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* What would you say to the Bears search team?…
The Bears search team: George McCaskey, Ted Phillips, Bill Polian, Lamar “Soup” Campbell and Tanesha Wade.
The new GM will report to McCaskey instead of Phillips.
— Kevin Fishbain (@kfishbain) January 10, 2022
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:20 pm
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Prioritize winning and prioritize getting to the postseason because they last few years I have no idea what they were thinking.
Comment by Levois J Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:21 pm
Fire the search team
Comment by Google Is Your Friend Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:21 pm
So…. Who is going to be on the next GM search team in 3-6 years?
Comment by TJ Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:22 pm
Please, sell the team.
Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:24 pm
As long as the McCaskeys own the Bears they won’t get close to playing in a Super Bowl.
Comment by The Dude Abides Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:26 pm
Why on earth would you fire Bill Polian?
He is in the Hall of Fame and has been to 6 Super Bowls and hired two Hall of Fame head coaches- Mark Levy and Tony Dungy
Comment by Lucky Pierre Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:27 pm
Is having the new GM report to George McCaskey instead of Ted Phillips a selling point? I mean I didn’t think you could do much to make the job more unattractive. And then I heard that.
Comment by Pundent Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:28 pm
Wow, LP weighed in on a non political post.
Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:28 pm
I’m sure George McCaskey will produce the same great results from the last several searches. Rich already beat me to the message: Sell.
Comment by ArchPundit Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:28 pm
==Why on earth would you fire Bill Polian?
The problem is not with Polian but with McCaskey and Phillips who are the decision makers. Polian is largely irrelevant–though I’d rather have him there with those two.
Comment by ArchPundit Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:30 pm
I would tell Polain, Campbell and Wade to make the decision themselves. And don’t even talk to McCaskey and Phillips until you make the decision.
Comment by Been There Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:31 pm
The potential star of your next defensive line was apparently spotted in Cass County en route to the Mark Twain National Forest. Witnesses say he could be related to Lyle Alzado. Find him before the Packers do.
Comment by Dysfunction Junction Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:32 pm
Add Ditka to your search team.
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:33 pm
Don’t be too hard on yourselves.
Comment by AlfondoGonz Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:33 pm
==The potential star of your next defensive line was apparently spotted in Cass County en route to the Mark Twain National Forest. Witnesses say he could be related to Lyle Alzado. Find him before the Packers do.==
Or find him before he enters Chiefs country and they sign him instead.
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:35 pm
While Bill Polian is the only member of the search team that is qualified to serve on such a team, he’s been out of the league for 10 years.
This is so embarrassing.
Comment by Henry Francis Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:36 pm
If you can’t suggest selling the team to the McCaskeys…
Find a coach and GM that has 21st century experience with a vision to today and beyond.
The “85” type thinking to football is not what is winning Super Bowls.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:40 pm
Three key things:
1) Sell the team.
2) Sell. The. Team.
3) SELL THE DAMNED TEAM.
Any Bears fan watching/listening to the Ted Phillips press conference has to be completely demoralized at this point.
Comment by New Day Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:45 pm
Convince me you will be more successful than the Bigfoot search team.
Comment by Ron Burgundy Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 1:57 pm
They don’t need a search team - same old garbage - Ted Phillips and McCaskey. Sell the team to someone, anyone who knows anything about Football - except anyone related to McCaskeys
Comment by Forget the Bears Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:02 pm
Keep up the good work.
With regards, Packers Owner
Comment by Norseman Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:04 pm
“With regards, Packers Owner” The owner of the Packers, or the Packers member that “owns” the Bears?
Comment by Skeptic Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:15 pm
Those whom the gods would destroy they first make Chicago Bears coaches.
Comment by Suburban Mom Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:15 pm
Only 4 teams have fewer playoff wins since 2000 than the Bears. The Bears have 3 - teams that also have 3 wins, Dallas and Jacksonville.
Comment by Cool Papa Bell Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:18 pm
===Please, sell the team===
Ditto. Nothing will change until then.
Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:18 pm
You got Bill Polian involved…Good…Now get out of the way and you have no veto power.
Comment by AD Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:24 pm
hurry up and make the decision that Papa Bear did…find a real hard ass to coach the team, not someone popular, but someone who coaches hard. hate Harbaugh but think it might be him.
Comment by Amalia Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:28 pm
I am hoping that, after every unsuccessful GM and coaching hire in the George McCaskey/Ted Phillips era, that dumb luck would kick in at some point.
Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:36 pm
What? Aaron Rodgers not on the search team? He owns them after all.
Comment by Captain Obvious Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:38 pm
Please search for a buyer for the team
Comment by Long Time Independent Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:39 pm
Look outside the traditional “old boys’ club” for a potential coach. Most clubs interview the minimum number of minority candidates needed to satisfy the “Rooney Rule” requirements, but the Bears should think stringly about going beyond that.
Think of it like “Moneyball”: there are a lot of good potential coaches who are undervalued by other teams because owners are most comfortable hiring people like them, i.e., white guys who got their jobs through nepotism. The Bears need to figure out a way to scoop one of those undervalued coaches up.
Comment by Benjamin Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:39 pm
burn it down
Comment by Boone's is Back Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:49 pm
White guys hired through nepotism?
As the mayor of NY, who just hired his brother to a police job at 240K, will tell you nepotism is color blind
Comment by Lucky Pierre Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 2:59 pm
Bears have been great lately. Keep it rolling. Bad move firing Pace and Nagy. Look for replacements just like them.
Sincerely,
A Packers fan in Chicago
Comment by Keep it going Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 3:12 pm
Bears management is who we thought they were..and we let them do it again to the team and fans (banned punctuation). Any potential coach worth the title is going to run away from the selection committee. Harbaugh owes them no favors either. The selection committee is yet another example of failure.
Comment by thisjustinagain Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 3:16 pm
Wasn’t this same search team that hired Pace and Nagy
Comment by Unionman Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 3:25 pm
Let’s be honest with ourselves, if you had more money already then you could ever spend would you ever sell the Bears if you owned them? The answer is no, so telling a rich person to sell something for the good of others is pretty pointless. To the post, I would take Flores as HC and Louis Riddick as GM.
Comment by Moved East Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 3:31 pm
“With this team in place, us Lions fans are now happy that we aren’t the worst organization in the NFC North. We recognize the bar is low, but hey, a bar is a bar right George?”
Comment by Just a guy Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 3:39 pm
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Comment by In_The_Middle Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 3:43 pm
LP: I’m thinking specifically of nepotism in NFL coaching here: https://defector.com/just-how-big-a-problem-is-nepotism-in-nfl-coaching/
Also, interesting (if slightly outdated) breakdown of NFL coaching positions by race here: https://globalsportmatters.com/from-our-lab/2020/09/24/nfl/
Comment by Benjamin Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 3:57 pm
—Why on earth would you fire Bill Polian?–
Why would I fire him? Because, I regularly listen to his radio show, and ugh.
Comment by Lost in Place Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 4:15 pm
Do what the Chicago Bulls have been doing, except with football.
Comment by SAP Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 4:25 pm
Over the weekend, I was reminded that George McCaskey’s connection to the game of football is even weaker than my now tenuous connection to cattle ranching.
– MrJM
Comment by MisterJayEm Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 5:05 pm
Make sure candidates know where Arlington Heights is.
Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jan 10, 22 @ 6:07 pm
The advice to the search team is self-reflection. This is the time of the year where we hear of all the potential hot candidates. From up and coming coordinators to retread coaches who couldn’t quite make it the first time around but are being rallied for another shot.
Head coaches rarely fail on their own, with the possible exception of Urban Meyer. A good coach will not win in a bad organization. And if you’re not fixing a bad organization, and the Bears clearly aren’t, failure will be your brand.
The New England Patriots epitomize that. Their coordinators are coveted by other organizations more often than not bad ones. Whether it’s Matt Patricia or Brian Flores they typically don’t do well. And it’s not that they forgot how to coach, they simply can’t be effective given the problems that persist in these organizations. Of course there are a few exceptions to this but more often than not the trend continues.
And that’s the curse of the Bears. Nagy and Pace are now gone and will land on their feet elsewhere. They might even win a Super Bowl down the road. That’s an unlikely fate for the Bears. Because while we seen yet another GM and coach change everything else is pretty much the same in the organization. At this point it should be abundantly clear to the next hires how daunting the task is.
Comment by Pundent Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 7:53 am
Talk to Zimmer & Fangio for their thoughts on current NFL , but not to hire either one.
Comment by TyrkeyBowl Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 8:22 am