Oh, I’ve got no problem giving him a chance. I’m fine with that. Maybe he’ll be good. I just don’t think that’s likely, though.
I’m fine with giving Eberflus a fair shake while also acknowledging that he’s likely to fail. I see nothing in his track record or the Bears’ track record that would cause me to expect success.
When you say, “how they are putting together a staff, if feels very polished in how they're going about it,” what do you mean? Eberflus is only hiring people he’s already close to, and they’re all first timers at their positions. How is that “polished”?
Remember though, I'm talking about the process more so than the people.
As a defensive coordinator, the people who are getting hired right now are all people who came over from Indianapolis. Usually a head coach from a side of the ball will be allowed to take one coach with him. He's practically taking all of them.
Now one could say this is a bad thing because the head coach of Indy is allowing them all to go. But then considered that Indy has had a top 10 defense since Eberflus was there. And now the same coaching crew is going with him and everybody gets a nice little bump up for the most part. We could be looking back at this as the worst mistake Frank Reich ever made.
Switch over to offense, and while The hires have not come in as quickly, the OC we got is extremely highly thought of in League circles.
They are bringing in quality people who are well thought of around the league, across the board. Us fans may not have heard of them, but reports have been very good across League circles and that hasn't always been the case.
All in all it just seems like a very methodical and polished yet uptempo search to fill out the coaching staff. And what makes it special, for those of us paying attention, is that it isn't special, at least not for GOOD teams. We may not know the names, but how it's being done is how better organizations put together a coaching staff.
So for those of us who pay attention to such things it's really encouraging.