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First off nothing earth shattering here but sometimes we need to step back a little to see the bigger picture and remind ourselves why the team is in the position it is.
Early on in Lovie Smith's HC career he was blessed with a handful of playmakers on the defensive side of the ball. For all his warts, Lovie's teams played hard for their coach and loved the man. Lovie knew jack shit about the offensive side of the ball, or drafting and developing but give him a roster with talent and he will get the best out of them.
Then after the Super Bowl appearance ownership was smitten with Lovie. He was given greater control over the roster, the draft board, and his coaching staff. Of course he knew and appreciated ST and Def and it showed but his ineptitude on Off killed that side of the ball to the extent that the Bears pigeon holed themselves into trading for Cutler and playing the OC circus.
This has been stated ad nauseum but the larger issue then Lovie's ineptitude on Off was the draft and development that took place after the Superbowl appearance. Failure after failure of draft picks started to deplete an aging Def in addition to the obviously neglected other side of the ball. In other words Lovie was given too much power and they never replenished their roster. He bled all the success as he possibly could with your Urlacher's, Briggs, Tillman's, Hester's etc. but there was no infusion of new talent.
All those bad drafts created a vacuum and those voids needed to be filled by dipping into FA, trades, etc. or simply put not building the team the right way. The Bears would have been best served keeping Lovie as HC and having a powerful GM over him who had full roster and draft say and also helped assemble a staff. Obviously ownership saw it differently and Angelo fell on the sword.
Of course once they did that there is no going back so they had to ride Lovie until they no longer could. So in walks Emery and a chance at revival of the Chicago Bears and what does he do, passes up on Bruce Arians for freaking Trestman, talk about a faux pas of epic proportions. We will never know how Emery would have done with the roster given time to build because he made the worst HC hire imaginable.
So because of that terrible hire of course the Bears had to switch gears and go for an established and respected HC like John Fox instead of an unknown because they were feeling from Trestman. Turns out John Fox is a burned out, old coach who needs to hang it up. And now the Bears franchise is like a 2wd truck trying to make it up an icy hill, slipping and sliding backwards and gaining no traction.
Not sure if Pace is the right GM, but he needs to be given time to prove if he can pull the Bears out of a talent abyss. But in the meantime he needs to be given a clean slate and select his QB and his HC who he envisions leading this team in the years to come.
Early on in Lovie Smith's HC career he was blessed with a handful of playmakers on the defensive side of the ball. For all his warts, Lovie's teams played hard for their coach and loved the man. Lovie knew jack shit about the offensive side of the ball, or drafting and developing but give him a roster with talent and he will get the best out of them.
Then after the Super Bowl appearance ownership was smitten with Lovie. He was given greater control over the roster, the draft board, and his coaching staff. Of course he knew and appreciated ST and Def and it showed but his ineptitude on Off killed that side of the ball to the extent that the Bears pigeon holed themselves into trading for Cutler and playing the OC circus.
This has been stated ad nauseum but the larger issue then Lovie's ineptitude on Off was the draft and development that took place after the Superbowl appearance. Failure after failure of draft picks started to deplete an aging Def in addition to the obviously neglected other side of the ball. In other words Lovie was given too much power and they never replenished their roster. He bled all the success as he possibly could with your Urlacher's, Briggs, Tillman's, Hester's etc. but there was no infusion of new talent.
All those bad drafts created a vacuum and those voids needed to be filled by dipping into FA, trades, etc. or simply put not building the team the right way. The Bears would have been best served keeping Lovie as HC and having a powerful GM over him who had full roster and draft say and also helped assemble a staff. Obviously ownership saw it differently and Angelo fell on the sword.
Of course once they did that there is no going back so they had to ride Lovie until they no longer could. So in walks Emery and a chance at revival of the Chicago Bears and what does he do, passes up on Bruce Arians for freaking Trestman, talk about a faux pas of epic proportions. We will never know how Emery would have done with the roster given time to build because he made the worst HC hire imaginable.
So because of that terrible hire of course the Bears had to switch gears and go for an established and respected HC like John Fox instead of an unknown because they were feeling from Trestman. Turns out John Fox is a burned out, old coach who needs to hang it up. And now the Bears franchise is like a 2wd truck trying to make it up an icy hill, slipping and sliding backwards and gaining no traction.
Not sure if Pace is the right GM, but he needs to be given time to prove if he can pull the Bears out of a talent abyss. But in the meantime he needs to be given a clean slate and select his QB and his HC who he envisions leading this team in the years to come.
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