If you’re Ben Johnson why would you come to the Bears? Yeah there’s the allure of Caleb Williams and turning him into a ‘franchise quarterback’, but does that outweigh the obvious flaw? Dysfunction.
The Bears are dysfunction junction. Unlike the old “School House Rock” conjunction junction which hooks up words and phrases and clauses, dysfunction junction just continues to hook up Bears fans with disappointment after disappointment. It’s the junction of clueless ownership, a likely lame duck GM and a team that continues to underperform without leadership. This is the organization that allowed Ryan Pace to commit crimes against the roster for 7 seasons. It’s the one that allowed him to draft Mitch Trubisky with the 2nd pick, even trading up to get a player nobody else wanted that high in the draft.
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| Conjunction Junction (ABC/Disney) |
This is also the same Bears team that allowed Matt Eberflus to continue coaching the team at the beginning of the 2024 season, based on some meaningless wins at the end of 2023. Keep in mind, Eberflus had to fire, 2 offensive coordinators, a running backs coach and a defensive coordinator in his 2+ seasons in Chicago. Hardly a spotless record. Yet, probably because they didn’t want so much ‘dead money’, the Bears allowed Eberflus to continue at the helm of a rudderless ship. No discipline, no accountability, no plan and no, not a lot of wins either.
So, the Bears fired Eberflus, after he blacked out at the end of the Thanksgiving game in Detroit. A miracle of sorts for a franchise, which had never let a head coach go in the middle of a season. Yeah, it got that bad.
All that being said, get ready Bears fans for the likes of Anthony Weaver (who?), Joe Brady and Matt Campbell. They’re probably all good guys and good coaches, but in a coaching cycle that could define the next 10 years of Bears’ football, none of these guys are the answer. This hire is too important to continue to operate in the mediocrity, of Marc Trestman, John Fox, Matt Nagy and Eberflus. I mean come on.
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| Marc Trestman (Bleacher Report) |
The best candidate, in my opinion is already off the table. Mike Vrabel, reportedly agreed to a deal to coach the team he once played for, the New England Patriots. Vrabel was a part of Superbowl teams in New England and is a no-nonsense kind of coach a fractured locker room needed.
The Bears seem to think fans will be impressed at how many candidates they’ll interview. Why would anyone be impressed by indecision and lack of vision for a franchise? That’s all the long list of a reported 18-19 interviews shows everyone in the NFL. Looking for a candidate to emerge, rather than zeroing in on the one you want, no matter the cost, shows how messed up this search is already. I’m hoping that maybe the list is a smokescreen of some sort and that Ryan Poles and Kevin Warren already know who they want and are just going through the motions. If you believe that, I have some land in Arlington Heights to sell you, real cheap.
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| Ryan Poles (Chicago Sun-Times) |
Who is making the decision anyway? Warren says it’s Poles, but in the same breath will tell you he has some sort of final cut or input. Poles says he’s the point person, but is he really? You see what I’m saying here? Why would a head coaching candidate want to come here? The structure is archaic. It’s out of touch with reality. How about letting the FOOTBALL people make the FOOTBALL calls? What a novel concept.
As I sit here watching the NFL Playoffs, it’s amazing to me how far this Bears team is from actually competing in the NFC North, let alone “taking” it from anyone.
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