A name that gets thrown around that we don’t talk about a lot is Joe Brady.. How are we feeling about him. Personally he’s not my type choice but I would prefer him to some of the names we’re hearing (Belicheck, Flores, etc)

Went down a Matt Eberflus rabbit hole & now I'm frustrated again. smh. I'll get over it. Very happy we moved on, & I think Matt Eberflus would agree.

Ok, hear me out. We need to stop looking at the successful team and try to get their OC or DC from them to try to emulate that success here. It has never worked here. Nagy was the last OC we got from THE successful team and he was just a better shit show than the previous or next shit show DC we hired. IT NEVER WORKS HERE!

Why? Because we already drafted a specific engine. Trubisky, Fields, Williams... we chosen the engine, now don't pick a different model body to try to force the engine in! It won't work. It hasn't worked yet!

Ben Johnson would have been a great hire last year. We could have drafted a QB that fits his game plan. He has a great game plan for that statue and rock star offensive line in Detroit. I saw someone suggest getting Shanahan from the 49ers. Fuck me, another game plan built around a statue! We need an OC who can model a game plan around Caleb's strengths, and Poles inability to put linemen on the field. Note that I said an OC, not a head coach. Could Ben Johnson do it? Maybe? Could Shanahan? Doubtful. Nor any of the other existing coordinators that get their names thrown around.

Here is what we need to do: Emulate an organization. Take Dan Campbell and emulate him and his org that he put in. He is not the OC or the DC. He is the Head Coach and he hired a great OC and DC. He directs them, but those two guys do all of the coordination! He is able to focus on keeping the team balanced with his super charged style, and lets the coordinators focus on the game plan.

So, we need someone like Vrable. He has done this before, has that Dan Campbell respect from players, has been VERY successful at getting blood from stones (Tennessee was great with mediocre players) and hired great coordinators over and over and over as they got poached to coach elsewhere.

Belichick is another one like this. But, frankly, I think he is cooked. Never the less, let's not just get the hottest OC and shove his system in here and expect him to be both HC and OC and get Caleb good all for the first time doing this. It just doesn't work here.

A fictional football team in a major market run by an inept family who continue to be successful even after continually making stupid decisions.

Is anybody else going to the 49ers game this Sunday? Any Bears tailgates going on?

Going to the game with my family for mine and my dad’s birthdays. We went in 2018 so hoping for a similar result. My favorite memory from that game is a big “Let’s go Bears” chant that took over Levi stadium

The NFL and its fans are turning a blind eye to the Chicago Bears when it comes to pro bowl voting this year. How many players on the team deserve to make it? A few I would say deserve it are Jaylon Johnson, Gervon Dexter, and Tory Taylor. What do you think?

The Bears have lost six straight games, culminating in a locker room mutiny. Their next five opponents have a 70% winning percentage, the second toughest remaining schedule in the league. Obviously, it would take a real psycho to do the work to figure out how a dead end, no hope Bears team currently 14th in the conference could possibly make the playoffs.

So here's how the Bears make the playoffs.

The Bears make the playoffs 3-4% of the time if they win out according to the NYT playoff predictor. That seems low, but just think the chances of the Bears losing the Commanders, Packers, Vikings and Lions games in the fashion they did were far lower odds and that actually happened!

So what must happen for that three or four precent chance to cash in?

Obviously, the Bears need to win out and get to 9-8. If they beat the 49ers, they cannot be eliminated this weekend no matter what.

Then obviously it gets just a little bit dicier.

NEED ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TO HAPPEN:

-Packers lose out in their four other games [@DET, @SEA, NO, @MIN]

OR

-Commanders lose out [@NO,PHI,ATL,@DAL]

OR

-Commanders lose 3 of 4 AND one of the Rams/Seahawks/49ers finish second in the NFC West at 9-8 with a conference record of 7-5 or or 6-6 AND/OR the Cowboys go 4-1 with the one loss not being to Washington in the finale, eliminating the Commanders before Head to Head with the Bears could come into play AND/OR the Saints win out and finish second in the NFC South at 9-8.

THEN ALSO NEED ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TO HAPPEN:

-At least Three Bucs losses [LV,@LAC,@DAL,CAR, NO)

OR

-At least Three Falcons losses [@MIN,@LV,NYG,@WASH,CAR)

AND POSSIBLY

-ONE Saints loss [@NYG,WASH,@GB,LV,@TB] if Bucs go 3-2 with the two losses being to CAR and NO in the three loss Falcons scenario and it’s not 100% even then that they would need it because the Bears would likely win SOV over the Bucs/Saints in this highly specific scenario. It's probably better for the Saints to win out and provide another path to nullify the Commanders Head to Head tiebreaker with us.

THEN ALSO NEED TWO OF THE THREE TO HAPPEN:

-At least Two Seahawk losses in their four other games [@ARI, GB, MIN, @LAR]

-At least Three Cardinals losses [SEA,NE,@CAR,@LAR,SF]

-At least Two Rams losses [BUF,@SF,@NYJ,ARI,SEA]

THEN OF COURSE ONE MORE THING:

-One Cowboys loss [CIN, @CAR,TB,@PHI,WASH] and it’s much much better if the one loss isn’t to the Commanders [Doesn’t have to be a conference loss because the Cowboys are one of the few teams the Bears alamos certainly finish ahead of in SOV in a win out scenario]

That's it. Get on board. This is a weak draft so a swing of six spots isn't going to be that determinative and barring a Packers collapse, the Bears are going to have a fourth place schedule next year anyway. If anything else, lets be the 2023 Detroit Lions and establish a culture.

Anyway, here’s a handy rooting guide for this weekend if you don’t want to get into the weeds just yet!

Games this week that matter:

49ers @ BEARS (obviously)

packers @ LIONS on TNF (The biggest game by far that the Bears have no control over. A Packers win means the Bears are completely reliant on a Commanders collapse)

RAIDERS @ bucs (only game other than their own where the Bears would be better off if the underdog won this weekend so they got that going for them!)

falcons @ VIKINGS

BILLS @ rams

seahawks @ CARDINALS (really hard to figure out which is better for the Bears, mostly comes down to who you think is more likely to get to ten wins or win the division with nine wins, and rooting for them. I think that's the Cardinals.)

Go Bears.

I feel like this got lost in the Flus coaching change. Our OLine is probably fucked if he’s out the rest of the year.

In all seriousness what does a fired coach do? Go on vacation? Does he watch the games? Is he unplugging or already looking for a new job?

Geography? Tradition? Masochism?

Some might even say...a leader of men.