This blog has nothing to do with the Packers. In fact, the only sign of Green Bay that you'll see on this blog is the picture. This blog is more important than the Packers; this blog is more important than any of us.
This blog is about about how dysfunctional the Chicago Bears are. It's not exactly breaking news – as it turns out, the worst team in the division operates like a division-worst team – but it's important nonetheless. You see, the Bears are trying to figure out the whole "who's going to coach our team next year" thing and reader, it's not going well. If you can believe it, the powers that be in Chicago aren't doing a great job putting together a competent football program. But their marketing presence is top notch!
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After the Bears hosted a press conference explaining why they fired Matt Eberflus – because apparently people were confused about that? – a lot of eagle-eyed watchers noticed how bad GM Ryan Poles' body language was. Poles is in a weird spot: he was hired to be The Guy before the Bears also hired Kevin Warren to be The Guy.
Now it seems like there are perhaps too many cooks in the kitchen, which was whispered about in hushed, leaked-to-the-media tones recently. According to a local ESPN radio program in Chicago, Poles is none too pleased about having to answer to someone who's position was made up after Poles was hired.
The Bears are a mess right now and Packers fans simply love to see it
"One of the main reasons that Ryan Poles took the Bears job was because he liked the direct reporting nature to the team owner," the radio host said. "It was very appetizing to him, as a general manager, to report directly to ownership. There was no buffer. If he had an issue, he could go directly to George, directly to ownership. When Kevin Warren was hired, he was frustrated from that from the start. It was not a personal thing with Kevin, but it was something he didn't like. He went from reporting to the owner to now having to report to the team president, who reports to the owner. There was a go-between. And he was very vocal about that to people he trusted inside the building, that maybe he would have never taken the job to begin with."
THIS is what I'm talking about. This is the good stuff. The Bears are supposed to knock this next hire out of the park while dealing with the fact that their previous two hires seemingly don't see eye-to-eye on anything? I love that the Bears' one party trick is "make everything more of a bureaucratic mess." In their defense, it is a great trick for everyone else at the party.