John Fox should’ve been fired after the Green Bay loss. Believe it or not that was more inexcusable than the inevitable beat down they suffered against the hottest team in football today. Instead the Chicago Bears ownership continued to do what its always done. They won’t make a decision on the coaching staff until the end of the season.
In other words they’re going to continue letting this farce play out, knowing full well it’s not going to change. What was it that mystery writer Rita Mae Brown (not Albert Einstein) said?
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.'”
The Bears have trotted Fox out to that sideline week after week expecting things to take a turn for the better. They expect the team to play with more discipline and fewer mistakes. Instead, as was the case again in Philadelphia, it was more of the same. Two interceptions by Trubisky who was off all game thanks in large part to a terrible game plan, terrible execution and terrible play calling. Then there were the nine penalties on top of it.
John Fox is flirting with becoming worst coach in Bears history
Hardcore Bears fans believed it would never be possible for somebody to match the sheer ineptitude of Abe Gibron. He oversaw the darkest period of Chicago football from 1972 to 1974. During that span he managed to win just 11 games for an 11-30-1 record. Now Fox, the guy who was supposed to be a savior, is one loss away from eclipsing his franchise-low winning percentage.
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If his team loses next week to Robbie Gould's Niners, John Fox's Bears winning percentage will fall below Abe Gibron's, .274 to .273.
— jon greenberg (@jon_greenberg) November 26, 2017
Does anybody in their right mind think Fox deserves to stay on the sidelines with that inescapable fact hovering over him? Forget what he did with other teams. That was ages ago. His job is to win games in Chicago and has failed miserably. He’s old, outdated, out of touch and unable to hold players accountable. Never mind he’s conservative to a fault and it’s absolutely crushing the development of his young quarterback.
The longer this death march goes on, the more Bears fans are coming to realize that their ownership is just as much at fault. Nobody loves the status quo more than the McCaskey family. Boring, unimaginative head coach? Check. Zero sense on how to cultivate a quarterback? Check. One could go on but it gets way too depressing.
Allowing Fox to continue making a mockery of this organization is wasting away the one thing the Bears can’t afford: the faith of their fans.
