Thread: Its Official! Emery is the NEW GM

Originally Posted by 21-6

I'm not wearing any clothes.

TMFI. You took a wrong turn. The Packer Message Board is 200 miles farther north.

Originally Posted by soulman

Comfort. He was the safe choice. He was the predictable choice. He was the guy who could come in fix somethings without upsetting the apple cart. I think we've known all along that the Bears weren't gonna step outside of their typical way of doing things even when hiring a new GM. Unlike some other organizations the Bears GM is more of a gloirfied personnel guy than the actual head of all football operations as someone like Mike Holmgren is.

Licht would have been a step away from the tried and true as Ted Phillips and the McCaskey Family saw it. Emery is "old school" and Licht "noveau" and despite the shake up the Bears are still the Bears. This comes as no great shock to me.

Agreed same old Bears different GM, hey on the bright side of things it won't be JA's fault any more you know since he was everything wrong with the Bears all should be right as reign now.

Originally Posted by TytybearsFan21

why cant we be friends

Ok, here's you sign.

Originally Posted by Riczaj01

I really don't see this quite as bad as everyone else. I don't see this as JA 2.0 or Bears F/O as usual.

It could very well be them righting a wrong that JA did by firing this guy in the first place. And if it is true he's canning Ruskell, even better. Give the guy a shot to do something before judging it.

I don't think he's JA v2.0 either but what I'm saying is that Emery was always the safe choice. From the very first time that we saw the short list what stuck out like a sore thumb was his past history with the organization. Hiring guys like that is the Bears way and it goes all the way back into the far reaches of the Halas era when the old man hired some of his former players as coaches, 40's=Johnsos/Anderson, 50's=Luckman, 60's=Dooley, 70's=Gibron all the way up to Ditka in the 80's.

The Bears will never be on the cutting edge of anything as long as the control rests with the McCaskey Family. There's always gonna be the right way, the wrong way and the Bears way. David Haugh's article which called their GM search "curious" was right on target IMO. That's exactly what the Bears are, curious. Like Churchill said about Soviet Russia, "a riddle wrapped in an enigma". The Bears are curious and enigmatic and like the Cold War Russians eminently predictable.

I'm not unhappy. We made a long overdue change and now it's time to see what Emery is made of. His first moves will tell us a lot so let's see how this whole thing unfolds over the next month. He' got FA to prepare for in March and decisions to be made over a handful of our own before then and then the draft a month later. I think we need to see where we stand in the ranks of major personnel problems solved before we're too hasty in judging him. JMO.