The Nagy thing was a fraud from day one. He didn't call plays and Mahomes spent his rookie year with Kafka as his personal coach since they still had Alex Smith.

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finally a betting market has opened :

Kliff Kingsbury
+200
Ben Johnson
+400
Aaron Glenn
+500
Brian Flores
+600
Marcus Freeman
+700
Mike Vrabel
+800

Todd Monken
+800

Thomas Brown
+1200

Mike Kafka
+1400


Arthur Smith
+1600

David Shaw
+1800

Drew Petzing
+2000

Anthony Weaver
+2500

Liam Coen
+2500

Mike McCarthy
+3300

Pete Carroll
+3300

Joe Brady
+3300

Jon Gruden
+5000

Kingsbury does make sense, considering he worked for the Bidwills and George is tight with them because he's a big time loser

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At the 5:20 mark he starts talking about how involved Kevin Warren has been in football decisions. I had to stop there and take a second to gather myself.

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Ugh, of course. You take the coordinator that makes the average/above-average QB great a la Johnson and Goff, and whoever is scheming up in Minnesota. We've personally found that hiring the coordinator for an objectively elite talent is a roll of loaded dice.

the 2 lowest priced from around the rest of the NFL :

NewOrleans

JoeBrady -300
Kellen Moore +600


NYJ

Vrabel +225
UlBrich +225

NE

Vrabel -400
Flores +400

Jacksonville
Coen -300
Johnson +150

Poles' office chair at Halas Hall:

The guy is such a fucking putz.

Questioner: “Your plan for Caleb was very specific and elaborate. His entire rookie season was subjected to disruption and stress. What…”

Poles interrupting: “can you explain what you mean by disruption & stress?”

Questioner (and I’m paraphrasing): “you fired the head coach and OC and promoted a guy he never spoke with to HC, you fucking idiot.”

Poles: nonsensical rambling

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Asked about offensive line struggles, the only specific thing he could cite is that Caleb is a young QB.

He’s not fixing the line. He’s not even going to try.

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What can he really do aside from roll the dice at tenth overall for a guy who probably is going to suck long-term and will almost certainly suck short-term?

Around 18:30…

Questioner (referencing an earlier statement by Poles on who’ll make the decision): You mentioned a leadership group. Can you expand on who is involved and why that’s important to your search?

Poles, actual quote: Yeah, so that goes into our SVP group on the business side. I think it's really important, and Kevin and I talk about it all the time, just the continuity between football and business. That's one thing we take a lot of pride in here so it’s important when we get to the right phase that they’re involved as well. And become familiar with our staff and I think that’s important because that’s part of the family that’s here. And they support football and football supports business and that’s a beautiful relationship and something we take seriously here.

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Asked about what he’s accomplished, Poles cites how great of a roster he’s built.

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Getting sacked 68 times is also stressful and disruptive.

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This press conference is going to make multiple candidates remove themselves from consideration.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

oh dear lord

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He’s such a fucking Bernstein. Anything that failed was a result of inadequate systems or poorly implemented processes.

It couldn’t possibly be that he built an outside-in roster and wasted high level draft picks.

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The Bears business is apparently selling the city a monorail and not winning football. Thanks Kevin, great work.

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They did beat the Packers though.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I want whoever started this "process over results" bullshit to explain to me what they think professional sports are about.

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Describing an obvious lack of leadership, Poles says he was in the same place as a lot of guys where he saw things happening and just didn’t know if he should say anything.

Which, I mean, sure, why would the head of football say something?

This guy is a big time “there were a lot of flaws we saw that we didn’t realize were flaws until after the fact and don’t worry because that’s totally not going to happen again.”

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These guys talk like the people running a company that is about to go out of business would talk.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

JLN just told me the patagonia vests at Halas Hall deserve the Brian Thompson treatment.

Poles is an absolute and complete fucking moron. Again, launch this fucking idiot and start over before it’s too late.


It kills me that literally the only reason he may still be here is simply because they just don’t feel like going thru another GM search so they’re putting it off as long as they can.

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If the rule you followed lead you to this, of what use was the rule?

Why can everyone else see this but them?

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If the rule you followed lead you to this, of what use was the rule?

should have beat them twice

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

One team not interested in Johnson :

Gang Green did not include arguably the hottest candidate of this coaching cycle in Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson among their nine requests Monday, The Post’s Brian Costello reported.

“The Jets do not feel that Johnson would be a fit for them so they are not requesting an interview, according to sources,” Costello wrote

The musical chairs really don't seem to be falling in his favor. He'll be begging the Bears to take him

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Is there a chance the field-level luxury suite could bend?

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