I’m not sure what to think about the Chicago Bears’ new hires at the General Manager position and Head Coach. I feel like we have been down this road before with the Bears as they continue to hire guys giving them their first ever experience in the NFL at the key positions to build a team that can make the post-season every year. In two key positions, the Bears once again did not try to fill their vacant positions with bigger names. Guys with experience. The Bears’ new GM is Ryan Poles, a guy that has made his way up the Kansas City Chief totem pole of their front office. Former Bears GM Ryan Pace had the same story in the New Orleans Saints front office. Instead of an offensive-minded person like former Bears head coach Matt Nagy, who was Offensive Coordinator from the Chiefs when they thought he was the answer years ago. Bears route this go around is defensive-minded Matt Eberflus, the Indianapolis Colts former defensive coordinator. I feel like the Bears have just updated their phone plan from Ryan Matt 0.0 to perhaps 2.0 of the new Ryan and Matt plan and hopefully it is a 5-G plan as any numbers lower, the technology will be obsolete.

“We’re going to take the North and never give it back,” the New GM of the Chicago Bears Ryan Poles said in his introduction press conference.

Just like any politician or new leader that just won the election, they immediately start spewing out promises and tell the world what their plan is. “Solve problems with open communication and candor,” Poles also said.

Those words would be nice as Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace could never agree or figure who was on first with the quarterback position. “Put players in position to succeed,” was also mentioned by Ryan Poles.

Matt Nagy was not very good at putting players in a position to succeed. Just ask Mitch Trubisky about that. Ryan Poles did not need much time to hire a new head coach in Matt Eberflus’ second interview. The first with the Bears new GM on-hand because he knew he had his guy, a gut feeling. Poles was impressed with the fast paced violent style of that Indianapolis Colts defense that Eberflus ran the last few seasons.

Every company has a simple word that is broken in down in multiple meanings. The Bears new head coach Matt Eberflus has that meaning with the word HITS. The meaning of the word HITS is H-Hustle, I-Intensity, T-Taking care of the ball and taking the ball and S-Situational players.

Bears players better bring their track shoes when training camp begins because the new head coach Eberflus will have his guys running.

“We play at a high tempo, a high effort, attacking physical style built on speed quickness and explosive athletic ability,” said Eberflus in the press conference.

Eberflus plans to play both sides of the offense and defense physically since football is a violent game. Eberflus has been the defensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts since 2018. The Colts defense showed a steady improvement each season. Before Indianapolis, Eberflus was linebackers coach at Dallas and Cleveland. Eberflaus coached linebackers before the NFL at Toledo University where he got his start. In 2019, Eberflus was interviewed for the Cleveland Browns head coach position but Freddie Kitchens was hired instead which turned out to be a very bad move.

What about the development of Justin Fields? The new regime of the Bears have an answer as they snagged Luke Getsy away from the archrival Green Bay Packers. Getsy has been the Packers’ quarterbacks coach the last two seasons. Getsy gets credit for helping Aaron Rodgers have monster years back to back. This is a significant move by the Bears to weaken the Packers because their Offensive Coordinator of the last two seasons, Nathaniel Hackett, left to sign as Denver’s new head coach. Will the domino effect continue making Rodgers bolt the cheese state? The plan Getsy has is to build an offense around the talents of Justin Fields. That is a genius idea, right Matt Nagy? Matt Eberflus has said that Luke Getsy has been on his radar for years, an up and coming innovative strategist. As long as Getsy is not borrowing any plays out of the Nagy war and peace playbook, things could work out very well. Many football experts think Getsy will be a head coach in this league in the future.

The Cincinnati Bengals record of 2020 was thrown around by the new Bears regime. How the Bengals won 4 games and turned things around so quickly in 2021, now finding themselves in the Superbowl. I did not see Justin Fields first season having flashes of Joe Burrow behind center. The Bears play makers right now are not even close to the talent the Bengals have. These introductory press conferences are mostly the same as we’ve seen the Bears parade some yahoos on stage and everything sounds great every 4 years or so. Bears new GM said they will plug all the holes in the roster so I hope he understands what offensive linemen should look like. Hope Ryan Poles does not give the Bengals credit or make a blueprint of their O-line who sacked Burrow 8 times in the Wild Card round.

The Bears new regime have a ton of work to do with this roster. Bears do not have a number one draft pick. The Bears defensive window has closed with age. The offense needs a complete makeover. Bears will have to cut some of the heavy salary they pay the defensive front to free up some cap space. The new GM Ryan Poles will need to hit on top draft picks. Which Ryan Pace could not do. Bears need to stop throwing away draft picks trying to move up spots in the draft as well. The more picks this team can get, the faster this team can build a roster with solid depth. I expect him to deal some guys for draft picks. The Chiefs have built a solid team for many years now and even you can say Kansas City played good before Patrick Mahomes arrived. They had a team that always made the playoffs. I just don’t want Ryan Poles to be another Matt Nagy we got from that organization. Poles is a question mark, but this coaching hire might be a good start.

Going defensive-minded was a smart way of doing things for the Bears. Bears need a guy to hold players accountable for their actions on the fields. Matt Eberflus seems to be that guy who will not accept stupid penalties from guys like Akiem Hicks. Eberflus’ defenses will not get called for dumb taunting penalties. Players will not get sucked into striking the instigator back on the other team which Matt Nagy could not enforce or stop them from falling for those types of stupid penalties. Discipline and speed and playing physically sound like this will be a good hire. I like the way the Bears brought in a guy like Luke Getsy that knows the offense will be his baby. Once again it all sounds like rainbows and unicorns. When Lovie Smith arrived in Chicago, he said Green Bay was priority number one. Sounded good. Another promise made and another one lost. All Bears fans are hoping they can be the next Bengals. Bears would love for once to stick to Green Bay and make that into a rivalry; not some one-sided cattle slaughter. My heart is excited about what is going on at Halas Hall. My brain says this is another Deja Bear on another dark highway driving with no lights. To be continued with this new Bears regime in place.