Did not ever think they would have the stones. Had to also recheck Ian Rapaport and Schefter's twitter handles to make double/triple sure they weren't bot/parody accounts. To hear him at 9 AM in his presser talk about how its another normal day today before a meeting then they're off for the weekend before they all come back on Monday after doubling down on his stupid decisions yesterday again and saying he was comfortable with how he handled the end of the game. I'm actually happy to change this avatar. More importantly, is Ryan Poles next?
This is actually hilarious to force him to do that presser and then fire him 2 hours later. Didn't know Georgie could be so cruel.
Brown is interim but I kind of wanted him to focus on the playcalling only. We'll see. It's an audition.
I mean trust the Bears to bungle the firing like it's the end of a close game in 2024. Presser at 9, fired at 11. Idiots. Historic for sure for this dumbass org, unavoidable tho. That finish is just too bad, the national media response was seismic. The players response after the game was damning too. They were out on Flush and everyone knew it. We'll see how it goes from here. Might get a new HC bounce next game. Is that the 49ers, they're a bit of a mess too. I don't care how many more they win, I just care that Caleb survives and hopefully keeps playing some nice ball. Then give him a REAL HC who can develop him next year.
I don't actually expect Poles to be fired as well this offseason. Traditional pattern of maximum Bears bungle suggests he he'll last one more year, allowing him to make a final bad hire at HC who the team will then be stuck with and completely out of sync at GM-HC-QB. Nevertheless, there's no doubt this season has massively weakened Poles' position in the corporation. Horrific decision to stick with Eberflush after last season. Woeful effort to build an O-Line to protect his top investment. Mismanaged RB position. Failure of overarching philosophy that non of it starts up front. I don't actually want a new GM and everything that brings. But this teams record on his watch speaks for itself and I have to wonder where they'd be if the deal of the century hadn't fallen in his lap. If it were me I'd fire the GM too but when the people in the interview room are the likes of george and tanesha the futility of it all feels inescapable.
If they keep Brown as the new HC for next season alongside Poles, I will drive to Halas Hall and slap lil Georgie Boy myself. Yes, Poles should be gone. Completely revamp that building this offseason. Build around Caleb, start getting serious about football. Get it done. Stop fucking around.
I don't buy everything DaBearsBlog posts but obviously Georgie had to be the one to be persuaded and then made the call himself.
Poles will get one last shot to fix OL for next year. If he does he's definitely bought himself another contract, like it or not. (I don't think he fixes it)
Here I thought Virginia make Georgie stay home from work today? because this is so UnMcCaskey. I wanted Washington the interim HC and let Brown have his focus developing the QB position not grooming his chops for the HC position.
I am shocked they did what had to be done. I never believed it. But then I thought about it. Was it the the embarrassment the past few weeks? No, Trestman allowed 50 burgers and one to the hated rival. Can't be that? Is it the indisputable evidence that he made a bad coaching decision at the end of the game? No, that's football related. Was it the fact that he doubled down on his mistake in not one, but two press conferences looking like a complete fool? That's it, that's the reason. We can handle bad football here, we cannot handle a bad presser (especially about something, as CHGO put it, "even meemaw was questioning at the Thanksgiving dinner table").
You probably aren't wrong. It would make sense for that presser to be his final exam in Georgie's eyes and when he doubled down he was done. But I'd like to think that the players themselves played a role in this by convincing Poles they had zero respect left for the man.
I will be convinced this team does the right thing for the right reasons when it happens, and not before heh. Call me a doomer if you want, but I've been burned too many times. That said, I agree with you completely Poles is going to get one offseason to fix the lines. Which means he's going to draft a RB, S, maybe another WR or TE.
Bears fans on social media are way to eager to turn Thomas Brown into our version of Freddie Kitchens.
Why are people trying to make this a thing? I struggle to grasp how this is even remotely close to reality that he becomes available, and think this is something Bears fans should abandon thinking. Why are the 49ers letting go of a guy who took them to the Superbowl 10 months ago (and 2x in the past 4 years)? He'll very likely be back to 500 next week after he catches a bad team in prime time. For me, its Ben Johnson, Zac Robinson, or Lincoln Riley. Knowing Poles though...well, I'm already tempering expectations.
Because we have hopes and dreams as fans of our team. It would be lunacy for the 49ers to let him go of course but strange things have happened already this year. 48 hours ago I would have told you it was far more likely the 49ers fire him at the end of the season than us firing Flus midseason. Ben Johnson is the hot name for his playcalling but we don't actually know how he'll be as a HC. Maybe he is the next McVeigh or even Shannahan, maybe he's another Nagy. Part of me likes the young up and comer, another part of me thinks a HC with a decent track record (think Vrabel) would be the way to go. Of course with Vrabel it will come down to who the OC is.
