Of course he withdrew, they arent even doing the process right. Coaches are being interviewed before the GM is in places. So if Dodds got the job would get a list of coaches already vetted and he gets to point to the one he likes? Does Micky Loomis get a say? What a shit show, oh right per RDFC I'm not allowed to be negative.

They just lost to the fucking Jaguars. With their season on the line. And they have buyers remorse on their QB.

This certainly doesn't look good.

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Not being able to pick his coach seems most likely given the way these bumbledicks operate.

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The only way this works is if you hire a power coach like Reid, (or Harbaugh!) that picks his GM. Jesus Ginny should have done coat hanger abortions on all her kids.

Great. You aren't getting Harbaugh. Who else?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

There is no plan B. The Bears will continue to suck. Congratulations.

Is this a bit?

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"I give you my word as a Biden"

The Bears Front Office?

The Bears front office could be most certainly be considered a bit.

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Right, that's why I was optimistic at the beginning of the interview period that Harbaugh was in play. He's the only superstar currently available, the only guy a team coulk justify inverting the hiring process for.

If the search committee is insisting on hiring a coach themselves--or on limiting the candidates the new GM can consider--that seems crazy.

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If you were legitimately upset about all this it would be different.

You just want to bitc.h. You are turning in to Hawaii before our very eyes.

People were upset that the Bears were looking at Colts people now they are upset that a Colts guy dropped out

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Which organizations with a GM vacancy is a better opportunity than the Bears?

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GO BEARS!!!

All of them

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

As evidenced by your existence.

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1. Giants
2. Vikings
3. Bears

Yes...the Bears are the worst of the 3 openings.

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great. We like the same guy. Gotta go back to the drawing board.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Based on what? The Giants have a shit roster and maybe more internal issues than the Bears. Then the Vikings are the Vikings. A shit organization that has never won a championship and they have a $45M cap hit for Kirk Cousins next season.

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Hub was gassing up Smith in that interview with Kap where he comments on the brief Harbaugh phone call.

Given his…ummm…closeness to the organization, maybe there’s some smoke there.

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If you're a GM candidate, do you want to answer to Ted Phillips or do you want this:

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Bears say crap like this every hiring cycle.

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If you aren't sold on Fields, or even have concerns then the Bears job is probably the worst.

What does that even mean? None of these candidates are known commodities. They're all going to answer to ownership. Ryan Pace was also given the ability to reshape the scouting and personnel department without having a VP over him. Congratulations to the Giants for offering the same thing that the Bears have offered for well over a decade.

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Maybe its a ruse.

Pace was saddled with John Fox, and he didn't speak up enough or fight enough to hire his own coach. Maybe the Bears want a guy who is going to say, "If I'm the GM I answer to nobody regarding the roster. I'm the guy and thats it. I draft who I want, and I hire the coaches I want. Period." That's the type of fight I would want in my GM.

Of course, George and Ted would probably tell somebody like that to go pound sand. Or have somebody else deliver the message ala Bruce Arians.

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Doesn't sound like it to me. They're doing the exact same shit they always do. There was even a thread and long athletic article about it.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

About ownership interfering in football ops? I genuinely hadn’t seen that.

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The NY Giants have won 4 Super Bowls. the Bears have have won 1 Super Bowl.
The NY Giants have won their 4 Super Bowls all AFTER the Bears won their single Super Bowl in 1985.

and as FF posted....The Giants are going about cleaning up their most recent mess the correct way
1. Hire the GM first. That GM will hire and be accountable for the next head coach
2. The new GM will have full authority over football operations

Neither of these are true with the Bears.

The Bears are a fucking laughing stock.

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At least we're not the Colts!!

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Ryan Pace had full authority over the football operation. Supposedly some of his changes were good. He also got to make whatever draft picks and acquisitions that he wanted. He hired Nagy and signed off on Fox. THIS is the same thing that the Giants are allegedly offering and you're celebrating because they aren't the Bears.

Are you aware of the internal problems that the Giants have had?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nj.com ... utType=amp

Have you seen their roster?
https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/depth/_/name/nyg

As we've seen with the Bears over the past decade, none of these moves matter if your GM and head coach aren't good.

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GO BEARS!!!

I'm just gonna stop right there....

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