While many Bears fans where desperate and criticizing the Bears front office selection process for their GM and HC hire claiming it was moving to slow and the list was too long, once they did take a decision on their new GM in Ryan Poles, he moved fast to make Matt Eberflus his first ever HC hire, the pair moved as quick to select the majority of their staff while the rest of GM/HC needy teams where still processing their decisions, so kudos to George McCaskey, even if he get on fans nerves most of the time, for his determination to keep going with the process and once he and the committee knew who they wanted, making the swift decision to hire him results in a big positive move by the organization.
The decision to make Poles the Bears next GM is somewhat surprising to me, I didn't knew him as one of the candidates listed but once I started to read about him and what others thought about him, in my head he looked to be the redemption version of Ryan Pace, the young upcoming prodigy that comes from a team that has been very successful the past few years where he has quickly climbed through the ranks, so to hire someone similar to the guy you just fired is a bit weird. I have zero problems with this because I was very supportive of Pace and his keen eye for finding talented players in FA and draft day, but even I had to accept that he messed up big in other categories such as contract evaluation and giving away picks too often to go up the board or when trading for veteran players from other teams, many of these decisions hurt the Bears roster significantly but no other decision crippled the team more that failing to accept that his HC hire was a bad one and going all in with him, so here is hoping that Poles does a better job overall and that his time surrounded by good football people as well as his experience playing the game help him make better decisions. I am intrigued to see how his input and experience up front as an OL guy can upgrade the Bears roster, its obvious to state that it would be a huge help for Justin Fields, hopefully he can play behind better protection and has time to see the field rather than trying to make time by running for his life, helping the running game would be nice as well, I bet David Montgomery and Khalil Herbert would appreciate it. The decision by Poles to add in Ian Cunningham as an assistant GM is very interesting, both have very similar backgrounds by playing as OL at their schools and when they didn't getting drafted they started their carriers as scouts all the way to the positions they have right now which one could view them as very fast risers, it will be good for both of them to experience and share the top of the organization together and grow from it.
Eberflus although being a defensive guy was who I liked more to get his first stint at HC, he views himself as a teacher of the game, his time and experience as a defensive coach is well documented and looks to be very well respected by his past and present peers and players, this is all good but is also expected to be heard from a first or former HC. What I expect of Eberflus is what he has said to the media, he expects hustle and accountability, he expects his staff to always put the player first and the scheme second and it was something that Poles stated himself as well when asked about his philosophy, these three points were missing completely from Matt Nagy's team, there was a lack of hustle from various players specially on offense, there seemed to be no accountability when mistakes where made and there was close to no adjustments made to fit the scheme to the players who just looked unprepared most of the time, if this staff can achieve these three thing they have spoken of as their principles, then the Bears will be a different team next season in a good way.
As for how the staff is looking, well there were names thrown out there that sounded very promising like Rich Bisaccia for ST Coordinator and Rod Marinelli for DL being the biggest examples, imagine having two ex-HC to your disposal, but they didn't materialized. So I'm not going to act like I know the people on the staff enough to say if they are going to work or not but I do feel good about who is in it as of today especially the defensive side, Eberflus getting three of his coaches from his previous team is very promising, they come into the building knowing already what they want to do and have the communication established already to do it the way they want to do it, they didn't get Marinelli but got the assistant who already has worked out with Khalil Mack so there's familiarity there. As for the offensive side of the staff, I can see a trend which is good but I don't know how much its going to help Fields out, I like the hiring of Luke Getsy for the same reason I am interested in the hiring of QB coach Andrew Janocko, both have experience coaching WRs and have had success doing so but as QB gurus its a bit more of Getsy being close to Aaron Rodgers and Janocko being a former QB himself, so there might be an interesting mix to it that can help QB and WR groups work better together. As for the other coaching spots, I see guy with years of experience and/or have experience playing the position. There is no RBs coach as of today but as things are moving I don't expect it to be empty for much longer, many are commenting that this offensive staff is leaning on a Shanahan style of play, the important thing is that they are familiar with it and know how to work it out between them so they can coach the players up and execute it. Listening and reading what the new head honchos are saying, it pretty much looks like there's not going to be a rebuild but instead they will try fixing the roster filling the roster with FA and the draft, which is harder because it means that results should come sooner rather than later, so next step is getting into the Free Agency period with an idea of who to get that can contribute, with limited cash and many holes to fill let see how the new regime starts the offseason.
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