Kevin Warren stated the plan was for Ryan Poles to remain GM of the Chicago Bears moving forward. The team president feels there have been enough positive indicators that Poles is learning and has the team on the right path. Some wonder if that was a good idea. One can understand trying to project some form of stability right after firing the head coach midseason. However, committing to a GM with a 14-32 record (now 14-33) seems unusual. To say nothing of the fact that they’re giving him a chance to hire another coach after his last choice was a complete disaster.
Dan Wiederer of the Chicago Tribune spoke to several people around the NFL about the situation. All of them seemed to share the same mindset. If Warren is smart, he would ask serious questions about whether Poles deserves a second chance at this point.
Within league circles, some wonder whether a full reboot still may be considered in the coming weeks, particularly with the stakes of the coaching search the Bears are embarking on.
“You can’t just blow past the discussion on culpability,” one league source said last week. “And you’re not going to convince many people that Eberflus was the sole problem inside that building. So what is Poles’ culpability in all of this? Someone needs to get to the bottom of that and explain it in full. His record is identical to (Eberflus’).”…
…“If I’m Kevin Warren,” one league source said, “I owe it to myself to ask difficult questions about what had been sold to me about Eberflus’ leadership and why (Poles’) vision was so out of whack with what unfolded.
Kevin Warren has to look at the facts.
The mark of a successful GM is how his players perform, regardless of who the coach is. Good players tend to still be good even if the coaching isn’t the best. Ryan Pace proved this. Despite having an over-the-hill John Fox in charge, the former GM still drafted two players (Jordan Howard and Eddie Jackson) who made a Pro Bowl in his first three seasons running the team. That will not be the case for Poles. None of his picks in the first three years will claim such an honor. The only players to do so are Montez Sweat, Jaylon Johnson, and Roquan Smith.
Sweat was a trade acquisition from Washington. Johnson was drafted by Pace. Smith achieved his success after getting traded to Baltimore midseason. What does Poles have to hang his hat on at this point? Caleb Williams is having the best rookie season in Bears history. Great, he’s doing this while getting sacked 58 times and having three different offensive coordinators. It is a complete mess that has Poles’ fingerprints all over it. Kevin Warren cannot and should not ignore that.
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Sally…just fuck off moron. Actually you’re an insult to morons. My free speech bitch.
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Well gents, I have been staying away from the noise with the nosedive of the Bears, but I am back to relating some of my views as a 30-yr season ticket holder. The Bears continue to have amateurs at all levels. Warren was brought in to get a stadium deal (since they will need to pay $2B in estate taxes when Virginia dies) and he has got nothing done and he is Not a football man but McCaskeys will rely on him to make the next move. Poles is a nice guy but his arrogance in thinking you don’t really… Read more »
Yes, lets fire Poles for the coaching even though they are all temp in their positions and have not performed the role they currently fulfill at all previously. Makes perfect sense to me. Its definitely his fault that the HC hired an OC that wasn’t capable of the job and then promoted the assistant to OC only to fire the HC a couple weeks later and promote that some temp OC to temp HC and elevate the rest of the staff to positions they are out of depth in. Its fair to question Poles on why he kept Flus after… Read more »
Fans need to look at Warren’s resume. He is the KING of “three years and gone” job stints. He was hired to take the heat off the MacCaskey family and that has not happened as planned although not primarily his fault. Now his presence is making things worse in the search for a decent coach and a better GM. Bring on the nameless “Consultants.”