Heres what fans from other boards say :
divided right down the middle...
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Ranks the owners with the McCaskeys @ 26. I think that's high, with lil Mikey sticking his pencil neck in. Long way to go to get up to inept. Totally different org if Muggs had lived. That greasy weasel is foul.
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Our ownership and front office certainly aren't as clueless as the Cardinals, Bengals, Raiders or Lions. And Mikey Snyder is for shit as an owner even though the Skins manage to win games.
The bigger problem is that I'm afraid if you told the McCrapsky's they were ranked #26, they'd be OK with that. In any organization, a culture of mediocrity starts at the top.
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I just can't get to riled up against the McCaskey family these days. The Bears appear to spend up to the salary cap limits yearly and other than Berrian I can't think of a quality player leaving the organization because of financial reasons.
McCaskey doesn't draft players, doesn't sign FAs, and doesn't coach the team.
I'm not saying I support the ownership I just don't have a strong opinion either way - they appear to be pretty much in the background as of late.
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The McCaskeys made the decision in 1999 to stay out of the football operations by promoting Tedd Phillips to President and hiring a GM.
Other than building the best training complex/team Headquarters in the NFL, building a new state of the art stadium (you can bash the city for the "spaceship" concept as they imposed requirements to keep the outter walls and columns intact, not the Bears), spending up to the cap limit each year, giving Lovie an extension that makes him among the highest paid NFL coaches, etc........what exactly have the McCaskeys done to piss everyone off?
About the only thing you can really give them grief for recently is a failure to implement the highest level of accountability in the organization by keeping Angelo since 2001. But even that is flimsy. Angelo's career record with the Bears is 60-52 with 3 division championships and a Superbowl on his resume. There are many other NFL organizations who wouldn't fire a GM with those credentials.
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The culture has improved the past few years, no question, and is miles removed from the Dark Ages of Wanny, et al. But still a long ways to go, especially in the area of demanding accountability as Amazin noted. Saying your club is better run than the Cardinals, Raiders and Lions is like saying your girlfriend is hotter than Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres and Roseanne Barr.
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Demanding accountability is tough talk. I guess it means you want all the coaches fired a year after going to the SB.
What would you guys do if we had ownership like Jerry Jones? He goes out and signs thugs and malcontents like Terrell Owens, Tank and Pacman and has built arguably the most talented team in the NFC.
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I agree, I think the McCaskets are pretty much background material these days. These reporters have nothing to report, so they come with these "rankings"..
None are Jackies comments...just posts from Bears fans.
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