Chicago Bears fans have reached a breaking point. They’ve endured a lot of losing over the past decade. Only one winning season since 2013. In that time, they’ve wasted two opportunities to draft difference-making quarterbacks in the 1st round. Now they finally seem to have one who doesn’t suck and he’s been sacked 66 times this season because of bad blocking and even worse coaching. At the end of a dismal 6-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks at Soldier Field, the dam finally broke. It wasn’t “Fire Flus” or “Fire Poles” that rang out across the stadium. It was something long overdue.
“Sell the team.”
Since the McCaskey family took over in 1983, the Bears have declined from a charter franchise to a perennial basement dweller. The past decade has been, by far, the worst of the experience. It probably isn’t a coincidence that all of it coincidence with George McCaskey’s rise to power as team chairman. Every head coach and GM decision made in that time frame involved him.
Selling the Chicago Bears won’t happen until Virginia is gone.
The 101-year-old matriarch has held control of the franchise since her father, George Halas, passed. She has made it abundantly clear there would never be a sale. The Chicago Bears would remain in the family. However, once she’s gone, there could be a power vacuum that others of the young generation may not be able to fill. Many in the family have expressed a desire to sell. George has made it clear at every point that his mother still makes the ultimate final decisions. Does he really have the wherewithal and political savvy to handle such a massive transfer of power? It would not be shocking if he is forced to consider a sale one Virginia is gone. That is the best hope Bears fans have at this point.
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@Arnie…..i see where your coming from. Last year 4 of those victories came against back ups and 3rd string QBs. You can say the players brought in were “upgrades”. So you basically brought in shitty olineman to replace shitty lineman. Swift is a bust so we downgraded there. The WRs are upgraded for sure. So if you are comparing Bears teams vs Bears teams then yes a better roster but guess what? The other teams rosters are better than ours? The Bears drafted how many probowlers under Poles? Hell who would you even vote for this year? Like everyone is… Read more »
@Unluckyirishman76 I’m just trying to take a more realistic look at this thing because while this season’s results have sucked, the knee jerk reaction of “fire everybody” that fans of every losing team have rarely fixes anything. Here’s a few thngs I base that on. 1) Last season, the team that finished with a 7-10 record, SHOULD have been 10-7 and in the playoffs. I get all the “you are what your record says you are”, but literally, the way coach and player performance is measured in every sport is actual results versus expected results. So, when you have blown… Read more »
@Arnie and @Unluckyirishman76 – A fix to keep poles and still upgrade would be to hire Agnew or another proven talent evaluator as vice president of player personnel and give him more control in house than Poles on draft picks, free agency and trades. Poles may not like it but unfortunately with all the multitude of misses we need better oversight and some better future stability. But we also need to get rid of the old ways of 3 and out with no stability built in the last 40 years!
@jmscooby – It’s all I can think about when TB says in every interview “We need to be better on our cadence” 🤦♂️
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