Coaching /GM Interview Tracker (Cunningham makes second round interviews in Jax)

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Why in the world were you out on the #1 coaching option and hottest name in the NFL???

Please don't say Trestman and Nagy

I know right….. those things ALWAYS work!

 

[Xplosive]

Don't know if anyone has seen the posts on the contract yet or details have been being publicly available, but what I am hearing is the contract is actually 6 years and 15 million a year.

Couldn't care less what they have to pay. This is probably the first high profile coaching hire since that douche Wannstedt and it's about damn time they did whatever it took to get him.

 

[Xplosive]

You can check up on it, but, yeah, Nagy. I saw BJ as too cute and gimmicky. I wanted more experience. Whelp, I’m stepping back and thinking about cutting up some lines of kool aid.

Gotcha. Well Nagy wasn't the consensus choice and didn't even call plays except in the playoffs when he totally abandoned the run game and was the reason the Chiefs lost.

Instead of retreads and no name out of left field hires, the Bears finally made the obvious choice. I applaud the change in approach.

 

[Moses Moreno]

@Moses Moreno deserves a lot of love and credit for willing the Johnson hire into reality

god bless you my dude

Can't believe they pulled this off - good on them!

No half measures with the OL this off-season though.

 

[ijustposthere]

@PrideisBears Freeman for DC!

 

[ijustposthere]

Glad we have the guy we have (BJ) but can’t take anything away from Freeman. . He is reason that long dormant program is back fighting for a championship — and he is the reason they fought back in this game and got it within 1 score.

He is a dynamic young coach with a super bright future. With the way he is recruiting, their time will come.

You were ranting about how you didn't want Johnson like 5 minutes after the game because of one playcall

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Couldn't care less what they have to pay. This is probably the first high profile coaching hire since that ****** Wannstedt and it's about damn time they did whatever it took to get him.

Fox wasn’t high profile?

 

[Xplosive]

Fox wasn’t high profile?

Hell no. He was a retread just like Mccarthy would have been. After so many first time coaches he was a change of pace for the organization but he wasn't some hot name that was highly sought after throughout the league.

The last time the Bears hired someone like that would have been Wanny.

 

[Moses Moreno]

Fox wasn’t high profile?

Grades for 2015 NFL coaching hires

The 2015 coaching carousel is in full swing. Which teams are making the right decisions for their future? Chris Burke and Doug Farrar grade all the offseason

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He was a nice hire but not the *HOTTEST COACH ON THE MARKET*.

Closest thing was Bowles, but that was a pretty lackluster crop of coaches.

 

[remydat]

Whether you liked Johnson or not, he is a Bear now and the Bears showed everyone they are serious about turning things around.

Johnson is in a lot of respects the coaching version of Caleb. He was the consensus No 1 coaching prospect and was a no brainer to select. Even if some other coach hired this cycle has a better 1st year than him you can't really fault the Bears for chosing him. Much like you can't really fault the Bears for choosing Caleb over Daniels.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Hell no. He was a retread just like Mccarthy would have been. After so many first time coaches he was a change of pace for the organization but he wasn't some hot name that was highly sought after throughout the league.

The last time the Bears hired someone like that would have been Wanny.

You said, “ This is probably the first high profile coaching hire since that ****** Wannstedt “

You might need to work on your definition of “high profile”.

 

[dennehy]

Hell no. He was a retread just like Mccarthy would have been. After so many first time coaches he was a change of pace for the organization but he wasn't some hot name that was highly sought after throughout the league.

The last time the Bears hired someone like that would have been Wanny.

Who was the better up and coming coach the year Nagy was hired?

The only one you could say is Vrabel, but no one would have wanted a defensive coach that year. I guess you could say Frank Reich but he wasn't young and he was going to Indy 100%.

 

[dbldrew]

Why in the world were you out on the #1 coaching option and hottest name in the NFL???

Please don't say Trestman and Nagy

I wasn't out on BJ but did have him as my number 3. And it was based on resume and he had the weakest out of the 3 with McCarthy, Monken as my first 2.

I wanted McCarthy because I have no faith in our GM that looked at Flus and said that's my guy.. and looked at him again when Harbaugh was coming into the NFL and doubled down on flus..

We don't need poles to identify a potential good HC if he just went with McCarthy, we have to have faith now. BJ has never developed a QB, McCarthy is a guaranteed HC that would develop CW.

But again I don't hate BJ, just the most nervous about the Bears getting it right when they have failed over and over.

 

[DaaBears]

Don't know if anyone has seen the posts on the contract yet or details have been being publicly available, but what I am hearing is the contract is actually 6 years and 15 million a year.

Plus now he gets January's off

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

I just got home from work, are people drunk with joy yet?

Not anymore since you started posting.

 

[Xplosive]

Who was the better up and coming coach the year Nagy was hired?

The only one you could say is Vrabel, but no one would have wanted a defensive coach that year. I guess you could say Frank Reich but he wasn't young and he was going to Indy 100%.

I didn't say "up and coming", simply the hottest name on the market for head coach. The consensus hot name for 2018 would have been Jon Gruden. He was still young and considered an offensive mastermind at that time. Easily #1 option over Nagy.

Edit...

Well 55 wasn't young in hindsight but he was the splash hire at that point.

 

[dennehy]

I didn't say "up and coming", simply the hottest name on the market for head coach. The consensus hot name for 2018 would have been Jon Gruden. He was still young and considered an offensive mastermind at that time. Easily #1 option over Nagy.

He hadn't coached in the NFL or college in 9 years - success in that situation would have been unprecedented. Anyone who considered him an offensive mastermind at that point was an idiot. And he showed that with flying colors in Oakland.

 

[Xplosive]

Plus one year later Lafleur, Zac Taylor and Kitchens were hired so a little more research and the Bears could have avoided Nagy altogether.

 

[Xplosive]

He hadn't coached in the NFL or college in 9 years - success in that situation would have been unprecedented. Anyone who considered him an offensive mastermind at that point was an idiot. And he showed that with flying colors in Oakland.

Blah. Hindsight is 20-20 so it's easy to say who was an idiot and who was a genius almost a decade later. Nagy was a hot name but as far as being the consensus #1 like Johnson...? I don't think so.

 

[dennehy]

Blah. Hindsight is 20-20 so it's easy to say who was an idiot and who was a genius almost a decade later. Nagy was a hot name but as far as being the consensus #1 like Johnson...? I don't think so.

Has nothing to do with hindsight - most coaches fail. Has to do with what was thought at the time. I don't think most people who pay attention to the NFL thought Jon Gruden was considered an offensive mastermind after 9 years out of any type of coaching. That type of break has never worked out The Raiders predictably went for headlines.

2018 wasn't a great year, for sure, and it's not very often there is one name that is that far above everyone else. You can argue that isn't the case with Johnson.