get over the newness.
The alternative is to roll the dice and take a chance that you get the next Ozzie Newsome instead of the next Phil Emery.
The above goes for coaches too.
So really, at this point, I refuse to get all worked up over who's hired.
It's really like the draft this year - a total crapshoot.
You wanted a known? That chance was 2 years ago, when we could have had Arians and kept Marinelli, since it was revealed that the real reason Marinelli left was because they didn't go with Arians.
That was the chance.
The names this year? We're all just speculating and projecting. We got no fucking clue. And I bet neither do the NFL teams - not just the Bears; NONE of them. If they had a clue, would Doug Marrone have bailed and Chip Kelley made a power play threatening to do the same? Would Atlanta really let their new HC determine the fate of their GM? Would Buffalo really try to bring Polian in as their new football czar only for Polian to turn them down because too many people in their own building were talking shit about him?
We act like this is an exact science, and it just isn't. There's things that makes us comfortable, and things that don't, and unfortunately our comfortability has ZERO bearing on whether a hire will be successful or not - only whether it makes us feel good at the time or not.
So at this point, I don't care. I am not going to get worked up. The Bears could make the "wrong" move and it ends up working. They could make the "right" move and end up getting killed over it 2 years later. They could be praised for a move one year, only to get killed for it the next.
It's just a total crapshoot. And I am done pretending its anything but that.
Instead of getting all worked up, I'm just going to see who we get, and hope they are up to the task. Be it Former Bear Scout Chris Ballard, or anyone else...
in his bunker
