The Dysfunction Continues Even Without John Fox
“There’s little doubt Ryan Pace will be ‘fired up’ when next he meets the media with another major announcement,” Barry Rozner writes for the Daily Herald.
The Bears’ general manager is always fired up.
At the John Fox news conference announcing the new coach, he was fired up. When he signed Mike Glennon for $18 million, he was fired up. And when the Bears approached the 2017 season with tremendous optimism, he was fired up.
After a 5-11 season, there’s little doubt he will be fired up about the future, just as he was after 2015 and 2016.
At 14-34 following three awful seasons, Pace must be the luckiest executive in Chicago sports history.
Pace has compiled the worst three-year stretch at the helm of the football operation since the late ’90s, when Michael McCaskey was overlord and de facto GM for player personnel director Mark Hatley, who never acquired the GM title.
Yet somehow Pace’s job seems safe – as do the jobs of team president Ted Phillips and team chairman George McCaskey.
I don’t ever want to hear the word “accountability” come out of any of their mouths.
Posted on January 1, 2018