Mighty Joe Young
Living in Troll's Heads Rent-Free for Decades
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How many Head Coaches and their staff have failed with the Bears?
How many QB's have failed with the Bears?
At some time, we all have to realize that its the ownership that sets the course of the team.
The only successful part of the modern day Bears is the financial side. What's that tell ya?
I do think though, fans need to take more of a macro approach. Too often, the more meatball fans get dragged into either-or arguments, because they can't accept that all things can be true in some arguments:
Like in the case of what you said - it implies that the Bears had head coaches and QBs that would have succeeded if not for ownership. Rather, the QBs and coaches HAVE been bad, because they've had a bad ownership picking them - my apologies if this is what you meant.
The cold reality is you have bad ownership picking bad coaches and bad GMs who then pick bad quarterbacks, have bad drafting philosophies, bad coaching philosophies (looking at you Lovie Smith circa 2007 onward and Mark Trestman), all of which leads to a bad organization.
However, I think things MAY be different this time around for 2 major reasons -
1) The " even a blind squirrel can find a nut" theory - The Bears drafted Justin Fields, and by all accounts from people who have sources in Halas Hall, everyone realizes Fields is just "different" than ANYONE they've had in that building before, and they know it - so having that, it sounds like they are more willing to try to do right by this kid.
2) The Bears are going to sell the team relatively soon. I think they are willing to make major changes now, finally, because they know they won't have to live with it for long.