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I agree with you - my short list is Vrabel or Johnson - I lean to Vrabel but wouldn't complain with either.

Yeah I’m thrown off a bit as well.

That combo works well in my mind.

I officially endorse this - let Warren make the decision and reset this. Poles is just as much a part of this mess.

My view is - if there isn't a BPA at the need in the trenches, unless someone is way up, than you move on down in the draft. I will caveat I do think an upgrade at running back would be very useful (but not talking about a FRP).

I’m not getting cute - I’m signing a big time olinen and than drafting 2 more…or I am signing Khalil Mack on a short term deal and drafting an OT and OG and and a tackle but I’m not messing around with the trenches. I’m adding 2 top 2 round (or big money free agents) to oline and dline. Push Braxton and Kiran to fight for other roles and really get strong interior and invest.

Carolina is not moving away from Young. He has improved a ton this season since his benching.

I think he gets hammered for the sacks - that is my presumption. There were also dropped balls - I think Moore had one early in the game - instead of 3rd and short its 3rd and long. Little things but go a long way. I'm presuming some of the sacks though he is getting his QBR hammered on. Or maybe the pick that went through the hands early in the game counts as a pick in QBR? But it all gets pretty subjective.

I think he is in an impossible position. Flus had put together a staff with little depth and Brown was able to step up but having him be this much up leaves everything else barren.

Let’s do this - let’s go 🐻

I don’t want some 10 person search. Due your diligenc3 over next few weeks and narrow it down to 4-5 candidates. No more than that. My no doubt four candidates are outlined below. Brown could fall off the list if the rest of this season is a total dumpster fire. Brown - If he does well, by all means Ben Johnson - Would think he is the front runner. Kingsbury - Smart and great work with Daniel’s. Question is what did he learn from his first stint failures. Knows Caleb well. Vrabel - My personal choice. If Bears don’t interview him it will send off a signal to me that they aren’t taking it serious. He is a hard ass - but demands respect and did excellent with a meh qb in Tannehill. Had identified Arthur Smith and generally seems to know how to find good coordinators. He is my top choice, but he is the exact guy Bears wouldn’t hire in the past cause he is going to put up with no nonsense. Wildcard - Gruden / Shanny / McDaniel / Browns HC.

Would be great to see them get a win.

I am good with any of the names you had - plus I would include Vrabel in there. My dark horse is they make a huge play for Shanny.

I heard opposite - he was pretty high on Caleb. But I agree he won’t be coming. Vrabel could though and he was pretty good in Tennessee.

In hindsight - Nagy was probably a pretty good head coach. He made playoffs twice in his 4 year run with Trubisky who was clearly not that good. If you have him Caleb I think he would have crushed it.

I think if they shore up the interior and make it a strength - than Jones plays up. He is a good, not great LT. Build a strong interior and Wright and Jones ends up a pretty good tackle combo (imo). This could allow you to go dline and than take 2 guards in 2nd round.

Brown is interim head coach. I want him focused on offense but it is clear he is the coach the players trust and believe in so I get it from that logic.

1000 percent Flus is most singular at fault there.

Now to see who interim is.

Caleb should learn from this too. A vet qb does better there - so it is a good learning lesson for Caleb too. I mean once you know it is the final play call the damn time out. Under all scenarios the stupidest was too literally leave a time out in your pocket.

By the way - the fact they have no interim candidates is an indictment on Flus and Poles for how thin their staff really was too.

Honestly right now I think with better and more consistent interior play Wright and Jones work. So if a stud LT is there grab him…otherwise focus on building a massive interior and if you do that I think Wright reaches his high potential and Jones plays up to being pretty good in that scenario.

I think the problem they have is they don’t have any good interim candidates other than Brown and it would be foolish to put more on Browns plate right now given the importance of Caleb. The only thing I could see making sense is bringing in an outside interim guy who knew he was just an interim guy. Only Lovie comes to mind in that scenario. That or if they want to go Belicheck you hand keys to him now (but that would be highly unusual). I think at this point I would be a big fan of Beli and Vrabel together. Right now Vrabel is tops at my list cause he know he won’t put up with bullshit and he knows what it takes. He also has had some good offensive coaches despite being a defensive guy and I think he is just a fit in Chicago’s culture (not Bears..more the city).

To your point - he would normally have his press conference tomorrow morning. I would expect they would fire him before that press conference cause rolling him out to media tomorrow and axing him a day later would just be downright mean.

Trestman was the only one worse - what he did to the locker room and culture was something else, but I think at this point keeping Flus may start to do that. Crappy part is Flus coaching staff is pretty weak - probably cause he was scared of having good interim candidates. Maybe just turn it to Washington and let Hoke call the defense (or vice versa?).