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i feel like it must have been hoge and jahns podcast but boy is it hard to search the athletic. So I can't prove that, but this was from the latest. Re-open, don't know, but over and over again we hear that it was poles choice. " To be clear, Eberflus was never forced on Poles — at least not by anyone employed at Halas Hall. The two share representation in agent Trace Armstrong and, per Poles’ account, had become friendly after meeting years back through mutual acquaintances. Eberflus also came highly recommended in 2022 by Colts GM Chris Ballard, who spent 12 seasons in the Bears organization (2001-12) and also worked with Poles for four years with the Kansas City Chiefs (2013-16). Also don’t forget that the Bears’ 2022 coaching search was spearheaded by an outside consultant: Bill Polian, whose 14 seasons in the Colts organization left him, for better or worse, with deeper connections inside that franchise."

It's hard to believe, yet there has been tons of reporting that they offered him to open up the search, start over, interview whomever he wanted, yet he really liked flus. And he fired flus and it would have been a great time for him to save face and plant the "I never wanted him" but...he hasn't done that. Everything has been " he hired and really wanted flus"

I just feel like we've really wanted to believe he was railroaded into Flus but just zero evidence of it. Unless the railroading was by Trace Armstrong. The lucas patrick/ryan bates experience is just so frustrating. It's sorta good to be patient, but you also have to realize you don't have unlimited time to build.

I think there was an obvious aspect to our defense falling off a cliff and it was our interior. It was very thin, and predictably injuries happened and it's very easy to run on us and then it's easy as hell to manipulate that and just open it all up. However, it's amazing how ineffective this defense is without flus. It's like it only KINDA works with him as the playcaller. So again, why on earth is he your hire to bring as your key strategy. I'm sure it isn't a hot take now but when flus was fired I thought it was perfectly reasonable to keep poles. But the mistakes of his are the kinds that you should just really see the impacts of. I would say first choice is absolutely give ben johnson the keys, let him bring his gm, and give him a shanahan structure of team. I don't really have a second choice.

You definitely don’t take things personally, no sir.

Is him growing taller even a good thing? When he was drafted the big commentary was how few pitchers that tall had seen success. the better news would be if he’d shrunk down to the fatter parts of the distribution. Getting taller is cool though. Annoys me that colson is now only measured as 6’4 when I thought we had a 6’6” shortstop.

Need that gif of that time boozer punched that ref in the nuts please

Good point

It seems like it's not necessarily making us way worse...and now bottom 10 seems really tough to accomplish. And then it's just "you swapped lavine for MPJ (whom I hate)." I unno, I'd rather have traded him to detroit for garbage than this. But I may be missing something.

Since I’m definitely less in on bulls than I used to be, what is the bull case for that trade? I know Lavine makes more than MPJ, but I don’t really get how this sets us up much better

“Baty's minor-league results have begun to wane somewhat, meaning that he may very well need a change of scenery away from the Big Apple.” Oh is that what that means

When people said “GRF” they knew what they meant but now that’d be RF which …is confusing

I haven’t watched a game…but what a wonderful thing that Lonzo is playing basketball

"I'm coming to the US now because I can't wait to compete against the best players in the world. But also I've decided to join the white sox because I want to do it in a place no one is watching" Makes perfect sense to me let's gooooooo