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  1. WrigleyField 22
    Oh come on raw, every bears GM of the last 25 years would have taken Caleb. Also the last 2 GMs both made obvious efforts to bring in a head coach to catapult the offense too. Angelo made a huge swing at QB too. Poles really hasn't done anything that special or different among Bears history i/r/t to changing Bears culture vis a vie offense/defense. I also think his analytic approach is extremely basic from everything we've seen. The best idea we have of his analytics is an A-score that could be replaced with RAS (and the heavy RAS bias of his draft picks). Do we have any evidence he sees analytics as a deeper study into areas like game management or sports science (we've seen 3 years of awful game management and bad injury results and possibly poor injury management).
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    If they like him enough not to fire him, no coach should be able to fire him. Now 53 man control and reporting lines are totally negotiable, but it makes no sense if he's truly leading process that he might be fired at the conclusion of it. Now if he's not really leading it and that was Warren bs...
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    I think there's a arguably awkward component where if Ben Johnson is the guy you don't really need Poles or anyone else there to help lead from a football side. You just need Warren to act and give assurances from ownership. That isn't to say Poles can't co-exist with Johnson.. Plenty of strong HC candidates, included experienced HCs, haven't gotten carte blanch to name their exec day 1. I don't think Johnson is the exception to that rule. But if Johnson isn't the guy (because he wants to go elsewhere) then you probably do want someone with more football knowledge than Warren leading the search. It seems likely the org still would have Poles be that guy over the unknown of a replacement. I'd personally cut bait with Poles either way, but I'm not gonna freak out if he stays. But an extension seems dumb to me.
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    I'm gonna be blindly optimistic that Warren is leading the process and just wants to go with the obvious choice. He's a lot of things, but I'm not sure he's out to prove he's a brilliant football mind who can find the under-the-radar football genius. He'd love the praise that comes with getting a big name in Chicago.
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    The fullback who was signed to a guaranteed extension lol
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    Ceded? He was stripped of that power, if that's what you mean. It was not willingly given up. He also spent 2 years as a VP of Player Personnel after coming up through the admin side. That is a-typical of most GMs, especially in past 30 years since the advent of salary cap. His background before GM was predominantly not personnel related. Certainly not what Poles is (and it shows in their understanding of what the salary cap actually is).
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    Ben Johnson is like the difference of a QB prospect who'd have been #1 for consecutive drafts and one who flashes onto the scene, which is more like Daboll. There's bust/reward risk in each, but the former is a better hit rate. I can't think of a more consensus 1st time HC candidate since Shannahan, really. So like yea, they have to go through the full process or whatever, but he looms over any other candidate choice.
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    They've only settled into that by a lot of trial and error (they 100% sidelined him at one point). Also Roseman is certainly not the mold of Player personnel specialist. So they're kind of their own category. Edit - Saints basically in same category too (to a slightly varying degree).
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    Yea I mean they basically did the "strong HC as leader of football ops" once, with Wanny. Due to Halas's death and org disfunction Ditka probably grew into that role too, but by that point he grew into that role was a SB winning coach... Which any coach with that level of success always encroaches into that power structure. Then Angelo-Emery-Pace-Poles since Phillips looked to modernize the role of GM as head of football org. Not entirely inspiring results. Like who are the most successful franchises in last 30ish years. Baltimore is the only one that immediately pops to mind where the Head Coach isn't by design the top/equal football voice in the room. It doesn't seem like a bad model. Maybe Poles can fit into that structure and add value? Maybe not.
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    We don't really have concrete reason to think one way or the other honestly. Hence the if. We know George went pretty quickly from Poles reporting directly into him to handing those reigns back to Warren basically as soon as he could. If Warren sees it a different way than Phillips did, he has the power to make it so. Maybe some heavy reading between lines / taking grain of salt rumors at face value, indicates Warren will see it that way.
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    I think that's probably an overwhelmingly binary way to look at it. But it kind of depends how you view the lens of GM. A lot of GMs are just glorified player personnel directors. You could view him as valued, but not worth sidelining candidates over if that's how you view the GM role at large. The only thing at odds with that POV is that he's supposedly leading the search... Which I don't really believe from Warren.
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    I mean framed in that way it sounds stupider than it probably is. Some of that is because of Kevin's words about Poles leading the process which I don't really believe. I think putting the head coach on the top of the chain is something you do for the right head coach. And thats probably a better operating model for the Bears than for most teams honestly. But there's no guarantee there is that right guy available. I think there's arguably two guys who are available and demand that type of clout. A couple others that could become free agent coaches or would be worth trade capital to get who'd also be worth doing that for. But it's still a limited list. So if you get shut out, then what. Do you let Poles hire with a short leash for both? Just clear the slate from the jump? Most fans would prefer a very linear approach, but I think the whole idea of coach or GM as de facto head of football is still often candidate dependent. My hot take is this could end up looking like the Bills 2017 offseason where the GM is replaced in May. You can of course argue against that process though Bills have been a pretty strong org since that year, whether because they made a good hire that supersedes bad process or that the process isn't inherently bad.
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    Ladies, he's a freak in the sheets.
  14. WrigleyField 22
    Well that sucks. The news that he was in remission seemed too good to be true given the initial diagnosis.
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    Be the owner
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    Barring something like family circumstances he'd be pretty crazy to leave on his own accord. He can be pissed about the change but wasn't there word that candidates knew Phillips may be on his way out? He took a risk and doesn't like his new boss?
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    Eh, not that uncommon. Bears just suck at picking the guys.
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    Ha, good luck if he thinks that's the pull he has. Maybe just doing pre-work for after the eventual firing (in 2026)
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    I know there's also that idea of like "theres only so many of these jobs, guys aren't gonna pass up opportunities", but (1) Poles literally did pass up other opportunities to focus on Bears one and (2) I kind of think you need to be a little daring and crazy to excel in these roles. I like when a Ben Johnson is confident and out there enough to be like "nah, I have demands". It's a leadership role. If Poles accepted constraints he wasn't comfortable with... 🤷
  20. WrigleyField 22
    There may be a lot of CYA going on, but it's murky at best.
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    He did spend relatively top OL dollar one time... 😕 Also let a pretty youg/good one walk his first year. That positional swing alone was hugely detrimental to the state of the OL.
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    For most in demand coaches, the correct structure is a GM with relatively less power so they can bend to their will. May even want 53 man say. Or it's an Eberflus who will likely be deferential to the GM. For as much as most are convinced Poles had no say in Flus, he was also a fairly safe choice for a first time, young GM. He just chose the safe choice that actually still hit all the low end returns. Or maybe it was really ownerships/Phillips choice fully. I tend to think it was likely somewhere in middle and not forced / arranged.
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    Poles doesn't need to be extended. But it does require Warren to have the most significant role in hiring. Thats I guess bad news if you're hyper focused on a top down view of GM-HC that is frankly less common than people treat it. It's fine if you want the most in demand coach (obviously with having to trust Warren)
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    I'm kind of surprised Johnson isn't just asking for some level of direct control rather than GM-HC alignment. It's not that hard to get 53 man control if you're a hot commodity and willing to be patient.
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    Yea, i don't care about dumb rules. Not supposed to be a particularly strong class. Go Jeanty if he looks like clear best player.
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