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"This is taking a lot longer than any of us thought it would . . . "
If those sound to you like odd words for a Team President to use when announcing a contract extension, imagine how they registered with Ryan "Snails" Pace when "King" George McCaskey cryptically croaked them while standing at the podium on Black Monday to announce the undeserved but circumstantially necessary contract extension of the Bears generally mismanaging General Manager.
Cameras were not on Snails as George ruefully rambled, but reports are the left side of his face remains to this day reddened from the well-deserved slap in the face, deftly executed by the Kingster and delivered of course considering his silver-spooned upbringing not open-palmed but with the much more sophisticated backhand of deadly damning understatement.
The fact that the Kingster and "Sweaty" Teddy Phillips then insisted on chaperoning Snails as he interviewed Head Coach replacements for his awful first hire John Fox shows just how little the franchise trusts the Architect of a putrid 14-and-34 three year run. Nobody ever accused the Sweatster of being football-smart, but he knows an executive who doesn't know what he's doing when he sees one.
As Pace makes his way through an off-season balleyhooed by Bear fans as some sort of resurgence, it remains to be seen whether there have been any lessons learned from egregiously erroneous experiments like Mike "Glen or" Glennon and "Mucus" Wheaton. Thus far, Snails's most proactive move despite the lukewarm loquacions over Allen Robinson appears to have been securing the services of Kyle Fuller, who clearly doesn't want to be here after packing it in in 2016 and 2017 because he couldn't man-up against John Fox's tough-love before turning it on in - what a surprise - a contract-critical season. The Bears need that like Pace needs yet another hole in his well-coiffed head . . .
Somehow though, to Bear fans desperate to believe in SOMETHING, the Chicago Bears have become a destination franchise; because of Pace, because of a Head Coach who's never done it before, because of a quarterback the franchise didn't trust enough to let throw more than 13 or 14 times a game last season, and because some hack journalist twitted or twatted or whatever they call it thusly. After three straight 10-loss seasons, it's pretty clear to the shoopster as it was to the "King" George when he uttered those fateful words on Black Monday that this whole Ryan Pace experiment isn't working. But the Kingster's stuck with him.
Just like Bear fans are.
If those sound to you like odd words for a Team President to use when announcing a contract extension, imagine how they registered with Ryan "Snails" Pace when "King" George McCaskey cryptically croaked them while standing at the podium on Black Monday to announce the undeserved but circumstantially necessary contract extension of the Bears generally mismanaging General Manager.
Cameras were not on Snails as George ruefully rambled, but reports are the left side of his face remains to this day reddened from the well-deserved slap in the face, deftly executed by the Kingster and delivered of course considering his silver-spooned upbringing not open-palmed but with the much more sophisticated backhand of deadly damning understatement.
The fact that the Kingster and "Sweaty" Teddy Phillips then insisted on chaperoning Snails as he interviewed Head Coach replacements for his awful first hire John Fox shows just how little the franchise trusts the Architect of a putrid 14-and-34 three year run. Nobody ever accused the Sweatster of being football-smart, but he knows an executive who doesn't know what he's doing when he sees one.
As Pace makes his way through an off-season balleyhooed by Bear fans as some sort of resurgence, it remains to be seen whether there have been any lessons learned from egregiously erroneous experiments like Mike "Glen or" Glennon and "Mucus" Wheaton. Thus far, Snails's most proactive move despite the lukewarm loquacions over Allen Robinson appears to have been securing the services of Kyle Fuller, who clearly doesn't want to be here after packing it in in 2016 and 2017 because he couldn't man-up against John Fox's tough-love before turning it on in - what a surprise - a contract-critical season. The Bears need that like Pace needs yet another hole in his well-coiffed head . . .
Somehow though, to Bear fans desperate to believe in SOMETHING, the Chicago Bears have become a destination franchise; because of Pace, because of a Head Coach who's never done it before, because of a quarterback the franchise didn't trust enough to let throw more than 13 or 14 times a game last season, and because some hack journalist twitted or twatted or whatever they call it thusly. After three straight 10-loss seasons, it's pretty clear to the shoopster as it was to the "King" George when he uttered those fateful words on Black Monday that this whole Ryan Pace experiment isn't working. But the Kingster's stuck with him.
Just like Bear fans are.