veganfan21 wrote:
Warren Newson wrote:
Aren't we getting a little carried away here? I know there's an element of people working out frustrations in these posts and just having some fun at George's expense, but good God, it could have been a lot worse. Nagy could still be here, Pace could still be here, they could be trying to do all of this themselves, or they could be using outside help without legitimate NFL credentials.
Yes, it's a similar process to the one they used last time, but at some point some non football person in the organization is going to have to hire a football person. I don't think it matters too much if that initial football person that gets hired is a president of football operations or a general manager. Winning or losing a press conference also doesn't equate to winning or losing any games.
I'll reserve my disdain until I see who they hire.
I think the point is they doubled down on not holding themselves accountable for running a mediocre to bad organization in a premier city. So the same structure responsible for being mediocre hasn't been reshaped in any meaningful way. I'm sure you know what the casual definition of insanity is.
Phillips is not well regarded around the league yet they insist on giving him say in this process. His presence alone is likely to repel well regarded and serious candidates for both roles because of the ambiguity surrounding his influence on the football side. We also don't know if Phillips will steer the choice toward younger candidates who are unlikely to quickly blossom into executives who will tell Phillips to mind his own business. This is why I don't think someone like Harbaugh is coming because his first order of business will be/should be to lock Phillips in his office and throw away the key. Phillips has motive for ensuring the candidate is not a threat to his position.
So that is the real loss of today.
I think your concerns are well-founded, but do you think George would make a better decision than Phillips? If they hired some other non football guy to hire the initial football guy, do you think he would necessarily make a better decision than Phillips?
What I suppose I'm saying is that there is an element of dumb luck in finding the right GM, HC, or QB. There might be teams out there that have a better process for finding these people than the Bears, but those processes are also based in large part on dumb luck. If there was a sure fire process to find a good GM or HC everybody would just follow that process and there would be no mystery. All you can do is just cross your fingers and hope they find someone with good judgment and good intuition.
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