What does it really matter, either way? Does McCaskey making the hire on his own make you feel any better than Phillips? We just have to hope they manage to get it right, even if it's accidentally. Yes, because it means the next GM probably reports directly to George and not to Ted. I think that opens up more possibilities of people being interested, or at least not being scared away by the reporting structure. The Bears need a football guy running the football operations. Phillips is not a football guy. He's a business man who just so happens to work for a football team. I don't want his bias making decisions that have a huge impact on the field. It hasn't worked for almost 25 years... so it probably won't work now.