Candidate interviews with other teams, signs with the Bears: “ why are we hiring a guy that other teams passed on?“
This right here explains him perfectly. Complain, whine, cry about everything and then say he was the only one who saw it coming.
No established VG OC would take this job and operate somebody else's O. Maybe somebody that's washed out might but meh. Other teams are in a different position and will hire a known play caller. The way this is done, is by hiring young potential and hopefully turn them into the next wunderkind like Johnson (though he mostly did it on his own). Nice thing is that if this works out, he can't be hired away as an OC and would need to become a HC which would take being more established (so we have more years of stability).
Ummm teams fired just their offensive coordinators this off season. It doesn't have to be just the open head coaching positions that need OCs. Thanks for that though.
Nice spin.
You wanted them to hire an experienced offensive coordinator who would come in and not call his own plays, but rather allow the head coach to do all of that. In other words, you wanted fucking Matt Nagy.
Name me your possible OC‘s. No affront, I just don’t know names.
So on the one side we have you who believes the Bears can do no wrong and endlessly attacks me for it because you offer no separate analysis of your own. Thanks for that fun.
Same list he always has: anybody else.
I don’t believe the Bears can do no wrong. Obviously you didn’t read my very long post in saying I’m not assuming the guy is great or that it is Ben Johnson’s first choice. We didn’t get the guy from Detroit, who was the first one that Johnson interviewed and he was rumored to have been talking to David Shaw so it’s possible Shaw was his second choice and turned him down.
It's actually worse than that. Nagy would never have moved from KC fo an OC gig nor would KC have allow it. What top OC is going to effectively be in the shadows as an asst OC? You hire the guy you think is smart and has the right temperament to groom for the position.
Maybe we are underestimating the importance of this hire but at least have a good reason since Ben Johnson is an offensive head coach that is calling the plays. You’re definitely overestimating things and having a meltdown over it and not even giving one legit reason for it other than you’re in a GREAT MOOD!
Then the next question is if Rams fans were worried when McVay decided to hand over the OC spot to someone like LaFluer... who I'm sure was interviewing all around the NFL for an OC spot at the time.
