Chicago Bears

besides the schitzo stuff about hard knocks I agree.

Hard Knocks is only a distraction if you allow it to be a distraction. The Bears would 1000% allow it to be a distraction.

This was needed. None of us had any idea why his job could be in trouble

I'm somewhat indifferent on Eberflus, but we absolutely need to draft a QB and I think it would be a mistake to not bring in a new coach to do that.

We need to hire an offensive minded HC and let him help pick the new QB.

This a dangerous Bears team Sunday unless Fields has like 3 TO.

I think Poles REALLY likes Eberflus. He worked very closely with him to build this team. This can be a cynical business, but I believe his comments about Flus from 2 weeks ago were 1000% genuine. He does NOT want to have to fire Flus -- it will totally derail what he is trying to do.

Like if Flus gets canned does he have to find another HC and DC to run the 4-3? If they don't want to it sets the rebuild back 2-3 years. It also means they dealt Roquan for no good reason. (I think dealing Mack was asinine -- especially since we are now paying Sweat MORE -- but one could make the argument that he was aging and cap space needed to be cleared).

On top of that -- Does Poles even have 2-3 more years to get good? Like if he hires a coach who starts 5-11 next year with a rookie, Poles is on the hot seat. With a record of 11 wins over 3 years he would have to be. It would be playoffs or bust for him in 25.

Nope -- Poles WANTS to keep Flus.

I'd say it's probably all the losing.

At least it's a different take on the same topic?

Sadly nothing about George’s history as the chairmen says he will be fired.

I guess you can put your hope in Kevin Warren but I’ll believe it when I see it.

I’d bet a lot poles and dweeberflus are back

We’ve kept worse coaches for longer. I don’t think it’s even close to being favored one way or another currently

I think he’s probably gone because he will likely be one of the “losingest” coaches in Bears history on top of losing 2 of his chosen coaching staff to inappropriate conduct. Objectively speaking he has been a disaster.

Bears won't get chosen while Virginia is alive. Even if they can't decline, the NFL bends over for the long tenured owners. If Flus gets fired, it will have nothing to do with Hard Knocks.

The biggest character flaw the McCaskey family has as owners is loyalty. There is no universe where they fire a staff over something so trivial as a TV show.

Firing a coach to avoid hard Knocks is the equivalent of not improving the team in the offseason to hope for comp picks. Bears should fire Flus but not because of hard knocks.

Flus is about fundamentally sound mistake free football. His team is not.

Flus as a head coach would prefer for both of his coordinators to coordinate their side of the ball. DC looked incompetent until he was fired for HR reasons. OC looks incompetent. If one side of the ball looked competent and the team was disciplined, I would be all for letting Flus hire one new coordinator.

Flus is bad at interviewing coaches. Two of the coaches he hired has been let go for HR reasons. Do you want him hiring two more coordinators this offseason? I don't.

We aren't seeing Fields progress as much as we'd like. Fields inability to raise the talent around him makes it unlikely the GM that didn't draft him will want to build a team around a QB with a top 10 salary. As we will likely have a new QB next year, the main reason to fire Flus is to not start the next top 11 draft pick with a lame duck HC that will be fired after one season and have to learn a new system their sophomore year.