The Chicago Bears didn’t make sweeping changes to the coaching staff, but changes are happening. Pretty much the entire offensive side of the ball was gutted. Luke Getsy and most of his assistants were dismissed from the team. Only offensive line coach Chris Morgan and tight ends coach Jim Dray survived. Head coach Matt Eberflus made it clear the decision to move on was his—Getsy’s inability to develop more young talent, along with the continued ineffectiveness of the passing game. However, there might be an added wrinkle to this, thanks to GM Ryan Poles.
While he trusts Eberflus to continue running the team, it appears the pursuit of the next offensive coordinator will be a more…collaborative effort. In other words, he plans to be more involved in the process than he was two years ago. During the Bears’ recent press conference, Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times picked up on that.
We might already be seeing his influence. Reports surfaced late Wednesday night that the Bears requested permission to speak with Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Shane Waldron. This may indicate their desire to target more proven names.
Ryan Poles may not trust Eberflus to get it right.
He has every right to feel that way. Two years ago, he gave the Bears’ head coach free rein to do whatever he wanted. Eberflus hired a staff that was overrun with lots of inexperience. It was a puzzling decision since he is a defensive head coach. One would think he’d target guys with more proven backgrounds. That miscalculation almost cost him his job. Now with Poles entering a critical phase of his own job security, he has no intention of letting Eberflus screw this up a second time. He plans to be involved in every step.
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The Waldron revelation suggests they will be reaching out to coordinator options that have done it before. One has to think Eric Bieniemy and Kellen Moore could receive phone calls. Both will likely be free agents within the next week. Darrell Bevell in Miami is another possibility. Ryan Poles has demonstrated a strong eye for capable people in the past. One can imagine team president Kevin Warren may help as well. He has bountiful connections. The Bears understand the urgency of this hire.
I have another novel idea for the Bears: whoever the OC is, as soon as the Bears decide (privately of course) which QB is going to be the guy (including if it is Fields), they need to watch every snap that QB took over the last 2 years and come up with a list of plays and formations that the QB ran well. This should absolutely include plays that were “off platform”; it is important to know what formation, down and distance and what play WAS called that led to each successful play. Then define your offense to heavily concentrate… Read more »
The Bears should only be considering guys that not only have experience but guys that have consistently (like Moore) had Top 10 offensive units on a consistent basis. Getsy had been an OC once: for a bottom tier SEC school (Mississippi State) and the HC was the de facto OC as well. Track record or the lack of 1 matters. And the reverse was true of Alan Williams: he had experience as a DC and he was terrible. But he was a buddy of Elberflus and knew is his “system” and so he stupidly hired him.
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Waldron, Bieniemy, Moore, Reich, Roman. All names floated by Erik and the Insiders (sounds like A 60s band). No, no, no, no, no and NO. If you look at their stops, they work they’ve done and their interviews, they aren’t right. The Bears DO need to figure this out, and they can’t wait too long. Good offensive teams will be snatched up. But if Poles and Eberflus can articulate their goals and priorities, the Bears ARE promising. If they don’t allow cheapness to be a factor, they’ll get someone extremely good. For an ambitious head coach wannabee this is a… Read more »
Tred, you are completely correct on the player effort against the packers. every player that advocated for fluss, that would have been my question of why he checked out sunday. the only argument for fluss was he generally beat teams that were worse, kind of. the other dangerous thing about putting too much stock in the defensive turnaround, it was based on bad opponents and lots of TOs. History tells us, you can’t rely on TOs for your defense, you want them, but you have to be able line up and stop teams on third down. Fluss’s defense had problems… Read more »