Thread: Bears to interview four general manager candidates

Emery's resume is completely unimpressive.

Licht's career doesn't seem to be built on a whole lot of substantial jobs.

Raye's career is VERY impressive to me. A downright fantastic draft history under his watch as director of college scouting, and his current role seems like the perfect stepping stone to a GM job in transition from that job. He's like what Ross could be in a handful more seasons, simply a more prepared candidate with an even longer history of talent evaluation.

Ross is no doubt a talented young evaluator of talent, and he'd be right behind Raye on my short list, but I would ideally like someone with a more diverse and advanced career and experience upstairs.

If they do end up getting Emery, here's some of his draft picks according to ESPN Chicago's Twitter account

A few of Phil Emery's draft choices in Atl & KC include: Matt Ryan, Roddy White, Eric Berry, Justin Blalock and Matt Schaub.

http://twitter.com/#!/ESPNChiBears/s...74824320888832

After reading on Raye, I absolutely concur with kronik that he should be our #1 go to guy

I guess one of the things that intrigues me about Ross is that he's consistently provided NY with top pass rushers through the draft. Although Angelo kept drafting them they were basically all failures like Bazuin and Gilbert and maybe Wootton as well. Izzy came in as a FA and spent 7 years working his way into a starting job and Pep was also a FA acqusition, but admittedly a very important one.

The Giants have also had some success drafting WR talent for Eli as well. If there is another NFC team the Bears should be able to structure like and perform like it would probably be the Giants. Great defense led by a strong pass rush, a productive running attack and a good passing game with a good young QB in Eli. I guess we'll get a chance to see how well that structure stands up to the Packers this weekend.

I look at the Chargers and I always wonder why they constantly fall short of expectations because they don't seem to lack talent. I agree with sox, they typically do well in the draft and build from that perspective far more than they do free agency. Raye seems to have a solid football background as well both as a player and having a father who was a career coach.

The other two guys make me yawn and I really don't want anyone whose been through the organization already. Neither of those two were on the list of guys many thought ranked right behind DeCosta and McKenzie. I'm wondering what they found about Snead that kept them from including him in this first wave. Stay tuned sportsfans.

Don't know if anyone caught it or not but the Raiders just fired Hue Jackson who has probably done a better job of coaching them than anyone over the past few years and the guy Al Davis himself groomed for the job. Well Davis JR. fired him today which is par for the course in that screwed up organization. I wonder if Reggie McKenzie is beginning to wonder just what he's getting himself into.

Again, to me, this whole thing is ass-backwards.

Okay, so ownership is presenting themselves as looking for someone with deep experience/success in the draft and evaluating college talent.

That's fine.

Probably because the team is so damned thin at depth, there's no way to replenish without going bankrupt other than the draft. Besides, they've spent plenty on FAs and have gotten mostly burned.

Great.

But if that's the problem, shouldn't you have fired your college scouting director?

I mean, I can't imagine JA ignoring his CSD during the draft and just making picks on his own. There had to be some input, he had to be soliciting recommendations. And if the ones he got were as crappy as his own decisions, then that guy needs to go sell insurance too.

Hiring someone with deep college scouting experience to be your new GM and expecting him to pick someone to run pro scouting is ass-backwards. College scouting requires road work, detachment from the front office and lots of territory to cover. Pro scouts pretty much have everything at their fingertips, allowing them time to get into other facets of running a franchise.

A new article up on Sun-Times talks about this. Here's a sample:

One option for the Bears could be to hire someone with a strong college background as the general manager, then count on him to hire a director with a strong pro background.

To me, it should say the Bears should hire someone with a strong pro scouting background as the general manager, then count on him to hire a director with a strong college background.

And who is The Bears college guy?