Ed dodds Withdraws GM name from Bears

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He seems like a prick. Not is a good way, more in a smarmy douchey way. Not like a tough-minded, disciplined prick, which would be fine, IMO.
 

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He interviewed dumbass but I’m curious to why Dobbs was a hot name anyways? That one meatball quote?
 

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He did this 3 years in a row

And he supposedly had a terrible interview just like with Carolina last time
 

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He forgot to bring the "whys", and was politely asked to leave.
 

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Can’t be passed up on if you withdraw yourself. Probably bombed another interview.

I don’t want any part of anyone that thought trading for Wentz was a good idea.
 

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Maybe he wasn't asked back for a 2nd interview like his pal, Eberflus. Better to decline than be rejected.
 

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Sounding like Dodds just flat bombed.
He has declined to interview in other years and I read he bombed on the interview, who knows what's true. Heard he a smart guy and great talent evaluator but last couple of drafts are average and maybe he is brilliant and just a poor interviewer.
 

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Dodds has been highly sought after for years and is regarded as one of the best talent evaluators in the NFL. Either Dodds doesn’t want to be a GM (some speculate this) or he’s really waiting for the right opportunity.

Either way, sucks for the Bears
 

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If only there was a thread with 80+ pages pinned at the top of this forum. Idiot.
Why do I want to go to an 80+ page thread to find out if something might have happened that day when I can look at a thread with the title that tells me one thing that happened and then be able to pick and chose what things happened that I am interested in?

If there were things of more importance going on than GM and HC hiring, they might get thrown to the second page without being seen, but:
  1. there is NOTHING more important for Bear fans nor the Bears team than the search for the next GM and HC, besides the McCaskeys selling the team.
  2. If the McCaskey happened to suddenly sell the team, it would be the #1 item in all sports networks and would certainly have multiple threads on the front page.
  3. There are not enough CCS members to easily create so many threads to instantly drop a thread from the front page unless someone goes to the necro area and brings back about 50 threads.
    1. That is usually dealt with by the Staff.

This is an annual thing with people. The Bears offseason comes along and some members create these stupid all-inclusive 50+ page threads that do nothing for the CCS members. They then complain that people are not using these all-inclusive threads and are creating individual threads to communicate.

Because it is the Bears offseason (the post season has come along but the Bears are over and done with), there is not a lot going on. There is not a lot to be talked about on the front page besides the GM and HC hires.

Why not let people create individual threads of what is going on that day with the GM and HC interviews and, at the end of the day, the staff can merge them with the 80+ page thread?


I always think that extreme examples clarify things.

Extreme 1 - zero pinned all-inclusive threads

  1. There are several threads for every GM or HC candidate.
    1. Only one or two of those threads get any responses and the other ones get dropped to the second page and the necro area.
    2. eventually there is only one active thread for each candidate.
      1. At the start, it is problematic because there are more than 20 candidates and only 20 spots on the front page.
      2. The candidates that are more interesting to CCS will get mentioned more often and, thus, stay on the front page.
      3. Once some GM and HC candidates are no longer in the running, there will be less problems with them staying on the front page.
      4. Once a GM or HC is hired, all the other candidates' threads will end up in necro.
      5. Even the threads about the GM and the HC will end up in necro about a week after their hires because it will no longer be a subject of interest.
    3. There will be some playoff threads that will knock some candidates to the second page.
      1. As mentioned above, it will only be a problem when there are a lot of candidates. Once a hire happens, there will be less and less candidate threads that will take up space on the front page.
    4. Once the playoffs end and the GM and HC is hired, the front page will become a wasteland until ...
    5. Draft time comes along.
      1. there will be lots of mock drafts that will knock the GM/HC and playoff threads to necroland.
      2. Possible draft targets will get threads. If interesting, they will stick around the front page for a bit, else they will be gone.
    6. All of this will be rinse and repeat for free agency and the actual draft. Same thing every year.
  2. Conclusion
    1. Without the all-inclusive threads
      1. there will be a small battle for front page views for a small amount of time which will quickly go away in time. Same thing happens every year.
      2. people will vote up the threads they are interested in by posting in them. Those threads will stay on the front page until no one is interested in them. Then they go to necroland.
      3. Being the Bears offseason 2022, there will not be a lot of threads more important than the HC and GM candidate threads.
      4. People will be able to see immediately what is of interest to other CCS members just by reading the threads.
        1. they will then be able to pick and choose which threads they want to read.
      5. The front page will not be compromised with individual threads too much.
    2. With an "everything but the kitchen sink" all inclusive thread (extreme example of everything going in it).
      1. people will have to wade through hundreds of pages to try to figure out what happened that day
      2. the crazies will start an argument in the middle of page 87 and continue into the 120s, most of those pages being filled with their childish arguments.
        1. people are going to have to go through almost 40 pages of garbage to see if there is a bit of news after the combatants naptime.
          1. at least with arguments in individual threads, one can leave that thread and go to another thread and hope that the crazies stay in the first thread.
        2. lots of time will be wasted going through those pages and other pages and there might not even be any news that is interesting to them.
      3. At least the front page will be clean
        1. there will be
          1. a pinned welcome thread
          2. a pinned rules and regulations thread
          3. a pinned Bears roll call thread
          4. a pinned politics rules thread
          5. a pinned "everything but the kitchen sink" thread
          6. and the rest of the front page will be filled with kitchen sink talk.
      4. Conclusion
        1. all-inclusive threads are stupid
        2. All-inclusive threads waste people's time
        3. all-inclusive threads try to save valuable front page space which makes no sense when there is not anything going on more important than the GM and HC search right now, which are the things that SHOULD be on a front page.
 

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The sky is falling.
 

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