The Bears Should've Gone To Harbaugh And Gave Him Anything He Wanted
Here's how I am feeling...
I think Caleb is going to be more than fine. I am still optimistic about the 2024 Bears. Win on Sunday and we are right where we thought we'd be through three games. Defense is great. Offense can't be this bad forever. Most offenses have struggled so far this season. The Bears could very well end up with 10 wins and in the playoff picture when it's all said and done.
My issues are for beyond 2024. The goal is to win the Super Bowl and everything in my heart, head, and balls tells me that Eberflus isn't the guy for that. He's on his 2nd defensive coordinator. He's on his 2nd offensive coordinator. He's in year 3 now as a head coach and his record is 11-25. Not all of that is his fault, obviously, but eventually you are what your record is and the mistakes being made routinely ultimately stop at his desk. The penalties, the HORRIBLE challenges, the blown leads late in games throughout his tenure. Not exactly inspiring stuff to date.
When you're rebuilding around a franchise QB I truly believe continuity and identity are very important. We wasted Jay Cutler by changing his OC every other year. Mitch had multiple coaches. Justin had multiple coaches. I think we are on track for Caleb to have multiple coaches too.
People LOVE to hate on and misquote the tweet below
Now...while I don't think JJ McCarthy is better than Caleb Williams, I do KNOW that Harbaugh wins everywhere he goes and I wanted him at all costs. If he wanted JJ...so be it. If he wanted Caleb...great. I don't care. I just wanted Jim to be the coach and I would've been willing to let him build the offense however he wanted. You are free to disagree with that. I actually hope I end up being wrong about all of it. I hope Eberflus coaches Caleb to multiple Super Bowls and this blog gets brought up all the time. That's not the prevailing thought in my head when I woke up on Monday morning though. I was worried about the long term future of the team, again. I was worried about our offensive identity again. Then I saw this image...
If you don't get a little horned up thinking about big boy, smash mouth football, then you and I are just different people I guess. Imagine it being late December, Soldier Field, the Bears are up by 3 late in the game, and Harbaugh sends out 6 linemen, 2 TEs, and a fullback to pick up a 3rd and short to end the game. That thought gets me all tingly. Unfortunately it'll never happen. Doesn't mean the Bears CAN'T win. They just won't win that way. It sucks.
I am spiraling a bit. I just wish the Bears went in a different direction. The direction they obviously considered
It'll be okay. It'll be okay. It'll be okayyyyyy