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There's about a billionty articles explaining this. Really? Can you link me a few?

Because Phillips and mccaskey aren't football guys and their last search firm they brought recommended Emery. McCaskeys family OWNS a football team, Phillips has been in the business since like 2000, how are they not football guys?

Are you surprised? This is the same thing me and WF22 were complaining about. They don't have a football guy at the top, they don't follow a proper chain of command. Phillips and mccaskey have their hand in the cookie jar regardless if Accorsi is there or not. this isn't about them not having a football guy at the top. it's about needing to hire the guy at the top first. Shouldn't that be included in the role of Accorsi to state common sense that the GM should be hired before the HC? Yes, but it's the timing issue

[expletive] east coast shmucks Jk

Help me out people with amazing executive search experience, why would you hire a guy like Accorsi?

Some guys can only be interviewed now or you have to wait for weeks. It is perfectly reasonable that they would interview these guys to get the process started so that once a GM is hired they will only have to let him interview these guys again. It's a lot better than not showing any interest in them and allowing potential candidates to be ignored. given this organization's history of ineptitude with these things, i have a hard time believing they're doing something that smart. if they are, sure, it's great. It has already been reported that this is exactly what they are doing. i hadn't heard that Neither have I, but why else would they do it?

Some guys can only be interviewed now or you have to wait for weeks. It is perfectly reasonable that they would interview these guys to get the process started so that once a GM is hired they will only have to let him interview these guys again. It's a lot better than not showing any interest in them and allowing potential candidates to be ignored. Actually, that does make sense given playoff teams. But it's still not an excuse for them leaving Emery in the chair up until Monday.

At this point, I might trust McCaskey more then Accorsi

It's all totally out of sequence. They should have canned Emery a month ago

He has COMPASSION I'm so overly suspect of anyone this buffoon consultant who likes to promote his friends will pick

This may be the craziest thing you've ever posted here, and that's saying something. Lovie's teams won because of the defense. Lovie's focus was on the defense. The defense, however, would not have been immune to the wall of age it ran into if Lovie stuck around. If anything, Lovie got out at the right time because last year probably would have been even worse under him. They had successfully cycled through top defensive players while not bottoming out in the past. Tommie Harris, agunleye, alex brown, vasher, mike brown etc. lovie was good at getting guys into his system. I have no doubt the defense would have continued to be better than average. There was no cycling happening at the end of his run; their draft picks were failing left and right, so do you honestly think that in a single offseason the presence of Lovie Smith as HC alone would have been enough to suddenly reverse that course and prevent the old defense from collapsing into the cellar? Lovie Smith doesn't reverse the aging process on Briggs and Peppers. Lovie Smith doesn't prevent Tillman from being injured. Hell, the only thing he possibly changes is them stupidly retaining Urlacher and he was nothing at that point. I think Urlacher had a bigger effect then people realize at the end of his career.

Yea, i felt the same after I posted it and really meant more about his drafting abilities.

If he wasd mad from the standpoint that he thought he was basically running the show or that he had a equal say in the final call, yeah, that's ridiculous on his part. But if he was mad because he thought Trestman was a terrible choice and he felt they completely ignored his input, OK, then I get being pissed off. Yea, I get the frustration over hating Trestman

Sure, I just think the talk from some about how he needs to go as part of cleaning house is often an overreaction; if the guy is good with the "business" side of thing and the McCaskeys are comfortable with him in that role then shifting him to that isn't a problem. It's not like a coach or management figure who can't (or, lets be realistic, almost always wouldn't) be shifted like that. Yea, and it's not even a question of him meddling in the personnel decisions, but him being ultimately responsible for targeting the man who is. If this next hire fails again, is Phillips sharing the blame or is is Accorsis fault? He'll have had three hires using three different techniques. At a certain point you have to recognize even non-traditionally sports businessmen can do a better job picking the sports guys. I'd argue they did a fine job with the hire prior to Emery. Angelo and Lovie together built a very good football team. Lovie failed to fix the offense but that was hardly the fault of Ted. If Ted is gone, does anybody think they will suddenly start making more informed football decisions at the Board level? They did have early success, but not sustained, and there was still quite a bit at Hatley footprint on the early Lovie teams. ETA never mind a little less impact than I thought (basically Urlacher, Brown, Kreutz). Anyways those early years of Angelo were great but I have a hard time looking at the entire result and saying it was a successful hiring. Tommie Harris fell to them Thomas Jones was essentially a reclaimation project Grossman was an extreme need And Angelo deeply ignored the OLine Jerry really sucked

Sure, I just think the talk from some about how he needs to go as part of cleaning house is often an overreaction; if the guy is good with the "business" side of thing and the McCaskeys are comfortable with him in that role then shifting him to that isn't a problem. It's not like a coach or management figure who can't (or, lets be realistic, almost always wouldn't) be shifted like that. Yea, and it's not even a question of him meddling in the personnel decisions, but him being ultimately responsible for targeting the man who is. If this next hire fails again, is Phillips sharing the blame or is is Accorsis fault? He'll have had three hires using three different techniques. At a certain point you have to recognize even non-traditionally sports businessmen can do a better job picking the sports guys. I'd argue they did a fine job with the hire prior to Emery. Angelo and Lovie together built a very good football team. Lovie failed to fix the offense but that was hardly the fault of Ted. If Ted is gone, does anybody think they will suddenly start making more informed football decisions at the Board level? Is Ted that bad that it could only improve by subtraction?

what did Phillips do on draft day? Not Phillips, just the Bears... http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/07/19/john-harbaugh-says-the-bears-werent-ethical-on-draft-day/ I can't imagine a guy would refuse to go to the Bears because Jerry Angelo was a boob. Yea, he would be gaining a lot, and Angelo just isn't around. That whole deal has to be i the past for Decosta

I am right not to trust this [expletive]

Good thing I'm not a meatball

God I hope he sucks

Looks like Harbaugh to Michigan is official, 7 yr contract

Relying on that D to win games would suck. Yes. Buying into the whole defense and running game and bring back Kyle Orton for game manager frightens me because the meatballs dont know what that means. I think we have enough young talent on O to not worry about that The mid-2000s Bears had a heck of a lot of talent on offense. And [expletive] off coaches. We don't need Lovie, a guy who totally ignores offense, but a defensive HC who is willing to work with a good offensive mind at OC, like Bellichick would do

Relying on that D to win games would suck. Yes. Buying into the whole defense and running game and bring back Kyle Orton for game manager frightens me because the meatballs dont know what that means. I think we have enough young talent on O to not worry about that

Relying on that D to win games would suck. I don't think you have to do that. In Cutler, Jeffery, Forte, Bennett you have a 1-4 talent punch that should have an offense in the top third. And yes, I think we trade Marshall for picks. I'd even be open to trading Cutler for a 3rd and Mettenberger given the impetus for rebuilding. Then, you draft Fortes replacement, Oline, and a slew of D studs Or, is there a market for Forte? I'd look to trade Forte but no idea if there is a market. Also, by the time you build up an elite defense that offensive core is done and/or gone. TEs can be replaced. RBs too. Jeffry is young. The big question mark is always QB. That's the big one to draft if you can't get a Mettenberger

Relying on that D to win games would suck. I don't think you have to do that. In Cutler, Jeffery, Forte, Bennett you have a 1-4 talent punch that should have an offense in the top third. And yes, I think we trade Marshall for picks. I'd even be open to trading Cutler for a 3rd and Mettenberger given the impetus for rebuilding. Then, you draft Fortes replacement, Oline, and a slew of D studs in the next 2-3 years Or, is there a market for Forte?

So, having a great D would suck?