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John Fox: Bears Had Worst Off Season in NFL

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John Fox, who coached the Bears to three last-place finishes from 2015-2017, was asked on ESPN's NFL Live on Monday which team had the worst offseason. His choice was his former club.

"I think when you're going to play defense, you're going to lean on takeaways to help a young offense, and you don't have a kicker, a reliable kicker, that you're going to need those points from after some of those turnovers," Fox said, via the Chicago Sun-Times. "I think the kicking question is really big right now in Chicago. And I think that might be a problem for them in the season."
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001034078/article/john-fox-believes-bears-had-nfls-worst-offseason

Chances that this is just a result of residual salt ??

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Not unless he has something personal against the Bears, to my knowledge he's never gone after Carolina.

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John Fox quit on the Broncos so he can go deepthroat a 2x4 for all I care.

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Well he's a paid professional analyst so he's naturally going to be giving his opinions for as long as that continues. Anytime he gives an opinion on a former colleague or employer other media outlets, especially during the slow news periods like the one we're in obviously can feast on such criticism and make it a front page headline in bold text with a salty looking photograph on their facebook page where you can create a dramatic string of pissed off emotional fans with nothing better to do than post their overreactions all damn day long to make it look like the story is the most egregious thing ever. 

We've discussed in multiple past years how the teams that "win" the offseasons as far as acquiring all these huge names  rarely ever pan out. It's not like the Bears needed to go out and make moves. They already have the upper hand in their division and are a top 5 team in the league. 

The kicker thing is a valid point. They had Cody Parkey doink-doink it off the upright six times during the regular season. It was a bad stat but honestly quite impressive. Each of those six kicks were that close. It's still a fairly accurate kick when you miss by a matter of a couple inches. His miss that ended the Bears postseason run was also tipped. It was just a lot of really bizarre bad luck, as well as him going on the Today Show making light of the miss which led to Parkey being shown the door. 

Having a good kicker is super critical for a Super Bowl contending team. Close games in the playoffs against a team that has a stout defense often require a top notch kicker who you have the utmost confidence to send out there on the 30 yard line in a 4th & 2 kind of situation. Seattle not having a good kicker since Haushka left certainly would have spoiled any deep playoff run we would have pulled off. 

The position is obviously pivotal for Chicago after the horrendous year they had from a guy they paid millions to. The solution in the free agent pool were also really not there. The good ones left are in their 40s, Gostkowski wanted to stay in New England, and Robbie Gould made a bonehead decision to sign with Frisco and now has his house for sale to attempt to build leverage to get the hell out of there. 

The Bears are likely waiting to see what happens with Robbie Gould. We're not even into July yet, so given the fact that kickers could probably be had for a 5th round draft pick from a team that won't make a run this year (Prater or something), it seems to make sense to wait this one out. 

1. The point by Fox is valid. 

2. The best opportunity to get a kicker is probably in the next few months. 

3. The story of Fox saying this due to the motive of wanting to shit all over the Bears organization from his lack of success there is probably being blown way out of proportion to score some clicks and make someone's boss happy. 

4. JD posting this article is probably to satisfy an urge of wanting to do what the author here is attempting to portray what John Fox was trying to do to Chicago because he's insecure about his Packers become the suckfest they've become and Chicago rising to a likely Super Bowl contender these next handful of years. 

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