He has that KC background, so there you go. FWIW, I don't care they are interviewing him, just sharing a report. Kevin Warren gets to the office at 5am, he has shown us multiple times via video. He has the time! lol
He's the tallest midget. He's the one I would keep but that's not saying much.
IMO, that isn't giving him enough credit. He is a good run blocker, and he graded out pretty solid via PFF overall. Yes, I know it's not the end all be all but still a data point.
Literally quoted myself from early December who I would like to see the Bears hire, but I guess your reading compression is lacking.
I really don't care who they interview as long as it leads to the right hire. I may be wrong but I don't remember Dan Campbell, the Saints TE coach at the time, being a hot name when the Lions brought him in.
What is reading compression? And you STILL haven't admitted to being wrong about your saying the Bears were a playoff team. That says all we need to know about your character. Come on man. Your little ego can take the hit, can't it? Be a big boy and admit your mistake.
Sure, I was wrong. And? Shows how little you know, I have no ego and have been self deprecating on more than one occasion around here.
This is JMO and I don't think it will be a poplar one, but I think they stick with their OTs and completely revamp the interior. Jones is not All Pro but you saw the difference when he didn't play, it was really bad. Again, he grades out pretty solid on PFF. The interior was such a sieve Willimas could never step up in the pocket, that is what led to some of his sacks trying to spin out of pressure holding onto the ball etc.
And there's the fact that there are specific windows where they are allowed to speak with coaches whose teams are in the playoffs. If they were just to sit and wait for these interview windows without speaking with anyone else people here would explode.
My opinion and gut feel agrees with you… that Braxton will be our LT and we continue to develop him and Wright on the outside.
What’s the point if doing interviews just to do interviews? It’s a total waste of time and gives the appearance of throwing darts and hoping something hits.
A new coach is the top priority of the offseason and I want them to spend as much time as possible interviewing as many people as possible in order to find the right coach for this team so I don'tsee it as wasting time. The OC for the Giants may have been terrible with the Giants, but he may be the right fit for the Bears.
Who cares about appearance? I certainly don’t, just get it right or get lucky…either way!!!
My thoughts exactly. They are so clueless as to what they are looking for that they are literally just trying to be "wowed"
And what legitimate football organization would want Poles as the guy overseeing the process?
It's an issue when you have zero plan. As shown with the stadium shenanigans. No forethought, no direction for what you want your team/organization to be or look like. Let's just "hope for the best" and "know it when we see it."
What coach with options would choose to go to a team with dysfunctional front office? As much as the Bears are interviewing coaches they are also being interviewed.
Well, it took you way beyond long to admit your mistake. Finally, and only after being pressed about it. Yes you do have a little ego going on there.
Isn't it common practice to give the interim HC an interview?Glad to see he is getting an interview he really earned it said no one ever. Why do they need to interview him hasn’t he just had a 5 week interview? Once again doing interviews just to do them.
Ryan Poles confirms Thomas Brown will interview for Bears head coach
Bears GM Ryan Poles said the team will interview interim head coach Thomas Brown for the permanent job.bearswire.usatoday.com
You had 5 weeks with the guy as your coach you talked with him and evaluated him and your first decision was to interview 10 other people but you are going to give him a courtesy interview for position that he looked lost in? It makes your front office look stupid and plays into the perception around the league that they are clueless. It may effect their actual decision since the guy they want may want them if he thinks they are not well run.
Ben Johnson isn’t taking the job cause of how foolish they look from giving a courtesy interview to the interim HC…got it.
Hey! Maybe they need to practice their interviewing process. 😃😃Glad to see he is getting an interview he really earned it said no one ever. Why do they need to interview him hasn’t he just had a 5 week interview? Once again doing interviews just to do them.
Ryan Poles confirms Thomas Brown will interview for Bears head coach
Bears GM Ryan Poles said the team will interview interim head coach Thomas Brown for the permanent job.bearswire.usatoday.com
The Bears have to be seen as giving him the same opportunity for a job interview as the other candidates get. Additionally, if they are doing interviews the right way, they have a rubric that they use so that they ask and communicate all the same things to all the candidates so that answers can be compared. The Bears probably weren't able to apply the same interview rubric to Brown when he was interviewed for the interim HC position. That was probably more like a "Hey, we're promoting you" meeting than a job interview.Glad to see he is getting an interview he really earned it said no one ever. Why do they need to interview him hasn’t he just had a 5 week interview? Once again doing interviews just to do them.
Ryan Poles confirms Thomas Brown will interview for Bears head coach
Bears GM Ryan Poles said the team will interview interim head coach Thomas Brown for the permanent job.bearswire.usatoday.com
Professional development??? He has had plenty of opportunities in the NFL already doing a sham interview is pointless. Last year alone he interviewed for the Titans HC position and the OC positions with the Bears, Steelers and Patriots. The Bears now are interviewing a guy they didn't think was worthy of the OC position and showed nothing as interim HC to be the HC.
Jets and Saints are both interviewing their interim HC, so every team in 2024 that had an interim HC is interviewing them. Every interim HC in 2023 got an interview with that team.
So in your eyes how should the interview process go and who should be interviewed?
They should interview legitimate candidates only; do you think Thomas Brown is a legitimate candidate?
Ok, so the last 6 interim HCs from 2023 to 2024 all got HC interviews with the team they took over. Why would the Bears get the "benefit of the doubt" and deviate from that standard practice? They haven't earned it? right?
It a recent NFL thing and it stupid but it makes people feel good. The Jets were bringing in other coaches and doing interviews in the team facility last week while he was running practice, but he is getting an interview so it ok. Rizzi in New Orleans is different since other teams are interviewing him.
Currently the Jets plan to interview 12 candidates, the Bears 10, Jags and Saints 9, and Raiders just fired their coach so they're TBD, but what the Bears are doing is the norm in the NFL. Narrowing your initial interviews to only 3 or 4 isn't how things are done.
Are you new to how the media works? If you listen to radio interviews all you're ever going to hear is canned responses and and puff pieces. Especially with beat reporters, they toss up softball questions and get the answers they expect for their headlines or sound bites. Beat writers and local media have to work with these people on a regular basis so they're not going to grill them or ask questions that will make them sweat because it will damage their working relationship.
