Virginia McCaskey, the matriarch of the circle of relatives that owns the Chicago Bears, is 100 years previous. A commonplace chorus from the circle of relatives during the last decade has been that they need to win a Tremendous Bowl once more sooner than Virginia is going directly to the massive homeowners’ field within the sky. I don’t have any doubt that’s the case, however the crew has been going about it in a peculiar approach — one who hasn’t observed the Bears pass previous the primary around of the playoffs since 2010, and incessantly options them completing within the backside part of the NFC North. This season, the Bears and head trainer Matt Eberflus are off to a 2-6 get started — now not precisely a trail to Tremendous Bowl glory.
Again in September, then-Bears defensive coordinator Alan Williams left the crew beneath a shroud of secrecy — we nonetheless don’t have solutions — amidst rumors (that have been by no means showed) that his house and Halas Corridor have been raided through the FBI, together with former-Undergo-turned-special-agent Charles “Peanut” Tillman. The Bears denied that Halas Corridor have been raided and Williams’ lawyer would best say that no felony habits was once concerned. Over a month later, we nonetheless don’t know why Williams vacated his task so briefly, with the exception of that the proffered rationalization — Williams’ wish to deal with his well being and his circle of relatives — was once now not all the tale.
Now, but any other Bears trainer is now not with the crew, and we don’t have any roughly respectable reason behind his departure, both. Previous this week, the crew fired working backs trainer Dave Walker, with the media finding out best that it needed to do with Walker’s “habits within the place of business,” and that the HR division at Halas Corridor was once concerned within the resolution.
Eberflus informed the media of Walker’s firing, “As the top trainer, we’re construction a program and feature requirements to uphold to as a body of workers and group each off and on the sector, and the ones requirements weren’t met… We’ve an ordinary to uphold to. When that normal isn’t met, we act. We act accordingly, and that’s what we did nowadays.”
Eberflus went on to inform the media that the tradition within the Bears’ group is “superior.”
From right here, even though, it doesn’t glance all that superior. Extra to the purpose, it looks as if Matt Eberflus, along with suffering to get wins at the box, has a truly arduous time comparing the folks he’s employed for his training body of workers. He’s now had two of the extra well known contributors of his body of workers go away for mysterious causes that appear to contain their habits, with little-to-no additional rationalization to enthusiasts. It’s tricky to peer how that doesn’t name into query Eberflus’ talent to run a body of workers that may be a success off and on the sector. And the best way the Bears’ PR body of workers has treated each the departure of Williams and Walker — giving the general public simply sufficient data to permit rumor and hypothesis to run rife — makes one marvel what the hell is occurring throughout the group.
That’s sooner than we even get to GM Ryan Poles, who lately traded for defensive finish Montez Sweat, who’s an unrestricted unfastened agent after this season, and allowed one of the most few vibrant spots at the crew, cornerback Jaylon Johnson, to hunt a business sooner than Tuesday’s business cut-off date. If the Bears assume they may be able to lock up Sweat on a multi-year deal, tremendous. If now not, the crew gave up a second-round pick out for 9 weeks of Sweat with this sort of narrow probability of constructing the playoffs. As for Jaylon Johnson, permitting him to peer what his choices are is superb if the crew has come to phrases with now not being superb for the following few years, but when that’s the case, why herald Montez Sweat?
Similar to the Bears at the box to this point this yr, all the group turns out to lack a cohesive plan and any coherent path. And whilst the Bears are projected to have $110 million in cap house in 2024, it doesn’t really feel like there’s any actual plan for one of the best ways to use it. It indisputably doesn’t really feel just like the crew has the most efficient head trainer in position, and it increasingly more turns out that his selected training body of workers is in chaos. Most likely that’s now not the truth at the back of closed doorways, however it’s the only the crew is projecting to the remainder of the league and to most of the people. What unfastened agent goes to need to play for Matt Eberflus? And is Eberflus even able to selecting the most efficient folks for the task? He indisputably was once now not when it got here to Williams and Walker, as a result of an enormous a part of being an efficient trainer is, you understand, ultimate with the crew.
I would really like to be unsuitable about all of this. Possibly 2023 is the season sooner than the Bears get it in combination and make an honest-to-goodness Tremendous Bowl run. However that state of affairs is hard to peer from right here. And so is Virginia McCaskey attending to rejoice any other Tremendous Bowl.
