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Eberflus has to have worked with him somewhere. Otherwise I can't see how he'd know the backup to the backup to the play caller (HC) is any good at designing and calling an offense.

I haven't had time to dig into the Cover 2 vs. Cover 3 (Seatlle/NE concepts) transition he made at Indy. I only know that based on this he's definitely not married to scheme and adjusts based on talents of his players.

Seems like this deserves its own thread as we enter the FA and draft season. If this is the direction Eberflus wants to go it's hard to say how much he can implement this offseason. https://www.stampedeblue.com/2020/10/2/21497914/colts-scouting-journal-time-to-stop-calling-the-colts-a-cover-2-defense

How is McVay going to develop a QB when he's in his ear telling him exactly where to throw on each play? Which worked well until defenses figured out McVay's tendencies and they just needed to disguise better, at least until his conversation with QB was cutoff.

Hmm. stay in GB and run the offense with Jordan Love and where your HC is still "the guy" for the offense or go down the road and run the offense with Justin Fields and blaze your own path?

I could see that being how he won the interview: "Under my leadership we're sticking with the Bears long tradition of outstanding defense and occasional offense." I can see George smiling as he recalls all the failed offensive experiments with Martz, Trestman, and now Nagy and saying to himself yeah, that Fox-ball stuff wasn't all that bad.

I'm not giving up my cushy job as a critic where it is much easier to be correct after the coaches are wrong. I wouldn't mind one of those consultant roles but I hear it only pays $15/hr.

Is this your list or some rumor you picked up regarding who Eber (Flussie?) is looking at?

Wishful or not I'd still prefer Desai running the D over Lovie regardless of scheme. One has shown the ability to adapt scheme to take away something from an offense the other just focuses on "better" execution of the same thing over and over. From the article link I posted earlier Eberflus appears to have the same trait of scheming against an offense where he can find an advantage, or to create an advantage. Marinelli I'd be happy with but at 71 he might be past his retirement date. Maybe a younger DC to carry the heavy workload and Marinelli as Dline coach/assistant DC?

Eberflus was the passing game coordinator for 2 years in Dallas. How many times have you seen a LB coach add that responsibility? He has to understand the offensive side of the ball well enough to help build a game plan to attack a defense.

https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/football/professional/what-chicago-bears-see-in-coaching-candidate-matt-eberflus/article_8a457478-2fb4-51b6-af8d-c2d486546dc1.html

No. I’d much Prefer to keep Desai before going back to routinely beaten cover 2.

I expected Quinn so curious to see what he brings to the table. Steady veteran coach complete opposite of the whiz kid Nagy who was going to revolutionize the offense.

No need for Sorenson, we already have Jackson back there in poor coverage and ready to miss tackles.

Between the potential changes in scheme and new GM evaluations Goldman is definitely on the bubble. $5mil dead money but $6.6mil in cap savings

And maybe teach a protégé to take over for him? if this is being explored it would also mean Quinn would have to talk with those coaches he aligned with beforehand. Plus is Caldwell deadest on being HC? Seemingly the other teams are waiting on the Bears decision. At least the Jaguars might be since Eberflus is on their short list. I assume the Giants want Daboll so that’s a clear path. First time it’s felt like the Bears were in the pole position. No pun intended.

The crickets around all this means something is up.

Is the new GM trying to put together a HC with Caldwell as OC? Can be some delicate conversations working around that scenario.

Because the Raiders last $100mil contract worked out so well.

Imagine that approach when he was younger.

Sometimes people just aren’t ready. You could add Fangio to that list and it appears like most he’ll be coming back to coordinator level if he wants to.

If these 3 HC candidates had input from Poles and I presume the other GM finalists then so be it. As someone mentioned they likely had access to all the videos of the first interviews. I actually think that’sa good way to assess GM candidates. If I interviewed someone then you watch this and give me your assessment. I’m sure someone will point out that we’re comparing George and Teds opinions but they had insight from Polian on the post interview assessment. They get to compare Polian’s notes against GM candidates notes.

If Poles had a couple names high on his HC list that were not among the 3 finalists then he called them last night to setup interviews. We just haven’t heard about it yet. It is interesting that Daboll isn’t on Bears list. Not sure if that’s because the NYG job is considered a done deal or they simply feel he’s better as OC than HC.

Yes but I still don't think Allen is working with as much talent as Mahomes has in Hill/Kelce.

Goldman when he was moving well could fit a 4-3 front. These things always depend on what you want. We had 4-3 with two massive men. Keith Taylor and? Nobody could run inside on us and LB just had to clean up the edges. Downside was no pass rush up the middle. In the Lovie days he wanted nothing to do with that and wanted lighter quicker DTs to get upfield in their gap but LB had inside gap responsibility too. Fangio and Desai mixed it up. These are good questions and coaching choices should shape out offseason assuming our GM wants players that fit their schemes.