I just caught about twenty minutes of this. Has bernstein been going on like this all day? It's like he's working PR for the Bears/Ted Phillips. And he's obviously just wrong. To me being "in charge of football", means that if Pace wants to hire Rex Ryan and pay him what it takes, he can without getting permission. Does anyone really think that's the case? That's the very reason Ballard wasn't the guy in that press conference. He knew exactly how the Bears front office works and he wasn't coming unless he was truly in charge of football operations, something they just weren't going to do.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Matty doing good work backing Berns into a corner. Matty doing Terry's job for him.

Matty is throwing haymakers at Berns!!! He's pissed!!!

Matty going strong & not backing down! Shit is real now!

You missed the new narrative as to why Ballard wasn't hired.

After "maybe" wanting too much control, we now have the reason being that he wanted to rid the team of Cutler immediately.

Great.

This is what a show should be.

So has Dan directly addressed the "Ryan will report to me" quote from Phillips?

You forgot the Bears spin: They didn't want to hire an ex-Bears employee. I guess they forgot he worked for 12 years for them until they looked at his resume.

God bless Matty.

(Ballard) The hot name as Emery replacement.

Worked for 12 years under Angelo and 1 year under Emery.

Fuck this. Another recycled Bears employee.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Dan's argument is that Pace can do whatever he wants until Ted decides that Pace can't do whatever he wants which means Pace is in charge.

Yes, he said that Ted mis-spoke.

Yes, he said that Ted mis-spoke.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

We've gone from "Ted will be moved away from football" to "the structure is fine!" awfully quickly.

I posted the prevailing thought from earlier in the week until it wasn't a prevailing thought after "maybe" he wanted too much control but he really didn't because he just wanted to dump Cutler.

matt's dislike for bernstein is real right? or is it a bit... i thought he actually doesnt like him

I'm sure based upon what you've said here that you answer to at least one, if not more people, even if you are a director or manager of sales.

Oh it's real. Drinky hates Bernstein.

Problem with drinky, like we just heard, is he doesn't know how to fight Bernstein. Want some help on this, drinky?

Drinky: Sure.

Go at him like this.

Drinky: Dan, you said Marshall wouldn't be a Bear next year before the GM was hired. How could that be if Teddy and or George aren't making football decisions?

Dan: Well...I....uhhh....ya know...

Drinky: I win!!!!!

Now do this after the break!!!!!

Dan was wrong. Pace doesn't have full power if Ted can take it away/veto it.

You missed the new narrative as to why Ballard wasn't hired.

After "maybe" wanting too much control, we now have the reason being that he wanted to rid the team of Cutler immediately.

It's simple. Pace should report directly to George.

It's a family business. Everybody has a boss but his boss should be the family, not Ted.

Why would George want that?