Thursday, February 13, 2025

Bears Insider Drops Major Hints On Ryan Poles’ Job Security

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Ryan Poles may have been offered a public assurance that the plan was for him to lead the search for a new head coach last month. However, things change fast in the NFL, especially when the team keeps losing. The Chicago Bears just dropped their 10th in a row on Thursday night in a 6-3 clunker to the Seattle Seahawks. Caleb Williams was sacked seven times again, marking the third time that has happened this season. It has become impossible to defend the GM. He hired the coaching staff. He assembled this roster and now holds the two longest losing streaks in franchise history.

Yes, the team has looked competitive at times this season, but that isn’t what Poles was hired to do. He was hired to win. With his third season almost over, the Bears have only done that 14 times. Since the GM position came into being in 1974, nobody has had a worse three-year stretch in franchise history. Mark Hatley also had 14 from 1997 through 1999. Ryan Pace had 14 from 2015 through 2017. Not exactly great company to keep. Even so, is it possible Poles will survive anyway? Bill Zimmerman of Windy City Gridiron, who’s known for having strong team sources, dropped a not-so-subtle hint.

Ryan Poles is teetering on the edge.

By all accounts, there isn’t much unity behind the scenes at Halas Hall. Most believe team president Kevin Warren is in the midst of a power grab, unsatisfied with the organization’s direction. He’s fine with keeping Poles, but indications have been that the Bears have no qualms about firing the GM if the head coach they want isn’t excited about working with him. Throw in that Poles enters the last year of his contract and it’s hard not to see the team simply parting ways with him.

The bad far outweighs the good at this point. Ryan Poles’ biggest claim to fame is his blockbuster trade with Carolina that landed D.J. Moore, Darnell Wright, and Williams. It was a good decision. Unfortunately, its luster is wearing off as other moves have cropped up like weeds. You have the Chase Claypool trade, signing Nate Davis, trading for Ryan Bates, and drafting Velus Jones, Zacch Pickens, and Kiran Amegadjie in the 3rd round. To say nothing of the Eberflus hire. Every GM makes mistakes, but his feel too egregious to overlook.

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jmscooby
Dec 29, 2024 6:00 pm

Pooch, I think most of us would agree our running game was Fields getting uncomfortable in the pocket and taking off running. From the top to the bottom, we nee to establish an offensive identity, and running the football should be priority #1. We’ve had identity on the defensive side of the ball. JMHO, but it seems we made moves to NOT run the ball.

PoochPest
Dec 29, 2024 11:52 am

@Tred Agree with you about Poles possibly leaving on his own. I’ve never left a position on my own, but I view my responsibility as “telling the truth,” whether anyone likes it or not. You don’t have to constantly lobby or argue, but in pre and post situations, you have to. As long as you have a job, you fight to do it right. Time usually tells you whether you were right or not. In this case, 40 years of time has told most of us that something is wrong. Most “executives” or even “boots-on-the-ground” people can’t articulate problems or… Read more »

PoochPest
Dec 29, 2024 11:41 am

@jmscooby I agree with both of your thoughts, that we aren’t building the right way and there is some bad coaching. The issue I’ve had with the entire structure of the Bears, is lack of accountability from the top. Usually, if middle management is adequate (coaches), the upper management (GM, executives, directors, including scouting) just adequately do their job and there are some hits and misses in all acquisitions. But because the Bears coaching has been so pathetically bad, sitting around (from upper management) is disastrous. Taking two, three years to “find out” that your coaches aren’t coaching ruins drafts,… Read more »

TGena
TGena
Dec 28, 2024 5:01 pm

Sorry — anyone who is making an argument in hopes of retaining an NFL GM with a 14-36 won-lost record (.280) one game short of three complete seasons — was simply not paying attention to the Seattle versus Chicago clownshow.

The 2024 Chicago Bears are three players short (Jaylon, Cole and Cairo) of a complete Ryan Poles makeover of the 2021 roster…

…and they suck.

Not sorry!

jmscooby
Dec 28, 2024 2:26 pm

Pooch, I can only speak on some of the things I know. I watch how people move. People in my profession have a difficult time in the mall. We offend people when we tell them they are flat footed or have on leg that is slightly longer than the other. I can’t judge positional coaching as much because I’m not behind the scenes, but if I see something that looks wrong from a coaching standpoint, such as Tyke Tolbert, I don’t hold back. I will admit to some bad coaching, but we’re also not building our team the right way,… Read more »

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