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And understandably so. In each of the last three seasons, the Bears have experienced a stretch of at least 40 days between victories. Over that time, they have lost 25 times and used five starting quarterbacks in 45 regular-season games. They rank 27th since the start of in scoring Over seven years, Pace has put together only one winning team and has yet to oversee a playoff win.
Phillips has been in his role since and has done next to nothing that has allowed the Bears to enjoy sustained on-field success. So where, former Pro Bowl center Olin Kreutz wonders, are the high standards the Bears always talk about? Over the years, McCaskey has frequently emphasized — and often with pride — that Phillips, as president and CEO, does not interfere with or involve himself in the football decisions made by the people he has empowered with those responsibilities. It has been documented in exhaustive detail the missteps made during the draft process when Pace pushed in all his chips on North Carolina quarterback Mitch Trubisky.
Pace did so with massive holes in the evaluation process, including but not limited to the inexplicable lack of time spent with Clemson star Deshaun Watson and the extreme secrecy with which he operated, keeping his head coach, Fox, out of the loop on the plans to select Trubisky until the morning of the draft.
From that point forward, the relationship between Pace and Fox was permanently destroyed — more than five months before their final season together began. That is an unbelievable and unforgivable management error that tells you a lot of what you need to know about Ryan Pace. Too secretive. Not truly a team player. All of that. I never told John Fox. And here is my rationale. Publicly anyway, Pace never has really owned up to that screw-up.
Nor have his superiors ever expressed to the outside world that they found that approach unacceptable. Ryan kept me advised of his plan going into the draft all along the way. And that miss at quarterback dropped the team into a canyon-sized hole from which it is still digging out. Behind the scenes in New Orleans, Pace spent his final two seasons as director of player personnel under GM Mickey Loomis and six years before that as director of pro scouting in an organization in which coach Sean Payton wields significant power in shaping the roster.
Like almost all first-time general managers, Pace had to learn on the fly. But who above him inside Halas Hall has he had to turn to for guidance or mentoring? Who would challenge his philosophies or ask difficult, detailed questions that might prompt him to see situations from a different vantage point?
Who was supremely qualified to help alert him of some of his detrimental blind spots? Who might push him outside his comfort zone, particularly as it relates to his public presence and willingness to engage with media and fans?
Through a team spokesman, Pace declined to be interviewed for this story. So did McCaskey and Phillips. The guy gets the game on that level. And anyone that classifies him as overmatched or unqualified is badly mistaken. He has a lot of amazing qualities. In the same breath, however, that same source described Pace as overly coy and unwilling to rock the boat, perhaps conflict-averse to a fault.
It slows your ability to find resolution to a wide array of issues, big and small. That approach has often been interpreted as a personality-driven preference that has never been significantly contested inside the building.
Last offseason, given the green light to draft another quarterback, Pace stayed aggressive and traded up to select Justin Fields. Many who have worked with Pace at Halas Hall or through other league business frequently praise him as smart and driven, with an innate ability to connect and a way of articulating his vision in a manner that instills confidence in others. An incredibly nice person. But like anything else, that alone is not good enough.
This is a hard business. At his introductory news conference in January , Pace emphasized his priority on using the draft to fortify the roster.
The recipe to winning Super Bowls is stringing successful drafts together again and again. Of the 46 players selected under his watch, only two — safety Eddie Jackson and return specialist Tarik Cohen — have been named to a Pro Bowl roster upon its initial release. Pace has taken five big swings at quarterback and has yet to drive in a run, with a verdict on Fields still years off. His high-profile misses on first- and second-round picks have been debilitating.
The team is under his watch. And others around the league look at the Bears roster and struggle to identify positions that are solidified for the future. When the Bears went searching for a new GM and a new coach in , their use of consultant Ernie Accorsi was an open admission that they needed assistance understanding the football landscape in a rapidly evolving league.
But belief and support alone might not be sufficient. The Bears already were adrift in choppy seas when Thanksgiving week began. Their fifth consecutive loss had been a real gut punch, a stumble against the Baltimore Ravens at Soldier Field in which some late-game, fourth-down Andy Dalton fireworks were eclipsed by a maddening defensive meltdown.
With a lead and less than two minutes remaining, the Bears surrendered a yard touchdown march to Ravens backup quarterback Tyler Huntley, a drive defined by a complete communication breakdown in the secondary. Most of the home crowd left Soldier Field that afternoon with their jaws weighing pounds, their heads shaking and their mouths hurling invective into the fall air. All afternoon, the Bears had been blundering and dreadfully disorganized — across all three phases and within their coaching operation.
A bungled fourth-and-1 play. An untimely blown coverage. A missed field-goal attempt and a partially blocked punt. Forty-two hours later, the boat really began to rock. It started with a a. While Konkol has never covered the Bears or even been a sports reporter during his career, his resume includes the Pulitzer Prize he won as part of a Chicago Sun-Times reporting team. So how would the Bears respond? How would they handle the spreading flames? As it turned out, they chose to do nothing. No one from the team took any proactive role in squashing the story.
The whole approach was idiotic. Nagy followed with a minute back-and-forth with reporters during which he shot down the Patch. But he also noted he had not spoken with any of his superiors about his job status, and later in the day he and Pace had to go directly to McCaskey and Phillips to seek an explanation. The mess was already made. Medical device manufacturers should design and test their products to ensure conformance with current RFI standards and educate the users of their devices about the possible symptoms of potential RFI.
If there exists the possibility of RFI problems to medical devices, steps should be taken to ensure that all sources of RF energy be kept at a sufficient distance. Abstract The past few years have seen increased reports that medical devices, such as pacemakers, apnea monitors, electrically powered wheelchairs, etc.
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