Chicago Bears 2023-2024
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DeonThomas
- South Carolina
Yeah, I hate em too, but I'm afraid you'll have to re-check your facts. Dallas Cowboy Super Bowls listed below:
SB 5 - Lost
SB 6 - Won
SB 10 - Lost
SB 12 - Won
SB 13 - Lost
SB 27 - Won
SB 28 - Won
SB 30 - Won
Plus they played in two additional NFL title games just prior to the start of the Super Bowl era. Pretty darn successful if you ask me -- as compared to our 1-1 in Super Bowls.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
not for nor against
just pointing it out . some interviews are simply to satisfy that rule
Source: Bears to hire Seattle's Waldron as OC
The Chicago Bears are finalizing a deal to make Shane Waldron their next offensive coordinator, a source confirmed to ESPN.
Not sure what I think of the hire. I do like that he’s been OC before, but not a great track record. Seattle’s D hasn’t been very good of late, so hopefully better D with Bears will benefit his offense.
He's part of the McVay coaching tree. Waldron was the offensive quality control coach when McVay was the OC in Washington. Had different jobs with the Rams after McVay got hired as the head coach (TE coach in 2017, Passing game coordinator in 2018, Passing game coordinator and QB coach in 2019, Pass game coordinator in 2020). The Seattle D shouldn't have a factor in whether the Bears hired him or not. He's a big reason why Geno Smith had such a big career resurgence in 2021.
I know all about his McVay connection and Geno Smith’s resurgence in 2021. I also know that in his other two years as OC. Seattle’s offense was “mid-packish.” Further. I did not say Seattle’s D performance should factor in to his hiring. My point was just that offensive play calling and performance can be impacted by the performance of a team’s D (short fields, score of game/playing catch up, etc.). So while the mid-pack offenses at Seattle have me concerned somewhat, playing with a better D than he had in Seattle should benefit his offense.
Like I said, still making my mind up about hire. It just didn’t make me giddy with excitement. I will say I like it better than the Getsy hire when that happened.
With the head coach heavily tilted toward managing the defense, who ever is offensive coordinator will have to stand on his own two feet. How a person performed under another coach doesn’t tell the whole story. The previous coordinator was QB coach was with Aaron Rodgers in GB. How much input did Rogers need and accept, vs how much did Fuelds need. He was on an island and failed.
The question will be as game manager of the O side of the team how will he fare? Does his background and innate capabilities prepare for this role?
We shall see… is he capable of being the offense “head coach?”
The other thing to consider eberflush is a lame duck. EVERYONE knows he should have been fired. It was a very lame decision to keep a coach for a thurd year after winning 10 games in the first two. His abject failure got us a number of extremely high draft picks so he served his purpose. But don’t let him manage the team when it’s got to be good, not just trying to be bad. So— what type of coach joins a sinking ship like the bears? Marginal candidates is who.
I wouldn’t join an organization where the odds are great that the boss will be fired the next year( and maybe his boss too!)
So unless he’s a new coach in the waiting, you probably have a placeholder. And we the fans have another year of mediocrity and faint but dying hopes.
Thus organization is rotten from the core and stinks from the head…
The question will be as game manager of the O side of the team how will he fare? Does his background and innate capabilities prepare for this role?
We shall see… is he capable of being the offense “head coach?”
The other thing to consider eberflush is a lame duck. EVERYONE knows he should have been fired. It was a very lame decision to keep a coach for a thurd year after winning 10 games in the first two. His abject failure got us a number of extremely high draft picks so he served his purpose. But don’t let him manage the team when it’s got to be good, not just trying to be bad. So— what type of coach joins a sinking ship like the bears? Marginal candidates is who.
I wouldn’t join an organization where the odds are great that the boss will be fired the next year( and maybe his boss too!)
So unless he’s a new coach in the waiting, you probably have a placeholder. And we the fans have another year of mediocrity and faint but dying hopes.
Thus organization is rotten from the core and stinks from the head…
KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
I'm not convinced that Eberfluss is a good coach but I think it's unfair to judge him on his two-year win total when they were trying to lose games in 2022.
Debbie downer? How about 70 years as a Bears fan who has had the football pulled away so many times by the Lucys that are Bears management that I’ve lost count.
Any sense of confidence in the organization is sorrowfully misplaced.
I have loved the players , all the way back to George Blanda, Rick Caceras, Joe Fortunato to Butkus Sayers and Peyton. It’s the owner/ managers I don’t trust, and any bright light assistant on his way up wouldn’t even consider the Bears.
Trusting Eberflush to execute a winning rebuild completion is a fool’s errand. Not a downer just a realist…
Any sense of confidence in the organization is sorrowfully misplaced.
I have loved the players , all the way back to George Blanda, Rick Caceras, Joe Fortunato to Butkus Sayers and Peyton. It’s the owner/ managers I don’t trust, and any bright light assistant on his way up wouldn’t even consider the Bears.
Trusting Eberflush to execute a winning rebuild completion is a fool’s errand. Not a downer just a realist…
If anyone in the Bears organization thought the 2022 Bears were going to do anything other than lose double digit games, they are as dumb as you say they are. Tom Landry, Papa Bear Halas, and Vince Lombardi couldn't have got together and made that team a .500 squad. This season was better, but the Bears were still light on high end talent.
If Eberfuls is a lame duck now, he was a lame duck when he was hired.
The players really seem to respect him. They could have easily quit, and instead they won 4 of their last 6, when the smart play would have been to lay down and play dead.
Washington was the assistant head coach and D-line coach in Buffalo this past season. Washington also worked in Chicago as part of the defensive staff from 2008-2010 when Lovie was coaching.
They did end up hiring him as the passing game coordinator. Him and Waldron worked together on McVay's staff in L.A.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Eberflus continuing to hire himself as defensive playcaller is the most valuable thing he can do for the team.
And now he has an OC accustomed to being a HC-of-the-offense type.
Shame on me for having hope, but this situation sure looks like an above-average QB away from being pretty exciting. What could possibly go wrong?
Stay tuned, all of the typical Bears mistakes, plus things that we haven't ever dreamed of could happen.
I also have hope. It's happened before!
Ian Rapoport reported earlier today that Bears would have to get a historic haul of draft picks and overall compensation to trade away the #1 pick with one source saying the offer they would get would have to be "crazy".
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