ComcastNBC cousin Mike Florio over at ProFootballTalk.com has never shrunk from a head-on collision with an issue. He certainly isnt now.
The Bears hope they are approaching the end of their search for a new general manager. Mike is among those who dont necessarily question the dismissal of Jerry Angelo, but who think George McCaskey and Ted Phillips didnt go far enough if that was their decision on the top football guy.
Its such a backwards process, Mike said Wednesday on The McNeil and Spiegel Show on WSCR-AM 670 The Score. You keep your head coach, you drag your feet to hire the general manager, and then the general managers hands are going to be tied. How are you really going to get your best man for the job when, as he walks through the door, he knows he cant change the head coach?
That is just such a short-sighted approach. I havent agreed with it from the moment Jerry Angelo was fired. If youre going to fire the GM, you have to fire the head coach.
Mike said some folks in Mobile, Ala., for the Senior Bowl are telling him that Phil Emery, one of the Bears two GM finalists along with Jason Licht, is telling people that he has the Bears GM job but no ones believing him.
Mmmm, that ones a little hard to go with. Its a small football fraternity and you never put it out there that youve got a job. No. 1, its bad luck. No. 2, its even worse form. Your employer puts that news out. Or youre out.