
The Chicago Bears’ last home game on Thursday Night Football was a dreaded 6-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks as chants of, “SELL THE TEAM,” erupted on Amazon Prime after the game. The Bears fired their Head Coach Matt Eberflus after the Thanksgiving game for his issues with clock management and holding on to time outs like they roll over to the next game. The Bears have gotten worse after they promoted Thomas Brown to Interim Head Coach. The team drafted Caleb Williams number one and he is closing in on an unpleasant rookie quarterback record. David Carr’s first season in Houston he set the record of being pummeled to the ground with the most sacks in one season by rookie QB. Williams has had some nice moments behind center and has the talent to be a great QB in the NFL. Whatever the Bears touch at the QB position turns into a flaming heap of compost for them. It seems like every team that drafted a QB in the first round like the Bears did with Williams, are doing better at developing them and getting better results. Is it time for Chicago to sign a deal with the devil, Pete Carroll?
Pete Carroll, the man with the full head of hair and who at the age of 73 never ages, wants to be the next Bears head coach. The Bears front office are willing to sit down and talk to Seattle’s winiest head coach of all-time. Last year Carroll stepped down from the Seattle job to become a advisor after 14 years. In 14 seasons, Carroll led the Seahawks to their first ever Superbowl title in 2014. The Seahawks should have had two Superbowl wins under Carroll. In 2015, if only Seattle would have ran the ball with the beast of running they had in Mashawn Lynch, instead of throwing down at the goal line like they did in the last minute of the game. The Patriots picked it off and sealed the deal for another Tom Brady championship. Under Carroll, Seattle went to the playoffs ten times in 14 seasons. Carroll finished with a 137-89-1 record with the Seahawks which is .606 winning % and you know the devil likes his sixes. Carroll was the head coach of two other teams, the Jets and Patriots jobs he had before the USC job. His NFL head coaching record all-time is 170-120-1. Carroll did well before going back to the NFL on the college gridiron with USC. Carroll won two National Championships and seven straight Pac-10 Titles with USC. Carroll was devil-like escaping into the NFL after all the sanctions came down on the USC football program by the NCAA.
The Bears since firing Lovie Smith have hired all duds. Smith helped the Bears get back to the Superbowl in 2006, the first time since they won their only one back in 1985. Smith was a decent coach, but his X’s and O’s of the game on the chess board versus other savvy coaches were not good. The Bears front office’s first blunder after Smith, was the hiring of Marc Trestman who had been an assistant coach in the NFL but Chicago pried him away at the time from the CFL. I Imagine the front office thought they were stealthy at the time with no one seeing that move. Trestman was a complete disaster after two seasons and 13-19 record. Then the Bears actually hired a guy that had NFL experience as a head coach in John Fox. After three seasons at 14-34, he was fired. Then the Bears hired Matt Nagy who actually had a winning record by the time he walked out the door at 34-31 after 4 seasons. Nagy’s War and Peace playbook on offense did not work with the strengths of his QB. Then Matt Eberflus in 3 seasons went 14-32. He had the defense playing well, but that offense was a disaster. He should have never been a head coach in the NFL because his X’s and O’s were on a checkerboard compared to all the chess boards from every other coach in the NFL.
If you are a Chicago sports fan, this idea of hiring Pete Carroll may not be a good idea to you. You’ve seen the White Sox dig up the old Tony LaRussa and put him back in the dug out. That backfired in year two. The difference is that LaRussa was out of the game of baseball as a manager for years. Carroll only stepped away and missed one season as his batteries are recharged. Bill Belichick was just hired by the University of North Carolina and he is 72 year old but looks way older than Carroll. I know many Notre Dame fans that hated Pete Carroll for the slime he was when their football team faced USC. He is a slime. If the Bears hire Carroll, this would be like the front office signing away their souls to the devil. This hire would give the Bears two things. A legit head coach and a guy that knows how a quarterback works. The Bears front office buys the Mitch Trubisky, Justin Fields, and now the Caleb Williams who were all first round draft picks. They know how to open up the package and set them up on the field. But developing them is what the major problem is. Carroll can pilot Williams and simply keep him from being a first round bust. The Bears could wait and go after the Lions Offensive Coordinator, Ben Johnson. Johnson only will interview for a team he would like to coach for. He has done wonders for the Lions and their QB Jared Goff. What about the Sunday game plan? I’m sure he will still call the offense, but head coaches have multiple things going on in a game they have to make quick and precise decisions on. Johnson will demand more money than others being a head coach for the first time. There are pros and cons about either hire. Pete Carroll can fix all your problems right now and get you back to the post-season quickly. All the moves that were made the last two seasons by General Manager Ryan Poles were designed to win this season and beyond. Poles struck out of the offensive line and his head coaches are stooges in guys he can handle. Lackeys. He will have to suck it up and take the orders from a guy like Carroll including if he wants cream or sugar in his damn coffee. I feel like bringing in Carroll is like when the Bulls traded for Dennis Rodman and the White Sox signed AJ Pierzynski. Guys you hated in other uniforms & then loved when they wore your town’s colors. The Bears need a Pete Carroll and will need to pay him as he needs the challenge and it will benefit Caleb at the end.