here's what leaving your fingerprints imprinted on pennies get's you

[Lucky Luciano]

1. ted phillips - great bean counter and cap guru. accomplishments: great stadium deal if you are the owner and cheap help. all designed to keep money in owners pockets.

 

2. jerry angelo - cheap first time GM who is great as a cap guru and, as phillips right hand man, helps keep money in owners pockets.

 

accomplishments: great cap management which helps put cash in owners pockets but after 7 years of drafts has nothing/nothing special to show for it on either side of the ball. hired the cheapest inexperienced coaches and staff possible and sees no need to change any of them after 2 pathetic back-to-back seasons of regressive mediocrity. won't rock the salary boat so gets an "attaboy" from ted and friends.

 

2. lovie smith - another cheap DC hired by chicago to train as a head coach in the nfl. no qualifying or special accolades prior to his hire in chicago.

 

accomplishments: doesn't seem to learn from mistakes and it's 'his way or the highway' as far as staff goes. doesn't appear to have any idea what an offense should do or even look like. defers all decisions to whatever offensive coordinator seems to be in place. a defensive dinosaur who is living in the past do to lack of creativity and vision. has had some fleeting success in one of the weakest divisions in the entire nfl and embarrassed the franchise by showing they had no business in a superbowl against opponents with real talent running the show.

 

another capable smith to take control of the titanic.

 

3. ron turner - a cheap offensive coordinator coming off of complete failure as a college coach. DOES have some experience at his job, the one he presently holds, with the same franchise. no others of importance bothered to inquire.

 

accomplishments: has shown no creativity in designing a creative offense and for the life of him couldn't make game time adjustments. a contrarian who consistently out-thinks himself. has had to use sub-par talent, thanks to the GM, but also refuses to replace players who underperform (grossman, entire wide receiver corp, offensive linemen and running backs) with unknown players on team. rarely gets full potential out of any player or puts them in a position to succeed.

 

how much of an influence has he had in playing grossman so long, getting rid of t. jones, never giving hanie any game reps (when game is realistically over), playing metcalf and sitting garza, keeping mckie as a viable fullback, sitting olson, never playing any receivers other than who were considered starters out of training camp, playing a one armed guard while sitting his replacement, etc. etc. etc. so... is it talent or HIM? the chicken or the egg?

 

4. babich - another cheap prospect hired by our gm who has no experience at his position. a yes man to our HC who has no creativity in his entire portfolio. a man who was not good at what he did previously and rewarded for it with a bigger title and a raise.

 

accomplishments: turned an average + defense into one of the worst in the entire nfl. couldn't make game adjustments if a gun was held to his head. continually puts his players out of position and utilizes their weaknesses against them. a laughable solution to a professional defense in the 21st century.

 

SUMMARY:

 

in a perfect (sane) world...

 

angelo would be fired and replaced by someone with better credentials and a better understanding of the draft and free agent talent. if that person were not out there this season, his power would be cut in half and someone who understands offensive talent hired to compliment him until that person DOES become available.

 

lovie would be fired and shannahan hired immediately for 'BIG' HC money. it's not a question of shoving lovie off the ledge as it is improving your team immediately by huge strides for years to come. if not shannahan then holmgren next season. just SOMEONE who has experience as a HC AND is offensively minded in an nfl geared for offense to win.

 

turner would be history. hire shannahan (if lovie for some reason stays) for big cash to run this circus. if not him then someone else with a lot of OC talent.

 

babich should be launched into the sun and replaced by a reasonably intelligent baboon if a real DC is not available.

 

finally - replace the mccaskey's with someone who is willing to really spend money to bring a winning team to chicago. scrooge mcduck at the very least is a consideration.