Custard has famously railed on Bears ownership and I mocked him for it, and I'm here to admit that he's in large part right for reasons I hadn't really contemplated at the time. Yes, the McCaskeys are notoriously cheap (although they've shown they will at least spend on players for the most part). And I don't think the McCaskeys are meddling into the football operations (also for the most part). What I hadn't considered is that ownership won't pay for coaching and won't go the extra mile to put a winner on the field.
I'm not at all convinced that Poles had the freedom to move on from Eberflus last year. As I've said many times, if you're "looking to make a case for Eberflus you could." And I'm sure George and Ginnie were. They've never doled out big money for coaching and that is clearly still an ownership trait that holds the franchise back. You can't convince me that George and Ginnie were on board with paying Flus and his staff a couple years' worth of salary plus bringing in a new highly paid coach. Wasn't gonna happen.
While I don't think ownership is making much in the way of football decisions, they're pretty clearly still hamstringing the franchise. When I heard they were interviewing head coaching candidates before GMs I thought "uh oh." Flus totally strikes me as a McCaksey hire because they love meek coaches who won't rock the boat.
Probably forgetting some things I wanted to highlight, but Custard, YOU WERE RIGHT. The McCaskeys are still a pretty big problem. Was hopeful maybe we could fluke our way into a good run (as they have a couple of times), but it's a tall order.
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