Over at CBS Sports, Jonathan Jones put together a thorough breakdown of 30 top general manager candidates available this offseason. Thirty. Three-oh. Treinta. Jones’ list features familiar names and plenty of newcomers. So if you’re curious, I would encourage you to thumb through it and bone up on names we’ll likely hear about this offseason.
In the meantime, we’ll obsess over this nugget Jones drops off before he dives into the field of candidates.
“League scuttlebutt,” Jones writes, “is that Chicago will eventually fire GM Ryan Pace after six years in large part due to his failure to figure out the quarterback position.”
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Newton’s Fall, Pagano Really Likes Watson, Staley’s Rise, Watt Wants Portillo’s, and Other Bears Bullets
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• Terry Bradshaw said he watched “some of the worst” “boringest” offense he’s ever seen … and he wasn’t talking about the Bears:
Terry Bradshaw refers to the Patriots offense as boringest. pic.twitter.com/FbaGfMrHFG
• The Patriots’ receiving corps is whack, so I’ll give you that. But an offense led by Cam Newton and orchestrated by Josh McDaniels shouldn’t look like this. Admittedly, I’m not totally up with what’s going down in New England, but this year has been quite the disappointment for a great many reasons. Ah, well … tough break. There’s no rest for the weary and no pity for a dynasty at the end of its rope.
By Mark Koruba
My family has had Chicago Bears season tickets since the team was playing football in the ill-fitting(one of the end-zones was too small by quite a bit) Wrigley Field. We have also been frustrated by the team’s play, ownership, management, scouting, drafting, coaching and general ineptitude for the majority of those fifty plus years. All of the aforementioned issues are on grand display this season.
Let us start with ownership. Virginia McCaskey knows less about football than my dog. The NFL tries to portray her as the Grand Dame of the league when she has always been a figurehead, nothing more. She initially passed responsibility for operating the team to her son Michael McCaskey after her father, George Halas, passed away. Mike waited three years to do anything of import, the Bears won a title in 85, he gutted management and scouting and named himself GM, kind of. The Bears had no GM for fifteen seasons, but Lil’ Mikey never took the blame for anything, he pass