Nonsense. Not every coach is Belichick, you can't run a franchise pretending your coach is Belichick, GM's matter, you can't look at the biggest outlier and base your strategy around having a great coach who is also a great GM, Belichick's don't grow on trees fool.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:15 pmI know my team, and I know the game. You simply cannot win when business interferes with operations - same as IT work.StCapps wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:13 pmThey fell off because they are old and clearly in decline. Cutler was trash. You clearly overvalue players who play for the Bears, you sound like such a homer.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:12 pm
They fell off when they were put into different offensive systems - not surprising to anyone that knows the game.
Also, Marshall had a weird bromance with Cutler that bordered on co-dependency.
Anyway, Cutler is a great example of what I’m talking about. Good QB, despite what anyone says. Hampered by an absolutely shit O-line, and pounded into the turf every game for years. Eventually run out of town by fanboys that only see fantasy stats.
In his last season, the Bears swapped O-line positions every single week, looking for someone to keep his ass vertical, which only added more confusion. Eventually, he just started lobbing the ball to avoid getting hurt. I feel bad for the guy.
Look at the Patriots. Why has no one figured out that letting the coach pick your players is better than a fucking executive playing salary games?
The Patriots aren't successful because they let a coach be the GM, they are successful because Bill Belichick is a unique football genius who can do both at once better than any one coach and GM can do their job, and that is not replicable by other teams with coaches who aren't Belichick. Most coaches would make terrible GMs and most GMs would make terrible coaches, Belichick is the exception that proves the rule.
You don't know shit about football if you think Marshall and Forte are still good and only fell off because of the system they played in, or that Cutler only failed because of the O-line. Nor do you know shit about football if you think the Bears would be better off letting their coach be the GM. You don't know your team, you are a homer who is too emotionally attached to his team to think straight about them.