lol David Haugh just cucked Ramirez, I thought he was going to call in to discuss it but he came in and just started driving the show. Leery is coming in at 2.

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Meanwhile 1000 has their crew in today and their coverage has been fantastic.

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First time for everything I guess

Im guessing Haugh's wife prolly called Mitch and asked him to get Haugh out of the house.

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The funniest and absolutely pathetic part was when Larry showed up at 2:00 to save the day. He first stated that Mitch gave hi a desperate call to come in and discuss the Eberflus firing. Larry, of course, being the selfish asshole that he is says “I told Mitch I need a comp day if I am coming in.” And then he proceeded to tell the listeners that he had to be on the air during this historic event. What a fucking fake liar. The afternoon show is an abortion. Spiels has decided to sit back and basically give up as long as his name is first. Larry has taken control because he believes he is the smartest person in all of sports. He drives the segments and talks about 70 percent of the time. At least he is not Goff.

he should get comp time and he showed dedication, although it is troubling that a 50 year old guy is available at a moment's notice on a holiday weekend

It used to be a big deal when the Bears fired a coach during a holiday. Now, it's a regular event

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you're talking about Haugh right

No excuses*, all you hate-listeners of WSCR Mid-Day




*except it sucks ass

I've posted it probably 100x, but just skip airing the press conferences. Have some lackey report on it when it's over, but don't waste 15 minutes of airtime when there's maybe 1 minute of notable info.

Senor makes the point today that we're still haunted by the ghost of Ditka. Correct. He then goes on to say that it's the fans' fault for buying into the public image of Ditka and holding every coach to that standard, even though his shit only worked for one year and then fell apart (not sure on your chronology there but ok sure). It went on like this for a while.

He then adds later "oh and the McCaskeys are haunted by him too, he was mean to Michael." Other way around! They're the ones who keep rehiring Dick Jauron, not us. What does it matter that fans liked Ditka?

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I’m not sure any franchise in the NFL operates under more artificial constraints than the Bears do.

Legendary Hall of Fame one of the best to ever play his position players returns to the team that he was a legend for and coaches them to a Super Bowl victory , galvanizes the city and fan base , and Lil Danny doesn’t understand why the fans loved that and want every coach for the Bears held to that standard? Duke University really turning out the geniuses, huh?

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I would say at this point they're as haunted by Michael McCaskey as they are by Ditkith. He hasn't run the team day-to-day for 25 years, especially because he's been dead for the last four. And the rest of them still feel like they have to run the place with his elevated, genteel sensibilities, even if they themselves never went to Harvard or taught at Yale or wrote corporate training books. They still love corporate gobbledygook (and now with Kevin Warren, there are new strata of DEI/HR/therapy speak, too). They still seem to find state politics beneath them. I think they still want to do it his way. Real McCaskeyism has never been attempted.

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they are more haunted by sweaty teddy since he has had a hand in hiring all of the bad coaches since

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Is Bernstein say they should hire a coach like Ditka or shouldn't? It worked for 1 year or they should continue to hire people who are not like Ditka?

The fans are responsible for who the Bears hire and want more coaches like Ditka even though the Bears haven't hired anyone like him?

Not sure I understand the logic here.

He went after Bears fans for being fixated on Ditka and how great he was when all this time he was Actually Bad and actively destroyed the Bears by being so unpleasant to work with, adding that at least the Bulls got six championships out of their managerial soap opera before it all went to hell instead of just one.

Thing of it is, Ditka was a singular figure. There's not going to be another coach with all those traits. Jim Harbaugh yells and screams and pouts and used to play here, sure, but he's not out catching DUIs and starting fights and endorsing any product put in front of him. It made no sense to be so afraid of him as not to even entertain hiring him. The McCaskeys are afraid of a monster under the bed.

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This feels like the beginning of the end. The stadium faceplant, the team on the field suffering what is amounting to at least one lost decade of football, the religious devotion to DEI that’s only intensifying for the Bears as it becomes increasingly taboo basically everywhere in America…they’re losing it.

Their owner is north of 100 and they have one of the more compelling sell-the-franchise cases ever. This one easily outstrips the Bowlen dysfunction that opened the door to the Waltons.

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Beginning of the end of what, exactly? Family ownership? Possibly--their insistence that they're definitely not looking at selling another 20% of the team to Blackrock made me think that's precisely what they're looking at. Doing it their way? Probably not, not as long as they still own it. Every time the Bears feel like they're circling the drain and about to definitively become an irrelevant joke, they get everyone excited again and never have to stop being weird: the wacky 2001 Mike Brown season, the two great years with Lovie's defense, Club Dub, and here we are 25 years later still where we were in 1999, wondering why none of these strange people know how to communicate.

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You can look at 2001, 2005 & 2006 as a pretty solid run. Three division titles in six years is fine, it’s a tough division. Get to the big game once, best Bears memory in my lifetime. Yeah the 2001 team was kind of a fraud and a damn fine 2005 team that would be in the Super Bowl the next year got Steve Smith’d in the playoffs (legendary performance by an all time great)…but that was good football.

The woes begin with two firsts for Jay Cutler. It spawned this pathological need to find the great quarterback that has spiraled into a wanton recklessness with draft picks. They can’t stop. You look at what they have put into the position and its eye watering, for nothing more than a little bit of hope. Ughhg.

You know what the Bears have been since in the consciousness of your average NFL fan?

The double doink first and foremost and being the team that got btfo’d by 40 points while Taylor Swift first made her appearance co-branding the league.

I'd add being owned by the Packers to make it three.

Remarks on the passing of time: if you're a freshman in college right now, the last time the Bears won a playoff game was the year before you started kindergarten.

Kindergarten: nothing happened
1st grade: 10-6, fired Lovie
2nd grade: nothing happened
3rd grade: Dr. Death
4th/5th/6th grade: [SCENE MISSING]
7th grade: Club Dub, double doink
8th grade: nothing happened
Freshman year: pandemic season, meme playoff game
Sophomore year: nothing happened
Junior year: massive losing streak
Senior year: owned by Taylor Swift

Just a lost childhood right there, to say nothing of hope-your-parents-love-you Zoom school at age 15.

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no doubt he was unpleasant to work with. the hypocrite was doing commercials left and right, then admonishing linemen trying earn some extra bucks for doing the same. chunky soup, anyone...? then, turned into one of the koch brothers, going against the players and their union during the strike in 1987. he loved the sparebears. i believe the players stopped playing for him and buddy had already left for philly. they weren't going to lay it out for the late vince tobin. being unpleasant is hardly the reason....

ditka's biggest flaw was the man in mirror. he fucked up 1986 with floutie and got destroyed tactically by joe gibbs' 5 man front. ditka's forte was the offense. he failed to deal with gibbs' special DL adjustment for the bears. gibbs whipped ditka's ass on north washington street in 2 consecutive years - with 2 different QBs. ditka was desperately needed in 1982, by 86-87, ditka was the trojan horse virus after the super bowl season. arrogant enough to believe he could pinocchio floutie to another super bowl victory, knowing the media would heap praise upon him - not floutie. more than half the team wanted fuller to play after mcmahon/charles martin. it never happened.

You compare this to my timeline (HS class of 07) and it’s obvious that something has gone very wrong. I don’t think the Bears realize how much time has gone by since they were relevant league wide in a good way.

Dan Campbell is, essentially, a Ditka clone. How is that working in the modern NFL?

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Well you can put the blame on Ditka all you want for the Flutie stuff but he was right. He was a better qb than anyone they had at that time. . If the pussboy little baby players wouldve bought in on him and played hard instead of pouting because their boyfriend Tomczak wasnt playing maybe the story is different.

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The takes on Campbell from the WSCR peeps and the esteemed "Bears Media" revealed and continue to reveal how little the "smart fans station" and the flaccid "Bears Media" actually know about football.

There was this irrational love for Trestman and Nagy because they were "geniuses" who were so smart that they would revolutionize the game by outsmarting all the meatbally football types, no need for lineman because you just needed to bring in a bunch of skill position guys and let Nagy and Trestman outsmart them.

The takes make perfect sense as the WSCR and Bears Media members all think they are that guy, they all know so much more than everyone else that there is no way they could be wrong.

It turns out that football is and always will be an incredibly simple game where you need to have a dozen or so large and angry lineman in order to compete on Sundays, they pretty boys that twirl around and catch the ball are only involved in a fraction of the plays in the game, but the large and angry guys impact every play in the game.

So it turns out that the guy they all thought was an idiot was actually way smarter about football that any of them were or ever could be, really should be an embarrassing wake up call, but they all will continue to gather at Halas Hall performing fellatio on each other until the decaying legacy media outlets they all work for are replaced by podcasters creating superior content in their basement.

Sort of. NFL football is pretty complicated. But it's also simple because the majority of games hinge on turnovers, penalties, and misplays. You're going to win a lot games being disciplined, but the twirlers can win you the Super Bowl.

Games are won or lost in the trenches is an axiom that will ring true as long as the game is played.

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