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It is going to be interesting. Poles and Eberflus are better off than Pace and Fox was. The team is better postured for the future, even with a few of the older guys. My thought is they use Mack and Quinn one more year in the 4-3, then look to move them next year, unless an offer comes up that you can't refuse. It would depend on what Poles would use the cap space on or how much dead money they would incur with a trade.

A little bit of both. I have a feeling we are going to have a pretty solid staff. Not guys like Helfrich or Lazor. I really hope Furrey is gone. WR's outside of Mooney have been a disappointment and extremely undisciplined (Miller, Wims, etc).

One of my biggest complaints of Nagy was he was trying to handle too much. Just be a HC. I don't think there are many people that can be a HC/OC and play caller and manage all of that at the highest level. Offenses are too complex for that. Then you add QB development on top of that? No way. Shanahan is doing it in SF, but with a veteran QB. McVay is doing it in LA, but with a veteran QB. McVay didn't develop Goff, he got rid of him. Nagy did the same with Trubisky and didn't develop Fields. Mainly because there is only so much time in the day to handle all those tasks. In a way, you could almost see that from Nagy by the end. Canned answers, didn't know things about the team or didn't see plays because he was distracted with other things. The same exact team with a guy like Eberflus, and the Bears easily win 2-3 more games a year. They just need to bring in a competent OC and QB coach. BLUF, I like that we hired a Defensive minded coach because he is not going to try to split his time and water down the offense.

OC: Mike McDaniel, Joe Brady, Mike Kafka, and Pep Hamilton Why McDaniel, he is the brains behind Shanahan's game, however, with Shanahan calling plays as HC, McDaniel doesn't get to do that. He may want to leave so he can be the play caller. The team may have to give him an Asst. HC title, but who cares? Brady got fired after the Panthers started out 5-7, but Rhule really should've been fired. Brady was coaching at LSU in 2019 with Burrow. Kafka, St. Rita and Northwestern Grad, played QB and has been the QB Coach in KC since 2018. Hamilton, has been on 7 different teams (wow), has been a position coach since 2004. Has a ton of experience and has worked with a lot of different QBs. Can he make the jump to coordinator?

and due to Eberflus, here are some Indy UFAs: Eric Fisher, LT Mark Glowinksi, RG Zach Pascal, WR Mo Alie-Cox, TE George Odum, S Chris Reed, LG

Here are a few more names: Tyrann Mathieu, S Jarran Reed, IDL Chavarius Ward, CB Mike Hughes, CB Ben Niemann, LB Demarcus Robinson, WR Jerick McKinnon, RB Derrick Nnadi, IDL Orlando Brown, LT Andrew Wylie, LG

Got my #2. I still would've preferred Daboll, but now it comes down to the OC.

I trust Poles to get the O-Line fixed. He was part of KC revamping their entire O-Line in one offseason without killing the cap. For me, it will be interesting to see what he does with the pending FAs and some of the guys who seem like no brainer cuts (Goldman, etc).

He is a guy that builds from the trenches. The 2020 O-Line got decimated by injuries. In 2021, according to Football Outsiders, the KC O-Line was 5th in Power Success and 4th in Pass Pro. The Bears were 24th and 32nd respectively. So if Poles can build an O-Line half as good as KC's was this year, it will be twice as good as the Bears O-Line last year. Not only would a better O-Line help Fields, but Monty and Herbert could even be better than they already are.

https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-hiring-chiefs-exec-ryan-poles-as-new-general-manager

Me likey:

I was concerned that they would wait too long on the GM, and too many coaches would come available from the losing playoff teams (ie. Daboll, etc). This is perfect, now Poles can interview candidates on his own and come up with the HC selection.

yep, Ryan P---, Pace to Poles

Poles is a done deal as GM.

Thoughts? I am ok with it. Could be much worse. Now lets get a HC.

I am seeing reports of: President of Football Omar Khan GM/VP of Football Ryan Poles HC Quinn

FWIW, that is pretty cool to see. Looks like Poles is in the pole position. I think it is down to him, Brown, and Khan.

I heard that there is a potential that the Bears could hire Eberflus as the HC and Caldwell as the OC and Asst HC. What are your thoughts on that?

Biggs believes they will go GM first. Hopefully that's the case. I will feel much better. Ossenfort is a sleeper. Titans have built a very solid team.

Here we go, 3 finalists?

I hope they narrow it down, reinterview finalists and pick one within the next week. There is not much more you need to do. Pick the best guy and let him pick his staff and new HC. Give them the reviews from the first interviews and let them make the pick. In my last job, when I sat in on interviews as part of the hiring panel, we actually had a grading system and one of the metrics was my personal assessment which was weighted 33% of the overall grade of that person. Once the grades from all panelists were averaged, they rank-ordered the candidates and did a final alibi call to see if anyone had an objections with the final order. If not, they sent out the offer to the #1 candidate, if they accepted, done. If they didn't, they sent out an offer to #2 (like they were the #1 candidate lol). Rinse and repeat down the list. Everyone hired was always the #1 candidate.

Yeah, definitely need GM first. I was hoping they would've had one locked in before Daboll became available. Hopefully, they can get that settled this week. Two more teams will be out and have potential HC candidates available to hire. Daboll will be available in 2-3 years if he takes the Giants job. Daniel Jones and a hobbled Barkley? He is good, but not a miracle worker. That roster is crap and they have no cap space. It would take 3-4 years to turn that ship around. Are they willing to reset at QB again?

Fields is just a little smaller than Allen, but faster. Very similar traits. Fields is more accomplished while Allen needed some additional grooming coming from a smaller school. If I am Daboll, why would I choose the Giants? Daniel Jones? A hobbled Barkley? An unmotivated Golladay? They are over the cap, have 70M invested in Bradberry, Golladay, and Williams with very little wiggle room and the roster is a mess. The Bears have a ton of cap space compared to the Giants, and oh by the way have Fields, Montgomery, Kmet, Mooney, Herbert, and potentially Cohen as skill position players. For an offensive HC, the Bears have better pieces to build on. The only way Daboll takes the Giants job is if the Bears didn't offer him a job, which will be pretty disheartening.

His offense just put up 47 against NE (with the best QB performance in playoff history) and 36 on KC in back-to-back weeks. Absolutely bonkers. If not for the stupid OT rule, the Bills win this game. To end the regular season after that snowmaggedeon game, the Bills offense scored 27, 31, 33, 29, and 27 going 4-1 in the process. If you include the postseason, that is 7 straight games with 27 or more points. The Bears hit 27 in 3 times the entire year.