So in a completely unexpected and totally shocking move, the Bears have fired Fox
I'm in two minds about this to be honest. On the one hand, there has been some absolutely baffling decisions making from him at times and the terrible 14-32 record obviously makes it hard to give him too much credit. However, I think the problems with the Bears run far deeper than just the head coach and I feel like a lot of criticism has been unfairly been stuck on him instead of the institutional failings at the organization. For example, yes his record is bad, but at least some of that blame has to lie with the front office because he can only do so much with the woeful tools he's been given. There has been a lot of whispers about him having absolutely no input at all with regards to recruitment and who gets let go etc. and supposedly was completely out of the loop on the whole Trubisky thing and had Mike "the human thumb" Glennon forced on him as well, to the tune of 18m guaranteed

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I dunno, I haven't got the time or will to get into all the things to complain about with the Bears that have nothing to do with John Fox so I do feel bad for him, especially as he does seem like a nice guy and the players clearly like him and were still committed to playing for him until the end, despite reports in the papers for the entire second half of the season that he was going to be fired at the end of the year.
They need a structural overhaul IMO and that starts with getting rid of Ryan Pace. He is at least equally responsible for the Bears' situation as Fox is and I'd actually argue he's even more responsible. But instead on the same day they fire Fox, they give Pace a brand new contract

Just bizarre. The logic behind it seems to be that Trubisky was "his guy" and so they want to keep him on board until we can evaluate whether that was a good move or not. To me that's ridiculous because even if Trubisky turns out to be great, that doesn't undo all teh terrible decisions Pace has made besides that. Anyway. Rant over, for now.